| General | Science Related or Snow Olympics | Snow and Ice Some of these may also be science related
| Polar Bears | Penguins |
| Activity and Colouring Pages
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This page was updated on January 27, 2009
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| Ultimate Teacher's Resource for Winter | This site has both winter and Christmas activities listed. Themes include mittens, The Snowy Day, Polar Express, colouring and activity pages and more! |
| Jan Brett's The Mitten | A cyberguide for The Mitten - activities and links to information about Jan Brett and her book The Mitten |
| Preschool Rainbow | A number of teacher ideas for teaching younger children all about Winter including crafts, songs and cooking ideas. |
| A to Z Winter Theme Page | A lot of links to unit plans and other sites with information on Winter and snow. |
| Kaboose Family Network | Winter Games and activities to do with your students |
| The Teacher's Corner | A number of links to lesson plans and other teacher resources. Themes and resources include, winter reading, bulletin boards, birdfeeders and snow! |
| Perpetual Preschool | This unit on winter has ideas for science, games, art, recipes and songs. Suitable for primary grades. |
| Hummingbird Educational Resources | This site offers a lot of good ideas for crafts, poems, songs and other winter activities. Mainly geared for K to 3. Themes also include penguins, bears & hibernation, snowmen, snowflakes, the arctic & the tundra and January themes. |
| Boardman's Party Ideas | Ideas for a Winter Party. |
| Surfing the Net with Kids - Snowsports | This page features a few excellent links to sites about snow sports. |
| Mrs. McGowan's Winter Fun | This website features class projects, links and some very neat ideas. It's a nice site to look through as well. |
| Virtual Vine - Snowmen Unit | All sorts of fun about snowmen. Poems, crafts, math ideas, glyphs and more! |
Science Related or Snow Olympics
| Hinterland's Who's Who | This site features short information pages on many animals that live in Canada and of course experience Winter. |
| Igloo, The Traditional Arctic Snow Dome | History of the igloo and how to build an igloo. |
| Polar Animals | A theme page on polar animals including the polar bear and penguins. Designed for primary teachers, this site offers art ideas, songs, poems, math and science ideas. |
| Family Fun - Snow Games | Eight games you can play outside in the snow! |
| Kinderart - Snow Science Art | A science lesson plan using art to make snow crystals. |
| Snow! | All sorts of neat ideas from building a snow castle to making a snow lantern. A good site for students as well. |
| ChildFun - Snow Theme | Although this is a pre-school site, the activities listed would be fine for all grades. I recognized a few of the activities from other sites as well, many of the activities are ones sent in by teachers and parents. |
| ChildFun - Ice Cream | A fun theme both in the Summer as well as Winter! |
| Snow Crystals | This site has interesting photographs and information. Geared more for older grades and adults, some of the information could be pulled and shared with younger students as well. |
| Ice and Snow | This site explores elements of snow and ice. Easy for students to navigate the information is geared more for grades 3 to 6. |
| Winter Storms | This scholastic site explores winter storms. Includes seasonal experiments, interactive weather maker and a timeline of winter storms. |
| Let It Snow | Quite a number of links all about snow. |
| National Snow & Ice Center | This center located in Colorado offers up to date information on the cryosphere. Basically on the ice and snow that covers our world. |
| Enchanted Learning | Make a real snowflake using Borax crystals. |
| Scott Polar Research Institute | You can click on parts of a polar bear to learn more about Polar Bears |
| Polar Bears Alive | This site is dedicated to the conservation of Polar Bears. Read facts, learn more about the organization, look at a map showing where polar bears live and even look at pictures. Some of the pictures would work well for reports or displays too. |
| SeaWorld - Info books | A great site for teachers and students. Has a lot of good, relevant information as well as a section with fun activities. |
| Gander Academy - Polar Bears | This theme page is well done. From web sites to activity pages, teachers can find a lot of good resources here. For grades 1 to 6. |
| A to Z Teacher Stuff | Blubber Activity for 1st grade. An experiment to show how polar bears and other arctic animals stay warm. Easily adaptable for older grades too. |
| Hinterland Who's Who | A good information page on polar bears. |
| Education World | Why polar bears are white. A lesson plan on camouflage for primary grades. |
| Enchanted Learning | A Printable page on polar bears with good information for students as well as a picture. |
| Polar Bears, Polar Bears | A short fact sheet with some nice pictures. Also a page of links for more Polar bear sites. |
| Preschool Colouring Pages | A nice picture of a polar bear to colour. |
| New! Twiggle Magazine | A fun site with crafts and activities geared to preschool and kindergarten children. |
| Teaching is a work of Heart | Lots of excellent links, book recommendations, activity pages and more. Theme pages for most elementary grades, sound files, pictures, poems and craft ideas as well. |
