Christmas

 

Christmas Around the World
Interactive World Advent Calendar
Beginning December 1st, your students can click on the day of the month to learn about different Christmas traditions around the world.
Merry Christmas in 350 Languages
Christmas Around the World (Kids Domain)
Christmas in Other Lands WebQuest
Using online resources, students will research stories of Christmas traditions around the world. Consider staging a multi-cultural Christmas party, where students bring food, costumes, or stories from the country they have studied.
Christmas Traditions Around the World
An annotated guide to numerous sites detailing international Christmas traditions including elementary internet scavenger hunts.
Christmas History and Traditions
How Christmas Works
The complete guide to Christmas traditions.

Christmas Traditions and Customs
From Latvia to Germany, different cultures celebrate Christmas

The Legend of Santa Claus

Holiday Stories and Traditions

Christmas Legends - Fact or Fiction?
Clarify the history of much-loved holiday customs and discover both Christmas myths and facts.

The History of the Christmas Tree
The traditions of many cultures come together in the decorating of a special tree during the holidays. This lesson plan introduces the uses of evergreen trees, logs, and the special place of lights from ancient to modern times.

An Antebellum Christmas
Find out how Christmas evolved in America, tracing the modern day traditions of gift giving, decorated trees, Christmas cards, and Santa Claus

Reindeer Facts

Reindeer from Enchanted Leaning

Reindeer from Fact Monster 

 

 

Holiday Lesson Plans

 
 

A Dickens of a Party WebQuest
Students will be attending their own Christmas party, 19th century style, dressed up and role-playing a character from Dickens' "A Christmas Carol", but only after they have completed all the research in this excellent webquest on Victorian times. Teams will use online resources and student
guides to explore social conditions, fashions, etiquette and behavioral expectations, and pastimes of the era. This webquest supplies a great extension activity for Dickens' timeless classic.
 

"A Christmas Carol" comprehension questions. Find a list of twenty-two possible questions here for using with your high school students when reading "A Christmas Carol", by Charles Dickens. Use the questions for reading comprehension, reading response journals, or
for further development in the form of student essays.
The Twelve Days of Christmas
How much did all those birds, pipers, dancers, etc. cost? Students will use a graphing worksheet and a data cost sheet to compute the cost of all the items received during the Twelve Days of Christmas.

December Bulletin Board
Students "share" their designs in a pass-around format, with both writing and art included in the exercise.
 

How Christmas Lights Work
Conduct a mini-science fair for the holidays, putting a different flavor on celebrations. Here is one idea to explore: investigating just how Christmas lights work.
 
 
 Christmas Math Worksheets
Select your grade level--from preschool through fifth grade and download a printable math worksheet of leveled skills, with Christmas theme
Scrooge for Mayor
Students will scrutinize life as presented in "A Christmas Carol" to find issues for Ebenezer Scrooge to support in his new bid for mayor, role-playing as reform strategists and campaign managers to create a campaign poster, a PowerPoint presentation, a newspaper article, and an election brochure. Middle & High School
Christmas Adjectives
Practice those adjectives this holiday season. Students will use an illustrated graphic organizer to write several descriptive adjectives, and then use those words once again in sentences with this Christmas worksheet.
Christmas Similes
Introduce your students to similes with this printable, holiday-themed worksheet. Students who do not celebrate Christmas can use the word "Winter" as an alternative simile starting point
Crystals, Christmas and Science
Grab the borax, some pipe cleaners, and some polygon shapes for this exciting, hands-on holiday experiment. Combining a Christmas theme with a science lesson, students will be creating crystal ornaments and writing up their lab reports
Minerals Make Christmas
What do minerals have to do with Christmas and the holiday season? Quite a lot, as it turns out, and most of them surround the Christmas tree and the gifts found underneath it. Find out more with this download, complete with a student worksheet.
Christmas Through Passports
Teachers in the same grade levels team up to present a multicultural holiday event. Classes travel to a different teacher each day to learn about holiday customs for one country, including crafts, and how to say "Merry Christmas" in
that language. A great bonus to this approach is that each teacher only has to present or focus on one country.
Christmas Alliteration
Print out copies of this worksheet to have your students create their own holiday alliterations--or even better-tongue twisters just for Christmas.
Santa's Elf Spreadsheet
It's time for holiday shopping, and students have $200 to spend. They will shop using advertisements and catalogs, entering actual costs and not going over budget in this spreadsheet lesson.
Christmas Story Starters
For all twenty-five days in December before Christmas day, find a story starter to keep your students writing, despite the holiday excitement and approaching holidays.
Holiday and Winter Writing Prompts
Here are a wide variety of winter-themed writing prompts. Some include visual prompts, some use a word bank to increase vocabulary, while others require poems and other writing formats

 

   Holiday Gifts & Crafts Page

 

Christmas Fun
Merry Christmas from Kids Domain
Christmas links, clip art, activities, games, history, Christmas around the world and more.
Online Christmas Carol Songbook
Everything Christmas
Christmas around the world, the origin of Christmas, Christmas activities, stories, games, songs and related links.
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus
Printable Advent Calendar
Holiday Graphics Collection
Holiday Writing Paper

 

Christmas Games
Christmas Memory Puzzle Christmas Jigsaw Puzzles Assortment Christmas Trivia Quiz
Polar Pairs Unscramble the Christmas words Christmas Games & Songs
Christmas Matching Game   Trim a Tree Christmas MahJong
 What is Different Puzzle Santa Email Decorate the Snowman
Santa Letter

Send an email to the North Pole

 

Decorate the Tree
Santa and Rudolph Slide Puzzle Christmas Tic-Tac-Toe Find the Christmas Pairs
Count the Penguins Count the Snowflakes Build a Snowman

 

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