December -
Advent - St. Nicholas - Pearl Harbor - Hanukkah - Poinsettia Day- Las Posadas - Wright Brothers - Christmas (games) - Computer Science Education

• December Days (Education World lesson plans)
• December days - interactive links from a Log Cabin Librarian
• December is... - MIKids -
• December - interactive calendar - Read Write Think
• Monthly Activity Calendar - Enchanted Learning
• Monthly themes - Education Place
• Snowflake fun
  • SnowCrystals - pictures of snowflakes
  • Snowflake Fun - make a flake online
  • Snowflake Designer - create design online - ExplorELearning
  • Paper snowflakes - basic folding and cutting patterns shown
  • Paper Snowflakes for everyone - patterns, stencils, templates, science of, history of and more
• Teacher's Calendar of Events - Education Oasis

Advent http://www.silk.net/RelEd/reviewsadvent.htm

• Advent Calendars
  • Advent calendar online- with each day revealing how Christmas is celebrated around the world
  • Children's Advent Calendar - with a way to live/act the gospel each day - Loyola Press Faith Formation
  • Interactive Advent Retreat - daily calendar with readings and journal options -Loyola Press
  • Nativity Scene - Build your own nativity scene by dragging and dropping the characters into the stable. You can print it out too.
• Advent and Christmas Domestic Church.com - great collection of Advent activities including pattern pieces for a Jesse Tree, coloring pages and lots of great ideas
• Advent and Christmas crafts and activities - CatholicMom.com
• Advent Resources - Loyola Press
  • Advent activities
• Celebrating Advent to Christmas AmericanCatholic.org - with daily calendar
• Resources for Catholic Educators : Advent - list of reviewed sites for Catholic educators and catechists -
  http://www.silk.net/RelEd/- with newsletter
• Season of Advent Catholic.org
• SmartBoard sites -
  • Religious sites and activities
    • Nativity Scene - Build your own nativity scene by dragging and dropping the characters into the stable. You can print it out too.
    • Story of Christmas - A simple story about the first Christmas for young children
• St. Joseph School activities
  • Advent Prayer Card.bmp
  • Advent Prayer card (pdf)
  • Together we teach -- Advent is a time of preparation (pdf)
• Where's the line to see Jesus - YouTube

Computer Science Education Week (Dec. 5-11) and links from National Science Digital Library - Grace Hopper (Dec. 9)

• Binary in 60 seconds video and binary to text conversion
  Happy Birthday = 0110100001100001011100000111000001111001001000000110001001101001011100100111010001101000011001000110000101111001
• Computer History - Computer Hope
  • Napier's Rods 1617 - logarithms, multiplication =addition
  • Slide Rule 1622- William Oughtred
  • Gottfried Leibniz - 1666 binary logic (yes/no, on/off, open/close, 1/0) also Boolean logic (true/false, and/or/not)
  • Punch cards 1725
  • Babbage Engine 1821 - not constructed until 2008
• Unplug your curriculum (PDF files) for activities
  • Count the Dots -- Binary Numbers
  • Card Flip Magic -- Error Detection and Correction
  • Beat the Clock -- Sorting Networks

St. Nicholas' Day (Dec. 6th)

• Who is St. Nicholas? - around the world, how to celebrate, for kids - St.NicholasCenter
  • activities, pictures to print
• St. Nicholas of Myra - Saints.sqpn.com

Pearl Harbor (Dec. 7th, 1941)

• Attack at Pearl Harbor, 1941 (Eyewitness to History.com)
• Pearl Harbor (Scholastic)
• Remembering Pearl Harbor (National Geographic) - excellent audio and video

Hanukkah (Dec. 8-16, 2012)

• Chanukah gateway list of sites
• Hanukkah - menorah, dreidels, latkes, recipes, games and more
• Jewish holiday of Chanukkah lists of sites

Poinsettia Day (Dec. 12th)

• Poinsettia Pages - http://urbanext.illinois.edu/poinsettia/index.cfm
  • Poinsettia Facts
  • History of the Poinsettia

Las Posadas (Dec. 16th- 24th)

• Las Posadas - Mexico Connect
• KinderArt - cone cup pinata

Wright Brothers (Dec. 17th)

Christmas (Dec. 25th)

• Celebrating Advent to Christmas (Catholic.org)
• Christmas around the world - web page links
  • Santas.net Christmas Traditions around the world
• Christmas Carols - test
  • Christmas Carol picture quiz - online game -Brownielocks.com
• Christmas Carol quiz
• Christmas Carol trivia
• Christmas Carol quiz (requires JAVA)
• Chirstmas Carols quiz - Brownielocks.com
• Christmas Trivia - online quiz
• Christmas coloring pages - to print out and color
• Games and online activities (good with Smartboard)
  • Advent calendar interactive games
  • Build a Gingerbread House
  • Christmas tree - to decorate and print out (ABCya.com)
  • Winter bells
• Grinch activities, including coloring online -Seussville
• NORAD-The North American Aerospace Defense- tracks Santa Claus on Christmas Eve sometimes busy, be patient

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