Chinese New Year 2024 Activity Lunar New Year

Celebrate the Chinese Lunar New Year with your students using this informational print and digital text and accompanying flip book activity. First, students will read through the worksheet packet or Google Slides to learn about the Chinese calendar, zodiac animals' characteristics, holiday traditions, and celebrations. Finally, students will summarize their knowledge by completing the review activity available as a printable flipbook or a digital Google Slide activity.

Students will learn:

• Differences between the traditional Western solar cycle calendar and the Chinese lunar calendar
• The 12 zodiac animals and characteristics
  • Rat
  • Ox
  • Tiger
  • Rabbit
  • Dragon
  • Snake
  • Horse
  • Goat
  • Monkey
  • Rooster
  • Dog
  • Pig

• When and why the Chinese Lunar New Year came about
• Celebrations such as the Dragon Dance and Lantern Festival

This Chinese New Year lesson includes:

• Sneak Peek into My Classroom: Tips and ideas to implement this lesson into your classroom
• Digital instructions to distribute the Google Slides activity - YES! You can use this with your secure learning management system, such as Google Classroom, Schoology, Seesaw, etc.
• Six-page reading worksheets that detail the
  • Significance of this holiday
  • Chinese zodiac calendar
  • Traditions and an additional page of comprehension questions

• Student flipbook instructions
• A9-tab flipbook that organizes and summarizes information from the article
• Rubric to grade activity
• Answer key

How to use this activity in your classroom:

• This activity can be used as a whole class activity to highlight worldwide traditions and holidays.
• Have students work on this assignment in small groups. Students can take turns reading and answering questions about the Lunar New Year.
• This Chinese New Year activity is perfect as sub plans to use it in your classroom. It can easily be assigned digitally or printed and handed out to students.
• Homework assignment
• Independent enrichment work

Feedback from teachers:

• Awesome activity! I like that you have formatted questions like the constructive answer response questions on the state test. I also like the compare and contrast questions.
• Students learned a ton, and the students from Chinese-American families were thrilled to see something from their culture in our lessons. In addition, students enjoyed having their own little books!
• This was a great way to include cultural diversity in the science classroom. The students really liked discovering their lunar animal.
• My students loved making this set. They worked to make it look neat and pretty and even wanted to bind it into a book.
• Very cool flip book on the Zodiac and Chinese New Year. Used it on the New Year in my Geography class as a station.

Other holiday lessons and activities you might be interested In:

• Presidents' Day Activity
• St. Patrick's Day Bundle
• Earth Day Activity

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