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8th grade Thanksgiving art history simulations
The First Thanksgiving Simulation: Journey on the Mayflower
This is a week long simulation where your kids will become a part of history! Students will read about the process of the pilgrims coming to the New World and then receive their experience cards, which will let them be a part of the famous journey.
They take the knowledge they gain from the reading and the information on the experience card to write a journal entry from a pilgrim's perspective. Kids will be learning and engaged in these reading and writing activities!
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- 5 days
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Grades:
2nd - 8th
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Thanksgiving Social Skills Task Cards
Do you have students that struggle with social conversations? These Thanksgiving Social Skills Task Cards contain 64 task cards that will help your students practice how to enter and maintain conversations dealing with Thanksgiving Day, problem solve difficult situations that might arise, practice body language and wording of answers for situations, and talk about what they do and love about this holiday. ● ● ● Students can really struggle with knowing what to say and do in tough situations, an
Grades:
4th - 10th
Also included in: Social Skills Task Card Bundle
First Thanksgiving Plymouth Mayflower Wampanoag Activity CSI Mystery of History
Learn about the first Thanksgiving, the Pilgrims and Mayflower Voyage, the Plymouth Colony, and the Wampanoag Native Americans! Your students will explore theories about the history of the first Thanksgiving with this engaging crime scene investigation activity that encourages critical thinking!A visually engaging case file is provided with comprehensive background readings on the history of Thanksgiving, the Plymouth Colony, and more. Students will then consider the historical evidence for the
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5th - 10th
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Cave Paintings and Petroglyphs: Museum Bundle
Set up an enriching classroom museum where your students can explore ancient rock art. Step-by-step directions are included to help you (or volunteers) make plaster artifacts for your students to use. Artifacts include:
*mortar (you'll need to supply a rock for the pestle)
*stone "rock" your students can carve into a bowl
*plaster petroglyphs
*a replica of the "Blombos Stone"
*a replica of a stone carved with cupules
*several stones for your students to carve on
*Museum Display Cards, patterne
Grades:
3rd - 8th
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Thanksgiving for social studies BUNDLE escape rooms and interactive activities
Looking for fun Social Studies Thanksgiving activities where students actually learn and use 21st-century skills? Then this Thanksgiving activities bundle is for you! There are 5 highly engaging and interactive activities included: escape rooms, scavenger hunts, interactive game on Google slides™, virtual field trips, puzzles, and more. This fall bundle is everything you need to teach about Thanksgiving in your social studies class! Absolutely no PREP for you! WHY THIS SOCIAL STUDIES THANKSGIVIN
Grades:
5th - 8th
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Mantua: A Role Playing Simulation and Game of the Renaissance
Mantua is a role-playing simulation set in fifteenth century Italy at the start of the Renaissance. In it students are divided into teams to play the five major Italian city-states of the time (Milan, Venice, Florence, the Papal States, and Naples) and try to earn prestige points by developing the various skills and institutions that largely defined the era: the printing press, banking, art, architecture, diplomacy, and warfare. The game gets its name from a small, but very influential city-sta
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8th - 12th
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Byzantine Empire Create A Mosaic Project Digital and Printer Friendly
Looking for an engaging and creative way for your students to apply their knowledge of the Byzantine Empire? This lesson is perfect for you! Students will have the opportunity to create their own mosaic and receive quick and easy feedback with the included rubric. You can post the doc to your learning management system or print it out for your students.Before creating their own mosaic, students will learn about the importance of mosaics and browse examples using Google Images and a website about
Grades:
6th - 8th
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Fall Activities for Social Studies: History of Halloween and Thanksgiving
Looking for fun Social Studies fall Halloween and Thanksgiving activities where students actually learn? Then this bundle on traditions around the world and history of each holiday is for you! There are 21 highly engaging and interactive activities included: escape rooms, scavenger hunts, interactive game on google slides™, postcard project, google sheet activities, and puzzles. Absolutely no PREP. Perfect for any class especially English, Geography, and social studies for Upper Elementary-9th
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5th - 8th
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Thanksgiving Traditions Around the World for Social Studies : interactive BUNDLE
Looking for a fun Social Studies Thanksgiving and Fall activity where students actually learn? Then this bundle on traditions around the world is for you! There are 3 highly engaging and interactive activities included: an escape room with a pre-made interactive map on google my maps™, a scavenger hunt with comprehensive reading, and interactive game on google slides™. Absolutely no PREP. Perfect for any class especially English, Geography, and History for Upper Elementary-9th grade.**Activitie
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5th - 8th
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Renaissance Game
Another educational game and student favorite. Students play as five Italian city states like Venice and Florence who compete against each other to gain wealth and prestige by trading and commissioning Great Works of Renaissance art. An excellent way to teach students about history and art and keep them engaged the whole time!
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6th - 12th
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Elements of Art Digital Escape Room - Mona Lisa Art Heist
Are you looking for a fun, interactive way to deepen students' understanding of the Elements of Art? This Digital Escape Room will allow your students to become detectives to find the thief of the beloved Mona Lisa while they are learning about the Elements of Art. Students can even work together to strengthen their academic language!Overview: In this engaging Digital Escape Room, students learn about the Elements of Art to solve clues as part of solving the mystery. Students must complete a det
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Grades:
6th - 12th
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Make Monet Paper Water Lilies
Step by step tutorial on making beautiful paper water lilies. Enhance your bulletin boards or displays with this easy, inexpensive project. Appropriate for children in grades 3 and up. I made them to decorate a display of "Monet-style" tempera paintings by my students. Our classroom water lily pond was just stunning!
