Description (November 24, 2003)

Investigating the First Thanksgiving - This comprehensive online site builds students’ understanding about the harvest celebration of 1621, which is often erroneously referred to as “The First Thanksgiving.” The learning on the site is supported and enhanced by an online teacher’s guide, “Becoming a Historian,” with lessons that correspond to each activity on the site, graphic organizers, and additional resources and information. Students take the role as historians to discover clues as to what happened in 1621 harvest celebration.

Classroom Integration

• Becoming a Historian Teacher's Guide. Use this guide to help students understand how to interpet primary sources.
  
  
• Students research the Wampanoag People - how they lived, how the interacted with the Colonists.Create a chart comparing the lives of these two groups.
  
  
• Have students create a musuem exhibit to share what they have learned.