Math lesson for Thanksgiving

Learners review the reasons why Thanksgiving is celebrated in the United States. Using the internet, they research the history of the holiday and discover what the first Thanksgiving was like. They also examine a typical menu for a...

How did that turkey get from the early Aztec culture to your table? Learn about the history of wild and domesticated turkeys in North America, as well as their inclusion in Thanksgiving traditions, with a two-part agricultural science...

Bring two integrated curriculum resources about Thanksgiving to an elementary social studies unit. The first activity focuses on Squanto's contributions to the early Pilgrims' survival with a gardening activity in which learners add fish...

A Thanksgiving-themed interactive boosts addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division facts. Using the keyboard's arrows, players navigate a turkey through a maze, gobbling up as many berries as possible without getting tagged by...

American traditions of Thanksgiving come to life through culinary activities. Young chefs practice cooking a turkey and setting a table for a Thanksgiving family feast. They use math and reading skills to follow directions and measure...

Learners explore the holiday traditions of Thanksgiving by solving math problems. In this basic math function lesson, students utilize feathers as an item which needs to be added or subtracted within a math sentence. Learners utilize...

Youngsters study the history and uses of the blueberry. There are actually six different lessons linked into this plan! The lessons can be useful within a variety of curricular areas, and are particularly appropriate around the...

This lesson includes activities across the curriculum for Thanksgiving. They create a cornucopia for art, a food pyramid for Science, and a poem for Language Arts. Also included in this lesson are ideas for Thanksgiving themed centers.

Students create a Thanksgiving cornucopia basket. In this symbols lesson, students discover that the cornucopia is a symbol to Americans of Thanksgiving. Students cut pictures from magazines of items that belong in a cornucopia and paste...