thanksgiving activities & resources to gobble up
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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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