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Thanksgiving Day Parade Math Enrichment Project Gifted & Talented Float Activity
Engage your gifted and talented students in real-world math before Thanksgiving with a hands-on learning adventure in disguise! Using the provided materials, students will design and construct a three-dimensional Thanksgiving Day parade float. With a set budget, they’ll work to create the most impressive, well-decorated float possible while making strategic decisions along the way. Once their floats are complete, students will calculate the volume and total surface area or area and perimeter of
3rd - 6th
Geometry, Math
CCSS
3.MD.C.5a
, 3.MD.C.5b
, 3.MD.C.7
+14
4th of July Math Activity 3rd 4th 5th Grade Patriotic Parade Float Craft Project
Engage your students in real-world math this Independence Day with a hands-on learning adventure in disguise! Using the provided materials, students will design and construct a three-dimensional 4th of July parade float. With a set budget, they’ll work to create the most impressive, well-decorated float possible while making strategic decisions along the way. Once their floats are complete, students will calculate the volume and total surface area of their creations. They’ll be having so much fu
3rd - 5th
Geometry, Math
CCSS
3.MD.C.5a
, 3.MD.C.5b
, 3.MD.C.7
+14
Thanksgiving Day Parade SELebration
SELebrate Thanksgiving with this SEL inspired Thanksgiving Day Parade float project. Your students are sure to be engaged in this extended assignment that will have them creatively and critically thinking for hours while focusing on a social-emotional themed float. My students LOVED it! Students will: 1. Research the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade 2. Plan their own Thanksgiving Day float based on a social-emotional theme 3. Design their float with a cardboard box and creative materials/supplie
3rd - 6th
National Park Distance Learning Research Project: Report, PowerPoint, and Float
#dollardeal This project-based activity is designed to let students research, design a PowerPoint presentation, and parade a float representing a National Park for an audience of your choice. Easy to use because there are teacher tools to track assigned Parks and a rubric to score it all! Students LOVE this project and you will too! Inside You Will Find1 Parade of National Parks General Information Page1 How to Host the Parade Page1 Parent Information Page for Book Project1 Parent Informatio
3rd - 5th
Geography, U.S. History, Writing
CCSS
RI.3.1
, RI.4.1
, RI.5.1
+18
Balloons Over Broadway: Picture Book Engineering Design Challenge ~ STEM
This Engineering Design Challenge is based on the picture book, Balloons Over Broadway, by Melissa Sweet!
Can your group create a Thanksgiving parade balloon float that appears to float over the cardboard base?
Materials: (per group)
Assorted balloons (shapes and sizes)
Copy paper box lid (as an optional base)
Craft sticks
Plastic Balloon Sticks or Bamboo skewers
Dowel rods (we got the skinny ones)
Tape and scissors
Yarn
This packet contains all the information you need to make this a grea
3rd - 6th
Science
Mardi Gras STEM
Mardi Gras Parade STEM- The town wants to have a huge parade and celebration. They need your students' help to design lots of colorful parade floats. Your students need to design a parade float for Mardi Gras that is colorful and can be pulled or pushed with touching it using the available supplies and sticking to a budget. Your kids will love this Mardi Gras activity so much that they won't even realize that they are learning math and engineering skills. This STEM meets NGSS standards. Sugg
2nd - 5th
Engineering
NGSS
3-5-ETS1-1
Also included in: STEM Activities Bundle
Mardi Gras Crafts | Build a Float, Mask, Crown, Jester, Hat, Quilt Activities
Bring Mardi Gras excitement into your classroom with these easy, no-prep Mardi Gras crafts! This printable craft pack gives students creative ways to explore Mardi Gras traditions while reinforcing fine motor skills, creativity, and classroom community. Perfect for classroom celebrations, cultural studies, art time, or engaging early finisher activities — just print on cardstock, add simple art supplies, and you’re ready to go. WHAT’S INCLUDED:• Build-a-Float craft (design your own parade float
2nd - 4th
Coloring Pages, Not Subject Specific, Other (Arts)
Balloons Over Broadway- The History behind the Macy's Thankgiving Day Parade
Creativity and history combined into one great week long unit. This unit was inspired by the book Balloons Above Broadway by Melissa Sweet. This book is a William Allan White book nominee this year. Students will learn about Tony Sarg, the creator behind the balloon floats used at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. They will research the history of the parade from 1924 until today. As a culmination, to the unit they will create their own float for the parade based on a popular icon of today.
3rd - 5th
Other (Social Studies)
Krewe of Louisiana Mardi Gras Float Project
Experience the Louisiana Culture with a hands-on project! Cross-Curricular Project This project includes social studies, math, and English language arts. Students will need to know the history of Louisiana/Mardi Gras, how to find area and perimeter, and how to write a narrative essay. This project is designed for Louisiana 3rd grade standards but can be adapted for other grades. This is fully EDITABLE to meet your needs. This resource includes: •Directions for each step of the project •Example
3rd - 5th
Social Studies, Writing-Essays
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