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Hoot for the Holidays: Felt Owl Ornament

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Get ready for the holidays with a felt owl ornament project. Younger and older kids will love this simple craft, and it offers a great way to practice sewing skills. Final products can vary depending on use of decorative ribbons,...
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Character in Place: Eudora Welty’s “A Worn Path” for the Common Core

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
How do writers use the interaction between elements like characterization and setting to create meaning? Readers of "A Worn Path" create a series of comic book-style graphics of Eudora Welty's short story and reflect on how Welty uses...
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Activity
San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District

Classroom or Large Space Activities

For Teachers K - 2nd
The 24 activities detailed in this packet are designed to get kids up and moving with a minimum of chaos. A great resource to have on hand for drama classes and content courses.
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Outside Education

Plant a Plant in Anything!

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Primary graders repurpose items brought from home to create containers for plants. After poking holes in their containers, kids add soil and plant seeds or transplant an item, and then observe and draw conclusions about which items make...
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Celebra Kwanzaa

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
¡Celebramos Kwanzaa! Celebrate Kwanzaa through the fictional story Celebra Kwanzaa con Botitas y sus gatitos to delightfully explain the seven principles of Kwanzaa. Dual language learners participate in reading and vocabulary activities...
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Activity
Vermilionville

Mardi Gras—Secondary

For Teachers 7th - 9th Standards
Add a little glitter to your Mardi Gras celebration with a packet that includes information about the history of Mardi Gras. It also provides information about how different communities celebrate the holiday, as well as templates for...
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eBook
Library of Congress

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Many people are familiar with the Disney version of Alice in Wonderland, but long before it was an animated movie, Lewis Carroll's story was a beloved book. An eBook gives readers access to an early edition of the story. The text...
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Interactive
ABCya

Make a Snowman

For Students Pre-K - 3rd
Do you want to build a snowman? Of course you do! A fun and easily navigated game provides face pieces, hats, scarves, arms, and other fun accessories for young learners to create their perfect winter friend.
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Get Your Skates On

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Students enjoy winter activities. In this field trip opportunities lesson, students may visit the Royal Botanic Gardens, Bocketts Farm, Clapham Common, or the Dinosaur Museum online or in-person.
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Nature's Polyhedrons

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers are introduced to polyhedrons through using straw models to explore geometric solids and constructing Christmas tree ornaments using Epsom salt crystals. Students will view interactive videos and investigate and retrieve...
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Electricity: Series and Parallel Circuits

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore electricity and electrical circuits. They explore series and parallel circuits using Christmas lights. Students pull lights out of each strand of lights. They observe the results when the light bulb is pulled out....
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The Joy of Giving

For Teachers K
Children identify wants and needs, bake and sell cookies to raise money, and then go to the mall to purchase gifts for Christmas stockings that are donated to the Salvation Army. They then perform Graphing activities to help children...
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Worksheet
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Unscramble the Winter Holiday Words

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this language arts worksheet, students observe 10 words which are scrambled. All pertain to winter holidays; the word Christmas is not mentioned and there are no graphics on the page. Students unscramble the words.
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Worksheet
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Counting Ornaments

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this counting ornaments worksheet, learners practice counting to ten by counting how many ornaments are shown and then color ten of them with appropriate Christmas colors.
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Worksheet
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Rudolph, Rudolph

For Students Pre-K - 2nd
In this early childhood Rudolph booklet activity, students color the 7 pictures, cut the pages out, and assemble the Christmas booklet that may be read again and again.
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Organizer
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From Me to You!

For Students K - 3rd
In this Junie B. Jones Christmas gift tag template learning exercise, students color and cut out the 4 gift tags to be used for gifts they make or buy to give.
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Worksheet
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Ornament Connect the Dots

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this Christmas activity worksheet, students use their counting skills to connect the dots as they count 3-digit numbers. The dot to dot activity is numbered 273-351 and reveals an ornament when it is completed.
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Singin' Around the Year

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students explore performing arts by singing with their class. In this music appreciation lesson, students collaborate in groups to read and sing songs based on specific holidays such as the Fourth of July or Christmas. Students define...
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Decorate A Tree

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students decorate a tree with ornaments which represent different locomotion skills such as crab walk, stretches, jump rope, and jumping jacks. Great for holiday week.
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Millennium Santa!

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders decide what would make Santa look modern and in style. They write a descriptive paragraph that another student then reads. They try to draw the image conveyed in the writing. They read the paragraphs and match them with the...
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Lesson Plan
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Jingle Bells

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders identify people of different ages, cultural backgrounds, traditions, and careers. They explain how they contribute to the community. Students sing a song to display the different Christmas traditions that are celebrated in...
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High-Tech Heaven?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students read and discuss, "Post-Christmas Comes a Geek's Gizmo-Rama" by David Pogue. They consider how technologies they use impact their lives.
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Worksheet
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"Talking Turkeys!!"

For Students 5th - 6th
In this holiday worksheet, students read a poem called "Talking Turkeys!" It begins with, "Be nice to yu turkeys dis christmas..."
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Worksheet
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Santa's Scrambled Syllables

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this scrambled syllables worksheet, students unscramble a set of 2 Christmas words, matching parts of the words shown in 2 of "Santa's bag." 

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