Holidays
Halloween Story Listen to Halloween story and fill in the blanks. Requires Real Audio.
Haunted House Click on the windows of the Haunted House to find different activities, including a cloze for the "Monster Mash," a bunch of Halloween jokes to share with classmates, and make-your-own Halloween card instructions. Requires Flash and Real Player. Don't use with a slow connection & old computer!
Christmas questions Under "Christmas," click "Conversation."
4th of July--ideas for teaching about the flag Flag worksheet
These quizzes are from manythings.org. They're based on text from Voice of America and are for high-level students.
How Thanksgiving became a holiday
Thanksgiving dinner Plan a Thanksgiving dinner using the Internet
Holiday links from Mary White:
These are K-12 oriented, but they have activities, songs and so forth you might want to use in an ESL class. Mary puts them up monthly at:http://www.abcusd.k12.ca.us/dist_info/staffdevel/index.htm
St. Patrick's Day
St. Patrick's Day
Theme Unit at EdHelper.com
http://www.edhelper.com/st_patricks_day.htm
St. Patrick's Day at EducationPlanet.com
http://www.educationplanet.com/articles/stpatricksday.html
St Patrick's Day in
the Classroom
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Forest/8483/stpatclass.html
St. Patrick's Day
Printables
http://www.kidsdomain.com/holiday/patrick/print.html
St. Patrick's Day
Holiday Worksheets
http://www.teach-nology.com/worksheets/misc/stpats/
Easter/spring
The Teacher's Guide
to Spring
http://www.theteachersguide.com/spring.htm
Easter Theme - Lesson
Plans and Units
http://www.atozteacherstuff.com/themes/easter.shtml
Earth Day Groceries Project
http://www.earthdaybags.org
Earth Day
http://www.educationworld.com/holidays/archives/earthday_2000.shtml
Earth Day - Environment
Theme
http://www.atozteacherstuff.com/themes/environment.shtml
Earth Day - Recycling
and Composting
http://www.atozteacherstuff.com/themes/recycling_composting.shtml
Best Lessons
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/lesson260.shtml
Education-World
http://www.education-world.com/a_sites/sites015.shtml
A listing of great sites for teaching about Earth Day
Mother's Day
http://www.education-world.com/holidays/archives/mothersday_2000.shtml
http://www.kidsdomain.com/holiday/mom
http://teachingheart.net/mompage.htm
http://www.atozteacherstuff.com/themes/mothersday.shtml
Memorial Day
http://www.education-world.com/holidays/archives/memorial_day.shtml
http://dcpages.com/Tourism/Memorial_Day (Washington DC Memorial Day Resources)
http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/lesson119.shtml
http://www.patriotism.org/memorial_day/index.html
Flag Day
http://www.teachervision.com/lesson-plans/lesson-6620.html