This is a week long simulation where your kids will become a part of history! Students will read about the process of the pilgrims coming to the New World and then receive their experience cards, which will let them be a part of the famous journey.
They take the knowledge they gain from the reading and the information on the experience card to write a journal entry from a pilgrim's perspective. Kids will be learning and engaged in these reading and writing activities!
Includes:
- 5 days
Bring key characteristics of the 13 colonies to life with this FREEBIE Reader’s Theater script featuring the New England Colonies! This is part of a leveled set of 3 reader’s theater featuring the New England, Middle, and Southern colonial way of life plus additional comparison activities! This freebie script contains 6 parts, making it a perfect activity for centers or leveled guided reading groups! This activity helps integrate Social Studies history content with Language Arts common core s
Engage your students in this relevant project where they plan a Thanksgiving feast. From calculating serving sizes and calories from real food labels, to making a shopping list and sticking to a budget. This project helps students see the real life uses for a variety of math skills. Editable price tags allow you to differentiate for your students. Activities included in this product: Activity 1: Making A Shopping List: Student read real food labels to find serving size on a variety of Than
Looking for an opera music activity? Take your students on a virtual field trip to the opera, and learn about opera around the world! This activity is a great way to expose your students to famous operas, productions, and singers.This Google Slides based resource features two digital choice boards with links to amazing videos, virtual tours, and online student-friendly sites. You can assign all of the blocks or allow students to choose what interests them. After students are finished exploring t
This product is an interactive simulation using dice that follows the story of a turkey trying to avoid becoming Thanksgiving dinner. Included in this product:- Directions for the simulation-Signs to mark locations of events in classroom-Event directions-Recording sheet-Sample recording sheet-Directions for narrative-Sample narrative based on sample recording sheet-Rubric for narrativeI love to complete this activity the week before Thanksgiving with my students. They create the most creative na
BE A PILGRIM FOR A FEW DAYS!This is a set of 30 short bios of real passengers aboard the Mayflower.There are 15 boy pilgrims and 15 girl pilgrims included.Assign each student a Pilgrim name and bio with the easy recording sheets. THE STUDENTS WILL LOVE IT! DIFFERENT FROM THE USUAL TURKEY DRAWING CONTEST OR TURKEY CRAFT. BRING IT ALIVE FOR THEM. Who were the people on the Mayflower?What were some of the most recognized and unrecognized pilgrim's names?How old were the Pilgrims?Who is Miles St
Send your students on a journey back in time with this whole class read aloud where students act as newscasters going back in time interviewing people who were on the Mayflower. Students will deepen their understanding of the events surrounding the Mayflower voyage and the first Thanksgiving as they are placed into the shoes of a person at this time. What a great way to increase engagement and reading fluency.
Looking for something a little challenging, incredibly engaging, and slightly different from an ordinary day? Escape room challenges have all of that and more.In this escape room challenge, the students must escape from being stuck in pilgrim times after being transported back in a time machine. They can only get out if they can successfully navigate their way through 5 math challenges.This challenge has students apply skills in place value, order of operations, multi-digit addition/subtraction
Spice up you nature of science lessons! Students think like scientists as they observe, experiment, and gather evidence from 5 stations to solve this Thanksgiving Crime Scene Investigation for grades 2 & 3. Students use critical thinking skills to claim who ate the pumpkin pie using data in this fall science infused mystery. Includes:Case introduction card2 leveled versions of data evidence collection sheetsSuspect bio cards5 evidence collection stationsNature of Science connection sheetTea
Thanksgiving Dinner Plan Performance Task printables can be used as independent work or group work. It includes multiple steps of mathematical operations and decision making. The mathematical operations of addition and subtraction are necessary to complete the task. If your students are familiar with basic multiplication facts, these can be substituted for some of the repeated addition problems.
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Students will follow guidelines to create a paradise islands that embodies their ideals of governance, society, and sustainability. (I usually do this as a group project.)
Reinforce your students' knowledge of estimating and addition with decimals with this "delicious" assignment! Students estimate the price of a Thanksgiving meal for a family of four people. They have four choices on how to gather the data, and then prepare presentation boards. This assignment is a perfect fit for classrooms with gifted and talented cluster groupings of students. A rubric is included that assesses all components of the assignments and ability levels.
Hit your science standards while having holiday fun with this student-centered STEM lesson. How can your team design a device to separate a pie mixture with limited supplies?. This fall elementary engineering activity contains criteria and constraints, allowing for open-ended design while exploring science standards. This resource is great for: Unit ProjectHigher-Order ThinkingDifferentiation5E – ElaborateAlternative Assessment Research-based strategies used in this product: add a note of how
Hit your science standards while having holiday fun with this student-centered STEAM activity. How can your team design a beautiful holiday table with real-world limitations? This fall lesson follows the design process allowing for open-ended design while exploring science standards in a creative way. This resource is great for: Unit ProjectHigher-Order ThinkingDifferentiation5E – ElaborateAlternative Assessment Research-based strategies used in this product: Embracing ErrorsCreative Thinking
GREAT FOR DISTANCE LEARNING!This is a planning sheet that allows students to meal plan their OWN Thanksgiving meal. They will look up or bring in family recipes and plug those ingredients into an ingredient list in Google Slides. They will then create a grocery list and look up prices on their local grocery store. (I have Walmart linked). If they are a 3rd/4th grader they will round the price to the nearest dollar. If they are a 5th/6th grader then they will keep their decimals (delete the roun
Thanksgiving Math Performance Tasks printables can be used as independent work or group work. It includes multiple steps of mathematical operations and decision making. The mathematical operations of addition and subtraction are necessary to complete the task. If your students are familiar with basic multiplication facts, these can be substituted for some of the repeated addition problems.
The task can be completed in 1 day, however 2 days would allow students more time to use their criti
The caterers at Feed Your Face Catering are back to tackle a new math skill--elapsed time! They know that the trickiest part of cooking a Thanksgiving meal is making sure everything is hot and ready at the same time, and the caterers are here to help! By solving three elapsed time challenges, students will practice adding time and figuring out elapsed time in a real world context.
This is a planning sheet that allows students to meal plan their OWN Thanksgiving meal.This is the printable version of my Google Slides. PLUS there is Grocery Ad Flyers, so the students do NOT need to look up prices online. These prices are whole numbers not decimals. They will look up or bring in family recipes and write those ingredients into an ingredient list . They will then create a grocery list and look up prices on their local grocery store website OR use the grocery flyer I made. Afte
Al Citron folk song rhythm follow-along can be played online or in-person to students learning tam-ti or low so,. Sing along in a comfortable key or clap along with the colored dot. Solfege: s,s, d r m r dd s,s, dd s,s, d r m r dd s,s, ds, dm d.
Chemistry and the state of matter! These eleven songs were too advanced for my transitional kindergarten class but I still had fun writing them! But you might have fun incorporating them with my chemistry musical: Chemistry in Song - Water Matters!
Tom's Turkey Farm Manager Performance Task printables can be used as independent work or group work. It includes multiple steps of mathematical operations and decision making. The mathematical operations of addition and subtraction are necessary to complete the task. If your students are familiar with basic multiplication facts, these can be substituted for some of the repeated addition problems.
The task can be completed in 1 day, however 2 days would allow students more time to use their cri