Holidays around the World

It's very busy this time of the year....lots of different holiday customs celebrated by other cultures and countries. Teach geography as your students discover the different customs and celebrations of world holidays!

Some helpful "World Holidays" resources:

Education World: December celebrations around the world:

http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/lesson213.shtml

Internet School Library Media Center (fantastic collection of links for K-12...Holidays around World) http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/holidays.htm

Yahoo Kids! very extensive list of websites, information, & activities:http://kids.yahoo.com/directory/Around-the-World/Holidays

Holidays & FestivalsAround the World
by Ms. Hos-McGrane's Grade 5 Students:

http://www.internet-at-work.com/hos_mcgrane/holidays/festivals_menu.html

World Book has a great informative site for the different holidays:

http://www.worldbook.com/wb/Students?content_spotlight/holidays/holidays

Crayola has a bunch of art activities to celebrate:

*Chinese New Year

http://www.crayola.com/lesson-plans/search.cfm?keyword=chinese+new+year

*Three Kings Day

http://www.crayola.com/search/results.cfm?keywords=three+kings+day&x=12&y=12Winter

Holiday celebrations: lesson plans for 1st grade students:

http://www.lessonplanspage.com/SSChristmasAroundtheWorldK1.htm

Scholastic: Seasonal celebrations interactive site & lesson plans:

http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/holidays/

http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=2880

http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/unitplan.jsp?id=96