Snow Thematic Unit


Online Resource Guide for Educators by Midge Frazel
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. --Albert Camus Quote from Creative Quotations

Blizzard! Definition from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blizzard	Make-a-Flake http://snowflakes.lookandfeel.com/
Online resources to aid in the development of thematic units on snow or winter in school or library settings
Digital Snow Museum ...over 300 images of snow and snowstorms http://wintercenter.homestead.com/photoindex.html	Snowflakes: A Flurry of Thematic Resources http://www.wsanford.com/~wsanford/ exo/snowflakes.html
Resource page for "There Was an Old Lady Who..." http://www.teachingheart.net/oldlady.html	Resource Page for "The Polar Express" http://www.teachingheart.net/polar.html
Early Childhood and Elementary Student Resources
Mathwire.com Snowman Activities ...man that doesn't melt!
A First Grade Snowy Day http://www2.lhric.org/pocantico/1stgrade/snow/snow.htm Pocantico Hills School, Sleepy Hollow, New York Thanks, Terry Hongell for the great addition to my page!	Kidspired Frosty Readers 2007 http://www.comsewogue.k12.ny.us/~ssilverman/ kidspired2007/
Snowflake Bentley Unit Ideas http://www.vickiblackwell.com/lit/bentley.html	January and Winter Favorites http://www.vickiblackwell.com/jan.html
Carol Hurst's Winter and Children's Literature http://www.carolhurst.com/subjects/winter.html	The Magic of Winter (Grade 1) http://www.chariho.k12.ri.us/curriculum /MISmart/winter/wntrmenu.html
Creative Problem Solving with Ezra Jack Keats http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/ lesson_view.asp?id=1023	Ben & Jerry's Virtual Snowman http://www.benjerry.com/ fun_stuff/online/virtual_snowman/
Kindergarten Cafe: Winter http://www.kkafe.net/199798/kkb3.html#winter	Amy Griffin's Winter Theme in Kindergarten http://www.geocities.com/Athens/ Troy/5059/winter.html
Ezra Jack Keats Virtual Exhibit http://www.lib.usm.edu/~degrum/ keats/main.html	CyberGuide: Katy and the Big Snow http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/ score/kat/kattg.htm
WebQuest for Kindergarten: Meeting in the Mitten http://projects.edtech.sandi.net/grant /mitten/index.htm	The Mitten by Jan Brett http://www.janbrett.com/mitten_book.htm Animal Masks Activity Put the Animals in the Mitten
The Snowy Day Activity Card Adobe Acrobat Format http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/ go/wil/Snowy_Day_Activity_Card.pdf	Marge Glazier's Snowy Painting http://familycrafts.about.com/parenting/ familycrafts/library/projects/blsnowpnt.htm Recommended by Susan Scott, Bridgewater Public Library
Paper Snowflake Craft http://www.enchantedlearning.com/ crafts/christmas/snowflake/	Make a Snowman Card http://www.enchantedlearning.com/ crafts/christmas/snowmancard/
Hans Christian Andersen: The Snow Man http://www.aesopfables.com/cgi/ aesop1.cgi?hca&a96	KinderArt: Snow Science Art http://www.kinderart.com/across/snow.shtml
abcteach: Winter Crossword Puzzle http://www.abcteach.com/MonthtoMonth /January/winter.html	Make Paper Snowflakes http://www.highhopes.com/snowflakes.html
Dave's Snowflake Page http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/ dstredulinsky/home.html	Investigating Patterns: Symmetry and Tessellation http://britton.disted.camosun.bc.ca/ jbsymteslk.htm
Fiction: Snowmen Tales http://www.manatee.k12.fl.us/sites /elementary/palmasola/rcdowna.htm	abcteach: Snowmen Flash Cards http://www.abcteach.com/MonthtoMonth/ December/snowman1.htm
abcteach: Snow Similes http://www.abcteach.com/MonthtoMonth /December/similes.htm	abcteach: Snowman Poem http://www.abcteach.com/MonthtoMonth/ December/snowman.htm
Paper Snowflakes http://www.papersnowflakes.com/	Let's Build a Snowman! http://www.readwritethink.org/ lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=239
Theme to Theme
A to Z Teacher Stuff: Winter & Snow Thematic Unit http://atozteacherstuff.com/themes/winter.shtml	Gander Academy Theme Page: Polar Bears http://www.stemnet.nf.ca/CITE/polar_bears.htm
Holiday Zone's Winter Celebrations http://www.geocities.com/holidayzone/winter.html	Child Fun Themes and Activites: Snow http://www.childfun.com/themes/snow.shtml
Annette Lamb's 4²eXplore: Theme: Snow http://eduscapes.com/42explore/snow.htm	42Explore Topic: Penguins http://eduscapes.com/42explore/penguin.htm
All About Snow http://nsidc.org/snow/index.html	Mittens Theme http://comsewogue.k12.ny.us/ ~rstewart/k2001/Themes/mittens/mittens.htm
Snow Theme http://comsewogue.k12.ny.us/~rstewart/k2001/Themes/snow/snow.htm
Middle and High School Student Resources
A Snowflake is a Snowflake is a Snowflake... from the Library of Congress
Winter Begins http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/dec21.html American Memory's "O Radiant Dawn" December 21	Wilson Bentley "The Snowflake Man" http://snowflakebentley.com/
Scholastic's Weather Watch Winter Storms http://teacher.scholastic.com/ activities/wwatch/winter/index.htm	South Pole Adventure Web Page Don't Be Too Flaky! http://astro.uchicago.edu/cara/ southpole.edu/flaky.html Science Activity/Online Project (Relative Density)
Blizzard Attack! http://weathereye.kgan.com/expert/blizzard/index.html Roger Evans, an Iowa Meterologist, has developed this activity for students in grades 7 to 12. A teacher's guide is included.	National Weather Service Winter Weather Awareness http://205.156.54.206/om/winter/index.shtml
Riverdeep's Winter Light	The Why Files: Know Snow http://whyfiles.org/123snow/index.html
Syracuse University's Snow Page http://web.syr.edu/~wrt405/ Normal Winters http://web.syr.edu/~wrt405/normal/	Science Theatre's How Do Snowflakes Form? http://www.pa.msu.edu/~sciencet/ ask_st/100897.html
Snow Crystals http://www.its.caltech.edu/~atomic /snowcrystals/ Kenneth G. Libbrecht , Physics Professor at CalTech	National Snow and Ice Data Center: Snow on the Web http://nsidc.org/NSIDC/EDUCATION/ SNOW/web_resources.html

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Author with Snowman Midge (at about age 5) with Snow Friend
Taken in Cranston, Rhode Island.
This was the last time I really liked snow!

Snow Thematic Title by Midge Frazel. Created in Paint Shop Pro
with the font "Flakes" from Fonts for Kids!
Snowflake Image by Mark A. Hicks, illustrator
The Clip Art Gallery at DiscoverySchool.com
Falling Snow Script