Showing posts with label winter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label winter. Show all posts
How to Make Jello Outside in the Snow
Children in elementary school start learning about the states of matter, the
properties of matter, and how matter changes when heat is added or removed from
it. Making this tasty jello snack with your students is a fun way to integrate
simple cooking skills into your science and STEM lessons about matter. Keep reading to find
out how!
Snowflake Bentley by Jacqueline Briggs Martin
Snowflake Bentley is a children's biography about Wilson
Bentley... the man who discovered that no two snowflakes are
alike. Author Jacqueline Briggs Martin wrote Snowflake Bentley in
1998 and the book has been in constant publication since then. In 1999,
illustrator Mary Azarian won the Caldecott Award for her illustrations in the
book. Who is Wilson 'Snowflake' Bentley? Why is the book about him so popular?
Keep reading to learn more about Snowflake Bentley and how to integrate
it into your language arts and STEM activities!
10 Games for Indoor Recess Days
I live in a part of the United States that can see snow up to six months out of
the year. It can get so cold and blustery that on rare occasions we've had snow
as early as October and as late as May and June! When it is too cold and snowy
for outside recess, I open my closet of board games and puzzles and let the
children play quietly with each other for their 45 minutes of recess. Here is a
list of their absolute favorite board games to play!
Over and Under the Snow by Kate Messner
Winter is almost here in the northern hemisphere and many children are learning
about animals and animal adaptations such as migration and hibernation. I
recently discovered a book that works really well for an integrated science +
art + language arts lesson. It’s called Over and Under the Snow and is
written by Kate Messner. It’s an excellent book for teaching about hibernation,
which animals hibernate, and which ones don't. Keep reading to learn more!
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Hot Chocolate Surprise + STEM Activity
Teachers are always on the lookout for fast and easy science experiments to complement what their students are learning from their textbooks. Sometimes science textbooks are dry and not very interesting... even when they are introducing interesting subject matter! Science experiments are a fun, hands-on way to bring energy and excitement to your lessons. If you are looking for a science experiment that is easy to prepare and conduct, educational, and with a high-interest level, give Hot Chocolate Surprise a try. Hot Chocolate Surprise appeals to students of all ages and meets a number of science objectives. It's an especially fun activity for those cold, dark days of winter. Read on for a list of materials needed, directions, and a free printable.
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A World of Cookies for Santa: Follow Santa's Tasty Trip Around the World by M.E. Furman
Once Thanksgiving is over and the calendar flips to December, many
well-meaning schools, teachers, and librarians will start preparing their
lesson plans to teach their Christmas Around the World units. There is
nothing inherently wrong with teaching a Christmas Around the World unit, but
I get irked when I see teachers and staff using bulletin board displays,
storybooks, and worksheets that depict cartoony children with big goofy smiles
and dressed in stereotypical cultural clothes. Instead, I prefer to see
books, drawings, and resources that depict real children engaged in authentic
activities and traditions.
A World of Cookies for Santa: Follow Santa's Tasty Trip Around the World by M.E. Furman does a good job of teaching us about Christmas around
the world without having to resort to cartoony stereotypes. The children
in A World of Cookies live in various countries around the
world and they set Christmas cookies out for Santa on Christmas Eve.
Each cookie is delicious and unique to the country it comes from. At the
end of the book, the author includes recipes for each of the cookies for you
to try on your own. Read on to learn more about A World of Cookies and about ways you can integrate it into the lessons you teach.
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