Research Plan 5
The History of Thanksgiving
Dates: 1620 - 1989
Grade levels: 8-11
Classes: American History, World History
Questions: 1-32: including multiple choice, completion and short answer responses requiring 3-5 sentences.
Videos: Thanksgiving Becomes a Holiday (2:01 min), Bet you didn’t know: Thanksgiving (2:48 min) and Mayflower Myth (2:36 min)
Synopsis: This research plan is ideal for students to complete before Thanksgiving or over the break and discuss when they return. This research plan will teach your students the history of Thanksgiving. They will listen to a video about the departure of the Mayflower ship from Plymouth, England. Students will learn about the first female magazine editor, Sarah Joseph Hale. Students will read how presidents Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt and George H.W. Bush contributed to how the holiday looks today.