LIFE ON PLYMOUTH PLANTATION:
http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/activity/plymouth/index.html
If you're looking for a comprehensive unit on Thanksgiving for grade three through grade five, this site is an excellent choice. Students will take on roles and then travel a virtual journey with the Pilgrims, using various online resources and completing map work and writing exercises along the way. 

AN OLD-FASHIONED THANKSGIVING:
http://eldred.ne.mediaone.net/lma/oft.html

Read with your students this version of American Thanksgiving 
traditions in 1881, by Louisa May Alcott.

THANKSGIVING UNIT:
http://www.teelfamily.com/education/thanksunit.html
This excellent unit covers the beginnings of discontent in England, rumblings with the church and ideas of separation, to asylum and a voyage to the New World, on up to the first year of life in a Pilgrim village and the first Pilgrim Thanksgiving.Plenty of hands-on activities within each section and an extensive bibliography are also offered.

If you want to finesse those ordinary--or rather ambiguouslooking snowflakes, try these patterns from Ben and Jerry's holiday page.

Select from cards, heart bags, heart chains, wrapping paper--print these out for fun classroom activities.

Cute patterns to print, cut, fold, and paste in order to assemble a cupid house.

Print out these coupons for students to assemble as presents to their parents for Valentine's Day. They include coupons for doing chores such as sweeping, cleaning, washing, etc.

Find instructions and a template for weaving a heart basket from construction paper strips.

This highly attractive heart mobile will appeal to students of all ages.

Very cute Valentine craft--print the templates and instructions for a fairly easy activitiy.

This adorable critter is made from heart templates.
Print out the pattern and instructions.

Hang these on varying lengths of strings by your classroom windows for a great little Valentine display.

Read the legends and history of the Valentine's Day 
celebrations.

Heart Package Tie-Ons 
  http://www.kidsdomain.com/craft/heart.html
A quick and easy craft to tie on to your Valentine presents. 

Find loads of fun, as always, at Activity Village, now with their Valentine's Day crafts, games, puzzles, and activities up. Printables include Valentine Alphabets and lacing hearts--lots more.

This math lesson incorporates sorting, counting, and graphing skills for grades 1 through 4, using Valentine's candy conversation heart candy.
 

Valentine Card Holder 
  http://kidsdomain.com/craft/cardholder.html
Make a card holder using paper plates.

Print this biographical information page out to go over 
with your class and then have them color.

Find several creative suggestions at this site to help you 
celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.'s life in a meaningful 
way for early elementary students.

Print out several copies for your early elementary students to collate, color, and then take home. Be sure to read the text together and discuss any questions about this important American hero.

This simple mobile requires only minimal materials, but some
creative thought must go into the text. 

Print this out for your students to color after discussing the life and accomplishments of Dr. King.

Your students will fill in the blanks with their own thoughts
and words in this printable activity.
 

If you have not yet planned anything to celebrate Dr. King's life, try one of these last-minute classroom activities.

Find an extensive collection of links to Dr. King, his life, 
his achievements, his speeches, and his many awards, 
on this page. Sound files are also available for King's
"I Have a Dream" speech; scroll down to the bottom of the page.

This interactive webhunt addresses some powerful questions 
to students, using online resources from prominent African 
Americans to search back in time for the history of Black
America and the issues concerning all Americans today.

Find several biographies on distinguished and notable African Americans.

This page presents a full hands-on research and creative lesson
plan on African American inventors. Students work in teams to
research the inventor and his invention, and then must create a 
video program for a fictional mini-series on African American
History Month. Rubrics included.

Students are assigned a news story to write and edit, based on African American achievements and successes--both men and women.

Find several songs and activities for young children to help your classroom celebrate Black History Month.

What can be done with postage stamps? You'd be surprised... 
Visit this site for many activities related to famous African 
Americans, and of course their postage stamps. Find wordsearches,
puzzles, a blank stamp to create and commemorate your own 
African American hero, a history of African American cooking, much more.

In cooperation with the Stamp On site to the left, this page 
contributes a lesson plan, whereby students will form a committee to choose three African Americans to commemorate with U.S. postage stamps. They must write brief biographies on each and state their reasons for their choices. Several good links are supplied for online 
resources.

A set of ten lesson plans geared to grades 4-6 cover a 
diverse set of topics concerning African American heritage, 
including Black Poetry, the Underground Railroad, and African 
American Scientists. While most of the lesson plans revolve
around literature and texts, you can easily adapt your own 
selection of material to accompany the activities and research 
projects.

Find several biographies on distinguished and notable 
African Americans.

 Artistry of the African Mask - Slide Show 
   http://www.harlemm.com/nokbeta/exhibit/artistry/slides/slide1.html 
Explore Africa through the artistic masks of the culture. 

