Classroom

Activity Idea Place: Thanksgiving - Includes Thanksgiving games, art, math, and science activities for preschool children and toddlers. Created for teachers and parents.
Are You Teaching the Real Story of Thanksgiving? - This article from Education World examines how Thanksgiving is commonly portrayed in the classroom and encourages teachers to look at the holiday from a Native American perspective.
Celebrating Thanksgiving at The Holiday Zone - Seasonal crafts, songs and fingerplays, language arts activities, educational games, discussion topics, reading comprehension exercises, and poetry.
The First Thanksgiving - Resource guide from Scholastic designed to teach students the relationship between the Pilgrims and the Native Americans.
The Fourth World Documentation Project: A Factual Rebuttal - Caleb Johnson's response, which drew the attention of the New York Times in 1998, to the popular Thanksgiving lesson plan series.
Holidays and Celebrations: Thanksgiving - Links for Thanksgiving in Canada, the United States, and around the world for students and teachers.
Pilgrims - Cross-curricular lesson plans and supplemental resources for teaching K-12 students about the people who celebrated the first Thanksgiving.
TeacherLink: A Celebration of Gratitude - Assisting educators in teaching children gratitude. This is done by teaching lessons centered around the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag Indians.
TeacherView.com Thanksgiving - Offers printable bookmarks, coloring pages, stationery, and shape books.
Thankful Turkey - Thanksgiving lesson plan focusing on language and art. Helps children become aware of the things they are thankful for.
Thanksgiving - English language teacher provides descriptions of persons and terms frequently associated with Thanksgiving; materials is designed for use with non-native speakers of English.
Thanksgiving: A History of Today's Celebration - Thanksgiving history lesson for fourth through sixth grades.
Thanksgiving Fun - Games, songs, art projects, and miscellaneous ideas appropriate for use with preschoolers.
Thanksgiving Information - A reach beyond the myths of Thanksgiving to some degree of historic truth. A historical perspective for teachers and their students.
Thanksgiving Lesson Plan - Single lesson plan appropriate for younger ESL/EFL students focuses on vocabulary related to Thanksgiving and the history of the holiday.
Thanksgiving Mini-Unit for Third Grade - Mini-Unit teaching students about Native American culture and the journey of the pilgrims.
Thanksgiving Quilt - Lesson plan promoting open dialogue of what the children are thankful for while exploring different textures, shapes and colors.
Thanksgiving Resources on the Web for Educators - Curriculum materials for Thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving Unit - Elementary school teachers provides a list of children's books related to Thanksgiving. Also features more than two dozen classroom activities related to Thanksgiving. [Graphics intensive.]