| Mrs. Bee's Penguin & Antarctica Page | Areas for primary, intermediate and older students. Songs, poems, downloadable activity pages, pictures and more. |
| Sea-World | Penguin March - Song |
| Sea-World - Fast Facts | A nice fact sheet with some great information including all the species of penguins. |
| Penguin Capers | A unit plan for grades K to 3. Ideas for language arts, science, art and more! |
| ChildFun - Penguins | Although this site is geared for preschool, the unit on penguins has activities, poems and other ideas that would be suitable for older grades as well. |
| Pete & Barb's Penguin Pages | Over 100 pages of information, photographs, maps and links about penguins. |
| Kinderart | Instructions on how to make a paper-mache penguin. |
| Teacher's Net | A small collection of ideas for kindergarten classes. |
| Teacher's Net | This lesson is a reader's theatre script for the book "Tacky the Penguin" |
| P is for Penguin - KinderKorner | A few cute poems and book ideas. |
| New Zealand Penguins | There's a lot of information, links, games and much more on this site about penguins. |
| Lattice Work Software | This site offers a program called Penny Penguin's Math Bingo. They offer a free trial version so you can see if you like the program or not. I have tried the trial version and it looks like a fun program more for younger students although the whole program may offer more to older students. |
| DLTK's Crafts | A simple toilet paper craft that would be fun for K-1 students to do. |
| Family Crafts | A few links to penguin crafts. |
| Penguin Species - Crayola Com | Crayola has quite a few lesson ideas and links. You may be asked to register at the site when you get to it. It is worthwhile as by registering (for free) you have access to all the ideas and resources available on the site. |
| Preschool Education - Penguin Songs | A nice collection of songs about penguins. Great for the primary grades. |
| Fall and Winter Poetry | A fairly large selection of poems for these two seasons including a few holidays poems as well. |
| CanTeach | A selection of poems suitable for primary grades. Themes include January and February poems as well as snowmen and snow poems. |
| The SchoolBell | A number of cute poems for primary grades. This link opens to a pdf file so you do need Acrobat reader to view it. |
| Frosty Readers | This online project was designed primarily for grade 2 students. It features a number of schools who participated in the project by sharing a winter book they read and the activities they did with the book. A great resource for reading and writing activities. Many of the ideas are easily adaptable for grades K to 4. |
| Winter Language Activities | Story starters, hangman spelling activity plus other language lessons with a winter theme. |
| The Holiday Zone | Winter Songs that can also be used as poems. |
| Dave's Snowflake Patterns | Some snowflake patterns you can download. |
| About.com - Crafts for Kids | What can I say, this web site has such great pages, this one is filled with neat winter craft ideas from snowflakes and snowmen to glitzy gloves. The main page changes and features the seasons and holidays as they get closer. |
| DLTK - Winter Crafts | A few cute crafts for younger children. |
| Kaboose Famiiy Network | Some really nice crafts to do in the classroom. |
| Enchanted Learning | Snowman necklace |
| KinderArt - Crafts | Don't let the name fool you - this site has art and craft ideas for all ages. Click on any of the winter months for activities and crafts as well as holidays. |
| The Holiday Zone | A few fun craft ideas for Winter. |
| Free Craftz Patternz | Although these patterns are for wooden crafts, some could be modified for paper crafts too. |
| Critter Publications | A cute styrofoam snowman. |
| 3-D Paper Snowflake | This project is actually easier to do than it looks and the results are spectacular! |
| Kaboose Family Network | Activity pages included word searches and crosswords as well as links to colouring pages and other activity pages. |
| Bryback Manor | Over 200 activity pages geared for younger children or children with special needs. A number of the pages are "winter" themed. Plus quite a few for holidays including valentine's day, groundhog day and Easter. |
| ABC Teach | Snowflake story book pattern. |
| ABC Teach | More Winter activity pages or ideas, many are language arts based. Some are free but for others you do have to become a member. |
| Preschool Colouring Book | Quite a few winter pictures to colour. Although it says preschool - many of the pictures would be good for grades 1 & 2 as well. |
| DLTK' s Winter Colouring Pages | Colouring pages, dot to dots, draw the details, riddles and more! |
| Winter Colouring Pages | A number of nice colouring pages for winter! |
| Colouring Book Fun | 10 nice pictures for winter colouring fun. |
| Jan Brett | Hedgie makes a snowman - An irresistible colouring page |
| Jan Brett | Put the animals in the Mitten - an activity to use with the book "The Mitten" |
| Kaboose Family Network | All sorts of fun on-line games to play all about winter. Including alpine skiing, downhill run and make a snowman. |
| Make a Snowflake | This takes a bit of practice, but you can create your own on-line snowflake. |
| Kaboose Family Network | A small collection of nice graphics for winter themes |
| Christmas Graphics | A small collection of snowman clipart. |
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