Althea Gibson--Tennis Star
  http://www.netsrq.com/~dbois/gibson.html
  http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/educatrs/presrvce/
       pe3lk37d.htm   (COPY AND PASTE)

Carter Goodwin Woodson--Father of Black History
  http://www.gateway-va.com/pages/bhistory/1997/wood.htm 
  http://www.worldbook.com/fun/aajourny/html/bh102.html
  http://library.advanced.org/10320/Woodson.htm
  http://www.triadntr.net/~rdavis/woodson.htm
 

Willie Mays--Baseball Great! 
  http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/may0int-1 
http://www.donegal.k12.pa.us/dms/Kif/80/summaryb.html 
Alice Walker--Author 
  http://www.galegroup.com/freresrc/blkhstry/walkera.htm
  http://www.galegroup.com/schools/resrcs/blkhstry/walkera.htm 

Shirley Chisholm--Congresswoman
  http://www.triadntr.net/~rdavis/chisholm.htm 
  http://www.davison.k12.mi.us/dms/projects/women/qchishol.htm
  http://www.usbol.com/ctjournal/Schisholmbio.html
  http://www.teleport.com/~megaines/chisholm.htm
 

Bessie Coleman--Woman Pilot
  http://www.ninety-nines.org/coleman.html 
  http://www.netsrq.com/~dbois/coleman.html 
  http://www.dot.state.mn.us/aeronautics/AVEDU/PUBLICATIONS/
       SKYSLIMIT/bessie.html    (COPY AND PASTE)
  http://www.firstflight.org/shrine/bessie_colman.html 
  http://www.galegroup.com/schools/resrcs/blkhstry/colemanb.htm 

http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/armstrong/index.htm

Garrett A. Morgan--Traffic Engineer
  http://www.triadntr.net/~rdavis/morgan.htm
  http://www.lib.lsu.edu/lib/chem/display/morgan.html
  http://sun3.lib.uci.edu/~afrexh/Morgan.html
  http://www.users.fast.net/~blc/xlhome7.htm

Selected internet resources will guide your students through 
a tour of the presidents' lives. What are they looking for? 
Weird and interesting facts about each one! Students are sure to enjoy this fun-filled webquest, while learning a good deal about the presidency and its various occupants along the way.

Pick a number, and then get to your research. The Internet Public Library (IPL) will be the source for student searches, and they must return with basic presidential facts/drill questions all answered.

A set of questions is provided to be used in concert with Abraham Lincoln Online. This is a simple webhunt, and could easily be completed by grades 1 through 3.

In order to create a new Mt. Rushmore, students will have to decide first what makes a great president, and then choose from all past candidates to rank the qualifiers for a new immortal mountain sculpture.

In this second grade lesson plan, students will read books about Abraham Lincoln (others can be used than the two suggested) and then decide if and why they might vote for Lincoln again, today. They will also create a campaign poster, and use the computer to correct punctuation and grammar in sentences about Lincoln's life.

Students can visit the White House from the perspective of all the children who have lived there.  Have them write or discuss reasons why they might or might not want to live at the White House themselves.

Printable templates can be cut, with biographical Lincoln events pasted on a timeline stovepipe hat.

For early elementary students, find several poems and songs about Lincoln and Washington, with classroom activities for related writing and art exercises.

A series of twelve lesson plans written for grade four explores early American presidents and their politics.  If you don't have time to use the whole unit, an excellent out-line accompanies each of the first seven presidents, along with great lists of spelling words and vocabulary.

Students use a given URL to research simple and fun questions on the presidents, such as first President born in a log cabin, first to be married in the White House, etc.

Students will fill in the blanks on this printable worksheet to compare Lincoln and Washington.

PUT THE PRESIDENTS IN LINE:
http://www.innovativeclassroom.com/Files/Reproducibles/
PutThePresidents.pdf  (COPY & PASTE)

Find a printable worksheet for students to put the presidents in proper order, from Washington to Clinton.

How does a new leader of a new country set up a new and effective government? Such was the task that George Washington faced, and students will review his letters and other online resources to determine how effective he was.
They will create a class presentation with their findings, 
including a timeline relating to the Washingtonian period 
of American history.

Gives an overview of the holiday with links and lesson plans.
http://www.patriotism.org/presidents_day/

President's Day for preschoolers. 
http://www.perpetualpreschool.com/president.html

Happy Birthday Presidents Washington and Lincoln 
http://www.crayola.com/redirect9.cfm?id=607
George Washington http://www.crayola.com/redirect9.cfm?id=608
Abe Lincoln
http://www.crayola.com/redirect9.cfm?id=609

Print out the templates for this Abe Lincoln hat, and using a toilet paper roll, primary students can construct these trademark hats and have an Abe Lincoln parade. 

