Thanksgiving | Teachinghistory.org
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- Abstract:
Thanksgiving The Pilgrims in American Culture: Thanksgiving. What Really Happened? Comparing Stories of the First Thanksgiving In Lesson Plan Reviews Turkey TrackingIn Weekly History Quiz What do you know about the origins of Thanksgiving? How do your students understand Thanksgiving? Where do their views on the holiday come from? In this lesson plan, students share what they've been taught about Thanksgiving, and then compare a set of very different modern viewpoints on the holiday. FIND OUT MORE » Learning Resources Explore what's known about early contact When the resources readily available to you are just not comprehensive enough. [...] » Only two eyewitness accounts of that first Thanksgiving remain. [...] » Were the Pilgrims really shorter than us? What did they eat on Thanksgiving? [...] » Browse Learning Resources Teaching Resources Adopt strategies for analyzing the holiday How do you broach the complicated issues surrounding Thanksgiving with early [...] » Ticket stubs. Report cards. Photographs. All of these things have historical [...] » Case studies grab attention, but how can you be sure you're also teaching the [...] » Browse Teaching Resources Quizzes Test your Thanksgiving knowledge! Rationing in the Land of Abundance: Choose the foods that would ...
- Subject:
- Humanities, Social Sciences
- Grade Level:
- Primary, Secondary
- Collection:
- Center for History and New Media