Winter Teachers notes – how to use this resources.

Winter

Teachers notes – how to use this resources.

January + February

Nature - animals

Nature - plants Winter weather

Eco friendly actions.

Recycle your Christmas tree.

Recycle your Christmas cards.

Food and farming

Within this resource you will find the following activities:

Potential ways to use the resource.

• the weather

• nature – plants and animals

• food and farming

• eco-friendly actions

Five seasonal activities in January + February related to:

Library of images.

Plants J a n u a r y

Snowdrop or Lili wen fachare found in abundance this month. Snowdrops are so called because they They grow in hedgerows and in lightly wooded area. There are a number different varieties. Tales related to the snowdrop include …..

Links –video etc

What is your school like?

Mark out your area you are going to investigate.

2. Show slide presentation of typical plants, animals, birds etc that are out and about during a selected season or month.

4. Pupils return to class and sort out images and build up digital archive.

Built a digital archive of nature on your patch.

J a n u a r y Animals Plants

Weather Sustainability issues

Recycle your Christmas tree.

Recycle your Christmas cards.

3. Pupils explore their environment – using a digital camera to capture their findings. Working in groups and selecting images related to their interests or given criteria.

Within this resource you will find the following activities:

• the weather

Five seasonal activities in January +

February related to:

What is winter weather like?

Lets look at snow and frost

What is winter weather like?

Winter colours and scenes

Look at the winter photographs above and which colours do you notice the most?

Winter colours and scenes.

What is snow?

Clouds are made of tiny droplets of water. When these

droplets freeze they change into

ice crystals which movearound inside the cloud,

bumping into each other and

sticking together.

When they are large enoughand heavy enough, they fall outof the cloud. If the temperatureis below freezing, they fall as

snowflakes.

All images courtesy Professor K. Libbrecht - www.snowcrystals.com

What is snow and frost?

Create your own snowflake design.

Within this resource you will find the following activities:

• the weather

Five seasonal activities in January + February related to:

• Nature – plants birds + animals

Snow drop - Lili Wen Fach, Eirlys, Blodyn Yr Eira

There is a famous poem related to the snowdrop:

The poet wonders from where did this flower come from, as it is so cold, snowy and wintery outside. It wonders how it managed to flower from under the snow, as no other flowers seems to be present in the world at this time.

O Lili Wen Fach o ble daethost ti?

A’r gwynt mor arw ac mor oer ei gri.

Sut y daethost ti allan trwy’r eira i gyd?

Nid oes blodyn bach arall I’w weld yn y byd.

Information on snowdrops Activities to support Big Schools’ Birdwatch

Identification of birds.

Within this resource you will find the following activities:

• the weather

Five seasonal activities in January + February related to:

• Food and farming Feeding cattle in winter.

Feeding cattle in winter

Cattle can be fed a range of feed, this could include

hay and silage that is made in the summer. In the picture opposite you can see silage that has been stored in clamps ready for winter months. It is then cut and fed to the animals.

Animals are housed indoors in winter because it is wet and cold and grass hardly grows at all.

• Eco friendly actions

• Supporting activities

Spot winter plants & animalsWords related to winter

ice KS 1

• frost

• snowflake

• snow

• windy

• snowman

• freezing

• cold

• crisp

• slide

• ice

• white

January words related to weather and nature

ice KS 2

• pattern

• shivering

• icicles

• footprints

• crystals

• symmetry

• bleak

• stark

• temperature

• scenes

• moisture

Eco friendly support

Christmas tree + recycling

5,500,000 Christmas trees are bought each year, most of which are

thrown out after Christmas, creating enough tree waste to fill the Albert Hall

3 times over.’

• taking your tree to your local authority

recycling site where it

will be shredded and

chipped and used for

compost

Think about:

Trees ready to be chipped for compost.

What’s in your green patch ?

observe nature

engage with nature

Plants J a n u a r y Snowdrop or Lili wen fachare found in abundance this month. Snowdrops are so called because they They grow in hedgerows and in lightly wooded area. There are a number different varieties. Tales related to the snowdrop include …..

Links –video etc

What is your school like?

1. Mark out the area you are going to investigate.

2. Show slide presentation of typical plants, animals, birds etc that are out and about during a selected season or month.

4. Pupils return to class and sort out images and build up digital archive.

Build a digital archive of nature on your patch.

J a n u a r y Animals Plants

Weather Sustainability issues

Recycle your Christmas tree.

Recycle your Christmas cards.

3. Pupils explore their environment – using a digital camera to capture their findings. Working in groups and selecting images related to their interests or given criteria.

Class 5 What’s on your green patch .

ivy berries snowdrops

ice & snow

robin

frost

holly

sheep

How this resource could be used – class findings of what’s on your patch?

Pupils make a classroom map of what they have found on their patch by using photographs they have taken.

Our School

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