President's Day activities, arts and crafts, songs and lessons 
plans.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Troy/9087/president.html

Computing Corner President's Day. Links for Washington 
and Lincoln.
http://www.computingcorner.com/holidays/Presday/Presday.htm

Online photo of Lincoln at Gettysburg, and drafts of 
one of the most famous speeches of all time.

Find an extensive list of resources and links to every topic concerning President Abraham Lincoln, from the Library of Congress.

A good biography of Lincoln to take us through his early 
life, ambitions, career, trials, and victories.

Celebrate Lincoln's birthday by having your elementary class create these log cabins from milk cartons, paint, glue, and either pencils or pretzels for the logs.

Printable templates can be cut, with biographical Lincoln events pasted on a timeline stovepipe hat.

http://rs6.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/gw/gwintro.html

Students will research and examine primary documents in this set of lesson plans covering Washington's life, rise to power, and accomplishments.

Printable board game--you make the game pieces with simple materials, and then have your class practice math (adjustable to different levels of ability) while playing this St. Patrick's day themed game.

Sure enough and ye'll be finding a "pot of gold" on this world search list.

Scroll past the book listings to find poems and activities to use in your classroom.

Find a wee lucky leprechaun to print and color, and do write a wee little verse as well.

This third grade unit will explore the geography, history, and culture of Ireland, paying particular attention to how climate and geography can shape a country and its people.Students will also learn how to count in Gaelic, what kind of foods constitute typical Irish fare, the mythology of the land, much more. Unit tests and worksheets accom-
pany his excellent cross-curriculum unit. 

Shamrock prints and leprechaun ladders,,, hmmm, which day are we talking about? These easy crafts require few materials and only brief prep time.

What makes your students think of spring? Check to see if their words appear in this printable spring wordsearch puzzle.
 

Students will test this  weather-ism with these March and spring activities.

Celebrate the coming season with technology... early
elementary students will plant seeds, create stories,
and organize a slide show using Kid Pix 

Create paper cloud mobiles, seed squiggles, rainbows...
much available here to keep early elementary hands busy, just in time for spring.

These collages look wonderful, and are relatively easy to complete. You can use them to decorate your bulletin board with a spring theme--create a border of grass and have your students arrange their lambs on the bulletin board "field", adding their own special
springtime poems ("Spring is... ") as well.

Looking for elementary ideas to celebrate the spring season?
This site offers a wide variety of creative activities.

Create a riot of spring color in your classroom with these easy coffee filter and paint flowers.

If you're planning a spring garden--windowsill or outdoors--
with your class, then do visit this site filled with tons 
of ideas, experiments, and activities across the curriculum.

Activity Village has created blank tulip printables in various sizes and colors, along with suggestions for spicing up your spring decor.

Lines, motifs of design, primary and secondary colors are the focus of this art lesson, enforced with very simple materials and manageable classroom procedures.

Create real Easter grass, or how about a bunny mask? Many creative suggestions to help you celebrate this special occasion...

Bunny themed writing paper can be printed out for writing or  journaling exercises.

Chocolate or candy Easter eggs aren't always necessary for your 
Easter egg hunt... see how much fun your students will have 
searching for their eggs--which have math problems hidden 
inside. Adapt to any age level.

A different type of Easter egg hunt... in teams, students 
will search for classroom Easter eggs (printable included) 
and leave the egg. They must then return to their team and 
give directions, describing the location of the egg.

An art and math lesson in one--students will try to create 
sequencing patterns on their own paper egg creations.

Easter Time at Kids Domain
 http://www.kidsdomain.com/holiday/easter/ 

Easter on the Net
http://www.holidays.net/easter/

Easter with Billy Bear
http://www.billybear4kids.com/holidays/easter/fun.htm 

Fabulous Easter Recipes, Egg Decorating & Easter Chocolate
 http://www.fabulousfoods.com/holidays/easter/easter.html 

 ThinkQuest Celebrations Around the World: Easter
http://library.thinkquest.org/10007/text/easter.htm 

Also tulips, hamsters--several creative alphabets, with 
suggestions on how to use them.

Craft Central Station: Easter Crafts, Decorating & Entertaining Ideas
     http://craftcentralstation.com/easter/ 

     Craft Central Station, previously known as the Internet Craft Fair, has been serving the Internet crafting community since 1995. We're dedicated to being your connection to crafts on the Internet. 

     You'll find Easter craft projects, egg decorating ideas, recipes and much more - all with full-color photo examples!

Find a wide variety of activities across the curriculum to help you and your elementary class celebrate Easter.

This Easter Village has a carrot TV station, a flower shop, a chocolate factory, and much more... a print, cut, and fold project for early elementary.

Very adorable--this craft is made with just a few items, 
perfect for spring and/or Easter. Also find other Easter 
craft projects to the right side of this page.