Students click here to find Thanksgiving links.
	Teachers click here to find Thanksgiving worksheets and lessons.

LINKS:

THE FIRST THANKSGIVING:

Click here to learn the truth about the first Thanksgiving.

http://www.autopenhosting.org/mayflowerhistory/thanksgiving.html -The Pilgrims First Thanksgiving. Here you can read letters about what the first Thanksgiving was like and find out what they served and how it is different than what we eat for Thanksgiving dinner.

http://wilstar.com/holidays/thankstr.htm - The Thanksgiving Story. Read about the beginning of Thanksgiving. Click at the bottom and try to test your knowledge with the quiz.

http://teacher.scholastic.com/thanksgiving/index.htm -The First Thanksgiving. Visit Scholastic's Virtual fieldtrip and see slides of the pilgrims and the Mayflower.

http://pilgrims.net/plimothplantation/vtour/index.htm -A Virtual Tour of Plymouth Plantation.

CANADIAN THANKSGIVING:

kidexchange.about.com/kids/kidexchange/
library/weekly/aa092898.htm -About's Canadian Thanksgiving. Learn about why Canadian Thanksgiving is different than American and there are other neat links here.

Craig Marlett- Canadian Info. Canadian Thanksgiving.

http://www.canadafirst.net/our_heritage/thanksgiving/ - Thanksgiving in Canada - What Gives? This site has information about the first Thanksgiving celebrations in Canada. Same info. as the two sites above.

http://www.mercatormag.com/301_glitter.html - This site has more information about Martin Frobisher.

http://www.web-holidays.com/canada/ - Here is more information about the first Canadian Thanksgiving with recipes and more.

THANKSGIVING AROUND THE WORLD:

http://www.holidays.net/thanksgiving/story.htm - The history of Thanksgiving and its celebrations. Outlines how history has been celebrated in the past by other cultures around the world.

http://www.thanksgiving.org/2world.html - A Center for World Thanksgiving. Here you will find a brief passage about how Thanksgiving is celebrated in other countries.

http://www.thanksgiving.org/html/traditions/world.html - This is another section of the site above but is easier to read.

http://german.about.com/homework/german/library/
weekly/aa112299.htm - This site offers information about a German Thanksgiving.

OTHER THANKSGIVING SITES OF INTEREST:

http://www.kidsdomain.com/holiday/thanks/index.html - Kid's Domain Thanksgiving. This site is especially good for primary teachers-Try clicking on Turkey Tales and have kids enter the required information and it will write a story about you. The online games are also Ok to play.

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/1465
/thanksclass.html - This site has excellent links to places for studying the pilgrims in more detail, ex. studying their clothing and doing a more in-depth study of the Mayflower.

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TEACHERS:

	LESSON 1: Click here to look at a lesson on how to teach the first Thanksgiving and examine stereotypical images of Thanksgiving using the Internet.
	If you have Adobe Acrobat, click here to download a worksheet for students to fill out about the first Thanksgiving and stereotypes.
	Click here to download the worksheet to be opened up in Microsoft Works.
	LESSON 2: Click here to see a lesson about Canadian Thanksgiving and giving thanks.
	Click here to download a worksheet to go with Lesson 2 a Canadian Thanksgiving.
	If you have Adobe Acrobat click here to view the worksheet to go with Lesson 2 a Canadian Thanksgiving.

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