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- Kindergarten - 12th
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Students create great foods from different holiday celebrations. They follow recipes to prepare foods that are common to holiday celebrations in different cultures. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 5th
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Students examine the winter holidays of Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, and Winter Solstice. They define key vocabulary terms, read an article, complete a chart, and create a new holiday. Full Review »
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- 3rd
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Students study American national holidays, symbols, songs and landmarks. They appreciate the meaning and significance of our nation's ideals of liberty, justice and equality. Full Review »
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- 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 »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students discuss the rise of nation-states and nationalism in Europe, North America, and Asia. They research assigned topics and create a presentation to be presented to 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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- 6th - 8th
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Students discuss and compare national holidays in the United States and Canada. They make posters and T-charts analyzing Independence Day and Canada Day. Students find or draw pictures depicting how the holidays are celebrated with headlines and captions explaining each. 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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- Higher Ed
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Students, after reviewing an extensive vocabulary list of terms, explore all the different religious, political and personal holidays and traditions experienced in the United States. After discussing each one, they fill out a calendar with all the events listed on it by dates. Full Review »
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- 3rd
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Students complete various activities pertaining to Martin Luther King Jr. Day, President's Day, Memorial Day, Labor Day, Columbus Day, and Veteran's Day. They conduct research and complete writing and art activities on the background for each federal holiday. Full Review »
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