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- Grade Range
- 6th - 12th
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Students develop a new holiday and construct a booklet describing elements of the holiday. They discuss ways that they feel their culture, gender, or generation needs to be better understood, appreciated, or celebrated in creating their holiday. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten - 12th
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Students create a holiday for a hero. The person may be someone in history who is not currently honored with a holiday, another famous person, a family member, a friend, or someone else they admire. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten
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Students create a holiday portfolio by participating in these three lessons. They experience using the computer by using the provided student guides. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 12th
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Students research a variety of December holidays and create a chart comparing Christmas, Chanukah, Kwanzaa, Las Posadas, and Ramadan. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students analyze a variety of primary source materials related to lynching (news articles, letters written to or written by prominent Americans, pamphlets, broadsides, etc.) in order to assess the effectiveness of the anti-lynching campaign spearheaded by African-Americans. This lesson focuses on Billie Holiday's signature song, "Strange Fruit," a protest song Lewis Allen (Abel Meeropol) wrote in 1938 about the ongoing and intransigent problem of lynching in the American South. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten - 1st
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Students identify people and events observed in national celebrations and holidays. They match heroes with holidays on a worksheet and discuss the matches. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 4th - 6th
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Students use the Internet resources provided and their own searches to select and investigate a holiday of interest to them. They present their findings to the rest of the class in a format of their choice. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 5th
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Students use the internet to research a holiday of interest to them. After researching the holiday, they research the country, culture and group who celebrates it and why. They create a presentation to share their information with the class. Full Review »
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- 5th
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Students review and discuss the rubric that will be used to evaluate their final product. Students brainstorm a list of holidays celebrated by a majority of people in the United States. Students each select an American holiday from the list as well as another country that may have a holiday that is similar. They perform research to locate useful information using a minimum of three sources. The lesson includes an extensive list of holidays. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 5th
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Students investigate the traditions associated with winter holidays. They examine why most of the holidays are associated with light. They examine the origins and customs of these holidays before creating an original holiday. Full Review »
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