Snowman Fun

Snowman Studies
Science/Math/Writing During or after a snowstorm take your class outside and make a snowman. Measure its height, the circumference around each section, the distance from carrot nose to hat, etc. Record the outdoor temperature. Even take the snowman's temperature. Back inside, make a list of the snowman's properties and write nonfiction pieces about its creation. Each day record new measurements. Write predictions about when it will melt, giving reasons for the predictions. Write reports about the disappearance of the snowman. Invite students to write fictional accounts of the snowman, as well.

Cooperative Snowmen
First, students will work together as a team to create a snowperson for your class bulletin board. Then they will explain how they worked together as a team to create their snowperson. Finally, they will write a short story about their snowman.

"How To Build A Snowman" Expository Writing
During this lesson, students begin to understand how important specific directions are to a project. Students will demonstrate detailed writing in order to instruct their classmates on how to build a snowman.

An Outdoor Friend
Math/Language Arts Make a class snowman. Describe its properties, height, chest measurement, head measurement, etc. Record the air temperature and the snowman's temperature. Predict when it will melt. Figure out its mass and volume. Record changes each day and update predictions. Write fiction and nonfiction stories about the snowman.

Let's Build a Snowman
In this lesson, students will learn that building a snowman is one way to provide food for birds and animals during the winter. Students begin by listening to a book about snow. Students are then introduced to a K-W-L chart and discuss what they know about how animals find food in the winter. As students listen to Henrietta Bancroft's Animals in Winter, they listen for details about how some animals survive during the winter and record those details in the last column of the chart. To continue to build students' knowledge of the topic, they listen to additional fiction and nonfiction books and view a website about animals in winter. As a culminating activity, students use their charts to write and illustrate a story.

Predicting the Meltdown
Students create 3-dimensional prediction models of how water as a solid (snow or ice) will melt into a liquid and then evaporate into a gas.