Intel Thematic Unit Showcase
By: Tayler Kline
WVSU
The Winter Season
2nd Grade
Essential Question
 What events take place during our winter season?
Subjects
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Reading
Math (geometry)
Writing
Science
Approximate Time Needed For Each
Lesson
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Lesson 1- 40 minutes
Lesson 2- 30 minutes
Lesson 3- 35 minutes
Lesson 4- 35 minutes
Lesson 5- 1 hour
Day 1
 Students will listen to the story “Lights of Winter” by
Heather Conrad on Movie Maker that has been
previously recorded. We will discuss the book after
they listen to it on their individual laptops. After the
discussion the students will write down on a sheet of
paper 3 holidays they learned about in the story.
Story
This story lists different
holidays, and festivals
taking place around the
world in the winter.
Day 2
 Students will use Kidspirtation to
design a Christmas tree ornament.
They will use a variety of
shapes(square triangles, ovals, etc.)
to design the ornament. They may
also use color, and paint options to
design their ornaments. Students will
identify the shapes they used by
writing the names of the shapes on
the back of the ornament along with
how many sides the shapes has.
Then the students will cut out their
ornaments, and we will place it on
our bulletin board Christmas tree.
Day 3
 The students will listen to a message from Santa
made on Voki. Then students will use Microsoft Word
and type up a letter to Santa. They will be asked to
use complete sentences, using punctuation, verbs,
and nouns. Then we will print our letters, and “mail”
them to Santa.
Day 4
 We will identify the type of percipitation we usually
have during the winter. We will learn about snow, and
snowflakes. As a class we will use the Smartboard
and do a Snow Quest. Last the students will be given
a snowflake grpahic organizer, and they will write
short facts about snow that they learned by doing the
webquest.
Snow Quest
Graphic Organizer
Day 5
 Students will use Microsoft Publisher to create a
cover page for a story they will write. Students will
write a story based on the winter, or holiday theme
cover they created. The cover page will be created
using a specific list of directions of what is needed on
the cover page. The story then can be typed on
Microsoft Word.
Technology Used in Lessons
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Movie Maker
Laptops
Kidspiration
Voki
Microsoft Word
SmartBoard
Webquest
Microsoft Publisher
Standards
 SC.O.2.2.14
observe and describe different types of precipitation.
 M.O.2.3.1
identify and describe the following geometric solids according to the
number of faces and edges:
rectangular solid
cube
cylinder
cone
Pyramid
Standards
 RLA.O.2.3.1
listen, recite and respond to familiar stories, poems and songs (e.g., retell in
sequence, relate information to own life, describe character, setting, plot,
engage in creative dramatics, imagine beyond the story).
 RLA.O.2.2.2
write correctly formed and punctuated simple sentences (e.g., declarative,
interrogative, exclamatory).
 RLA.O.2.3.3
access media tools to create an oral or visual presentation (e.g., desktop
publishing, electronic resources, photos).
Resources
 Voki.com
 Kidspiration.com
 http://lrs.ed.uiuc.edu/students/rtrieger/pages/snowqu
est.htm
 Microsoft Word
 Microsoft Publisher
 “Lights of Winter” by Heather Conrad