New Years Celebrations Around the World Bundle with Lunar New Year Activities

Are you ready to celebrate the New Year? Explore New Year, Lunar New Year, and Lantern Festival traditions in 9 countries. Explore New Year Celebrations around the world with this fun bundle of activities, lessons, and slides.

With 12 activities, 8 informational texts, digital slides, and crafts, you have everything you need for your students to explore how people celebrate the new year around the world. Build critical thinking and cultural awareness with this great lesson.

Here are some ways teachers have used this resource:
✔ Compare/contrast new year celebrations around the world
✔ Explore and describe similarities and differences in the ways people celebrate a new year in different regions and continents
✔ Practice narrative writing and informational reading skills with engaging topics
✔ Design red envelopes, a Chinese New Year tradition, and build a fun flipbook about the Lantern Festival

This New Year Celebrations Around the World Bundle is perfect for any elementary teacher no matter what curriculum you use.

Lunar New Year Product Details

✦ Comprehensive Lesson Plan

✦ Engaging informational texts about Lunar New Year, the lunar and solar calendars, and Lunar New Year in China, Vietnam, Tibet, Mongolia, and South Korea
✦ Independent Activities like Comprehension Questions, Writing Practice, and Compare/Contrast worksheets
✦ Lesson Dictionary
✦ Fun Exploration of the Chinese Zodiac
✦ Red Envelopes Project to promote acts of kindness in the classroom
✦ Answer Keys

Lantern Festival Product Details

✦ Comprehensive Lesson Plan

✦ Engaging informational text about Lantern Festival

✦ Chinese lantern craft project with print/video instructions

✦ Compare/contrast a Lantern Festival tradition to one of your

✦ Lantern Festival Flipbook to synthetize text

✦ Flipbook Printing Instructions (Written and Video)

✦ Answer Keys

New Year Freebie Product Details

✦ Comprehensive Lesson Plan

✦ Engaging informational texts about New Year traditions in Spain, Ethiopia, Iran, and the USA

✦ New Year Traditions Activities (2)

• Students will summarize the text and compare how new year is celebrated around the world

✦ Writing Activity on students' New Year traditions
✦ CCSS-Aligned Narrative Writing Rubric

✦ Sample Answers

Lunar New Year Digital Slides Details

✦ 50 Interactive Slides

✦ Short Readings about Lunar New Year Traditions in 5 cultures

✦ Embedded Videos about Lunar New Year

✦ Quick Interactive Lunar New Year Activities and Learning Checks

✦ Drag and Drop Activities & Other Fun Games

✦ Link & Directions for Google Slides

TEACHERS LIKE YOU SAID…
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Sam M. said, "This was awesome. My students were able to learn about other lunar new years instead of just the Chinese New Year. I even learned something new!"

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Megan W. said, "My students loved learning about Lunar New Year traditions around the world via this resource!"

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Nicole G. said, "Students enjoyed learning about the Lunar New Year. Resource is thoughtful and well-made!"

Students will practice important skills such as:

✅ Compare and contrast the most important points and key details presented in two texts on the same topic. (RI.3.9/RI.4.9)
✅ Analyze how two or more texts address similar themes or topics in order to build knowledge or to compare the approaches the authors take. (CCRA.R.9)

✅ Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence. (CCRA.W.1)
✅ Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research. (CCRA.W.9)

✅ Demonstrate an understanding that people in different places in the world have different perspectives and experiences. (National Social Studies Standard)

✅ Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective techniques, descriptive details, and clear event sequences. (W.3)

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