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Thanksgiving Scavenger Hunt

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Second graders complete a scavenger hunt on the World Wide Web in which they locate facts about Thanksgiving using a Power Point presentation. Once they are done answering the questions of the hunt, they take turns typing their answers in a Word document.

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thanksgiving, Holidays

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thanksgiving, social studies
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2nd
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Social Studies & History
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