What state consumes the most turkey per person? Who sponsors the annual Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City? Use the Thanksgiving holiday as an opportunity for learners to develop their research skills with this fun Internet scavenger hunt! 

Concepts

thanksgiving, Research, turkeys

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Additional Tags

social studies

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Instructional Ideas

• Ask learners to document what search terms they used to find the correct answers, as well as any other strategies they found helpful in finding the answers more quickly

Classroom Considerations

• Consider having students document their answers using a word processing application, as having them write out the URLs entirely may be time consuming

• This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information

Pros

• Worksheet includes ten interesting questions to research about the holiday
• Includes answer key

Cons

• None

Common Core

W.4.8 W.5.8 W.6.8 W.7.8 W.8.8