Students order U.S. holidays across the calendar and learn what each one honors — practicing chronology while exploring the events and people a country chooses to remember.
Students will be able to…
A country’s holidays tell you what it cares about. Which holidays fall when — and what does each one ask us to remember?
Project this and have students place these holidays in calendar order, January to December. The tool checks the sequence.
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Name a holiday — when is it, and why?
Students investigate chronology.
Students analyze meaning.
Students conclude about values.
Students propose a day to honor.
Aligned to the C3 Framework for Social Studies and Common Core literacy in social studies.
Create and use a chronological sequence of related events.
Identify core civic virtues and democratic principles that guide society.
Generate questions about individuals and events that shaped history.
Describe the relationship between historical events using time and sequence language.
Preview the three formative checks. Tap “Sample answer” to see what mastery looks like — hide them before you print for students.
Have students build a year-long calendar marking holidays and cultural celebrations — including ones their families observe — with a note on what each honors. A printable blank calendar is in the Social Studies library.
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