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Season-Themed Summary Post
Quickly find seasonal activities and lessons with this list of posts organized by themes and seasons!
Educators are always searching for ways to make lessons fresh and exciting. Embedding seasonal activities provides creative learning opportunities while integrating required curriculum. Students love engaging holiday- and season-related themes!
Here is a list of season-themed lessons and activities blog posts on Paths to Technology; these posts are organized by months and/or seasons. Make this post a “Favorite” so that you can refer back to it!
Help expand this summary page with your favorite seasonal activities. We are missing many important national holidays as well as seasonal activities. We are actively recruiting posts on holidays celebrated in various countries and cultures – please consider sharing your favorite activities. Stay tuned, as future seasonal posts are added regularly!
Season-Themed Posts
August
Beginning of Year
- Back to School Activity: Accessible Find My Friend
- Back to School Activity: How I Like to Learn
- Back to School Activity: How I Like to Learn
- BookShare Back to School Series #1
- Dear Elementary School Teacher: Back to School Part 1
- Dear Middle School Teacher: Back to School Part 2
- Dear High School Teacher: Back to School Part 3
- First Day of Preschool: ePub Book
- Going Nuts about a new School Year
- Inference Activities Part 1: Hands on Activities (Has great beginning of school ice breaker activities!)
- QR Kids: Back to School/Open House Activity
- Train gen ed teachers: Creating accessible documents activity
Beginning of Year Resources for Gen Ed Teachers
- Back-to-school Information for TVIs to share with General Education Teachers
- Creating Accessible PowerPoints: Teacher Resource
- Creating Accessible Word Docs & PowerPoints: Teacher Resource
- Creating Engaging Adapted CVI-Friendly Books with Nothing but Free Apps and an iPad
- Creating Headings for a Screen Reader: Lesson Plan
- How to Create Accessible Digital Maps Using SAS Graphics Accelerator and Google Maps
- Inaccessible vs. Accessible PDFs: Making All PDFs Accessible!
- Train gen ed teachers: Creating accessible documents activity
September
National Play-Doh Day: September 16
Fall Themes
- Digital Transitions #4: Fall Leaf Activity
- Our Very Own Tree: Tactile Graphics and Slide Presentations
October
White Cane Day: October 15
- Cane Songs
- My Cane: A Preschooler’s Book
- Walk Your Own Path: Sidewalk Mural
- White Cane Day! (Poem; large print and tactile graphic of cane)
- White Cane Day 2020: Pete the Cat Video
- White Cane Day Bulletin Board and Activities
- White Cane Day Boom Cards
- White Cane Day Video: Can’t Stop Believing
Halloween/Fall Festival
- CandyStore.com: Spreadsheet Activities
- Color-by-shape pumpkins
- Contraction Magic: A Bewitching Way of Teaching Braille Contractions
- Creating Tactile Graphics Images Part 8: Multiple Pumpkin Worksheets
- Halloween Jokes: Presentation Lesson
- Halloween Scavenger Hunt
- Halloween Suduko Puzzle
- Halloween Suduko Part 2: Tactile Graphics
- Incorporating Blindness Canes into Halloween Costumes
- Labeling Images: Parts of a Bat Lesson
- Monster: Note Taking Skills
- Monster: Note Taking Skills Part 2
- Multiple Pumpkin-Themed Worksheets
- Noelle’s Pumpkin: Fall themed Digital Book for Early readers
- Pumpkin Life Cycle Lesson: Presentations (PowerPoint)
- Pumpkin Writing Prompts Lesson: Digital Creative Writing
- Spider Activities
- Turkey vs. Eagle: Debate Writing and Note Taking
- Trick-or-Treat Orientation Activity
November
Veteran’s Day
Thanksgiving
- Digital Thanksgiving Book for Early Readers
- Gus the Ghost and Thanksgiving Poem: Reading Comprehension Activities
- Noelle’s Pumpkin: Fall Themed Book for Early Readers
- Screen Reader Tech Activities: Thanksgiving Lesson Plan
- Talking Turkey: Using the Butterball for iOS App
- Turkey Activities: Front and Side View Tactile Graphics
December
- Accessible Digital Advent Calendar
- BrailleCode Cookies
- Blindfold Greeting App (Create customized digital greeting cards)
- Christmas Alphabet Book
- Christmas Themed Book for Early Readers: Noelle’s Christmas Tree
- Elf Activities: Bringing People together!
