Winter-Themed Science Video Lessons to Use Before the Holiday Break
These winter-themed science video lessons are perfect for your elementary, middle, and high school students when their minds are on the holiday break!
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As you count down the days to winter break, you’ll notice the correlation between the number of days left and the length of your students’ attention spans.
Harness the crazy pre-break energy and keep your students engaged and learning with these winter-themed science video lessons!
Winter Science Video Lessons for Elementary Students
In this lesson, students will describe how living in a group helps reindeer protect themselves from predators.
Animal Groups and Survival (Reindeer)
In this lesson, students will use models and data to describe patterns in how the length of day changes through the seasons by looking at how, for parts of the year, the sun never sets in polar regions.
Video length: 7 mins. 11 secs.
Patterns (Earth’s Rotation)
In this lesson, students will distinguish between weather and climate by examining an unusual weather event (snow in the Sahara Desert).
Video length: 7 mins. 23 secs.
Climate vs. Weather (Snow in the Desert)
In this lesson, students will identify avalanches as a weather-related hazard and make a claim about the effectiveness of avalanche mitigation techniques.
Video length: 8 mins. 38 secs.
Seasonal Weather Patterns (Planned Avalanches)
In this lesson, students will compare the summer and winter fur coats of snowshoe hares and construct an argument that one external structure can serve many functions.
Video length: 7 mins. 15 secs.
Internal and External Structures (Snowshoe Hare)
In this lesson, students will compare the summer and winter fur coats of snowshoe hares and construct an argument that one external structure can serve many functions.
Video length: 6 mins. 43 secs.
Winter Science Video Lessons for Middle and High School Students
In this lesson, students will use models of water molecules in order to explain the structure of snowflakes.
Atoms (Snowflakes)
In this lesson, students will develop models to show how heat moves from warm to cold via the motion of particles in order to explain why a tongue will freeze onto a cold metal pole.
Video length: 6 mins. 39 secs.
Thermal Energy (Frozen Tongue)
In this lesson, students will investigate why a tongue can freeze to cold metal, developing models to show that heat moves from warm areas to cold via the motion of particles.
Video length: 6 mins. 42 secs.
Looking for more winter video lessons? Check out last year’s roundup of winter video lessons or ask our Edpuzzle community of teachers on Twitter!