Thanksgiving Lesson Plans and Activities

Thanksgiving Dinner

A lesson I like to do with my 4th graders is gather food ads from the local grocery store chains around Thanksgiving. First, you can give them a budget and a set number of guests and have them plan a meal. This uses many math skills (especially multiplication, where the prices of turkey are given in per lb.). Also, you can have them compare the meals in two different grocery stores. This is truly real world connections.
Submitted by: Virginia Richards, Shallowford Falls Elementary school in Marietta, Georgia VAH2O@email-removed