- Elf Activities: Image Descriptions
- Elf On a Shelf
- Gingerbread Man Activities: Tactile Skills
- The gift of independence: O&M Success story and activity (O&M: Christmas shopping)
- The Grinch and Max: Emerging Reader Digital Book (contrations: Not, Like and But)
- Holiday Gifts for Students with Visual Impairments
- Noelle’s Christmas Themed Book for Early Readers: Noelle’s Christmas Tree
- Peak-a-boo Presents App Review (1 finger gestures)
- Reindeer Activities
- Santa’s Sleigh Ride: Geography and Map Activities
- Student Christmas Gifts
- Sugar Cookie Recipe: Read by Lines Tech Skill
- “Twas the Night Before Christmas: Teaching Comprehension
- Using Celebrations to Teach Jaws
- What if Santa Suddenly Went Blind? (reading, writing and tech activities)
- Would you Rather? Christmas Activity and Writing Prompt
Hour of Code (coding related posts – too many posts to list separately. See the Coding Posts Summary for links to all the coding posts!)
January
New Year’s (Resolutions)
- 2020: The Year In Which Education Changed
- New Year’s Tech Resolutions
- TVI and O&M Professional New Year’s Resolutions
World Braille Day (January 4, 2021)
- Braille Boom Cards (Includes a World Braille Day Boom deck)
- Braille Boom Cards: Braille Learning Series 2 (Includes a Boom Deck for Word Braille Day)
- Braille Code Cookies
- Ten Facts About World Braille Day
Martin Luther King Day (3rd Monday of January)
Winter
- Coding Concepts: #3: A Snowy Day
- Navigating Google Sheets with JAWS Lesson: Artic Animals
- Snow Globe Shake-Up: Tech Skills (cut and paste) (Language arts activity including sequencing plot, commands to navigate, copy/cut and paste)
- Snowman Activities (Hands-on, Comprehension and Tech)
- Snowman Sudoku: Logical Thinking
- Snowman Stories: QR Codes
- Using Celebrations to Teach JAWS
- Using Snowman QR Codes: O&M Lesson
- Winter Puns: Comprehension Activity
February
Valentine’s Day: Feb 14
- Candy heart math: Estimating, measuring and graphing
- Eight ways to read handwritten cards with AT
- Tactile Stickers for Valentine’s Day Cards Activity
- Valentine’s Day Tech Activities
- Valentines’ Day Puns iBook
March
St. Patrick’s Day (March 17)
National Chip and Dip Day: March 23
April
Easter
- Easter Egg Hunt: O&M orientation Lesson
- Easter Egg Hunt for students with Visual Impairments
- Easter Writing/Tech Activities for students who use screen readers
- Egg Carton Unplugged Coding Activity
- Eggs-citing Tactile Graphic Activities!
- Egg Idioms: Tech Activities
- Why the Easter Bunny Brings Easter Eggs: Folktale
Spring
- Bird songs
- Clouds: iBook and Activity
- Frog Activities
- Ladybugs: ePub Book (includes info to consider when creating a book)
- O&M Activity: The Interstate’s Forgotten Code (Travel: spring break vacation, Christmas trip, summer vacation)
May
Global Accessibility Awareness Day (Third Thursday of May)
- How to Celebrate Global Accessibility Awareness Day Every Day
- May Flowers: Presentation and Potpourri Activities
Mother’s Day
Memorial Day
Transition
- My Technology Book (transition book that includes information about the student’s specific technology & visual needs)
- Rylie’s Transition to Middle School Video
- Samantha: Self-Advocating Transition to Middle School
- Student’s Outline for eMail to New 8th Grade Teachers
College Transition
- Eight Things I am glad my TVI taught me about Transition
- Online Activities that Help Prepare for College Transition
- Ten Things I Wish My TVI taught me about transition
- What I wish I Had Learned Before Starting College: Video
- What I Wish I Had Learned About Assistive Technology Before Starting College: Part 1
June
Father’s Day
Summer
Summer vacation (includes ocean themed posts)
- A Day at the Beach: iBook and Tactile Book
- Adapted Ocean Animal Book for Students with CVI
- Graphics Literacy: Tracing Lines (ocean-themed)
- Loggerhead Turtles (Book with fun facts)
- North Carolina Lighthouse Lesson: Elementary School (includes ePub, non-visual digital maps, questions, and more!)
- O&M Activity: The Interstate’s Forgotten Code (Travel: spring break vacation, Christmas trip, summer vacation)
- Ocean Animal Sounds Book and Activities
- Shark’s Teeth: iBook
- Shenandoah National Park Vacation: Experience Book
- Summer Journals and Experience Books: Horseback Riding
- The Beach iBook
- Tough Boris Audiobook (Story and illustrations are narrated and include special effects)
- How Do People with visual Impairments . . . Attend Summer Camps?
- What Can Swim
By Diane Brauner
