{"id":1712,"date":"2026-07-09T10:33:34","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T17:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/?p=1712"},"modified":"2026-07-09T10:33:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T17:33:34","slug":"embracing-winter-with-the-new-york-times-learning-network-and-snow-crystals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/2026\/07\/09\/embracing-winter-with-the-new-york-times-learning-network-and-snow-crystals\/","title":{"rendered":"Embracing Winter with the New York Times Learning Network and Snow Crystals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Tuesday! I hope everyone got a chance on the weekend to go\u00a0out and enjoy the sunshine.\u00a0 I sometimes have to remind myself that I like winter and try to embrace the chilly days.\u00a0 I recently found two things that I would like to share with you that may help you\u00a0enjoy winter.\u00a0 The\u00a0first was a lesson plan from the\u00a0New York Times, titled &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/03\/09\/learning\/lesson-plans\/lesson-plan-how-nature-comes-alive-in-the-winter.html?searchResultPosition=3\"><span class=\"ms-rteForeColor-8\">How Nature Comes Alive in Winter<\/span>&#8220;\u200b<\/a>. This reminded me of all the wonderful teaching resources at\u00a0the New York Times Learning Network. Here you can find up-to-date discussion articles, picture prompts and more! I will share the link below. The other neat site that I would like to share\u00a0(thanks to Matt and his\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ditchthattextbook.com\/\">Ditch\u200b\u200b That Textbook\u200b<\/a>\u00a0emails) is\u00a0about Snowflakes. It is full of really interesting snow crystal facts, videos and information.\u200b<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/section\/learning\"><strong class=\"ms-rteFontSize-4\">New York Times Learning Network:<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u200b\u200bI encourage you to check out this amazing resource with stuff for almost any grade.\u00a0 You can find contests, writing prompts, and\u00a0opinion pieces that students can\u00a0read with questions at the end to get them thinking and so much more!<\/p>\n<p>New York Times Learning Network<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/section\/learning\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1713\" src=\"https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/07\/newyorktimes-1030x645.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1030\" height=\"645\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/07\/newyorktimes-1030x645.jpg 1030w, https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/07\/newyorktimes-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/07\/newyorktimes-768x481.jpg 768w, https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/07\/newyorktimes-705x441.jpg 705w, https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/07\/newyorktimes.jpg 1236w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1030px) 100vw, 1030px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/snowcrystals.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1714\" src=\"https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/07\/snowflakes-1030x537.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1030\" height=\"537\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/07\/snowflakes-1030x537.jpg 1030w, https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/07\/snowflakes-300x156.jpg 300w, https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/07\/snowflakes-768x400.jpg 768w, https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/07\/snowflakes-1536x800.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/07\/snowflakes-1500x781.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/07\/snowflakes-705x367.jpg 705w, https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/07\/snowflakes.jpg 1795w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1030px) 100vw, 1030px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Tuesday! I hope everyone got a chance on the weekend to go\u00a0out and enjoy the sunshine.\u00a0 I sometimes have to remind myself that I like winter and try to embrace the chilly days.\u00a0 I recently found two things that I would like to share with you that may help you\u00a0enjoy winter.\u00a0 The\u00a0first was a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1712"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1716,"href":"https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712\/revisions\/1716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}