Let's create continuous conversations about climate change education: Spreading the Sediment of Science!
Ice Globes | Winter - Snow Friend
Provided by: CLEAN |Published on: September 21, 2023
Lesson Plans Grades k-2
Synopsis
- In this video, students will explore what happens to a bucket of snow when it is brought inside, comparing it to the fluffy snow outside.
- The characters in the animated video discover the connection between temperature and the texture of snow.
- There is a linked lesson with a lab experiment and game included below the video.
Subjects: Science
Authors: CLEAN, PBS
Region: Global
Languages: English
Teaching Materials
Positives
- The video is brief and appropriate for young learners.
- The characters engage students in scientific observation through story-telling.
Additional Prerequisites
- If you are going to use the full lesson, you will need to prepare a number of materials ahead of time.
- The video provides subtitles in English only.
Differentiation
- If you live in a climate with cold winters, students can monitor snow's properties throughout the week or month, logging the temperatures and textures.
- This video would fit nicely into a unit on weather or states of matter.
- Older students can discuss and predict how snow and winters might change as the climate changes.
- English language learners may benefit from slowing the video's playback speed and using closed captioning.
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About the Partner Provider
CLEAN
The CLEAN Network is a professionally diverse community of over 630 members committed to improving climate and energy literacy locally, regionally, nationally, and globally in order to enable responsible decisions and actions. The CLEAN Network has been a dynamic group since 2008 and is now led by the CLEAN Leadership Board established in 2016.
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