HOLIDAYS

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HOLIDAYS

• Kim GoschinskiJessica NeuhardtED 417-01

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Unit/lesson Holidays Grade 1st
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• History
• Activities
• Websites
• People in Societies
• Activities
• Websites
• Geography
• Activities
• Websites
• Economics
• Activities
• Websites

• Government
• Activities
• Websites
• Citizenship Rights and Responsibilities
• Activities
• Websites
• Social Studies Skills and Methods
• Activities
• Websites

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History Standard

• Students use materials drawn from the diversity
  of human experience to analyze and interpret
  significant events, patterns and themes in the
  history of Ohio, the United States and the world.
  

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History Activities

• Christmas- Have students watch the Disney version
  of A Christmas Carol and compare how Christmas
  was celebrated in the past is different from how
  it is celebrated now.
• Halloween- Have students interview an older
  adult. They should ask questions about how they
  celebrated Halloween.
• Hanukkah- Hand students the Hanukkah scavenger
  hunt sheet and allow them time to fill it out.
  For the questions that they cant answer, allow
  they time to search the internet for the answers.
• Kwanzaa- Have the students write a story about
  the history of Kwanzaa and how it is currently
  celebrated.
• St. Patrick's Day- Read a story to the students
  about the history of the holiday and have them
  draw an illustration of their favorite part.
• Valentines Day- Students work in pairs and
  create true and false cards about Valentines Day
  facts.

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History Websites

• Christmas A Christmas Carol Website
  http//www.fidnet.com/dap1955/dickens/carol.html
  
• Halloween Teacher Vision Website
  http//www.teachervision.fen.com/holidays-and-seas
  onal-events/printable/7206.html?detoured1
• Hanukkah Education World-Hanukah Traditions
• http//www.education-world.com/a_lesson/hunt/
  hunt015.shtml
• Kwanzaa Education World-History of Kwanzaa
• http//www.education-world.com/a_lesson/lesso
  n039.shtml
• St. Patricks Day Wilstar website-St. Patricks
  Day Customs
• http//wilstar.com/holidays/patrick.htm
• Valentines Day I love India Website-Valentine
  facts
• http//festivals.iloveindia.com/valentines-da
  y/valentine-day-fact.html

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People in Societies Standard

• Students use knowledge of perspectives, practices
  and products of cultural, ethnic and social
  groups to analyze the impact of their commonality
  and diversity within local, national, regional
  and global settings.

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People in Societies Activities

• Christmas Have students make their own
  dictionaries of the way Merry Christmas is said
  in different languages.
• Halloween Read Pablo Remembers The Fiesta of
  the Day of the Dead by George Ancona and John
  Pig's Halloween by Jan L. Waldron to the
  students. Discuss the similarities and
  differences between these two holidays.
• Hanukkah Bring a Dreidel in to the classroom.
  Allow the students to play the game and have them
  compare this to other games that are played
  during other holidays.
• Kwanzaa Students create a collage of Kwanzaa
  symbols and people celebrating the holiday.
• St. Patricks Day Have students wear the color
  green and wear shamrocks. Discuss the Irish
  customs of St. Patricks Day.
• Valentines Day Create Valentine Day cards to
  share with others.

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People in Societies Websites

• Christmas Santas Net Website
• http//www.santas.net/howmerrychristmasissaid
  .htm
• Halloween Teacher Vision Website
• http//www.teachervision.fen.com/mexico/lesso
  n-plan/3183.html?detoured1
• Hanukkah How to play a game of Driedel
• http//judaism.about.com/od/chanukahhowtos/h
  t/dreidel.htm
• Kwanzaa Sites 4 teachers website-Kwanzaa rituals
  http//www.sites4teachers.com/links/redirect.p
  hp?urlhttp//www.teach-nology.com/teachers/lesson
  _plans/holidays/kwanza/
• St. Patricks Day National Geographic-Kids News
  http//news.nationalgeographic.com/kids/2004/03/
  stpatricksday.html
• Valentines Day Family Fun Website
• http//familyfun.go.com/arts-and-crafts/seaso
  n/specialfeature/valentines_cards_ms/

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Geography Standard

• Students use knowledge of geographic locations,
  patterns and processes to show the
  interrelationship between the physical
  environment and human activity, and to explain
  the interactions that occur in an increasingly
  interdependent world.

