Groundhog Day-Digital HISTORY LESSON with VOCABULARY music, photos, maps PPT

PURPOSE: This PowerPoint lesson provides digital historical background info, interesting facts, and vocabulary about Groundhog Day.

GOAL: to prepare each student to learn more about this interesting celebration.

AUDIENCE: whole group, small group, or independent work for regular ed, learning support, ESL or virtual classrooms

POWERPOINT:
• 1 setting slide
-Location photos with map

• 3 Historical and background Information Slides

• 1 Interesting Information slide about the groundhog
• Vibrant Vocab slides
-bold photos appear without word for inference making
-vocab word 'slides in' so photo can be first WITHOUT the word
-part of speech
-concise definition

DIGITAL USES IN THE CLASSROOM:

· Introduces Groundhog Day
· Provide backstory to the holiday
· Stimulates group discussion
· Use as distance learning resource
· Add to electronic notebooks
· Prompt Writing or Research assignments
· Vocabulary Discussion

PRINTABLE USES: word walls and interactive notebooks


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