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Holiday Toy Trends Mini Research Unit
By Three Little Homeschoolers
Every year there's that ONE holiday toy that captures the hearts of kids and sends parents off to the store to grab the last one. This mini unit covers the history of Christmas toys through four decades (some of which you will remember!). The unit is divided into three parts and relies heavily on student research. The parts can be done at your own pace over the course of a week or over several weeks.
Part One
-Includes two reading passages, one about the history of holiday gift giving and one about the rise of the toy industry.
-Research Project: Students are given four worksheets, one for each of the decades (1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s), and they must research toy trends for each decade
Part Two
-All of part two is in the included PowerPoint. This covers holiday advertising, starting with the early days of ads, through the department store catalog, and into modern television commercials.
-There are three links to toy commercials from the 70s, 80s, and 90s to watch with students
Part Three
-In part three, students will conduct an interview with an older friend or family member about their own holiday toy memories
-Final Project: Students pick one of three final projects to complete. Each project relates back to a different part of the unit.
This unit is geared towards a classroom, but is easily adapted to a homeschooler...in fact, I originally created it for mine! Every research activity is done solo and the PowerPoint can easily be used just for one or a handful of kiddos. This is also easily adaptable, in case you want to change anything for your students, but is no-prep, ready to go, as it is!
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Looking for other activities for older kids?
Winter Activities for Older Kids - No Prep
Christmas Around the World - Who is/What is Cards
Middle School Vocabulary Worksheet {plain and themed versions}
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World War 2 Adapted Notes and Review
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In this product, students will learn about World War 2, how this war was started, the timeline showing events that happened throughout World War 2, when it started, the countries that were involved in the war - Axis Powers and Allied Powers and who was in each of those, who Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party were and what they did, Jewish people were sent to concentration camps, the countries Germany took control of and why, events that led to war, who Reichstag and Third Reich was, why Hitler wanted to make the Third Reich bigger, when World War II began and what caused it, what happened when Germany invaded each of the following countries - Czechoslovakia, Poland, Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, France, Yugoslavia, and Greece, the countries that joined the Allied Powers, why no one could help Poland when the Soviet Union attacked them, Why Italy declared war against France and Britain, What happened when German began bombing Britain, what radar was and how it helped Britain, the first major battle that was fought in the air was called the Battle of Britain, Italians invaded Egypt, why the Soviet Union joined the Allied Powers, what the largest battle in World War 2 was, Attack on Pearl Harbor, what happened, who entered World War 2 after this attack, when the attack happened and how the United States retaliated, Japan bombed the Philippines and who controlled it at this, when the Allied Powers invaded Italy, D-Day and the Battle of the Bulge - what, when, where, and why it happened, the end of the World War 2 - when it ended, what happened to Adolf Hitler, the United States dropping atomic bombs and two Japanese cities, after the war - the United States and the Soviet Union were the 2 most powerful countries in the world, and the Cold War - what caused it and why it happened
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