Holidays around the World Virtual Field Trip

This Holidays around the World virtual field trip is perfect to use in your classroom with students!

Engage students during those winter months with this holidays around the world unit - students will love learning about holiday celebrations all over the globe! This virtual field trip allows them to experience a celebration from afar, and learn about other cultures and traditions.

Your students will stay engaged with videos, travel journals, passports, and creative printables for the winter holidays of each of the 8 countries.

This includes printable and digital versions in Google Slides!

Click on the preview to see the digital activities!

When can you use a virtual field trip?

• As an end-of-unit activity
• As a group assignment 
• As an early finisher station 
• As a station 
• Anytime at all!

What’s included in this download?

• Invitation: Send this to students the day before the field trip begins to build excitement and anticipation
• Virtual field trip slides: Takes students through the virtual field trip - includes links to fun videos that give students a peek at real celebrations across the country. Four informational slides are also included for each holiday to provide short and sweet information as well!
• Passport: Students will color in stamps on their passport after they've learned about each holiday.
• Student Scavenger Hunt: This scavenger hunt booklet gives students specific information to look for while on their virtual field trip.
• Travel Journal: Students will pretend they visited a holiday celebration and write about their first-hand experience with journal entries.
• Vocabulary Crosswords: Students will review important terms about each holiday with vocabulary crossword puzzles.
• Creative Application: Students can apply what they learned while getting creative - they'll decorate a Christmas tree, a lantern, address a Chinese red envelope and more!

What holidays are covered?

• Chinese New Year
• Diwali
• Ramadan
• Kwanzaa
• Hanukkah
• Las Posadas
• St. Lucia
• Christmas

How will this help my teaching life?

This virtual field trip has taken all of the prep and hard work of planning a field trip off of your plate, and instead given you a fun, interactive way to spend a day with your students! The content included in this download could fill several hours of one school day (similar to a live field trip), or could be spread out in small pieces over the course of the week. However you use this resource, the research and planning that went into designing it was done by teachers, for teachers. You can trust that this virtual field trip is fun, engaging, and will help your students grow as learners!

Who created this resource?

This resource is a collaborative effort between Briana Beverly and Stephanie Sutherland. Both Briana and Stephanie are 2nd grade teachers who love making resources that engage students in order to help them grow! Follow Briana’s TPT store HERE. Follow Stephanie’s TPT store HERE.