SS.1.A.2.3

Explore the history and meaning of Memorial Day with this interactive research page.

Type: Interactive Research Pages

This lesson will define patriotism and explain how citizens can demonstrate patriotic behaviors during patriotic holidays, such as Memorial Day. The students will learn that people who display courage and bravery, like soldiers, deserve patriotic appreciation from their country.

Type: Lesson Plan

Students will make a personalized calendar of patriotic holidays to reference throughout the academic or full calendar year. 

Type: Lesson Plan

In this lesson plan, students will demonstrate patriotism in a classroom parade. Students will identify various patriotic holidays, including expected behaviors, and how to show respect while demonstrating their patriotism.  

Type: Lesson Plan

In this lesson, students will learn about demonstrating patriotism through an interactive slideshow activity in which they identify patriotic symbols, activities, and holidays.

Type: Lesson Plan

In this interdisciplinary lesson by PBS Learning Media, students will participate in a variety of hands-on activities to gather facts about Abraham Lincoln. Students will match vocabulary words with pictures to piece together a timeline of Lincoln's life, gather various facts about his work as a lawyer on the prairie, and also gain insight into Lincoln through objects and artifacts of his life. Students will then select classroom objects that best tell a story about them and/or their class, later reflecting upon the timeline of Lincoln's life while creating their own personal timelines.

Type: Lesson Plan

In the story Arthur's Thanksgiving, Arthur is chosen to direct the school's Thanksgiving play, but he has a hard time deciding who should play each part. In this MEA, the students will work in teams to help Arthur choose the perfect person for each part in the play. Then the students will write a letter to Arthur explaining their casting decisions and their decision making process. During the lesson, students will also have to reconsider their casting decisions and help Arthur solve the problem in the story when no one wants to dress up as the most important part in the play, the turkey!

Type: Lesson Plan