Thanksgiving Fun
Games, songs, art projects, and miscellaneous ideas appropriate for use with preschoolers.
http://www.perpetualpreschool.com/thanks.html
Thanksgiving Unit
Elementary school teachers provides a list of children's books related to Thanksgiving. Also features more than two dozen classroom activities related to Thanksgiving. [Graphics intensive.]
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Troy/5059/thanks.html
The Fourth World Documentation Project
Native American educator addresses common misconceptions about the Pilgrims and offers suggestions for how teachers can more accurately portray the first Thanksgiving. From the Center For World Indigenous Studies.
http://www.night.net/thanksgiving/lesson-plan.html
Are You Teaching the Real Story of Thanksgiving?
This article from Education World examines how Thanksgiving is commonly portrayed in the classroom and encourages teachers to look at the holiday from a Native American perspective.
http://www.education-world.com/a_curr/curr040.shtml
Thanksgiving
Detailed collection of links designed to help those from countries other than the United States understand what the holiday is all about. From the University of Illinois' Intensive English Institute.
http://deil.lang.uiuc.edu/web.pages/Holidays/Thanksgiving.html
Thanksgiving Information
A reach beyond the myths of Thanksgiving to some degree of historic truth. A historical perspective for teachers and their students.
http://www.2020tech.com/thanks/temp.html#top
Activity Idea Place: Thanksgiving
Includes Thanksgiving games, art, math, and science activities for preschool children and toddlers. Created for teachers and parents.
http://www.123child.com/fall/thanks.html
The First Thanksgiving
Teaches students the relationship between the Pilgrims and the Native Americans. Improves content-area reading skills, including comprehension and vocabulary.
http://teacher.scholastic.com/thanksgiving/tguide.htm
Thanksgiving Lesson Plans
Lesson contains crossword puzzles and songs that feature Thanksgiving customs and links to other Thanksgiving sites.
http://www.etc.sccoe.k12.ca.us/i98/ii98Units/SocStd/ESLNet/TEXT/Thanksg.htm
Thanksgiving Mini-Unit for Third Grade
Mini-Unit teaching students about Native American culture and the journey of the pilgrims.
http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/YLP/96-97/96-97_mini_units/Thanksgiving_CSchaffer/table_content.html
Thankful Turkey
Thanksgiving lesson plan focusing on language and art. Helps children become aware of the things they are thankful for.
http://www.kinderart.com/seasons/thankfulturkey.htm
Thanksgiving Quilt
Lesson plan promoting open dialogue of what the children are thankful for while exploring different textures, shapes and colors.
http://www.kinderart.com/seasons/thanksquilt.htm
Thanksgiving Lesson Plan
Single lesson plan appropriate for younger ESL/EFL students focuses on vocabulary related to Thanksgiving and the history of the holiday.
http://www.everythingesl.net/lessons/gobble.php
Pilgrims
Cross-curricular lesson plans and supplemental resources for teaching K-12 students about the people who celebrated the first Thanksgiving.
http://www.teachervision.com/tv/theme/Pilgrims
Thanksgiving in the Classroom
Provides collection of links designed for elementary school teachers.
http://www.jeannepasero.com/thanksclass.html
Holidays and Celebrations: Thanksgiving
Links for Thanksgiving in Canada, the United States, and around the world for students and teachers.
http://www.stemnet.nf.ca/CITE/celthanksgiving.htm
TeacherLink: A Celebration of Gratitude
Assisting educators in teaching children gratitude. This is done by teaching lessons centered around the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag Indians.
http://teacherlink.ed.usu.edu/tlresources/units/MonsonUnits/amychr/index.htm
Celebrating Thanksgiving at The Holiday Zone
Seasonal crafts, songs and fingerplays, language arts activities, educational games, discussion topics, reading comprehension exercises, and poetry.
http://www.theholidayzone.com/thanks/
Thanksgiving: A History of Today's Celebration
Thanksgiving history lesson for fourth through sixth grades.
http://teacherlink.ed.usu.edu/tlresources/units/Byrnes-celebrations/thanks.html