This page provides a problem solving resource for teachers to use with their students in the days leading up to Christmas. Twenty-four math problems from the NRICH collection have been included in this advent problem set based on the theme of Planet Earth; each problem includes teacher resources, a printable page, and a solution

In this grade 6-12 EL Content Companion, students use scaffolds to learn about Christmas in various countries. The lesson contains language, social-emotional learning, and content objectives, along with targeted vocabulary instruction.

A Christmas Carol LessonThis lesson uses the acronym STEAL to teach characterization as students read A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Time Frame: 10 ELA blocks of about 30 min each.

This Google Arts & Culture resource gives a brief description of the origins of Christmas and links to many Christmas-related works of art.

This Google Arts & Culture slideshow presents historic Christmas-season posters from the London Transport Museum.

(Mixed Crafts)
Christmas tale based on the Catalan tradition of the magic Yule log which children fatten up days before Christmas so that on Christmas day, with its appetite satisfied, they hit it with a stick and it releases all the toys it has inside.
In this story, curious Caroline creeps inside the hollow Yule Log intent on finding out the mystery of where Christmas presents come from and gets herself into trouble for going where she shouldn't. There she befriends another prisoner, the ogre Ot, and together they make their escape.

(Colored Ink & Pen)
The tall fir tree standing in Sergi?s yard is all decorated for Christmas. When Sergi?s ball gets stuck in the top branches of the tree, the tree comes to life and tells the children the story of how when he was only five, his dream came true: he became a Christmas tree.

(Molding Clay)
For Christmas Margaret's Granddad gives her the figures of a ballerina and a one-legged tin soldier joined together on a base shaped like a heart and tells her the story of how they became united forever. A little boy with lots of toys and tin soldiers didn't know that they all came to life at night. His bravest soldier, his one-legged tin soldier, falls in love with a ballerina, but one night he is accidentally blown off the window sill and sets out upon a perilous journey through gutters, sewers and the sea until he ends up in a fish's tummy. The fish is caught and sold at the market to his former owner's mother. This is how he is reunited with the ballerina. But when she is blown off the mantelpiece into the flames, he dives in after her. The slow fire melts the two figures into one and is saved in the nick of time by the boy.

This Google Arts & Culture presentation, created in collaboration with the Jewish Museum in New York, shows and describes a variety of artistic Hanukkah lamps or menorahs.

Two halves or four quarters making a whole, equivalence of two quarters and one half.

This is an interactive, sixth-grade Nearpod lesson tied to SEEd standard 6.1.1. It guides students through information and activities about seasons.
This resource is a student-ready, three-dimensional SEEd science lesson you can add to your Nearpod library. Many of the phenomena, text, and images come from UEN OER textbooks, Seedstorylines.org, ck12.org, and pixabay.com. Most videos are from youtube.com or pbslearningmedia.org. Many of the simulations were found at phet.colorado.edu, ck12.org, and pbslearningmedia.org. This lesson is unique to Nebo School District but was built with the help of many amazing ideas from teachers throughout Utah.

Kwanzaa is the ideal time to consider harmonious and principled togetherness in the family, the neighborhood, the nation, and the world. This Google Arts & Culture slideshow, created in partnership with the Smithsonian, presents Kwanzaa through text and images.

UEN Teacher Tips is a weekly series from the UEN Professional Development team. Every Tuesday, we'll share a new tip, how-to video and classroom resource. When life is busy and time is short, we hope these tips lead to bright ideas, just in time! This week's tip is "Five Tips for Embracing the Holidays in the Classroom" by Kayla Towner.

In Lesson 1, students focus on the first stave of the novel as they identify the meanings of words and phrases that may be unfamiliar to them. This activity facilitates close examination of and immersion in the text and leads to an understanding of Scrooge before his ghostly experiences. In Lesson 2, students examine Scrooge’s experiences with the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future and discover how Dickens used both direct and indirect characterization to create a protagonist who is more than just a stereotype. In Lesson 3, students focus on stave 5 as they identify and articulate themes that permeate the story.

Students learn about multicultural holidays celebrated in winter: Hanukkah, St. Lucia Day, Las Posadas, Kwanzaa, and Chinese New Year.

The seasons have nothing to do with how far the Earth is from the Sun. If this were the case, it would be hotter in the northern hemisphere during January as opposed to July. Instead, the seasons are caused by the Earth being tilted on its axis by an average of 23.5 degrees (Earth's tilt on its axis actually varies from near 22 degrees to 24.5 degrees). This article from the National Weather Service explains how it works.

This Google Arts & Culture slide presentation shows classic works of art from various times and cultures centered around Christmas. The slides include descriptions of the art, artists, cultures, and topics shown.