Two primary sources, a speech, and an article provide tweens and teens with different perspectives of the American Thanksgiving holiday. After analyzing Wamsutta James' suppressed speech and Jacqueline Keeler's article, class members use...

In this ESL speaking and listening instructional activity, students discuss holidays, determining types of holidays and what experiences they prefer in a holiday.

In this holiday math mystery worksheet, students fill in fifteen missing numbers that makes each tree correct. Students then use the missing numbers in each tree to find the secret message shown.

Young scholars invents a holiday for their classroom, including name, customs, songs, foods, and other defining characteristics based on the research they have conducted and the discussion in Lesson Three.

In this holiday homework challenge worksheet, pupils participate in completing nine mini homework assignments for a prize when they return from the holiday break.

In this holiday homework challenge worksheet, pupils participate in completing nine mini homework assignments to receive a prize when they return to school after the long holiday break.

For this reading comprehension worksheet, students read a 2 paragraph passage about a family's summer holiday and highlight the use of present continuous verbs as they respond to 9 short answer questions.

Students explore word sounds by participating in a visual relay game. In this vocabulary identification game, students create holiday themed images and cards based on the different holidays in a year. Students place the cards and images...

First graders explore American culture by participating in arts and crafts activities. In this Thanksgiving lesson, 1st graders listen to music based upon the Thanksgiving tradition and examine images of the first Thanksgiving. Students...

In this Christmas activity activity, learners use the 20 holiday terms in the word bank to locate and identify them in the word search puzzle.

In this holiday worksheet, 4th graders find the answers to 14 clues and place them in a Christmas themed crossword puzzle that is decorated with a picture of Santa Claus.

To continue their study of the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the beginning of the civil rights movement, class members watch the YouTube video of Billie Holiday singing "Strange Fruit" as an introduction to an examination of...

Yes, Virginia, there really is a reader's theater script for "The Night Before Christmas." The exercise is a great way to productively channel pre-holiday energy.

Students learn along with Ms. Frizzle's class. In this Magic School Bus lesson plan, students learn the importance of recycling as they explore how things can be reused or recycled again and again.

In this reading comprehension learning exercise, learners read facts about the Polish holiday, Easter Monday, and choose from multiple choice answers to evaluate comprehension. Students choose three multiple choice answers.

A lesson looks at the Pilgrims and Wampanoag tribe during the first Thanksgiving. Scholars compare and contrast information presented by an online activity then discuss their findings. Learners examine the two group's daily routines and...

Pupils analyze a variety of primary source materials related to lynching (news articles, letters written to or written by prominent Americans, pamphlets, broadsides, etc.) in order to assess the effectiveness of the anti-lynching...

A lesson plan on the holiday known as Boxing Day is here for you. In it, middle schoolers read a passage about the history of the holiday, then complete some reading comprehension worksheets embedded in the plan to reinforce what they...

Students make a holiday or seasonal snow globe to give as a gift. Make it, then shake it! Students use small jars with lids. They use a glue gun or silicon glue to attach a small plastic toy to the inside of the lid. When the glue is...

Fun St. Patrick's Day facts abound. The lesson plan tells the story of the most famous icons associated with the holiday: the shamrock, snakes, Celtic religion, Irish history, and St. Patrick himself. 

Finally! Here are some new and fresh ideas, across the curicullum, that can be used around the Thanksgiving holiday. The lesson is divided up into two sections: Beyond Turkey - Activities for Younger Students and, Beyond Turkey -...

The social story "What to Expect on the Fourth of July" not only lets learners with autism know what to expect on this very American holiday, but also explains what behaviors are appropriate when at a fireworks display or picnic.