TEACH THANKSGIVING WITH HUMOR USING CRASH COURSE!
Few classroom strategies are as successful as this simple approach: make learning fun! That, or course, is easier said than done, but when it comes to teaching the history behind our modern Thanksgiving holiday, the YouTube series Crash Course U.S. History is a great place to start since it devotes an entire episode just to Thanksgiving!
The Thanksgiving episode of Crash Course contains about 12 minutes of content and is available to stream for free at the following link:
Timestamps or No Timestamps?
This packet will provide you with three resources to help you use the Thanksgiving episode with your classes:
• A student worksheet without timestamps
• A student worksheet with timestamps showing at which point in the video the needed information is presented
• A full context answer key. This contains the student questions, the answer (sometimes annotated with additional information), and the timestamps for each question.
About These Thanksgiving Video Worksheets
For the Thanksgiving episode, the worksheet contains 24 True/False problems for them to solve as student watch. All questions are presented in video order so that students can easily follow along, but these worksheets are not mere outlines that merely ask students to generate their own notes. Instead, they focus in on certain key issues that students watching the videos should master in order to have a clear and concise understanding of the topic under study.
Ideas for Using this Crash Course Thanksgiving Worksheet
Only a teacher knows what constitutes best use for a particular class, but I always find it helpful to see what creative approaches other teachers are using. Here are some good options for these worksheets.
• Standard use: Print off copies and have students complete them as they watch the video. Or send the copies electronically so students can complete them on tablet/laptop devices, if that is an option in your setting. Go over answers out loud if time permits (great for discussing/debriefing the video content) or collect papers to grade them more formally.
• Accommodate students who claim that the worksheets "go too fast:" Assign students to do only the evens or only the odds. After watching the video, pair students up to discuss and fill in missing answers.
• Create basic and advanced levels from the same worksheet: This is easily done by declaring that the "basic" level is odds-only (or evens-only) while the "advanced" level consists of all the questions.
Few classroom strategies are as successful as this simple approach: make learning fun! That, or course, is easier said than done, but when it comes to teaching the history behind our modern Thanksgiving holiday, the YouTube series Crash Course U.S. History is a great place to start since it devotes an entire episode just to Thanksgiving!
The Thanksgiving episode of Crash Course contains about 12 minutes of content and is available to stream for free at the following link:
Timestamps or No Timestamps?
This packet will provide you with three resources to help you use the Thanksgiving episode with your classes:
• A student worksheet without timestamps
• A student worksheet with timestamps showing at which point in the video the needed information is presented
• A full context answer key. This contains the student questions, the answer (sometimes annotated with additional information), and the timestamps for each question.
About These Thanksgiving Video Worksheets
For the Thanksgiving episode, the worksheet contains 24 True/False problems for them to solve as student watch. All questions are presented in video order so that students can easily follow along, but these worksheets are not mere outlines that merely ask students to generate their own notes. Instead, they focus in on certain key issues that students watching the videos should master in order to have a clear and concise understanding of the topic under study.
Ideas for Using this Crash Course Thanksgiving Worksheet
Only a teacher knows what constitutes best use for a particular class, but I always find it helpful to see what creative approaches other teachers are using. Here are some good options for these worksheets.
• Standard use: Print off copies and have students complete them as they watch the video. Or send the copies electronically so students can complete them on tablet/laptop devices, if that is an option in your setting. Go over answers out loud if time permits (great for discussing/debriefing the video content) or collect papers to grade them more formally.
• Accommodate students who claim that the worksheets "go too fast:" Assign students to do only the evens or only the odds. After watching the video, pair students up to discuss and fill in missing answers.
• Create basic and advanced levels from the same worksheet: This is easily done by declaring that the "basic" level is odds-only (or evens-only) while the "advanced" level consists of all the questions.
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