Second graders travel the globe to explore holidays that families celebrate in different countries, how each one is marked, and what traditions tell us about a culture.
Students will be able to…
Families all over the world gather to celebrate in their own ways. What holidays do people celebrate around the world, and what do they show about a culture?
Project this and open each card to explore a holiday and how families around the world celebrate it.
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Families all over the world gather to celebrate, with lights, food, music, and color. What holidays do people celebrate in other places?
Students explore holidays around the world.
Students connect holidays to how they are marked.
Students share a holiday they know.
Students reflect on world holidays.
Aligned to the C3 Framework for Social Studies and Common Core literacy in social studies.
Identify some cultural and environmental characteristics of places.
Compare life and traditions in the past to life today.
Compare their own point of view with the perspectives of others.
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Have students pick a holiday they celebrate, draw one tradition, and write a sentence about it, so they share their own culture with the class. A printable holidays-around-the-world worksheet is in the Social Studies library.
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