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
Grades:
3rd - 12th
Roads to Rome: Classroom Simulation
Transform your classroom into an Ancient Roman town! Students form groups in order to establish and develop their own town, connected to the Roman Empire. Each student receives a role which guides their research and learning, as well as individual and team tasks.
This simulation contains fifteen days worth of guided activities, complete with presentation slides and audio. For the final day, students present their town models, chariots, and costumes during the culminating Market Day –– a great t
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
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Thanksgiving Cooking Simulation | Engaging Thanksgiving Activity
This no-prep, game-based Thanksgiving Cooking Simulation will be a fun activity for the last day of school before Thanksgiving! In this Thanksgiving activity with printable and digital options, students will "prepare" many different Thanksgiving dishes and make decisions about ingredients, cooking times, cooking tools, and more in the process!Simulations can be such fun and meaningful activities, but they often take a lot of work and preparation to set up, which is why we did all of the work for
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5th - 8th
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The Voyage of the Mayflower! A "Roll-the-Dice" Historical Activity
This “roll-the-dice” activity and game of chance is a fun companion to a unit or lesson on the journey of the Pilgrims to the “New World” onboard the Mayflower. Students will roll the dice as they move from box to box along the gameboard. The goal is to make it to Plymouth in Massachusetts in the fewest turns possible. Time required: One 1-hour (or so) class period. Pre-requisite: The students should have a basic understanding of the Pilgrims, the Mayflower, and perhaps the Plymouth Colony befor
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4th - 8th
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Ideal Island Project
Students will follow guidelines to create a paradise islands that embodies their ideals of governance, society, and sustainability. (I usually do this as a group project.)
Grades:
2nd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Ancient Greece Social Media Project
Students create a social media profile for a Greek God or a famous Greek figure from history. It allows students to take on the character of a god or famous Greek. They have to create a persona and determine what would their character say to other famous Greek characters. This allows them to show knowledge of Ancient Greece as well as to show off their creativity.
Grades:
5th - 12th
NO PREP Colonial Williamsburg History Museum Screenshot Scavenger Hunt
Need a field trip day, but can't go anywhere? Take a break from the work, but have a class full of engagement and collaboration with the artifacts from the Williamsburg History Museums. Students look for 25 items on this scavenger, covering a wide array of topics with an emphasis on Colonial America. Enjoy and explore!
Grades:
6th - 12th
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Ancient Egypt VR Worksheet
My school recently got a set of ClassVR headsets and I was absolutely amazed at how cool they are! Virtual reality is an immersive experience and the students love it. This worksheet asks students to make observations about several different VR experiences, from the pyramids of Giza and Ramesses VI Tomb to an ancient Egyptian coffin and the bust of Nefertiti. I used this to prepare my students for writing a narrative on ancient Egypt, but you could also use this in a history or art class to give
Grades:
6th - 8th
Artifacts & Archaeologists Creative Activities
The Artifacts & Archaeologists are creative and collaborative activities I have been doing for a while with my students. I love them because they get the students to engage with history and the other social studies in a hands-on manner. This set of activities could be used to teach and/or assess the C3 and/or Common Core ELA standards:C3 D2.His.9.6-8 - Classify the kinds of historical sources used in a secondary interpretation. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.6.4 - Present claims and findings, sequenci
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5th - 8th
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Virtual Reality Set-up Guide and Bundle of Activities for Art Class
This includes all the information and plans you need to get started this year.I have scoured over the internet and watched and played every Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality game and video for almost one year before I created this bundle.Your purchase includes: Complete Guides to set-up and tips, Best Apps, Release Forms, and 11 Virtual and Augmented Reality Worksheets and ActivitiesWorksheets Are:35 Virtual Reality Activity Worksheets designed in a simple easy to teach formatAlso Included:1
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4th - 12th
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Class Activities for the Renaissance Revolution: The Printing Press
Activity Description:In this interactive and educational activity, participants will embark on a journey back to the Renaissance era in Northern Europe, specifically focusing on the groundbreaking invention of the printing press by Johannes Gutenberg. Through a series of engaging tasks, participants will explore the impact of the printing press on society, culture, and knowledge dissemination during that time. The activity is designed for a group of participants, preferably students or history e
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5th - 12th
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Virtual Field Trip for Monet: The Truth of Nature at the Denver Art Museum
This is a virtual field trip that I created after going to the exhibit Monet: The Truth of Nature at the Denver Art Museum. The virtual field trip video is embedded in the Google Form. It is unlisted on Youtube. The Google Form only has 5 questions. If you want your students to answer technical questions about the artwork then you will need to create them. I use this in my classroom as a way to teach visualization. However, I have found that art teachers really like to use these as a way to br
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Thanksgiving Dinner Math
Go to your local supermarket and grab several copies of their ads before the week of Thanksgiving! Students can work independently, with a partner or group to create the menu for their own Thanksgiving dinner, while adding up the total for their items. You can leave it open to spending any amount or give them a budget that they can't go over. Students will practice addition and multiplication of decimals.
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Grades:
4th - 9th
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