April is .. April Fools Day - Arbor Day & Earth Day - Easter fun - Holocaust Remembrance Day -- National Poetry Month - Morse Code

• April Activities MiKids
• April calendar - ReadWriteThink.org - connected calendar
• April Events Calendar - interactive - Teachers Corner
• April Holidays and celebrations - SueLeBeau - every day you'd want to know
• April showers - hotlist of ideas - EdTEch Center Kennesaw
• Bookish Calendar - Through the Looking Glass Book Reviews
• Calendar for April -Enchanted Learning - daily ideas - crafts, printouts, quizzes
• Monthly themes - classroom resources, ideas, activities - Eduplace (Houghton Mifflin) - Earth Day, Poetry Month
• SLMAM linked Activities Almanac (PDF file)
• Teachers' calendar of Events - Education Oasis

National Poetry Month see St. Joe's Poetry page with fun and games - and lesson plans

• Instant Poetry Forms - ETTC - wide variety of all forms of poetry
• National Poetry Month Scholastic with printable activities by grade level
• National Poetry Month FamilyEducation - quizzes, fill in the blank
• Poetry - Teacher's corner-links and lesson plans
• Poetry month lesson plans Teacher Vision
• Shel Silverstein - animated poetry page
  

International Children's Book Day - April 2nd (Hans Christian Andersen's birthday)

• Hans Christian Andersen.com - read fairy tales, play games
  • Grim Fairy Tales.com
• Hans Christian Andersen - list of fairy tales and information
• Hans Christian Andersen Center

April Fools Day - InfoPlease

• Tricked by the calendar - Franklin Institute calendar explanation

Beverly Cleary's birthday - April 12 - with online video interview from Reading Rockets

• letter about writing first book : image 1 / image 2

Holocaust Days of Remembrance- Yom Hashoah
for more see Holocaust

• Anne Frank's Diary - PBS's Masterpiece Theatre's The Diary of Anne Frank is available for online viewing April 12 - May 11, 2010, Eastern Time http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/annefrank/watch.html
• US Holocaust Museum
• America and the Holocaust: primary sources PBS
• Documentary resources on the Nazi genocide and its denial
• Holocaust and Resistance - Edsitement - a history lesson for grades 9-12 that examines the Holocaust from the point of view of those who actively resisted Nazi persecution
• Holocaust Worksheets - Teachnology - collection of free, printable worksheets related to the study and teaching of the Jewish Holocaust (1939-1945).
• Teaching the Holocaust - Education World links
• Washington State Holocaust Educational Resource Center

Titanic sinks - April 14-15, 1912

• Discovery Channel - Titanic
  • On board the Titanic - be a passenger interactive
• Encyclopedia Britannica article
  • Britannica video

Earth Day(April 22) and Arbor Day (April 13)

• ArborDay.com
• ArborDay.org - National Arbor Day Foundation
• Celebrate Earth Day KidsDomain
• Doug the Slug - games and activities - click on dinosaur for thesaurasaurus
• Earth Day Compilation of resources, ideas Teacher.Net
• Earth Day Envirolink
• Earth Day - Environmental Protection Agency
  • Climate Change - EPA for Kids - animated
• Earth Day Grocery Project
• Earth Day Network
• Earth Hour 2009
  • Earth Hour video 2007
• EarthPortal.org - comprehensive resource for timely, objective, science-based information about the environment
• Global warming and climate change - Grolier online (usernamer=sjoseph : password=jaguars)
  • video (2 min.)
• Greatest Earth Day Planet Pals
• The GREENS - PBS for kids on sustainability encouraging them to take action wherever they can.
• Teacher resources at Teachersdomain.org - climate change and global warming

Morse Code - Samuel Morse, born on April 27

• CSS Sam's Operation Dit-Dah - beginner, intermediate, advanced code decoding -NSA (FLASH)
• Morse code translator - scphillips.com
• sound of Morse Code letters

Easter fun

• Easter Egg-tivities - activities and stories and games
• Egg Swap game- form three in a row to delete
  • Eggs 5 in a row
  • Eggs memory number match
• Jan Brett's new book Easter Egg - printable coloring pages and interactive coloring online
  • Easter Egg - online video from Penguin Publishing - plus interview and more
• Make an Egg and Pysanky Showcase andLearn Pysanky.com and more
• What's all the EGG-citement about Education World

Easter Lesson Plans and activitiees

• Easter - ABCTeach- word searches, mazes, letter background, crafts, dot to dot and more, writing prompts
• Easter - Teachers Guide
• Easter Lesson Plans - TeAchnology - tons of printables and lessons

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