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Geography Activities

• Christmas Have students draw a map of the school
  and design a route for Santa to follow in order
  to deliver gifts to the classrooms.
• Halloween Take students to a corn maze. Discuss
  with them how navigating a maze is like
  navigating through the streets of their
  community.
• Hanukkah Have students draw a map of Israel,
  which is where Hanukkah originated from.
• Kwanzaa Print a coloring book of African
  countries for Kwanzaa. When you're done, locate
  the countries on a map of Africa, then label and
  color them.
• St Patricks Day Have students paint a picture
  of Ireland, identifying and describing the
  physical features of the country.
• Valentines Day Research all the different
  cities in the US that have a name that has
  something to do with valentine's day. Have the
  children write the city on the heart and then
  place it on the map.

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Geography Websites

• Christmas United States Government Services
  Website
• http//interactive2.usgs.gov/learningweb/teac
  hers/mapadv.htm
• Halloween Rocky Mountain Mapping Center
• http//rockyweb.cr.usgs.gov/outreach/cornmaze
  geography.html
• Hanukkah Merriam-Webster Onlinehttp//geography.
  about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?sitehttp//www.m
  2Dw.com/cgi2Dbin/nytmaps.pl3Fisrael
• Kwanzaa Enchanted Learning Website
  http//www.enchantedlearning.com/whatsnew/Whatsnew
  Dec02a.shtml
• St. Patricks Day Discover Ireland Website
• http//www.discoverireland.com/us/experience-
  ireland/scenery-nature-experience/
• Valentines Day Lesson Plans Page Website
• http//www.lessonplanspage.com/OSSValentineId
  eas-BulBoardAndGeography23.htm

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Economics Standard

• Students use economic reasoning skills and
  knowledge of major economic concepts, issues and
  systems in order to make informed choices as
  producers, consumers, savers, investors, workers
  and citizens in an interdependent world.

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Economics Activities

• Christmas Have students design postal stamps for
  Christmas.
• Halloween Read If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by
  Laura Joffee Numeroff to the students. Discuss
  what wants and needs are. As a class, write a
  unlimited-wants story with a Halloween theme.
• Hanukkah Set up a grocery store and kitchen as
  two centers in the classroom. Have examples (with
  price tags on them) of the ingredients used to
  make Hanukkah cookies available for the students
  to play with.
• Kwanzaa Read aloud to students about ujamaa in
  Kwanzaa Fun or Seven Candles of Kwanzaa. Ask the
  students to tell what ujamaa means (cooperative
  economicsworking together to meet financial
  needs).
• St. Patricks Day Have a bake sale with a
  variety of green foods and traditional Irish
  recipes.
• Valentines Day Students will set up a flower
  shop and learn about the supply and demand.

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Economics Websites

• Christmas Education Place Website
  http//www.eduplace.com/monthlytheme/december/chri
  stmas_activities.html
• Halloween Economics Education Website
• http//ecedweb.unomaha.edu/lessons/mouse.htm
  
• Hanukkah About-Hanukkah shaped cookies for kids
  http//judaism.about.com/od/chanukahrecipes/r/
  hanukacookies.htm
• Kwanzaa Learning to Give Website
• http//www.learningtogive.org/lessons/unit158
  /lesson3.html
• St. Patricks Day Irelands Eye Website
  http//www.irelandseye.com/aarticles/culture/recip
  es/index.shtm
• Valentines Day Hummingbird Educational
  Resources Website
• http//www.hummingbirded.com/drama-centers.ht
  m

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Government Standard

• Students use knowledge of the purposes,
  structures and processes of political systems at
  the local, state, national and international
  levels to understand that people create systems
  of government as structures of power and
  authority to provide order, maintain stability
  and promote the general welfare.

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Government Activities

• Christmas Read The Night before Christmas to
  the students. Have them write their own versions
  of the story in the style of their state,
  including all of the state symbols.
• Halloween Have students come up with their own
  safety rules and tips about Halloween. Compare
  these with the list put out by the Consumer
  Product Safety Commission.
• Hanukkah Make the recipes for the 8 days of
  Hanukkah and have children vote on their favorite
  dish. Record and chart the class results and
  discuss the importance of voting in a democracy.
• Kwanzaa Each student will develop a written
  purpose or rule and put it on a scroll. A purpose
  is something that benefits others. Demonstrate
  how to make a scroll following the directions in
  Kwanzaa Fun by Linda Robertson.
• St. Patricks Day Create a Venn Diagram
  comparing and contrasting the Irish government.
• Valentines Day Students play What Time is it
  Mr. Valentine and review the importance of the
  rules of the game in different settings.

