Intended to help teachers for grades K-6 accurately present the events surrounding the first Thanksgiving, this guide features an historically accurate story for children, historical background for teachers, and activities for expanding and enriching instruction. The introduction discusses the need for teachers to be honest and informative about Thanksgiving without passing on historical distortions and racial and cultural stereotypes. A six-page story for children presents the first Thanksgiving story stressing historic and cultural accuracy. Topics include the critical assistance given by the Indians to the Pilgrims and the fact that the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag Indians who celebrated Thanksgiving together did not remain friendly. Resource materials include a map of Plymouth Colony and vicinity, a Thanksgiving prayer translated from the Iroquois (Seneca) People, recipes for succotash and other dishes with corn, instructions for making and clothing Iroquois corn husk dolls, and instructions for making a model of a woodland wigwam. (JHZ)