By Julie Cross4th grade

W531November 3, 2010

Thanksgiving Scavenger

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Student Worksheet

1. Click on the picture to go to a website about the Mayflower. In the picture of the Mayflower, find the #3 and click. You need to read to see what is happening in this picture. Use the information given to write a brief caption describing the picture. (Put on your headphones if you want and click on the speaker symbol to have the caption read to you.)

2. “Home is where the heart is”

•Tell me the difference between the Pilgrim’s homes and the Indian’s?

•How did the Pilgrims protect their village?

•Why would the Indians move?

3. Click on Animals and Livestock. Read about what animals that were kept during this period in time. Write three farm animals that the Pilgrims had at Plymouth.

4. An education was different back in the days of the Pilgrims and Indians.

•Click on the picture to learn about how the Pilgrims and Indian children would learn.

•Where did the Pilgrim children learn? What was the most important thing for them to learn?

•Where and what did the Indian children learn?

5. This is a statue of the Native American, Massasoit, is found in Plymouth, Massachusetts. Click on picture to follow the link to find out if he was a friend or enemy to the Pilgrims? Write one detail from the article that supports your answer.

6. Click here to answer the questions below. (You will need your headphones on.)

•Who is the Native American in this picture?

•Was he a friend or enemy of the Pilgrims?

•Write one detail from the story that supports your answer.

7. Thanksgiving is a time when we think about all the things that we are grateful to have. Go to this link to learn how to say “thank you” in another language.•What language did you choose?•How do you say thank you in that language?•Practice the word and then say it to the person who is cooking your Thanksgiving dinner this year. (If he or she doesn’t understand you, be sure to explain it.)

8. Make sure your headphones are on. Describe what happens when you click on the turkey.

9. Click on the turkey above to find out why turkey became the official meat of Thanksgiving.

10. Click on the picture to find out about Squanto.

• List 3 things he did to help the Pilgrims survive.

11. There is a legend that says the Pilgrims placed five grains of corn beside each plate on Thanksgiving Day. Each piece of corn had a special meaning for them. Click on the picture to read the legend. Then use your own words to explain why the Pilgrims placed the corn beside each plate.

12. Many people will have a fruit on their Thanksgiving tables that was named after this bird. Click on the bird to answer this question.

• What kind of bird do you see in the picture?**Click here to answer the following questions**• What is the fruit that was named after the bird?• Why was the fruit named after this bird?

13. Which of the pictures above shows a cornucopia?

•Type this word into the search box to find out if it is A, B, or C? (Put on your headphones if you want to hear the word spoken outloud when you click on the read speaker symbol .)

•The cornucopia is a symbol of what?

A. C.B.

14. Good job!! Now you can reward yourself. Click here to play some Thanksgiving Tic-Tac-Toe.

• How many times did you win?• How many times did the computer win? • How many ties?