This Labor Day, provide class members with a variety of engaging worksheets offering games, word work, and more! Here, you'll find a game of tic-tac-toe, word puzzles, a coloring sheet, crafts, and vocabulary practice.

What is Labor Day, and why do we celebrate it? Find out using an online scavenger hunt in which pupils search one website to locate information and answer a series of five short-answer questions. 

Students examine the history of celebrating Labor Day and discuss the important role blue-collar workers play in the country's economy. After discussion, they create a cube displaying drawings of various jobs they admire. Panels of cube...

A day off from work to celebrate...labor? Find out why on the first Monday of every September, Americans and Canadians celebrate Labor Day. Viewers will learn about the unique history of the first Labor Day, in which workers not only...

Labor Day, its parades and picnics, has become a marker for the end of summer vacation. Introduce kids to the key people and events involved in the creation of this national holiday with a video that provides a brief overview of the...

New ReviewLabor Day isn't just a day off at the beginning of the school year! Learn all about the workers who fought for labor laws and workplace safety with an informative video about the origins of Labor Day.

Everyone looks forward to Labor Day, but not everyone knows how it started. Learn about the origins of Labor Day and how we celebrate it in the United States today with a booklet about the holiday. Kids assess their understanding at the...

High schoolers explore the significance of Labor Day. In this Labor Day lesson, students research Internet sources to study the history behind the holiday. High schoolers discuss labor union history and simulate a public hearing...

Students examine the events which led to the observance of Labor Day as a national holiday, and analyze the role of labor unions in American history, past and present, through a variety of activities.

For this Labor Day vocabulary skills worksheet, students match the 7 listed Labor Day-related words and names to the appropriate sentences that describe each of them.

Third graders complete various activities pertaining to Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Presidents' Day, Memorial Day, Labor Day, Columbus Day, and Veteran's Day. They conduct research and complete writing and art activities on the...

What is May Day? Why and when do we celebrate it? Find out with an informational video that details the holiday's background and today's celebratory traditions.   

We often see other countries depicted in movies, but getting a close look at a typical day in the life of a young person from another country isn't as common. Give your pupils such a look with a resource that helps class members explore,...

Students discover what working conditions were like in the cotton mills of the South. In this industrialization lesson, students read oral histories of mill workers and then write persuasive speeches for or against labor unions in the...

Three scenarios that examine the role of unions in the fast-food industry and pro sports are used to launch a discussion of present-day union influence.

Class members experience labor/management "win-win" negotiations as they attempt to forge a contract that satisfies both teams' top demands. The teacher mediates the discussion.

When your upper elementary class returns in the fall, have them identify and define the beginnings of the labor movement and Labor Day in the United States. They thoughtfully reflect on changes that have occurred in the way we think...

In this vocabulary worksheet, students select the best word choice to complete the sentence. All words correspond to the theme of Labor Day.

To unionize or not to unionize? That is the question high schoolers consider in their investigation of the labor union movement of the 1920s. After a brief review of the Industrial Revolution and the importance of the textile industry in...

In this language arts worksheet, students study the American holiday of Labor Day. Students read a short factual passage, and answer 3 questions.

Seven multiple choice questions review facts about Labor Day. Use this as a pre-assessment or quiz after a lesson on this special holiday as you teach it to your elementary classes.

After teaching about Labor Day, learners arrange seven related vocabulary terms in alphabetical order. Look up other Labor Day resources by the same publisher to increase the value of this holiday-related instructional activity.