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WINTER THEMES
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Avoid the winter blahs and spring fever! Try brainstorming and
researching ideas for one of the following theme ideas for a fun,
interdisciplinary, thematic unit to keep your students motivated this winter.
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Holidays -
famous and not-so-famous
See this page and our Holidays page!
Includes resources for Valentine's Day.
Also, see our ideas for a unit on
Candy, very
appropriate for Valentine's Day - from ancient history to chemistry to
geography and economics, you can teach it in this unit! |
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Weather
Winter
Sports
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Solar System and the Stars
Civil Rights Movements
in the US and around the
world - Martin Luther King Day is January 15, 2007.
See our Civil Rights Unit.
Winter Quotations
by William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Frost,
and others, plus a link to Poetry for the Seasons.
Disaster Preparedness Programs -
Alternative and Renewable Sources of Energy -
Start and Run a Real Class or School-based Business
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The Roaring 20's
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Sometimes when you are in the middle of a long, bad winter;
the skies are always gray, the
ground outside is always icy, or slushy and slippery, it's become black and ugly
instead of the sparkling white when it first fell; it's cold all the time.
You're sick of wearing all those layers of clothes and socks, shoes and boots.
You can fall victim to what I call "winter cabin fever". That's when it's
tie for an especially motivating and FUN thematic unit of curriculum that will
help you get through to spring! One idea that came to me recently,
actually while watching It's a Wonderful Life, with Jimmy Stewart and
Donna Reed, was a unit focusing on the decade of the 1920's. Read more on
our Roaring 20's
Page about how to create this unit.
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