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December
7-Pearl Harbor Day
December
15- Bill of Rights Day
December 16- Boston Tea Party Anniversary;
National Chocolate Covered Anything Day
December
17- Wright Brothers' first flight
December
22- First Day of Winter
December
25- Christmas
Hanukkah
hibernation
Kwanzaa
Boston
Tea Party December
16
Boston
Tea Party Thematic Units/Boston Tea Party Lesson Plans/Boston Tea Party
Activities
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About the Boston Tea Party Printout
Source:
http://www.teachervision.com/lesson-plans/lesson-10188.html
Revolutionary
Tea Parties and the Reasons for Revolution
Grade
6-8
After
completing the lessons in this unit, students will be able to: List
some tea party protests other than the Boston Tea Party. State some
possible reasons behind the tea protests. Explain the connection between
the Boston Tea Party, other tea parties, and events that preceded and followed
them.
Source: http://edsitement.neh.gov
The
Boston Tea Party: Costume Optional? Grade
6-8
After completing the lessons in this unit, students will
be able to: Retell the events of the
Boston Tea Party. List some types of sources historians use to reconstruct
what happened in the past.
Source:
http://edsitement.neh.gov
 Hanukkah
Hanukkah
Lesson Plans/Hanukkah Thematic Units/Hanukkah Activities
Hanukkah
Mini-unit
A mini-unit
covering 5 class periods.
Source
http://teacherlink.ed.usu.edu/TLresources/longterm/LessonPlans/Byrnes/HANUKKAH.HTML
Hanukkah
Resources
Contains
poems, activities, and other resources for Hanukkah
Source:
http://www.richland2.org/ne/hanukkah.html
Hanukkah
Songs, Fingerplays, and Grouptime Information
Source:
http://www.nuttinbutkids.com/Hanukkah.html
Hanukkah
Nice resource with ideas and shape book plans
Source:
http://abcteach.com/MonthtoMonth/Holidays/hanukkuhTOC.htm
Hanukkah:The
Festival of Lights
Read aloud a simple telling of the Hanukkah story and follow up with a
handful of across-the-curriculum activities.
Source:
http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/lesson040.shtml
Make
a Menorah
Source:
http://www.kinderart.com/dec5.htm
Internet
Resources and Activities
Ben &
Jerry's Winter Holidays Page
Games, crafts, recipes and links for the winter
holidays, including Christmas, Chanukah and the Winter Solstice.
Source:
http://www.benjerry.com/yule/index.html
Chanukah Guide
How to celebrate Chanukah
Source:
http://www.his.com/~chabad/8days/
Chanukah on the
Net
A site celebrating the Jewish Holiday of Chanukah. We've got stories, games, and
spinning dreidels! Sponsored by the Jewish Post of New York.
Source:
http://www.holidays.net/chanukah/
Hanukkah
In these files on Hanukkah, you will find background for the simulation game, drama and other activities designed to study and experience the different
elements of the festival.
Source:
http://www.jajz-ed.org.il/festivls/hanuka/index.html
It's Not Your
Father's Hanukkah
History, recipes, lots of stuff here
Source:
http://www.caryn.com/holiday/holiday-chan.html
Virtual Chanukah
Chanukah Guide | Story of Chanukah |
Source:
http://www.chanukah97.com/
Kwanzaa
Lesson
Plans/Thematic Units
Kwanzaa
Lesson Plan
A Christmas Celebration in the Black Culture
Source:
http://www.crpc.rice.edu/CRPC/GT/cjones/lessons/lesson1.html
Kwanzaa
Mini Unit
Students will identify similarities and differences
between the celebrations: Hanukkah, Christmas and Kwanzaa.- Students
will identify African art, music and language.
Source:http://teacherlink.ed.usu.edu/TLresources/longterm/LessonPlans/Byrnes/kwanzaa.html
Kwanzaa
-Units on African-American Culture
Students will recognize that families can be strengthened as a result of a holiday.
Students will identify things about holidays that have strengthened their families.
Students will explain some of the symbols of Kwanzaa. Students will draw one of the purposes of Kwanzaa.
Source:http://teacherlink.ed.usu.edu/TLresources/longterm/LessonPlans/Byrnes/kwanzaa2.html
Units
on African-American Culture: Kwanzaa
A comprehensive
unit on Kwanzaa. Hopefully the page won't hurt your eyes too
much.
Source:
http://www.courses.dsu.edu/eled360/publish/emilyh.htm
Kwanzaa
Resources
Activities
for Kwanzaa
Source:
http://abcteach.com/MonthtoMonth/Holidays/kwanzaaTOC.htm
Kwanzaa
Resources
Website with many resouces on Kwanzaa
Source:
http://www.memphis-schools.k12.tn.us/admin/tlapages/kwanzaa.htm
The
next three lessons focus on specific aspects of Kwanzaa:
Kwanzaa
- the Tambiko
Kwanzaa
- the Mkeka
Kwanzaa
- the Muhindi
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