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Thanksgiving Interactive: You are the Historian InteractiveThanksgiving Interactive: You are the Historian Interactive
Publisher
Plimoth Plantation
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Grade
3rd - 8th
Subjects
Social Studies & History
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Resource Type
Interactives
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For Teacher Use
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Direct Instruction
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Thanksgiving Interactive: You are the Historian

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This Thanksgiving Interactive: You are the Historian interactive also includes:
  • Becoming a Historian Teacher's Guide
  • “The First Thanksgiving” KWL Chart
  • Primary Sources 3*2*1 Graphic Organizer
  • Primary Source Organizer
  • Wampanoag Cultural Chart
  • English Colonist Cultural Chart
  • Thanksgiving Interactive: You are the Historian
  • Vocabulary
  • Graphic & Image
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Take on the roles of two very different individuals living together during the same time: a pilgrim and a member from the Wampanoag Tribe. As learners navigate through the interactive, each click takes them to a part of each village to explore their culture, traditions, how they lived, what their living looked like, and much more. Let class members become young historians as the learning opportunities are endless with this resource.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

thanksgiving, the first thanksgiving, pilgrims, plymouth colony, the mayflower, the wampanoag, colonies, the english colonies, native american tribes, native americans

Additional Tags

social studies

Instructional Ideas

  • Navigate through the interactive before giving it to learners to use in order to become familiar in case any questions arise

Classroom Considerations

  • Requires that all users have access to the Internet and headphones or audio speakers
  • Interactive requires Flash Player to run
  • This content requires Adobe Flash to view

Pros

  • Comes with a teacher's guide to support instruction while using the interactive
  • Resource is fairly easy to use
  • Includes a glossary for learners to refer to as they explore
  • Each section starts with a fun factoid or riddle and has images throughout

Cons

  • None

Common Core

RI.3.7 RI.4.7 RI.5.7 RI.6.7 RI.7.7 RI.8.7

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