February is: -- Black History Month - Presidents' Day - Valentine's Day

• Bookish Calendar for February
• February calendar - ReadWriteThink.org - connected calendar
• February Connected Calendar - Calssroom Connect
• February -Enchanted Learning calendar
• February holiday links Presidents' day, Valentine's day, etc.
• February holidays and celebrations - SueLeBeau - every date you'd want to know about
• February Hotlists - lists of sites for February - Valentines, Washington, Lincoln
• February E Newsletter - World Alamanac
• Teacher's Calendar - Education Oasis

• Chinese New Year (February 7th, 2008 - year of the rat)
• Groundhog.org has everything you wanted to know about the groundhog and the history of the day. Features Quicktime VR movies, Groundhog Club information, predictions, and a fun game
  • Groundhog Day Theme Unit EdHelper.org - story prompts, mazes, word searches, coloring
  • Groundhog Day Hotlists - great lists of sites - Kennesaw U, Jennifer Cheek
• 100th day of school - set of links
  • 100th day of school - set of links - Kennesaw.edu
  • 100th day of school - ReadWriteThink
• Library Lovers' Month
• National Engineer's Week (Feb. 19-25)
  • Discover Engineering -activities and PBS Zoom into Engineering
  • Engineering Sights - learn about the key sights in your state
• Presidents Day: list of President sites from Multnoma PL
  • POTUS: Internet Public Library links to presidents and events in their lives
  • AmericanPresident.org - nicknames, religion, biography,children
  • The American President - Grolier.com - profiles, facts, video/audio, quizzes
  • The American President - PBS story of presidency
  • America's Presidents - print out a crossword puzzle and do the webquest - Scholastic
    • Presidents crossword puzzle
  • Presidents' day - BestKidsBookSite.com - web resources, books, coloring
  • Presidents' day - Factmonster - trivia, hangman, factfile, gallery
    • US Presidents hangman game
  • Presidents' hall - official White House site of presidents
  • Reach Every Child - President's Day sites, everything from presidential illnesses to their signatures, triva, tests, and units of study
  • WhiteHouse kids - President's day -quiz, coloring pages, activities
• Theme of the month - Storm chasing (2005)
• Valentine's Day - complete list of sites, crafts, lesson plans
  • Valentine's Day Theme Unit EdHelper.org - story prompts, mazes, word searches, coloring

Black History Month - Black History Month all year long

• African American Mosaic Library of Congress: Resource guide to culture and history, covering the nearly 500 years of the black experience in the Western hemisphere, including books, periodicals, prints, photographs, music, film, and recorded sound.
• African American World PBS reports about noted African Americans, ranging from Dizzy Gillespie and Ice Cube to Michael Jordan and Zora Neale Hurston
• Black Facts online - brief daily facts searchable by keyword or date
• Black History exploring Black History on the web: 5 different activities from Pacific Bell - interactive treasure hunt, webquests
• Black History Month - BestKidsBookSite.com
• Black History Month (ECB Surf report)educational sites relating to African-American history: slavery and resistance, the civil rights movement, African-American art and culture and more
• Black History (Encyclopædia Britannica Guide) good
• Black History Hotlist (Franklin Institute)
• Black History Month (Gale) read biographies, take a quiz, follow a timeline, and learn about African American literature
• Black History Month (Time for Kids) travel back in time and explore African American history, check out famous African Americans as kids, or take a trivia challenge. Includes sound clips of famous speeches
• Black History Month Crossword Puzzle - SeattleTimes online
• Black History Month Timeline (Black Voices.com) with online photo quiz, trivia quiz, articles and resources on bottom bar
• Celebrating Black History (Time)
• Culture and Change: Black History - Scholastic
• Deeper Shade of History: Black History database (Seditionists.org)
• Education World - Black History list of links
• Educational Bookmarks for Black History month - quite a set of links, chart form (k-5)
  • Black History month (grades 6-12)
• Hall of Black Achievement gallery of some historical figures and chronicles their lives, contributions, and the period of history in which they lived (Bridgewater State College)
• Migration in Motion: African American migration experience (Flash) Schomburg Center
• Negro League Legacy learn about the baseball players: team histories; audio and video presentations; Hall of Fame inductees; Historical stats
• Origins of Black History Month brief background with list of people, books, poems, and activities for studying Black History
• Schomberg Images of 19th Century African Americans - digital collection prints and photos
  • Migration in Motion: African American migration experience (Flash)
• Slavery Images The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record - UVa
• Stamp on Black History Thinkquest - webquest
• Underground Railroad - National Geographic - students can take Journey, making decisions along the way: inlcudes map, timeline history of slavery in the New World, beginning with the importing of slaves by Spaniards to Santo Domingo in 1501, and concluding in 1865 when slavery was abolished by the passage of the 13th Amendment. The site is rounded out by a number of educational resources for teachers, divided by grade levels
• Understanding slavery Discovery School

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