Here is an overview of the interactive content provided on Scholastic’s The First Thanksgiving interactive website.
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The First Thanksgiving
http://www.scholastic.com/scholastic_thanksgiving/
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| Author/Publisher
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Scholastic |
| Brief Description
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This website provides an interactive experience of the Pilgrims voyage to Plymouth and the celebration of the first Thanksgiving. Students explore the first Thanksgiving through an interactive timeline of events, virtual field trips of Plymouth Plantation and The Mayflower, historical letters, and photo slideshows on daily life, clothing, and the historic feast. |
| Examples of Interactive Learning for Students
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- Video- virtual tours of the Mayflower, the Pilgrim village, the Wampanoag home site, and Plymouth Plantation. The site also includes video “interviews” with 17th century characters.
- Audio- narrated tour of the Mayflower, audio narration of the timeline of events leading up to the discovery of Plymouth, and narrated historical letters from Pilgrim and Wampanoag children.
- Graphic- photo slideshows of the Plymouth Plantation and of Pilgrim and Wampanoag daily life including clothes, housing, food, chores, school, and games.
- Teaching Resources- lesson plans to help students discover, compare and contrast, and access and synthesize Pilgrim and Wampanoag culture and the first Thanksgiving. The site also includes a simple reader’s theater script for classroom performance.
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