Holidays ED 417

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HolidaysED 417

• Ashley Clark
• Pam Hete
• Danielle Kubasky
• Hilary Walling

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Unit/Lesson

• Unit/Lesson Holidays
• Grade 2

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Table of Contents

• 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 this
  history of Ohio, the United States and the world.

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History Activities

• Have the children make a timeline of a year and
  put holidays in it.
• Have the children make a calendar labeled with
  all U.S. Holidays. Have the children illustrate
  it.
• Have the children interview their grandparents or
  an older adult on how they celebrated a certain
  holiday
• Read a St. Patricks day book and have the
  children write about what they liked best.

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History Websites

• www.time-for-time.com/history.htm
• http//www.fi.edu/time/Journey/OnceUponATime/slide
  show.htm
• http//www.education-world.com/a_lesson/03/lp312-0
  5.shtml
• nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/006472.html
  
• www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/HistTopics/Ti
  me_1.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
  community and diversity within local, national,
  regional and global settings.

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People in Societies Activities

• Have the children make a book on how holiday
  sayings are said in different languages.
• Read a Christmas book and a Hanukkah book and
  discuss their similarities and differences.
• Have the children make Valentines Day cards to
  share with each of their classmates.
• Have the children wear green for St. Patricks
  Day and discuss customs.
• Have the students create a collage of Christmas
  having examples, or symbols showing how it is
  celebrated.

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People in Societies Websites

• http//www.nsf.gov/news/classroom/people.jsp
• http//www.historians.org/pubs/free/WhyStudyHistor
  y.htm
• http//iteslj.org/Lessons/Elliott-GroupActivities.
  html
• www.nativechild.com/resources/article.html
• http//teacherlink.ed.usu.edu/tlresources/units/in
  dex.html

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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

• 1. Have students draw a map of their school and
  design a route for them to follow in order to
  sing Christmas/Hanukah/Kwanzaa carols to other
  classrooms.
• 2. Take students on a field trip to a corn maze.
  Discuss the similarities of navigating through a
  maze and navigating through the streets in their
  community.
• 3. Print a copy of a map of the United States.
  Use map quest as a tool to locate 10 holiday
  cities on the map.
• Bethlehem, GA
• Bethlehem, PA
• Bethlehem, WV
• Jolly, TX
• Merryville, LA
• Noel, MO
• North Pole, AK
• Rudolph, WI
• Santa Claus, GA
• Santa Claus, IN

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Geography Activities Contd

• 4. Students will each be assigned a different
  holiday celebrated around the world. Students
  will research their holiday and present the
  information to the class. Ex make a poster or
  write a paper
• 5. Give students a map of the world. Ask them to
  identify where some of the major holidays that
  are celebrated in the United States originated.
  Write the name of the holiday on the map where
  the holiday was originated. Ex. St. Patricks
  Day would be written on Ireland.

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Geography Websites

• http//rockyweb.cr.usgs.gov/outreach/cornmazegeogr
  aphy.html
• http//www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/TM/WS_holi
  day_geography.shtml
• http//english.freemap.jp/world_e/2.html
• http//ezinearticles.com/?List-of-holidaysid4057
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• http//falcon.jmu.edu/ramseyil/holidays.htm

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Economics Standard

• Students use economics 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

• Have students design a postal stamp for
  Christmas.
• Students will host a bake sale with a variety of
  green foods and traditional Irish recipes. The
  money made in the bake sale will be donated to
  the school.
• Students will distribute flags to people in the
  community for Veterans Day.
• Read If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Joffee
  Numeroff to the class. Discuss wants and needs
  for goods and services. As a class, write a
  story about unlimited wants for goods and
  services (this means the list never ends) with a
  Halloween theme.
• 5. Read aloud to students about ujamaa and how it
  relates to Kwanzaa. At the end of the lesson,
  students should be able to tell you what ujamaa
  means (cooperative economics).

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Economics Websites

• http//artisticpostage.com/Christmas_stamps_Holida
  y_Stamps.html
• http//fp.enter.net/burk/stpatricksday/stpatrick
  sdayrecipes.htm
• http//www1.va.gov/opa/vetsday/
• http//ecedweb/unomaha.edu/lessons/mouse.htm
• http//learningtogive.org/lessons/unit158/lesson3.
  html

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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

• 1. Have the students learn and discuss the
  different Christmas customs for different
  countries. Then have them do a compare and
  contrast chart comparing the other countries
  customs to the United States customs.
• 2. Students will learn the symbols associated
  with the different holidays. Then they will make
  their own symbol and share with the class what it
  means and what holiday it would represent.
• 3. Have the students choose a holiday they like,
  then have them learn some of the laws/traditions
  dealing with that holiday. Then have the
  students make their own list of laws/traditions
  they would have if they were in charge.

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Government Activities Contd

• 4. The students will discuss voting and what it
  means. Then the students will make a ballot and
  vote for their favorite holiday. They will then
  make a chart with the voting results.
• 5. The students will plan a holiday party to have
  in their classroom. They will make a list of
  rules that must be followed during the party and
  the consequences if the rules are broken. They
  will then display them on a poster to have during
  their party.

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Government Websites

• http//akidsheart.com
• http//educationworld.com
• http//holidays.net
• http//www.symbols.net/holiday/
• http//teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/indep
  th/holidays/christmas.aspa15

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Citizenship Rights and Responsibilities Standard

• Student 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

• 1. The students will make posters on safety
  precautions to use during Halloween time. They
  will then display them in the school hallways.
• 2. Have the students discuss different items they
  have and use in their homes during different
  holidays. Then have each student put together a
  poster of the items they use/have for the
  holidays they celebrate. Make sure the students
  have respect for others items and ideas.
• 3. The students will learn what happens during a
  Kwanzaa celebration such as foods, decorations
  traditions etc. The students will then plan
  their own Kwanzaa celebration designing posters
  making a food list and decorations.

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Citizenship Rights and Responsibilities Contd

• 4. The students will be read the book Lets
  Celebrate St. Patricks Day by Peter Roop. The
  students will then discuss the history and
  customs of St Patricks Day.
• 5. The students will be read the book The Story
  of Thanksgiving by Nancy J Skarmeas. The
  students will then discuss the difference between
  the way the pilgrims celebrated Thanksgiving, and
  the ways they celebrate Thanksgiving at home.

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Citizenship Rights and Responsibilities Websites

• http//www.abcteach.com
• http//www.lessoncorner.com
• http//www.kaboose.com
• http//www.kidzone.ws/
• http//www.teachervision.fen.com/kwanzaa/printable
  /37324.html

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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
  students 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

• Students will read several stories about holidays
  and will distinguish the difference between fact
  and fiction.
• Students will be given a holiday to research.
  Students must find information on the holiday and
  site the source.
• Have cards with holiday sequences on them (one
  for each holiday). Students must look at the
  cards and predict what will happen next by
  sequencing the cards by the order in which the
  holiday happens.

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Social Studies Skills and Methods Activities
Contd

• Students will write about their favorite holiday
  and then communicate their ideas and thoughts to
  the class.
• Students will discuss in a small group why they
  feel it is important to understand the different
  types of holidays that people celebrate. Then
  students will share information with the class
  orally.

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Social Studies Skills and Methods Websites

• www.abcteach.com
• www.socialstudiesforkids.com
• www.geocities.com
• www.educationworld.com
• www.familyeducation.com