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Government Websites

• Christmas Pacifcnet-Christmas around the world
• http//www.pacificnet.net/mandel/SocialStudi
  es.html
• Halloween About-Consumer Product Safety
  Commission
• http//usgovinfo.about.com/blhalloween.htm
• Hanukkah Recipes for 8 days of Hanukkah
• http//cbs2chicago.com/recipes/local_story_34
  6124101.html
• Kwanzaa Learning to Give Website
• http//www.learningtogive.org/lessons/unit158
  /lesson3.html
• St. Patricks Day Britannica Website
• http//www.britannica.com/ebc/article-9374600
  
• Valentines Day 123 Child Website-Valentine
  Activities
• http//www.123child.com/UBB/showthread.php?t
  3096

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Citizenship Rights and Responsibilities Standard

• Students use knowledge of the rights and
  responsibilities of citizenship in order to
  examine and evaluate civic ideals and to
  participate in community life and the American
  democratic system.

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Citizenship Rights and Responsibilities Activities

• Christmas As a class cooperative effort, have
  students brainstorm what the many different
  symbols of Christmas are and discuss each one.
• Halloween Have students create posters warning
  others to practice safety measures on Halloween.
• Hanukkah Read The Magic Dreidels A Hanukkah
  Story by Eric A. Kimmel to the students. Have
  students share experiences they have had with
  getting a new toy and losing it.
• Kwanzaa Discuss what art and creativity do for a
  community. As a class, make a traditional woven
  mat for the feast table in red, green and black
  for a Kwanzaa celebration.
• St. Patricks Day Read Look What Came from
  Ireland by Miles Harvey and discuss the beliefs
  and symbols of the Irish community and why they
  are important.
• Valentines Day Have students create several
  Valentine Day crafts and choose which one they
  want to display in the school.

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Citizenship Rights and Responsibilities Websites

• Christmas Education World Website
• http//www.education-world.com/a_lesson/lesso
  n041.shtml
• Halloween Pennsylvania Service learning alliance
• http//www.paservicelearning.org/Project_Idea
  s/Halloween.htm
• Hanukkah Apples for the teacher website
• http//www.apples4theteacher.com/holidays/ha
  nukkah/kids-books/the-magic-dreidels.html
• Kwanzaa Learning to Give Website
• http//www.learningtogive.org/lessons/unit158
  /lesson3.html
• St. Patricks Day Amazon Website
• http//www.amazon.com/Look-What-Came-Ireland/
  dp/0531166287/refcm_lmf_tit_2/102-8783117-5144964
  
• Valentines Day DLTK website-valentine crafts
• http//www.dltk-holidays.com/valentines/

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Social Studies Skills and Methods Standard

• Students collect, organize, evaluate and
  synthesize information from multiple sources to
  draw logical conclusions. Students communicate
  this information using appropriate social studies
  terminology in oral, written or multimedia form
  and apply what they have learned to societal
  issues in simulated or real-world settings.

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Social Studies Skills and Methods Activities

• Christmas Have student compare a picture of a
  normal day and one of Christmas day using a Venn
  diagram.
• Halloween Have students create their own Choose
  Your Adventure story. The topic should relate to
  Halloween, but students should be allowed to make
  decisions concerning the main ideas of the story.
  
• Hanukkah Have students write down their own
  family traditions that occur during the holidays.
  Use a Venn diagram to compare these to typical
  Hanukkah traditions.
• Kwanzaa Students are divided into groups and
  assigned one of the symbols of Kwanzaa. The
  students will orally present the information that
  they have learned about the symbol and its
  relevance to the holiday.
• St. Patricks Day Students participate in Gaelic
  games and discuss the importance of Irish
  traditions and customs.
• Valentines Day Chose a Valentines Day themed
  book and have the students identify the main
  ideas.

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Social Studies Skills and Methods Websites

• Christmas Lesson Plans Page Website
  http//www.lessonplanspage.com/LAMDClassMemoriesCh
  ristmasOrnamentIdea23.htm
• Halloween Planet 5th Website
• http//www.mpsomaha.org/willow/p5/projects/st
  ories2004.html
• Hanukah The Jewish Childrens Learning Network
  Website http//www.akhlah.com/holidays/hanukka
  h/hanukkah_traditions.php
• Kwanzaa Fun Social Studies Website
  http//www.funsocialstudies.learninghaven.com/arti
  cles/kwanzaa.htm
• St. Patricks Day Family Fun Website
  http//familyfun.go.com/parties/holiday/specialfea
  ture/stpatday_sf/stpatday_sf.html
• Valentines Day Kids Domain Website-childrens
  books
• http//www.kidsdomain.com/holiday/val/books.h
  tml

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