Labor Day - Teacher Resources
Labor Day is celebrated each year on the first Monday in September. Recognize the hard work of Americans with these Labor Day activities, printables, and lesson plans - perfect for back to school. Students will enjoy learning about the history behind this holiday. Incorporate the many achievements of American workers into a unit on careers, inventors, history, or economics. You'll also find math printables, language arts lessons, patriotic art activities, and more!
Printables
Teach your students about Labor Day with these printables. Includes reading passages with activities, a key term word search, and practicing writing skills by completing sentences.Lesson Plans
Help students understand Labor Day with activities such as learning about child labor, creating appreciation cards or a career collage for the bulletin board, and writing individual articles to create a classroom newspaper.- What Is Child Labor?
- Appreciation Cards
- Women and World War II
- Career Bulletin Board
- Labor Day Newspaper
Labor Day & Economics Connected
Economics is tied to jobs and working. Help your students understand this concept by having a class job fair, learning what jobs kids did in the past, or using our creative lesson on the mining industry.- What Is Child Labor?
- Job Fair
- Kids at Work
- Rocks in My Pocket
- Work Stoppages Involving 1,000 People or More
- Mothers in the Labor Force
- National Labor Organizations
- Persons in the Labor Force, 1840-2005
- Leading Industries
Labor Day & History Connected
Explore history connections in these Labor Day resources. Includes warm-ups with comprehension questions on influential people's jobs, comparing jobs in the Middle Ages with jobs today, as well as how women entered the workforce during World War II.- What Is Child Labor?
- Women and World War II
- Clara Barton Reading Warm-Up
- Castle Life
- Florence Nightingale Biography: A Reading Warm-Up
- Women Inventors
- More Women's History Resources
Math Resources
Interconnect math skills with these Labor Day activities. Includes conducting a class survey about careers, compiling the data and creating a graph, counting, solving word problems, and finding percentages.Labor Day Art Activities
Incorporate art activities into your Labor Day lesson by using patterns to create pictures, making a stethoscope and paper dentures, and much more.- Choose an Occupation
- Appreciation Cards
- Make a Stethoscope
- Doctor and Dentist Patterns
- Police and Firefighter Wheel Pattern
- Make a Set of Teeth
- Fire Chief's Helmet
- Fire Engine and Police Car Puzzle
- I Want to Be a Carpenter
- Police and Firefighter Patterns
- More Art Activities
Language Arts Activities
Choose from these activities to help students expand their knowledge about Labor Day. Students will interview an author, create and write appreciation cards, or write an acrostic poem about careers.- Suggested Author Interview Questions
- Be a Journalist!
- The Firefighter Reading Warm-Up
- Let's Choose a Career
- Appreciation Cards
- Career Words
- My New Year's Resolutions (7-12)
- Transcript of Authors Live with Jerry Spinelli
- Community Helpers Writing Activity
- Curious George's First Day of School Teacher's Guide
- More Language Arts Activities
Jobs & Careers
Investigate Jobs and Careers with your students through activities such as interviewing another student and writing an article for a class newspaper, holding a class job fair, and learning about community helpers.- Community Helpers: Matching
- Be a Journalist!
- Favorite Labor Day Activities Slideshow, Grades K-8
- Appreciation Cards
- Second-Grade Soil Scientists
- Community & Careers Printables Slideshow
- Job Fair
- Dr. Mae Jemison Coloring Page
- Community Helpers
- Preparing for the Interview
- More Jobs & Careers Teacher Resources
Browse Labor Day Resources
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ACTIVITIES
Suggested Author Interview Questions
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WORKSHEETS
Curious George's First Day of School Teacher's Guide
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WORKSHEETS
My New Year's Resolutions (7-12)
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WORKSHEETS
Choose an Occupation
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WORKSHEETS
Community Helpers Writing Activity
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ACTIVITIES
Appreciation Cards
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ACTIVITIES
Labor Day Puzzle
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DAILY WARM-UPS
Clara Barton Reading Warm-Up
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DAILY WARM-UPS
Florence Nightingale Biography: A Reading Warm-Up
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ACTIVITIES
Make a Stethoscope
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EDITOR'S COLLECTIONS
Community & Careers Printables Slideshow
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ACTIVITIES
Rocks in My Pocket
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LESSON PLANS
Labor Day Newspaper
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WORKSHEETS
Make a Set of Teeth
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EDITOR'S COLLECTIONS
Favorite Labor Day Activities Slideshow, Grades K-8
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REFERENCE
Sunflowers, Van Gogh, and You
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LESSON PLANS
What Is Child Labor?
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WORKSHEETS
Community Helpers: Matching
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DAILY WARM-UPS
The Firefighter Reading Warm-Up
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WORKSHEETS
Community Helpers
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WORKSHEETS
A Budget
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WORKSHEETS
Labor Day Activities
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CLASSROOM TOOLS
Career Survey
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REFERENCE
Kids at Work