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Season-themed summary page
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: Autograph Scavenger Hunt
- Back to School Activity: How I Like to Learn
- BookShare Back to School Series #1
- Braille Classroom “Welcome Back” banner (free simulated braille and print banner)
- Dear Elementary School Teacher
- Dear Middle School Teacher
- Dear High School Teacher
- 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
- Creating Accessible Materials and Classroom Strategies: Summary Page (Comprehensive list of posts)
- Back-to-school Information for TVIs to share with General Education Teachers
- 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 (Includes how to create accessible materials handouts!)
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
- Canes Perspective: by the Blind Poet
- Celebrating White Cane Day!
- 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
- Build a Monster online game: Low Vision (matching CVC words to pictures)
- Candy corn science experiment
- 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
- Hey, That’s My Monster! Book 2: Note taking and writing
- How I Met My Monster Book 3: Note taking and writing
- I Need My Monster book 1: Note taking
- Labeling Images: Parts of a Bat Lesson
- Make your own monster: Play dough activity and storytelling
- 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
- Spider Activities Part 2
- 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
- Thanksgiving Car Travel Trends activity: Desmos line graph (Part 3: Independent practice)
- Thanksgiving Travel Trends activity: Math and Desmos line graph (Part 2: Applying skills)
- Thanksgiving Travel Trends activity: Desmos line graphs part 4 (Creating line graphs from tables in Word and creating line graphs with three lines)
- Turkey Activities: Front and Side View Tactile Graphics
December
Hour of Code Week (Beginning of December)
There are too many posts to list separately. See the Coding Posts Summary for links to all the coding posts!
International Monkey Day (December 14)
- International Monkey Day: December 14
Holiday-themed
- Accessible Digital Advent Calendar
- BrailleCode Cookies
- Blindfold Greeting App (Create customized digital greeting cards)
- Candy Cane Scavenger Hunt (tech skills, comprehension, tactile graphics, concepts and O&M!)
- 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
- Five Little . . . Repetitive Text for Emerging Readers and Beyond
- My Gingerbread House Poem: Days of the Week (Making simple gingerbread houses, sequencing, cut and paste)
- Gingerbread Man Activities: Tactile Skills
- Gingerbread Man: Sequence, Copy and Paste Activities (tech skills and tactile graphic skills)
- Gingerbread Man First Bite Chart Activities (tactile chart progressing to accessible table and digital charts in pages)
- Gingerbread Man Coding activity (OctoStudio app)
- 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
- Holiday I Spy: Tactile Graphics
- Holiday word problem visualizations: Math “drawings” using a brailler
- Noelle’s Christmas Themed Book for Early Readers: Noelle’s Christmas Tree
- Online Holiday Shopping: Tech Activity
- 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
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)
- 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
- Free Braille Art and Tactile Image Libraries: World Braille Day 2024
- Well, Brl is My Thing!
- Snowman, Snowman, What Do You See?
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
- Snowman, Snowman, What Do You See?
- Ten on a Sled: Action Verbs and ‘ed’ Contractions
- The Mitten: Comparing writing and tech skills (Includes tables and spreadsheets)
- 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
- Valentine’s Day Word Problems and Desmos Scientific Calculator
March
St. Patrick’s Day (March 17)
- Five Little Leprechauns ibook and PDF
- Lucky Leprechaun Lessons
- Lucky Leprechaun Lessons for Littles (with tactile graphics)
National Chip and Dip Day: March 23
April
April Fool’s Day
- April Fool’s Day Lessons (note taking from a video about three potential origins for April Fool’s Day, research, writing and donut prank)
Easter
- Easter Egg Estimating
- 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
- Egg word families
- Why the Easter Bunny Brings Easter Eggs: Folktale
Spring
- Bird songs
- Butterflies part 1: Caterpillars
- Butterflies part 2: Butterfly life cycle
- Butterflies part 3: Note taking from videos
- Butterflies part 4: Books and writing activities
- Clouds: iBook and Activity
- Frog Activities
- Ladybugs: ePub Book (includes info to consider when creating a book)
- Lollipop Garden (Grow lollipops from jellybean seeds, parts of a flower, slide show or digital 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 Students Can Celebrate Global Accessibility Awareness Day
- May Flowers: Presentation and Potpourri Activities
Mother’s Day
Memorial Day
End-of-Year
- Accessible Yearbooks
- Butterflies Part 4: Books and Writing Activities (Includes the writing prompt: “Compare who you were at the start of the year to who you are now, akin to a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly.”)
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
- Firefly Activities: Science and Literacy
- 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)
- Watermelon-Related Activities
- What Can Swim
By Diane Brauner
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