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White Elephant Exercise Exchange

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students get moving in a fun holiday setting. They participate in a holiday tradition of exchanging gifts with the gift being an exercise to be completed. Exercises are written on small slips of paper and put into a small holiday gift bag.
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Lesson Planet Article
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Celebrating Groundhog Day with your Students

For Teachers K - 4th
Celebrating Groundhog Day in your classroom is a fun-filled way to explore science, art, and literature.
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Math Wire

Gingerbread Man Combinations

For Students 4th - 8th
Gingerbread men are just like us—they're unique! Discover how many combinations are possible when constructing a gingerbread man with several choices for shapes and colors of eyes, noses, and buttons. 
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Winter Lights: A Season In Poems & Quilts

For Teachers K - 1st
Students read the book Winter Lights: A Season in Poems & Quilts and do language arts and math activities that go with the book. In this language arts and math lesson plan, students read the book given and do activities that include...
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Lesson Planet Article
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Keeping Students Focused During the Holiday Season

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
There are easy ways to make the day before a school break fun, exciting, and productive.
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Lesson Planet Article
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Three Easy Steps to Help Your Pupils Avoid the Summer Slide

For Teachers 1st - 4th
By engaging parents in their kids’ learning over the summer, you can help make sure your pupils kick the summer slide to the curb.
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Unit Plan
True Blue Schools

Now, We’re Cooking!

For Teachers 1st - 6th Standards
Practice nutritional cooking with a collection of fun meal preparation lessons. Each lesson includes a focus, objective, collaborative activity, and recipe to culminate what young cooks have learned about healthy eating.
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Chinese New Year

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students investigate the celebration of Chinese New Year. In this Chinese New Year lesson, students discuss their favorite holiday before listening to a read aloud about Chinese New Year. They make red envelopes that are filled with play...
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Positively Autism

"What to Expect on the Fourth of July" Social Story

For Teachers Pre-K - 3rd
The social story "What to Expect on the Fourth of July" not only lets learners with autism know what to expect on this very American holiday, but also explains what behaviors are appropriate when at a fireworks display or picnic.
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Lesson Plan
Perkins School for the Blind

Encouraging Students Who are Blind or Visually Impaired to Express Their Feelings and Explore Imagination

For Teachers K - 12th
Being expressive in a creative, empathetic, or imaginative way is not only fun, it builds good pre-writing and communication skills. Learners with visual impairments have a roundtable discussion session where several sentence frames are...
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The Popcorn Book

For Teachers K - 5th
Pop, pop, pop! Can you hear the sound popcorn makes when it's being made? Start the day by reading The Popcorn Book. Youngsters will love stringing together popcorn necklaces and learning about popcorn. There are separate prompts and...
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ARKive

Endangered Animal Easter Eggs

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
I love any lesson that addresses more than one subject area. You and your class will discuss endangered animals; each child will choose one animal and then create a decorated egg to represent their animal. After the eggs are decorated,...
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Take the Polar Express to Learning

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students complete a variety of activities surrounding the book, The Polar Express.
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Handprint Angels

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students trace their hands onto white paper and cut them out. They create a holiday art piece by adding a "head" and a "body" and then decorating them to resemble an angel. (Their handprints become the wings.)
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Worksheet
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Be the Spell-Checker 1

For Students 12th - Higher Ed
In this spelling activity, students read seven sentences about going on a holiday. Students locate twenty misspelled words and write them correctly above.
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Activity
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Magic Reindeer Food

For Teachers Pre-K
Students create reindeer food. In this Christmas holiday lesson, students work as a group to make reindeer food. Students add oatmeal, sugar and glitter together to make the food.
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Easter Treats

For Teachers 6th - 11th
Students celebrate Easter. In this current events lesson, students visit Fountains Abbey, Cadbury World, The Big Pit, Madame Tussaud's, and Natureland online or in person to participate in Easter activities.
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Interactive
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ESL Holiday Lessons: National Ice Cream Day

For Students 5th - 6th
In this reading comprehension and vocabulary worksheet, students read a text about the history of National Ice Cream Day. Kids work alone or in partners to complete 144 questions. There are vocabulary matching problems, fill in the...
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Memorial Day Fun

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students research Memorial Day and complete activities about the day. In this Memorial Day lesson, students discuss the definition of the word 'memorial' to understand its meaning. Students create flags for the day and listen to a...
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Unit Plan
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Fluency Activities for Higher Levels

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students engage in activities to increase their fluency while speaking. They discuss a topic within a minute and work in teams to decide how items are related. They explore fashion and discuss styles for various ages. They select a...
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Coin-a-copia: A Thanksgiving Glyph Activity

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Students explore glyphs that are pictorial representations of data. Students collect and display data about themselves and a variety of other topics. Students practice using a legend to analyze and interpret data.
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Reading Comprehension 4 - What Shall We Do Tomorrow?- Test Your Reading Skills

For Teachers 7th
In this reading comprehension worksheet, 7th graders read a short passage in which one young lady talks to a young man about their holiday experience in Devon, UK. They answer 10 questions based on the passage.
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Lesson Plan
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Mixing Colors with Corn Syrup and Food Coloring

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Anyone who has worked with small children know that color identification and color mixing can be fun! This simple idea has a lot of potential. It suggests to mix food coloring with corn syrup to provide an opportunity for color mixing...
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Worksheet
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ESL Holiday Lessons: Sadie Hawkins Day

For Students 6th - 10th
For this language skills worksheet, students read an article about Sadie Hawkins Day. Students respond to 6 matching questions, 29 fill in the blank questions, 30 multiple choice questions, 12 word scramble questions, 30...