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Activity Idea Place: Thanksgiving Includes Thanksgiving games, art, math, and science activities for preschool children and toddlers. Created for teachers and parents. http://www.123child.com/UBB/showthread.php?t=3095

Are You Teaching the Real Story of Thanksgiving? This article from Education World examines how Thanksgiving is commonly portrayed in the classroom and encourages teachers to look at the holiday from a Native American perspective. http://www.education-world.com/a_curr/curr040.shtml

Celebrating Thanksgiving at The Holiday Zone Seasonal crafts, songs and fingerplays, language arts activities, educational games, discussion topics, reading comprehension exercises, and poetry. http://www.theholidayzone.com/thanks/

The First Thanksgiving Resource guide from Scholastic designed to teach students the relationship between the Pilgrims and the Native Americans. http://www.scholastic.com/scholastic_thanksgiving/

Holidays and Celebrations: Thanksgiving Links for Thanksgiving in Canada, the United States, and around the world for students and teachers. http://www.stemnet.nf.ca/CITE/celthanksgiving.htm

Pilgrims Cross-curricular lesson plans and supplemental resources for teaching K-12 students about the people who celebrated the first Thanksgiving. http://www.teachervision.com/tv/theme/Pilgrims

TeacherLink: A Celebration of Gratitude Assisting educators in teaching children gratitude. This is done by teaching lessons centered around the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag Indians. http://teacherlink.ed.usu.edu/tlresources/units/MonsonUnits/amychr/index.htm

TeacherView.com Thanksgiving Offers printable bookmarks, coloring pages, stationery, and shape books. http://www.teacherview.com/themes/holidays/thanksgiving/index.htm

Thankful Turkey Thanksgiving lesson plan focusing on language and art. Helps children become aware of the things they are thankful for. http://www.kinderart.com/seasons/thankfulturkey.htm

Thanksgiving English language teacher provides descriptions of persons and terms frequently associated with Thanksgiving; materials is designed for use with non-native speakers of English. http://eleaston.com/thanks-holiday.html

Thanksgiving: A History of Today's Celebration Thanksgiving history lesson for fourth through sixth grades. http://teacherlink.ed.usu.edu/tlresources/units/Byrnes-celebrations/thanks.html

Thanksgiving Fun Games, songs, art projects, and miscellaneous ideas appropriate for use with preschoolers. http://www.perpetualpreschool.com/thanks.html

Thanksgiving Information A reach beyond the myths of Thanksgiving to some degree of historic truth. A historical perspective for teachers and their students. http://www.2020tech.com/thanks/temp.html#top

Thanksgiving Lesson Plan Single lesson plan appropriate for younger ESL/EFL students focuses on vocabulary related to Thanksgiving and the history of the holiday. http://www.everythingesl.net/lessons/gobble.php

Thanksgiving Mini-Unit for Third Grade Mini-Unit teaching students about Native American culture and the journey of the pilgrims. http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/YLP/96-97/96-97_mini_units/Thanksgiving_CSchaffer/table_content.html

Thanksgiving Quilt Lesson plan promoting open dialogue of what the children are thankful for while exploring different textures, shapes and colors. http://www.kinderart.com/seasons/thanksquilt.htm

Thanksgiving Resources on the Web for Educators Curriculum materials for Thanksgiving. http://www.midgefrazel.net/wqthanks.html

Thanksgiving Unit Elementary school teachers provides a list of children's books related to Thanksgiving. Also features more than two dozen classroom activities related to Thanksgiving. [Graphics intensive.] http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Troy/5059/thanks.html