In this lesson plan, students in pre-K and kindergarten view pictures and a PowerPoint® slideshow to help them understand the connection between winter and snow, as well as learn more about snowflakes. At the end of the slideshow, students create their own snowflakes with pre-folded paper and scissors. Once the students have finished creating their snowflakes, the slideshow continues with a review and questions section.
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Overview
Teach kids in pre-K and kindergarten about winter and snow using a simple Microsoft® Office PowerPoint® slideshow and accompanying art activity.
Signs of winter: snow
This lesson plan was a winning entry of the 2008 TEE & Scholastic
"Best-Ever Lesson Plan" contest. The following lesson plan and resources
appear in their original form as they were submitted to TEE in 2008.
Objective: The student will connect snow to the winter
season. They will also know that it begins as a speck of dust that grows into
a six sided flake.
Subject area: Science
Grade level: Kindergarten
Materials needed:
Pictures depicting the winter season
Chart paper
Pre-folded paper for each student (allow extras for errors in cutting)
Scissors for each child
Snow Power Point
Description : This lesson is a part of a unit on the winter
season.
Show the students pictures of winter scenes. Ask them if they can tell you
what season it is in the pictures. Once the season has been identified as
winter, ask them how that they can tell that it is winter in the pictures.
Write the reasons on chart paper as to how they can tell that it is winter.
Proceed to tell them that today they will learn about snow and how
snowflakes form.
Show the Power Point on Snow to the students until the slide that names
activity.
Make a snowflake as a culminating activity using the pre-folded paper. (Go
to www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Paper-Snowflake to see how to
fold the paper. Pre-fold due to the age of the students.) You will want to
model first the way to cut out the snowflake and show the students the
outcome of your cuttings. After modeling cutting a snowflake, pass out one
piece of prefolded paper and scissors to each student.
Continue the Power Point with the following review/assessment questions:
What season is it when it snows? (Slide #21)
Why does it snow in winter? (Slide #22)
What does a snowflake begin as? (Slide #23)
What shape does the particle become? (Slide #24)
How many sides or points does a snowflake have? (Slide #25)
Finish off the lesson by hanging the children's snowflakes and talking
about the fact that just like real snowflakes, no two snowflakes look
alike.
