Interdisciplinary Lesson Plans, Activity Ideas and Other Curriculum Resources

Learning Online The museum site features two curriculum units: Painted Pilgrims grades William Bradford: The Mashpee Wampanoag Timeline An annotated timeline Native Languages of the Americas: Wampanoag A source of information on language and culture. Includes a fact sheet and an introduction to Wampanoag Indian mythology.

Thanksgiving Census Facts Consider a statistical view of Thanksgiving. Find out how many turkeys are raised for Thanksgiving, how many pounds of potatoes Americans consume around the holiday, and how many pies will be produced. Links to other Thanksgiving quiz and turkey facts. Turkey Trivia Learn about wild and domesticated turkeys in the United States. Thanksgiving Recipes for Kids Kids can help mom, dad, brother, or sister make sweet potato pie, marshmallow pilgrim hats, and turkey cookies.

America's Thanksgiving Recipes Find seven recipes for old fashioned Thanksgiving desserts and listen to an audio clip as the some of the finished recipes are tasted and rated. Thanksgiving Quiz Take and grade these 10 question quizzes. Thanksgiving Trivia Test your Thanksgiving savvy with this 80 question trivia test.

Ten Thanksgiving Books for Children K History of Thanksgiving 14 brief videos covering Thanksgiving history, food, football, and more. Titan Gel , Jual Titan Gel. A very good site and very interesting to read, hopefully your site to be the best. They wore all kinds of bright colors, such as red, green, yellow, purple and white.

Women wore skirts, jackets and aprons. They usually wore red, blue purple and green. Men and older boys wore pants that came down to their knees, long shirts and vests. Boys under 6 years old wore dresses. The berries were used to make sauces, jams and drinks. The Indians called them ibimi, which meant bitter berry, and used them as a dye for blankets and to draw poison from wounds. Indians also invented popcorn when they put ears of corn in the fire and the kernels popped out.

The Pilgrims fired their guns at the first Thanksgiving and marched in their armor. Indians shot their bow and arrows at targets. There were foot races and jumping contests and wrestling. There were so many words on most of the pages that it was a dread to start reading each one. The illustrations were just ok, nothing too special.

Nov 21, Heather rated it it was ok. The little boy's pj shirt on the first page looks weird. Heard it mentioned in Thanksgiving on Plymouth Plantation, now again here. Native Americans held thanksgiving and harvest festivals. The Iroquois had Green Corn Dance celebration. Mentions the thanksgivings, , , , and finally In early s King James I didn't allow other religions beside his own. Didn't know Pl The little boy's pj shirt on the first page looks weird.


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Didn't know Plymouth was a town in England too! William Bradford called his fellow travelers pilgrims, but they didn't call themselves that. So many John and Mary's! I've never known any of the kids names before.

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I wanna know the other names! It traveled 2 mph! They took things like mirrors, knives beads, and cloth to trade with Indians. They knew they were there! A baby was born on board, names Oceanus! A boy almost blew up the ship shooting a gun too close to gunpowder. I love the part that Edward Winslow had written!

We have actual words from them! It mentioned all the things the Indians helped them do, planting crops, hunting, building homes, without mentioning Squanto.

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For the joke about the pilgrims counting on their fingers, the girls hand looks like a webbed mitten or something. Squanto chose to live with them. It said he taught them how to plant corn, shoot deer, trap rabbits, plants to eat, and how to catch fish. Which was redundant, because it said 2 pages ago the Indians helped them with those things. It should have said this first. I've never seen Squanto or Samoset with a Mohawk! Women liked red, blue, purple and green.


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  • Me and my sisters fav colors!! Nice facts at the end. Kids will learn a lot about pilgrims and thanksgiving here. Like how Indians pop popcorn. I knew those already. I didn't know George Washington first declared thanksgiving!

    Then Lincoln made it the last Thursday. National holiday in !

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    Interesting to learn about other places celebrating thanksgiving. Canada has theirs in October. Other countries have harvest festivals by way of thanks, like Japanese lantern festival. This is nice to broaden children's minds to other cultures. Nice to have kids make turkeys for their tables! More jokes at the end. Apr 01, Megan rated it really liked it Shelves: This picture book is designed to teach children about the origin of the Thanksgiving holiday.

    It falls under the fiction category because there are no sources cited anywhere throughout the book.

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    The authors use a combination of fun and serious by intertwining stories of the first Thanksgiving, and jokes like "How did the Pilgrims spell mousetrap with just three letters? The illustrations throughout the book are fun and bright, but are clearly designed for a younger audience. The illustrations add to the story, without taking any focus off the facts being told. Nov 26, Alice rated it really liked it Shelves: This is one of the best children's Thanksgiving books I have read. I like it because it has funny jokes, facts, history and crafts! I learned a thing or too!

    What was really cool and unique is that it discussed different Thanksgiving Celebration around the world. Such as Canada has a Thanksgiving in October. Put turkey stickers on about 20 index cards and hide them around the room.

    Then send children on a hunt to find the turkey cards. If you want to up the ante, you can list a small prize on the back of each card that you will award to the child that finds that card; alternatively, offer a central prize to the child who finds the most turkey cards. Have children sit in a circle. The first child says, "I'm going to Thanksgiving dinner, and I'm going to bring Have children continue through the alphabet until someone misses.

    Thanksgiving Ideas for the Classroom, Grades 6-8

    Another word game will get kids playing with letters. Have children make as many words as they can out of the letters in the words "Happy Thanksgiving. You can also hand out blank sheets of paper, instruct the children to write the words "Happy Thanksgiving" across the top and then create words from those letters. Place about ten to fifteen Thanksgiving-related objects on a tray and cover it with a towel.

    Uncover the tray and allow the children to look at the tray for two minutes. Now, cover the items on the tray and have the children try to write down as many of the objects as they can remember. The Internet is a great place to find free Thanksgiving games for children.