November


 * November Monthly Highlights **
 * November Monthly Highlights **

**Veteran's Day**
[|Veteran's Day Lesson Plans and Activities] - resources, links, and ideas from Education World**
 * [|VA Kids] - K-5 - Resources for inquiring minds about Veteran's Day**
 * [|Veterans Day Teaching Theme]** - (from Teach-nology) **Lesson Plans, Internet sites, vocabulary builders, crafts, worksheets, puzzles, web quests, songs, clip art, and more!

**Research and Learn About the Turkey!**
[|Wild Turkey] (eNature) //Meleagris gallopavo// [|All About Wild Turkeys] (National Wild Turkey Federation)**
 * [|The American Turkey]** **(Kidzone)
 * [|Turkeys at Enchanted Learning]** **Printouts, activities, crafts, and information**
 * [|Turkey History and Facts] Raising Turkeys, Turkey Statistics, and more**

**[|ALFY'S Native American Theme] - Native American Shelters, American Indian Kids, Natives of North America, Life As A Wampanoag, Southwest Native Americans, and more!** [|**Discovery Education Streaming**] **videos available!** Letters from the Mayflower and Tribe - Sign up to receive three letters from a young girl and a young boy. Provide a glimpse of history! [|Primary Source Set: Thanksgiving] - Show students orginial documents from this period of history - Mayflower, Pilgrims, documents, paintings, etc. [|Thanksgiving in American Memory] - Be sure to click the Thanksgiving Timeline here!** [|**You are the Historian**] **- Investigating the First Thanksgiving (** May want to download as suggested due to high traffic). "Holiday Facts and Fun: Thanksgiving"**
 * [|History of the Cherokee] - History, Images/Maps, Genealogy**
 * [|The First Americans] - Tribes, Activities, History and sterotypes. Includes Teach information section.**
 * Search: Native Americans (People of the Desert, Anasazi, Plains, Northwest, Forest), The Cherokee - Trail of Tears, and many more. Blackline masters are available for selected videos.**
 * [|Learn at Plimoth Plantation] - A glimpse of life as it was in Plymouth Colony in 1627 - Be sure to engage your students in "You Are the Historian". This is excellent!**
 * [|The First Thanksgiving]- Relive the voyage on the Mayflower, Experience Life in Plimoth 1621, Play the Thanksgiving CyberChallenge, View a Picture Timeline!
 * [|Thanksgiving CyberChallenge]** **- Become a Thanksgiving expert!**
 * [|Thanksgiving Theme Unit] from abcteach - Printouts, Shape Books, Venn Diagrams, Math Problems, Crosswords, Story Starters, and more**
 * [|Reading Comprehension Lesson 1]**
 * Discovery Education Streaming videos available:**
 * "Who's That Stepping On Plymouth Rock?"

**Holiday Card Exchange Project** **- Join other classrooms (PreK - 6th grade) around the world and exchange holiday greeting cards (via regular mail.) Create a map area to show where the cards come from.**