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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of the American Indian: Perspectives on Thanksgiving

For Students 4th - 8th
Excellent resource for educating students on the American Indian perspective on Thanksgiving using the themes of environment, community, encounters, and innovations. Includes images, quotes, classroom activity ideas, and links to related...
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Enchanted Learning

Enchanted Learning: Thanksgiving Crafts, Decorations, and Printouts

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Enchanted Learning provides a wealth of Thanksgiving-related ideas for crafts, decorations, and activity worksheets. Make a turkey from handprints and footprints, create a thankful leaf wreath or a easy-to-make scarecrow, or follow the...
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abcteach

Abcteach: Thanksgiving

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] At this site, you can find some useful and fun children's activities to use in developing a unit around Thanksgiving.
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ABCya

Ab Cya: Word Search: Thanksgiving Word Search

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Create a Thanksgiving themed word search for fun or to practice vocabulary words. The template is offered in two different sizes and can be worked online or printed.
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Other

Holiday & Festival Activities Esl Kid Stuff

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Nice variety of ideas, games, activities, songs, and recommended web resources related to Easter, Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. Geared toward younger PK-3 English language learners.
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Teachnology

Teachnology: Teacher Guide to Thanksgiving

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Enhance classroom learning with these excellent Thanksgiving resources such as lesson plans, activities, crafts and much more provided by Teachnology.
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New York Times

New York Times: Crossword Puzzle: Thanksgiving

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The New York Times Learning Network presents interactive & printable crossword puzzles. This one is on Thanksgiving.
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Vocabulary University

My vocabulary.com: Thanksgiving Day

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
This page offers a variety of vocabulary puzzles and activities using a list of 24 words pertaining to Thanksgiving Day. It also offers an extensive Vocabulary Word List for Thanksgiving (256).
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Cooking the Thanksgiving Day Turkey

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students will analyze data using Newton's Law of Heating and an exponential equation. Asks students to make connections between Newton's Law of Heating and the exponential equation.
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A to Z Teacher Stuff

A to Z Teacher Stuff: Thanksgiving (Lesson Plans)

For Teachers K - 1st
A variety of lesson plans broken down by grade level geared to helping children learn about Thanksgiving, many involving interactive activities.
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Other

Nourish Interactive: Actividades De Nutricion Para El Dia De Accion De Gracias

For Students 2nd - 6th
A collection of printable, nutrition-related activities on Thanksgiving. In Spanish.
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ABCya

Ab Cya: Gobble Squabble

For Students 1st - 5th
Gobble Squabble is a Thanksgiving activity to practice addition, subtraction, multiplication and division math facts! Solve math problems and avoid the hungry chefs. Gobble gobble!
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Teaching With Dear America: Colonial Period

For Students 3rd - 8th
Activities useful in presenting American colonial life. Find references to novels, a colonial home, and a diary entry activity.
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Funology: Holiday Arts and Crafts

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This resource has crafts and activities for holidays. Ideas are listed by holiday. Most can be done with common classroom and household supplies with little adult help.
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ABCya

Ab Cya: Panic in Pet Paradise

For Students 3rd - 8th
It's pandemonium at Pet Paradise Hotel! The picky pets are quite particular about where they are staying. Can you figure out the puzzle correctly so that each dog, cat, mouse and bird is happy?
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Plimouth Plantation

For Students 9th - 10th
Plimoth Plantation brings us "Living, breathing history," and lots of fun delving into various aspects like the Wampanoag, the English Colonists, the colony itself, and, of course, Thanksgiving - myth and reality. This is a site with...
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Space Probes to the Planets

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Various activities are found in this flipchart surrounding the theme of the book Space Probes to the Planets. It includes comparing/contrasting, vocabulary development, fact/opinion game, Activote...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Home for the Holidays

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Thanksgiving Holiday activity for Algebra students. Linear data taken from the internet and used to create a linear model of the class data.Students will then discover the slope of the line is the speed of the car in miles per hour....

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