It's A Snow Day!
All sorts of activities and information
related to winter and snow!
| Site | Description |
| Ice and Snow | Learn about ice and snow and how to make an igloo. |
| National Snow and Ice Data Center | This site is for older, more advanced learners ready to investigate snow and ice. The many images in the photo gallery include glaciers, icebergs, ice shelf, and much more. |
| Winter Scene Jigsaw Puzzles | Online jigsaw puzzles for students to complete. |
| Online Word Search Puzzle | This word search contains winter words. |
| Thinkquest - Snow | Learn about snow in this Thinkquest Project |
| How do snowflakes form? | Learn about snowflake formation |
| Build a Snowman | Online activity where you build your own snowman |
| Winter Songs and Action Rhymes | Teach your students fun winter songs! |
| Snowman Poem | Printable worksheet - students create their own poem using the letters in the word "snowman" |
| Snow Explained | Fantastic interactive tutorial that illustrates the development of snow crystals |
| Types of Winter Storms | The Weather Channel explains all about the different types of winter storms |
| All About Snow | Virtual library of snow history and related material |
| Search for Ice and Snow | Using images of Earth, they will look for places where they believe that they see snow and ice. They will print the images and record the locations. This is an exercise in Web searching skills, map reading, and geography. Have your students follow the directions and come back together after they have had a chance to compile their data to gather their collective results. Mark the snow-covered areas on a classroom map. |
| Let it snow! | Great lesson plan for grades K-3 |
| Snow Globes | Simple instructions for creating snow globes with students |
| Snowflake Fun | Use your mouse to cut out and create a snowflake online |
Snow Journal - Have your students record how much snow is on the ground for one week. Also have the students record the daily temperature and their observations of what the weather is each day. You can then take the temperatures and snow measurements and graph them using Excel. (This is a PDF worksheet)