Interactive Teaching Tools
Thanksgiving Lesson Plans And Teaching Extensions
 Readers Theater and More
Use interviews from 17th-century characters to spark discussion. Stage your own classroom performances with this simple script and read-along story and outfit your actors with Thanksgiving Feast Readers Theater Headbands from our Thanksgiving Checklist! |
Lesson Plans: K – 2
Use technology tools, compare and contrast, and create personal Mayflower timelines! 
Lesson Plans: 3 – 5
Interactively explore the Mayflower, Pilgrims, and colonial and Wampanoag cultures. 
Lesson Plans: 6 – 12
Access, explore, and synthesize information on colonial life and the first Thanksgiving. |
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 Plimoth Plantation Interviews
From picturesque Plimoth Plantation, a host of characters breathe life into the story of daily life for the settlers. |
Slide Show
Take your class on a field trip – to Plimoth Plantation! 
Historical Letters
Receive letters from a Pilgrim girl and Native American boy — NEW audio! 
Dear America
Explore the interactive scrapbook of young Mayflower passenger, Patience Whipple. |
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Thanksgiving Bookshelf
 The Teacher Store
Find old favorites and new titles for every grade level from The First Thanksgiving and A Plump and Perfect Turkey to If You Were at the First Thanksgiving and Colonial Times. |
Booklists: Great Thanksgiving Reads (K–8)
Use these books for every grade level, and interest to instruct and inspire. 
Booklists: Native American Stories and More (Pre–K)
Wonderful tales and poems for your young students. 
Booklists: Celebrate Sharing, Community and Family (1–5)
Help your readers learn about Thanksgiving through richly illustrated stories. |
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Celebrate Thanksgiving Now
 Ideas and Crafts
Choose from 22 participatory projects to engage students and bring the values and history of Thanksgiving to your classroom. |
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