Find fun science activities for winter with these printables, lesson plans, quizzes, and graphic organizers. Students will be fascinated with winter weather as they learn about blizzards and record snowfall. Use resources on hibernation and migration to teach them how animals survive these cold winter months. There are teaching resources for elementary, intermediate, and secondary school teachers below.
Educational Videos
View our short videos about the Winter Solstice and expand your students' knowledge with the extension activities prepared for each video such as a forecasting weather quiz.
Printables
Teach your students about winter with these printables. Includes making snowflakes, mapping the coldest states in the U.S., and learning about holidays and traditions that take place in winter months.
- Tree Pattern
- Winter Solstice Activities
- I Dreamed I Was a Snowman Poetry Pack
- A Growing Snowflake
- Winter Olympic Sports Word Search (Difficult)
- Welcome Spring
- Winter Holidays Worksheets
- More Winter Printables
Lesson Plans
These Lesson Plans will help students understand winter with activities such as creating a snow person for a bulletin board and learning sequencing by writing the steps to create their snow person, and more.
- How Can You Make a Thermometer?
- Weather Station
- Winter Holidays
- Herbs in the Classroom
- Let It Snow!
- Glacial Pressure
- Viewing Snowflakes
- More Winter Lesson Plans
Quizzes
Test your students' knowledge about the weather with these printable multiple-choice quizzes on rain, hail, and snow, and the Winter Olympics.
Science Activities
Extend your science lessons using these winter weather resources. Includes making a thermometer, and creating a weather station to predict, measure and use averaging.
- How Can You Make a Thermometer?
- Weather Station
- Winter Solstice Videos & Activities
- Types of Snow
- Seasons Printables Slideshow
- Tree Pattern
- More Winter Activities for Science Class
Social Studies Activities
Explore winter connections using these social studies resources. Includes mapping the coldest states and reading about winter weather in the U.S., the history and traditions of the Winter Olympics, and more.
Reading & Language Arts Activities
Choose from these activities to help students expand their knowledge about winter. Includes books with enrichment and internet activities, as well as pre- and post-reading questions, cross-curricular activities, and a puppet play.
- Winter Solstice Activities
- Jan Brett's Winter Books
- Science Reading Warm-Up: Mammals (Grade 1)
- Snow Activity Guide
- The Snow Kids
- Quotations from Winter Poems
- Winter Holiday Contract: Grades 4-6
- More Winter Reading & Language Arts Activities
Art & Music Activities
Incorporate winter activities into art and music class by making snowflake cards, reading a story and understanding the sequence of events, and practicing skills in detail awareness.
- Explaining the Winter Solstice
- Susie the Snowlady
- Snowflake Card
- Fun in the Snow
- A Teacher's Guide to Books Written by Nancy Carlson
- Winter Holiday Bookmarks
Winter Holidays
Our collection of Winter Holiday resources includes a wide variety of holidays which occur during the winter months. Use resources from this list to increase your students' knowledge with various activities.
- Chinese New Year Teacher Resources
- Christmas Teacher Resources
- December Holidays
- Groundhog Day Teacher Resources
- Hanukkah Teacher Resources
- Kwanzaa Teacher Resources
- Martin Luther King Jr Resources for Teachers
- New Year's Teacher Resources
- Valentine's Day Teacher Resources
Weather Activities
Winter is a great time to extend your students' knowledge of weather and the climate with activities such as learning vocabulary terms and the components of climate systems, as well as how scientists act like detectives when studying climate changes.
- Global Warming: A Glossary of Terms
- Weather Activities
- The Uncertainties of Global Warming
- Weather Terms
- Global Warming: What Is the Climate System?
- Global Warming: The Climate Detectives
- More Weather Resources for Teachers
Other Seasons
If you enjoyed these resources for Winter, click the links below on our resources for the other three seasons.
