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Holidays


www.kidlink.org/KIDPROJ/MCC – Multi-Cultural Calendar

www.holidays.net – Holidays on the Net

www.kidsdomain.com/holiday – Kids Domain – Holidays

www.dujour.com/cejour – Ce Jour Holiday of the day

www.benjerry.com/fun/index.html – Ben & Jerrys Fun Stuff

AUTUMN

www.virtual.co.il/city_services/holidays/rosh – Those Awesome Days – Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur

http://deil.lang.uiuc.edu/web.pages/holidays/Columbus.html – Columbus Day

www.historychannel.com/cgi-bin/framed.cgi – The History Channel : Exhibits

www.azcentral.com/ent/dead – Dia de los Muertos

www.night.net/thanksgiving – An American Thanksgiving

WINTER

www.mexconnect.com/mex_/christmas.html – Feliz Navidad – Making Merry in Mexico

http://christmas.com/worldview – Christmas.com – Worldview

www.vjholidays.com – Virtual Jerusalem – Chanukah

www.afroam.org/children/fun/kanzaa/symbols.htmlAfro-americ@KidsZone-Kwanzaa

 

www.cnn.com/events/1996/kwanzaa – CNN Interactive – Kwanzaa

www.holidaysn.et/ramadan – Ramadan on the Net

www.seattletimes.com/mlk – Martin Luther King, Jr.

www.brokersys.com/~kcyong/cny.html – Chinese New Year

www.pbs.org/hitchhiking/vietnam.life – Hitchhiking Vietnam

www.whitehouse.gov – Welcome to the White House

www.groundhog.org – Groundhog Day

www.bconnex.net/~mbuchana/realms/valentine/valindx.html – Happy Valentine’s Day

www.nando.net/toys/stpaddy/stpaddy.html – A Wee Bit O’Fun

SPRING

www.holidays.net/purim – Purim on the Net

www.holidays.net/passover – Passover on the Net

www.jinjapan.org/kidsweb/calendar/may/children.html – Children’s Day

www.geocities.com/Heartland/7134/Easter – Absolutely Easter

www.icss.com/usflag – The Flag of the United States of America

SUMMER

http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/declara/declara1.html – Declaring Independence: Drafting the Documents

www.stanford.edu/group/King/Photos – The Martin Luther King, Jr. Photo Album

www.midsouth.rr.com/civilrights – National Civil Rights Museum

www.csulb.edu/projects/ais/nae/1600-1750.html – The Native American Experience

www.algonet.se/~bernadot/christmas/calendar.html – World Wide Christmas Calendar

http://ntr.net/~dave/grinch – How the Grinch Stole Christmas

www.foxhome.com/goosebumps/gatmain.html – Goosebumps – A Ghoulish Gathering

www.jcn18.com/default.asp?content=article703 – Jewish Communication Network – Hanukkah

www.mountvernon.org/education – Mount Vernon Educational Resources

www.e-cards.com – E-Cards

PROJECTS TO JOIN

http://www.win4edu.com/minds–eye/monster – The Monster Exchange

www.kjchallenge.org – Kindness and Justice Challenge

www.stemnet.nf.ca/Groundhog – Project Groundhog

www.schoolworld.asn.au/kidstokids/intkids.html – The Kids to Kids International Program

www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus – The United Nations Cyber School Bus

www.gsn.org/project/woodsy – Woodsy Woodchuck Travelbuddy Program

www.advanced.org/tq-junior – ThinkQuest Junior

www.ne.com.au/~mwells/teddybear.htm – The Teddy Bear project

CULTURES AROUND THE WORLD

www.intel.com/apac/eng/virtualcity/real.htm – The Real Forbidden City

www.jwindow.net/KIDS – Kid’s Window – Japan

www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/irish – The Irish in America

www.kidlink.org/KIDPROJ/Recipe – Multi-Cultural Recipe Book

BLACK HISTORY MONTH

www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/BHM/AfroAm.html – Black History – Exploring African-American Issues on the Web

SCIENCE AND LANGUAGE ARTS

www.pumpkincircle.com – Pumpkin Circle

http://members.aol.com/bats4kids – Bats Bats Everywhere

THE ARTS

www.diegorivera.com/diego_home_eng.html – Diego Rivera Virtual Museum

http://darsie.ucdavis.edu/tales - Folk and Fairy tales from around the world

KEYPALS

http://www.epals.com -ePals Classroom Exchange

http://worldkids.net/clubs/kci/more.html - Keypals Club International

http://www.stolaf.edu/network/iecc - Intercultural E-Mail Classroom Connections

http://www.ks-connection.com/guide/helpP.html#browse - Kid Space Connection-Guide Bear’s Penpal Help

GALLERIES

http://www.TheCase.com/kids/writing - Write a mystery!

http://www.seattletimes.com/mlk/talking/index.html - Martin Luther King Jr.-Talking About It

http://www.kids-space.org - International Kids’ Space

http://www.schoolworld.asn.au/poetproj.html - Poetry Pals

http://www.telenaut.com/gst - The Global Show-n-Tell Museum

BACKGROUND AND RESOURCES

http://daphne.palomar.edu/muertos - El Dia de los Muertos-The Day of the Dead

http://www.nativeweb.org/NativeTech - Native Tech

http://www.OfficialKwanzaaWebsite.org - The Official Kwanzaa Web Site

Activities and Lesson Plans

http://www.newton.mec.edu/Angier/DimSum/chinadimsumaconnection.html - China: Dim Sum- A Connection to Chinese-American culture

http://www.night.net/thanksgiving/lesson-plan.html#AN INTRO – Teaching About Thanksgiving

http://www.askasia.org/gateway_to_asia/gta_frm6.htm - The Vietnam Challenge

http://www.askasia.org/for_educators/fe_frame.htm - AskAsia

http://www.solutions.ibm.com/k12/teacher/97feb.html - Black History Month-Past to Present

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/fw.html - Framework for using Primary Sources with student