Macys Thanksgiving Day Parade Virtual Field Trip

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This lesson has been updated for the season and year! 

Take a stroll with your 3rd, 4th, 5th, or middle school students in NYC this Thanksgiving with a virtual field trip to the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade! Learn the history of the parade with worksheets and activities and the engineering of parade floats with fun activities and ready to go learning links!

Take a Virtual Field Trip:

• Watch parade highlights in 360 VR
• Watch a behind the scenes parade video
• See the balloons and floats in 3D from this year's parade
• Watch a video about the history of the Parade
• Watch a video about designing a parade balloon or float
• Watch a former parade with full parade video!

This product includes all of the following plus more:

1. Free product code for teachers (a 2 Dollar Value from my store)
2. Teacher instructions and differentiation ideas
3. Student instructions
4. Virtual Field Trip go page (links to field trip activities) lots of great links!
5. Trip Overview Summary and prediction Page
6. Video Notes Guiding Questions - Behind the scenes of the parade
7. Video Notes Guiding Questions- History of the Parade
8. Website reading fill in the blank task- Balloon facts and fun
9. Parade balloon match-up fact to balloon activity
10. Video questions page- Parade 101, balloon design
11. As you watch the parade- balloon timeline sequence task
12. Creative writing task- write your own postcard from the parade in NYC
13. Macy's Parade history mini-report paragraph writing
14. Compare and contrast- parade now vs. parade in history
15. First parade history - creative writing task newspaper worksheet
16. STEAM engineering worksheet planning page- create your own balloon
17. Parade review activity
18. Parade float snapshots
19. Extra task fun- parade float maze
20. Student assessment/learning check
21. Grading Rubric
22. Answer Key
23. Assessment Answers
24. Worksheet answers page 2
25. Worksheet answers page 3
26. Teacher guide
27. Connect with me pages to learn more and TeachWithBri
28. Credits and learn more pages
29. Terms of use and extra info
30. +MORE!

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