Thanksgiving Links

*Sign up here to receive 3 letters from a young girl traveling on the Mayflower and three
letters from a young Native American boy. Give your class a glimpse of history through the
eyes of two school aged children. FABULOUS site!
http://www.scholastic.com/scholastic_thanksgiving/letters_signup.asp

The First Thanksgiving: Activities including taking a tour of the Mayflower, audio, slideshows, a
readers theater, daily life of the pilgrims (including comparing and contrasting housing, clothes,
food, chores, school, and games), and timeline:
http://www.scholastic.com/scholastic_thanksgiving/

Animated turkey puzzle: http://www.billybear4kids.com/jigsaw-

puzzles/animated/online/ThanksgivingTurkey.html

Turkey Anagrams: http://www.billybear4kids.com/jigsaw-

puzzles/animated/online/ThanksgivingTurkey.html

Perky Turkey Game: http://www.winslowpress.com/perkyturkey/games/toomany.html

The History of Thanksgiving: Bring history to life as students explore "The First Thanksgiving"
learning adventure. http://www.history.com/content/thanksgiving

edHelper Thanksgiving: TONS of Thanksgiving-themed learning units: logic, reading

comprehension, thinking puzzles, coloring pages, plays, hidden pictures, visual skills, sudoku,
activity sheets, math worksheets, social studies, science project, mazes, tons more.
http://www.edhelper.com/Thanksgiving.htm
Thanksgiving Alphabet http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/wil/A_Thanksgiving_Alphabet.pdf

Enchanted Learning Thanksgiving: This site has fun craft and activity ideas about Thanksgiving.
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/thanksgiving/

ABC Teach Thanksgiving: This site has many resources for teachers. Scroll down to use an
empty Venn diagram that compares a students' Thanksgiving to the first Thanksgiving. Good for
the SMART board. http://www.abcteach.com/directory/seasonalholidays/thanksgiving/

Turkey Booklet Position Words: This is an interactive booklet you can download where students
can place the turkey in the correct position - over, under, on, beside, etc.
http://pickettsmill.typepad.com/pritchard/files/positional_works_for_turkey.pdf

Picture Perfect Turkey Day Funny Fill In: A Thanksgiving Mad Lib

http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/Games/MoreGames/Funnyfillinpictureperfect

Quiz Your Noodle Thanksgiving: A quiz on Thanksgiving facts

http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/Games/PuzzlesQuizzes/Quizyournoodle-thanksgiving

What Happened at the First Thanksgiving? An interactive from Plimoth Village where players
become investigative “historians.” http://www.plimoth.org/education/olc/intro.html

This is a nice listening exercise where students have to pick the words from a drop-down menu
while listening to the text (about Thanksgiving) being read. http://pagesperso-
orange.fr/michel.barbot/hotpot/history/thanksgiving/thanks2.htm

Thanksgiving Crossword Puzzle online: http://iteslj.org/cw/1/af-thanks.html