Lesson Plan

History of Christmas Trees Lesson Plan

Roll a needle between your fingers, follow a famous picture across the ocean, and find out why evergreens stay green.

This five-day unit gives you a ready-to-teach plan for Littles (K-3), Middles (4-6) and Bigs (7-8), for siblings or a mixed classroom. Littles become needle detectives, make a shiny glass-fruit ornament like the ones first blown in Lauscha, Germany, and order the life of a farm tree. Middles build a timeline from 1605 to 1931, sort legends from records, and run a fresh branch lab with a line graph. Bigs read Dickens and the 1848 Illustrated London News engraving as primary sources, argue whether Riga or Tallinn had the first tree, and measure how much water a cut branch drinks. It is history and science, not religious instruction, so every family is welcome.

Perfect for homeschool families, multi-age classrooms, winter science and holiday history units.

What's inside

• 5 ready-to-teach days for each of three levels
• Fir, Spruce or Pine? label sheet with answer key
• Lab sheets: needle detectives, fresh branch lab, water use lab
• Timeline cards, cut-and-sort pages and a writing page for every level
• Word search, crossword or maze, scramble and secret code puzzles
• 8 fact cards, 9 vocabulary cards, a book list and a certificate per level

Instant PDF download after checkout. Print at home.