This document provides various lesson ideas and activities for teaching students about Thanksgiving. It includes learning about the history and story of Thanksgiving through books, videos, and interactive websites. It also suggests crafts like creating comics or funny stories, games to play online or in the classroom, and apps to learn about Thanksgiving through digital media like creating menus or sending thank you cards. Additional resources are provided through links for teachers.

1. Thanksgiving
Lesson Ideas &
Activities
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2. “We make a living by what
we get, but we make a life by
what we give.”
~Winston Churchill

3. Thanksgiving helps students learn about…
Vintage Thanksgiving Day Postcard by RiptheSkull, Flickr

4. Students will need to learn the story!
Thanksgiving Play by Fivehanks, Flickr

5. Recommended Books

6. Brain Pop Animation with Script

7. Youtube.com/watch?v=UYch9o0AO1g

8. Online Interactive Investigation
Plimoth.org/learn/MRL/interact/thanksgiving-interactive-you-are-historian

9. The Accompanying Teacher Guide
Plimoth.org/media/olc/hpteachg.html

10. The Accompanying Teacher Guide

11. International Thanksgiving Meal

12. A Native American Nature Walk

13. Create a funny story!
Kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/games/moregames/funnyfillinpictureperfect

14. Create a cartoon!
Kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/activities/cartoons/cartoonthanksgiving/

15. Scholastic.com/scholastic_thanksgiving/letters.htm

16. Learn through Games!

17. Dltk-holidays.com/thanksgiving/hang-man/hangman.htm

18. Primarygames.com/holidays/thanksgiving/games.htm

19. Learn
through
Apps!
www.schooltechnology.org Photos of elementary students using iPads at school to do
amazing projects. Photo taken by LexieFlickinger, Flickr, CC 2.0

20. Mr. Turkey Where Are You?
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mr.-turkey-where-are-you/id479087329?mt=8

21. Tom The Talking Thanksgiving Turkey App

22. Thanksgiving Menu Maker Fine Cooking App
•Students work in pairs/
small groups to plan a
Thanksgiving supper
•The app has them plan
a menu, creates a
shopping list, gives a
cooking timeline
•Have them try to make
one of the recipes

23. Red Stamp App
•Students send thank
you cards to others
•Allows them to email
the card, upload
images, include text &
has templates

24. Other resources
Pearltrees.com/shellyterrell/thanksgiving/id6739299
Larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2008/10/27/the-best-sites-to-
learn-teach-about-thanksgiving/
Esolcourses.com/topics/thanksgiving.html

25. TeacherRebootCamp.
com
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