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Christmas Activities Lesson Plans
From Frohe Weihnachten! (Merry Christmas!) to Mystery Christmas Carols, find teacher approved christmas activities lesson plans that inspire student learning.
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Students study the German expressions that relate to Christmas. They write five sentence Christmas cards to German immigrants. They examine German Christmas activities and listen to German Christmas music.
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- 4th - 8th Grade
Students plan a colonial Christmas event, demonstrate colonial Christmas customs, and participate in a colonial Christmas activities.
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- 4th - 5th Grade
Students recognize that the Christmas tree is one symbol of Christmas, then demonstrate their ability to identify symbols. They compare the lightstock (Christmas pyramid) with the Paradise tree and apply their knowledge about the history of ornaments.
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- Kindergarten - 2nd Grade
Students participate in various hands-on activities to determine what life is like without the sense of sight.
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- 3rd - 5th Grade
Students do an activity called Santa's favorite Christmas Superstitions where they have to match the two halves of Christmas superstitions. They do another activity called Gifts. The teacher piles a small piece of paper, enough for everybody in the class to have as many as there are people in the class. Each person in the class writes the name of one classmate on each piece of paper they have. Next, the name they should write the gift they'd like to give that person.
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- 2nd Grade
Student groups create slides on one of the cultures listed. They view videos that show United States families celebrating Christmas based on their native countries' traditions and a video which tells the story of La Bafana, the old woman who brings gifts at Christmas to Italian children. Students write about their families' Christmas traditions.
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- 3rd - 6th Grade
Students examine how people around the world celebrate Christmas and compare and contrast those celebrations using a Venn diagram. Students use specific websites to research the Christmas celebration in other countries and write down facts and information they collect as well as illustrate the diagram with pictures representing the Christmas cultures of the two countries.
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- 1st - 5th Grade
Students use a paint program to decorate a Christmas tree. They plan the tools and colours that they are going to use to decorate their trees on the provided Christmas tree template. Afterwards, they create a picture of the real tree in the Paint program.
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- 4th - 6th Grade
Students consider how holidays are celebrated through different traditions. In this Christmas cracker lesson plan, students research British Christmas traditions and follow the steps provided to build their own Christmas cracker with a holiday message inside.
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- 1st - 6th Grade
Students discover stories behind Christmas carols. In this Christmas carol lesson,students research the history of Christmas carols and find out where the practice of caroling originated and create a flip book to show an animated version of a scene from a favorite Christmas carol.
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