Why do we Celebrate Thanksgiving? NewsBank > KidsPage > Projects
In this KidsPage Project you students will think about the Pilgrim's Thanksgiving feast: What is Thanksgiving? How do you celebrate Thanksgiving? How did the Pilgrims and Native Americans celebrate the first Thanksgiving? Project words to know: Pilgrim, Wampanoag, feast, harvest

How are you different from the Pilgrims? NewsBank > KidsPage > Projects
Your students will be asked to think about the Pilgrims: Who were the Pilgrims? When did they live? What was it like to be a Pilgrim?

Thanksgiving Myth and Fact NewsBank > KidsPage
Thanksgiving article and activity from Scholastic News - Grade 2

Transplanted Traditions for Troops in Iraq NewsBank > Secondary
Turkey Trot and Holiday Feast Offer Respite at a Base Warmed by Thoughts of Home

Proclamation of the first Thanksgiving. EBSCO > Essential Documents in American History
Presents the proclamation of the first Thanksgiving, made June 20, 1676 by the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Wars with the native Indians; Setting apart of June 29 as the day for giving thanks.

Thanksgiving : a brief history.
Discusses history behind the celebration of the Thanksgiving day. Origin of the Thanksgiving day; Transformation of the Thanksgiving day into an annual holiday; Celebration of the Thanksgiving day in modern times.

A Native American thanksgiving.
Native Americans have thanksgiving ceremonies at various times during the year. When the first thanksgiving feast supposedly took place among English settlers in America; What tribe reportedly helped these English settlers to survive; Why thanksgiving is an integral part of Native American lives.

Britannica Online School Edition / Enciclopedia Britannica en Español

Thanksgiving Day Britannica > Secondary Article
Annual national holiday in the United States and Canada celebrating the harvest and other blessings of the past year.

How Is Thanksgiving Celebrated?
Thanksgiving is a day marked by feasts and family gatherings. It is celebrated as an annual holiday in the United States and Canada

Massasoit Britannica > Compton's
(also called Wasamegin) (1580?–1661), Native American chief of the Wampanoag in Massachusetts. Massasoit was the intertribal chief, or grand sachem, of the Wampanoag of Massachusetts and Rhode Island.