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- Grade Range
- 3rd - 8th
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Students read what modern day descendants of the Wampanoag tribe have to say about the Thanksgiving celebration. It was the Wampanoags who were the first to encounter the Pilgrims at Plymouth. Full Review »
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- 3rd
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Students read "The Plymouth Thanksgiving Story" by Chuck Larsen. They discuss their prior knowledge of Thanksgiving history and question traditional views. They consider that there are always two or more sides to a story. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten
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Students read the book, "The Best Thanksgiving Book," and create an ABC chart book and slide show. Using AlphaSmart and Quick Pic software, they create a Thanksgiving ABC class book. Full Review »
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- 5th
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Students investigate the history of the first Thanksgiving. They read and discuss an informational handout titled "The Plymouth Thanksgiving Story," and independently complete a KWL chart with a minimum of five items for each category of the chart. Full Review »
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- 2nd
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Students create individual "thankful" felt squares for use in a large classroom Thanksgiving quilt that can be put together using glue or hot glue. This great holiday lesson is based upon the book "Thanksgiving" by Miriam Nerlove. Full Review »
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- 4th - 5th
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Students research the first Thanksgiving and practice writing first person narratives as they create a digital story about a passenger on the Mayflower and the harvest that took place in 1621. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 7th
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Students listen to stories about Thanksgiving, free-associate with list of specific words, and combine words on their lists to to write poems, letters, or descriptive pieces containing their responses, with illustrations. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 5th
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Students create a powerpoint about Thanksgiving. They acess the internet to research the history of Thanksgiving. Students create a poem about Thanksgiving and compose a short paragraph regarding Thanksgiving. They work individually on presentations. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten
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Students engage in a lesson with the making of a bulletin board for the holiday of Thanksgiving. They brainstorm for ideas as a group and use them to create designs for the bulletin board. An extension to the lesson is the integration of technology to create drawings for the bulletin board. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten
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Students explore Thanksgiving traditions and celebrations. As a class, they share family recipies, celebration stories and personal photographs. Students prepare assigned food items and participate in a mock Thanksgiving dinner. Full Review »
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