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Thanksgiving Activities & Tools

to Gobble Up!

Thanksgiving, after all, is a word of action. - W.J. Cameron

Themes …

History  

Citizenship  

Colonists  

Culture  

Nautical science  

Tribes  

Ship life  

Farming   Food preparation  

Introduce them to the

Thanksgiving story!

Introduce them to the

Thanksgiving story!

Books   Theater  

Digital Storytelling Sites  Videos  

Animation   Infographics  

Virtual Field Trip  

Pearltrees.com/shellyterrell/thanksgiving-infographics/id6800347

Scholastic.com/scholastic_thanksgiving/webcast.htm

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Retell the story

Retell the story

Research a person who took part in the event & tell from

their viewpoint

Describe your celebration

Foretell the future if they didn’t get along

Printables.scholastic.com/printables/detail/?id=28482

Goanimate.com

Storybird.com

Toondoo.com

Character Texts �

• Students can upload their pics or choose from a variety of characters & backgrounds or draw on the pages • Can narrate with text & audio • Embeddable

LittleBirdTales.Com

http://mail.littlebirdtales.com/tales/view/story_id/95599/

Character Texts �

• Upload images or choose from their library • Embeddable • Interact with a book using Augmented Reality

ZooBurst.com

Thanksgiving meal activities …

Photo by hans pama: Flic.kr/p/7g4EmT

Create a class

cookbook of family

Thanksgiving recipes.

Make conversion to serve # of people  

Interview family member  

Include story behind the dish  

issuu.com/avignet/docs/coop_cookbook_no_spreads

Slipp.it/glutenfreehomemaker/73222-gluten-free-menu-12-7-13?sb=anon-6f15f5d4c58db89d0cc47cb03498548a

BookCreator iOS/Android App

Redjumper.net/bookcreator

Students learn as historical explorers!

Historyglobe.com/jamestown/popupwindow.html

Discover Life as an Explorer

Scholastic.com/scholastic_thanksgiving/voyage/

Take on the role of someone

your age

Scholastic.com/dearamerica/memscrapbook.htm#/4

Scholastic.com/scholastic_thanksgiving/letters.htm

Classtools.net/SMS

Modernize as a text chat, series of digital

postcards, emails, Fakebook profiles, or

digital scrapbook

Classtools.net/fb/home/page

Buncee.com & iOS app

Gatherer Nature Walk

• Preteach- Native Americans use of land • Students take pictures of leaves, sticks, rocks, flowers, plants • Google image search to name, then search to see how tribes used it. Ex. Make dye from flowers & sticks for fire • Present- Popplet, Smore, Tackk

Tackk.com

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Plimoth.org/learn/MRL/interact/thanksgiving-interactive-you-are-historian

Accompanying Teacher Guide

Cool Sites & Apps

Use Makebeliefscomix.com

Kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/games/moregames/funnyfillinpictureperfect

Create a funny story!

Pearltrees.com/shellyterrell/thanksgiving/id6739299

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