Less than $5 8th Grade Thanksgiving Projects

A fun and engaging Thanksgiving (or anytime!) project for any social studies class!

Thanksgiving is finally here, and as your students are about to find out, this Turkey Day will be unlike any other. For this year’s feast, you’re inviting three special guests who will travel through time to join you! In this Thanksgiving-themed biography project, students will research the lives of three historical figures, plan out the perfect Thanksgiving dinner, and reflect on what each of their famous guests would be thankful for this holiday season!

Students will create a poster or digital presentation to discuss their historical figures and their Thanksgiving feast!

Project includes:

- Overview and Instructions

- List of 60 significant figures from history

- Printouts for each step of the project

- Grading Rubric and Poster Example

Looking for a fun activity to use before Thanksgiving? Check out this Thanksgiving Dinner POV craft and writing activity. This activity includes 2 options: students will draw and label what they're eating for Thanksgiving dinner, then they can either write using the point of view of what's on their plate, using the thoughts and feelings of each item on their plate. Or, students can draw and label their ideal Thanksgiving dinner and include their all-time favorite foods, and then write about their choices on the writing page. Perfect for upper elementary and middle school classrooms.

Guage writing skills by offering a POV writing activity that's actually fun! This is the perfect opportunity to learn more about your students, especially if you have students from different cultures who celebrate Thanksgiving with non-traditional foods. You'll love reading the finished products.

This resource requires NO PREP - simply print, complete the short writing prompts, color, and put on display!

Boring worksheets begone!! ***CHECK OUT THE PREVIEW***

This resource includes:

• 2 Printable Dinner Plate Templates
• 2 Printable POV Writing Sheets

You might like my Thanksgiving Would You Rather Game which features 50 slides you can use as brain breaks throughout November or during your class party for a fun game!

Be sure to check out the November Early Finishers Packet featuring 20 fun pages of independent work like puzzles, games, and SEL-centered drawing and coloring activities.

Ideas for using these questions:

• In centers
• During class parties
• During transitions
• For brain breaks
• Extra time filler
• At the end of the day
• During morning meeting
• To build critical thinking skills
• To practice communicating ideas
• To defend thoughts and opinions
• For a fun activity!!!

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This project has students using real-world math skills to learn to perform calculations to plan a Thanksgiving dinner. They will use formulas (included) to learn how to compute quantities in recipes, how to determine percentages and use fractions, and other basic math skills used in everyday activities.

Are your students always asking "When will be ever USE this??" This short activity shows students a real world use for the math skills they learn every day.

This lesson was created for 7th and 8th grade, but could also be used successfully in upper elementary grades.

This lesson is great for distance learning/remote learning. You can upload it to your school's learning management system (Google Classroom, Edmodo, Canvas, etc.) or share with students via Google Drive.

Files included:

• Teacher & Student Resources

• Planning a Thanksgiving Dinner Math Activity/Handout

(print and digital versions – editable)

• Planning a Thanksgiving Dinner Math Activity Answer Key

• Math Formula “Cheat Sheet”

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This Algebra 1 Thanksgiving Escape Room is completely SELF CHECKING (and printable) and includes 40 questions to help solve the mystery of the missing thanksgiving dinner items! Students will complete 4 multiple choice questions in each of the 10 rooms covering math skills that are covered in Algebra 1, including order of operations, linear equations, exponents, GCF, Square Roots, evaluating expressions, inequalities, distributive property, combining like terms, and linear proportions. After they solve the questions they will take their letter answer choice in order and write it under the locked door.

Before they can move to the next room they will go to the LOCK DECODER (Google Sheet) and put their code in. If the box turns green they can move to the next room. If the box turns red they must find their error and try again!

Their FINAL CHALLENGE will be to create their own multiple choice question per topic, which a template is provided for.

** Check the video preview for a walk through **

Why you need this:

- completely independent & self checking

- thanksgiving story to keep your students intrigued

- will help your students with their basic math skills

- no calculator needed (just print this packet)

- it will give them a focused task on a high energy holiday

Topics Included:

Room 1: The Library of ORDER OF OPERATIONS

Room 2: The LINEAR EQUATIONS Garden

Room 3: The EXPONENTS Chamber

Room 4: The GREATEST COMMON FACTOR Den

Room 5: The SQUARE ROOT Parlor

Room 6: The EVALUATING EXPRESSIONS Laboratory

Room 7: The INEQUALITIES Nook

Room 8: The DISTRIBUTION PROPERTY Tower

Room 9: The COMBINING LIKE TERMS Gallery

Room 10: The LINEAR PROPORTIONS Study

What is included:

- Cover Page

- Direction Page for students

- Google Sheets Link for LOCK DECODER

- 10 student sheets with 4 multiple choice questions each

- Template for the FINAL CHALLENGE

GREAT FOR:

- Math Skills Review

- Extra Credit Project

- Individual Review

- Test Prep (in an engaging way)

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