Create Your Own Holiday Creative and Critical Thinking Project
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What educators are saying
Description
I created this resource as a way to meet several needs in my classroom. I wanted to:
→help students reflect and deepen their understanding of why we celebrate special days in our lives
→provide an outlet for student creativity both in thinking and with presenting their ideas
→supply an inclusive activity that ALL of my students would be able to work on, at any point in the year
→allow students the opportunity to have FUN while activating critical thinking skills
Engaging in a project like this really helped focus the children and channel their pre-holiday excitement without excluding anyone. I hope you’ll find it useful! There are EIGHT different product options, so differentiation is SUPER easy with this fun resource!
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Here's what's included in this resource:
→ A list of Common Core State Standards you’ll practice while completing the project
→ Directions for implementing the activity with your whole class OR small groups
→ Directions for implementing with an individual student as an independent study assignment
→ A page for students to illustrate and name their holiday
→ A Holiday Pennant to use for creating a visual display of holidays
→ An organizer to help them think through the planning of the holiday
→ A product planning page for students to get ideas about how they’d like to present their holiday to others (if you choose to allow for this)
→ Individual planning pages for creating a video, a song or poem, a slideshow presentation, an artifact related to their holiday, a holiday game (including two game boards, game pieces, and a page to plan the rules), two comic strip options for explaining their holiday, a page to write a holiday play script, and pages for creating a holiday mini-book.
→ Two rubrics—one for students to use in evaluating their peers’ projects, and one for your to use in evaluating their work as well.
The duration depends on the options you choose within the project, could range from 1-2 class periods to 1-2 weeks
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Thank you again for your interest in this resource! If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to email me at jen@soaringwithsnyder.com. I am very responsive and can often get back to you within minutes!
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