Scholastics: The First Thanksgiving
Plimoth Plantation Virtual Field Trips
They spent two months at sea to reach a strange new world, and barely survived once they got there. The Thanksgiving the Jacks Built
KINDERGARTEN TO FIRST GRADE readers will read about how Thanksgiving is celebrated by an all-American family. The Thanksgiving the Jacks Built is intended to be read along with The Thanksgiving the Other Jacks Built.
Cost = $ 0.99 Hand Turkey
Create a turkey on the iPad using your hand. Cost = $ Free
Gobble The Famous Turkey $3.99
A must-have! Between facts and fiction, this funny enhanced eBook (20 pages long) includes graphic colorful animated illustrations with a catchy orchestral soundtrack, vocals, lyrics and nineteen puzzles and memory games at two difficulty levels. - Watch the app video demo on your device!
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A Handful of Resources for Teaching About Thanksgiving
It's the first day of November. The change of the calendar reminds me that Thanksgiving in the United States isn't too far away now. Over the years I've collected some resources for teaching about Thanksgiving. Here are the ones that I like best. I'll be adding more to this list as the month goes on.
Mr. Turkey Where Are You?
Lorrie Ann Harrington originally created this Thanksgiving story to teach her son, who has Autism Spectrum Disorder, new vocabulary, language-based concepts, and social communication skills. Cost = $ Free
Thanksgiving Photo Cards App
This app allows you to create beautiful Thanksgiving photo cards using pictures from your own photo library, and personalize them using new ink technology that let's you actually write on the screen! Cost = $ Free
A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving $4.99
This holiday season, join Charlie Brown and the Peanuts gang around the table for a (very!) unique Thanksgiving dinner. From pilgrims to popcorn, A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving comes to life in this beautifully re-mastered 40th anniversary edition. Magically marrying a book-like feel with clever interactive elements, A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving will leave your senses hungry for a second helping!
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Plimoth Plantation: Fact or Myth
Welcome, and thank you for using the Becoming a Historian Teacher's Guide.As you work through this guide, you and your students will use the skills of historians to peel away the layers of myth and misconception surrounding, "The First Thanksgiving" and discover what might really have happened during the fall of 1621. Along the way, you and your students will explore the differences between history and the past, and challenge your own ideas about history. Be prepared; what you discover may surprise you!
Voyage on the Mayflower
The 1620 voyage from England to America was more than 3,000 miles and beset by autumn storms.
Learn what it was like to live and work on a 17th-century sailing vessel, and relive part of this epic journey.
Learn what it was like to live and work on a 17th-century sailing vessel, and relive part of this epic journey.
