Teaching and Learning

Snow Studies

• Snow Pit Lesson Plan (in pdf, in html)
• Snow Pit Student Task Cards (in pdf, in html)
• Snow Pit Data Sheet(in pdf, in html)
• Snow Inquiry (in pdf, in html)
• Snow Insulation Lab (in pdf, in html)
• Process Skills Using Snow (in pdf, in html)
• Interdisciplinary Snow Studies Ideas
• Multiple Intelligences Suggestions for Snow Study
• Partial Unit on Thermal Dynamics

Power Point Presentations from December 2003 OLCG Follow-Up Meeting (watch for completion of Climate Change Jukebox Project which will integrate audio with these Power Points)

• Freezing Rivers:Hardening of the Arteries by Samuel F. Demientieff, Athabascan Elder

• Snow and Climate by Matthew Sturm, Ph.D (this is a large 17.2kb file)

 

Resources for the Study of Snow

•Website

Immiugniq - Winter Sources of Drinking Water - this fabulous site is the work of Project Sivunmum of the North Slope Borough School District -Alaska Native Education Program and examines the subject of snow and drinking water from a traditional Inpuiaq perspective. The site contains pdf versions of a student storybook, teacher activity guide and Inupiaq language guide. Check it out!

Snow Crystals.com - a great site with explanations and links to photograph collections including Bentley's snowflakes


All About Snow -has information on everything snow from avalanches and blizzards to snowflakes and safety


A-Z Teacher Stuff Network Winter-Snow thematic unit ideas for elementary school


•Children’s Fiction


Katy and the Big Snow by Virginia Lee Burton
The Winter Place by Ruth Yaffee Radin
Snowshoe Trek to Otter River by David Budbill
Snow by Uri Shulevitz

•Poetry


Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost
It’s Snowing! It’s Snowing by Jack Prelutsky


•Children’s Non-Fiction


Exploring Winter by Sandra Markle
Field Guide to Snow Crystals by Edward LaChapelle
A Drop of Water by Walter Wick
Snow by John Bianchi and Frank Edwards
Snowflake Bentley by Jacqueline Brigs Martin


•Activities and information


Snow Crystals by W.A. Bentley and W.J. Humphreys
Water by Kim Taylor
The Secret Language of Snow by Terry Tempest Williams and Ted Major


•Teacher Guides


Easy to Make Decorative Snowflakes by Brenda Lee Reed (Dover)
Liquid Explorations by Leigh Agler (Lawrence Hall of Science)
The Snow Book by Steve Campbell (Western Education Development Group, UBC)

The Website for National Science Foundation Grant No. ES1-9910219

Last Modified on February 4, 2004 by Sidney Stephens