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Thanksgiving Games and Interactives

Pilgrims to American: A Pictorial History

Thanksgiving History and Math Lessons

FIrst Thanksgiving Reading Comprehension

Thankgiving and Native Americans podcast

 7 Fun Facts For Thanksgiving

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Visit PBSLearningMedia's Halloween Collection for free videos and lesson plans.

Download free Halloween activities and crafts from StudyLadder.

Design a pumpkin candy catapult.

Learn about mummies, spiders and bats with free resources from Kids Discover.

Visit Listenwise to hear a public radio story on the History of Witches, and what led to the Salem Witch Trials.

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Participate in an online witch trial at NatGeo's Salem Witch Hunt Interactive.

Learn about the brain with a look at the neuroscience of zombies.

Check out these read-aloud ghost stories for kids.

Write your own Halloween tale with Scholastic's scary story starters. 

Read about one roadschooling family's unscheduled stop in the Twilight Zone.

Play some online Halloween games. 

Practice reading comprehension with some K-12 Halloween articles. 

Study Suspense in Poetry: Speaking of Poe, visit TeachersFirst’s The Raven to learn more about such literary devices as alliteration, assonance, internal rhyme, metaphor and simile, and personification.  Move the mouse over highlighted words to see what devices are being employed. There's also an interactive version of The Highwayman.

• Watch a short video on the history of Halloween.
• Watch how candy corns are made.
• Download free Halloween worksheets, coloring pages, and crafts from StudyLadder
• Download a 35-page unit on spiders and bats, for preschool an first grade.

• Create "creepy and colorful chemistry conconctions." 

Design your own haunted house

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American Revolution: Free resources and activities for exploring the causes, plus a grade 4 reader and activity book, additional history readers, and links to animations and games.

Scholastic illustrated Mini-Books includes topics beginning with the discovery of the Americas to Ellis Island.

Flag Day Resources: Free, downloadable readers on the U.S. flag, Pledge of Allegiance, National Anthem and Statue of Liberty.

Oh, say can you see: This unit on “The Star Spangled Banner” is comprised of two parts: the origin of the anthem, and the symbolism of the flag. Discuss importance of the flag, what it means, how the lyrics of “The Star Spangled Banner” match real events. There are a lot of resources here to cover the topic broadly or as in depth as you like, with background on the War of 1812, and links to additional image, document and web resources such as Smithsonian’s “Star Spangled Banner” site.

War of 1812: Grade 2 Reader: Begins with a pictorial timeline of the founding of the U.S., and ends with chapters on the National Anthem and Dolley Madison, and a glossary.

4th of July Binary Bracelets: Use different color beads to represent “0,” “1,”, and “space” to encode our nation’s birthday into a wrist band. In so doing, learn how to change base 10 numbers into binary. Make  more personalized bracelets by encoding individual birthdays or ages.

 

Anatomy of fireworks  interactive from Nova

 

WatchKnow 4th of July Videos 

4th of July Jokes, Facts, Games