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

• Bookish Calendar for February
• February - links from a Log Cabin Librarian
• February calendar - ReadWriteThink.org - connected calendar
• February -Enchanted Learning calendar
• February Events - TeachersCorner- interactive calendar
  • February units, lesson plans, and activities
• February games - Black History quiz - Heart slider - FactMonster
• 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 (January 23, 2012- year of the dragon)
• Digital Learning Day - Feb. 1 - celebrating innovating teaching
• 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 - official website
  • 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
• Peter Pan Week (week of Feb. 27) - Great Ormond Street Hospital, legacy of JM Barrie
  
  • slide show of J M Barrie's 1901 photographs of George, Jack and Peter Llewelyn Davies boys, taken from the sole surviving copy of "The Boy Castaways"
  • Peter Pan costume - make your own costume videos
    
• Presidents Day: list of President sites from Multnoma PL
  • Books - Bookflix- need SPL card #
    • Just a few words Mr. President (Lincoln)
    • So you want to be president
    • George Washington
  • POTUS: Internet Public Library links to presidents and events in their lives
  • AmericanPresident.org - nicknames, religion, biography,children
  • The American President - PBS story of presidency
  • America's Presidents - print out a crossword puzzle and do the webquest - Scholastic
  • Presidents crossword puzzle
  • Lincoln bicentennial teacher resources - by grade level - Georgetown
    • video clips
  • Presidential Timeline - with documents, photographs, and audio and video recordings related to the lives and administrations of the 12 presidents
  • 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
• Valentine's Day - complete list of sites, crafts, lesson plans
  • Valentine's Day activities -DLTK - cards, coloring, crafts, printables
  • Valentine's Day - ABC Teach
  • Valentine's day actvities and games - Apples4theTeacher

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 Month - BestKidsBookSite.com
• 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 Crossword Puzzle - SeattleTimes online
• Black History Video - History Channel - several segments
• BOOKS - Rosa - or Rosa Parks (NF) read online on Bookflix (need SPL card #)
  • Martin's Big words - read on Bookflix
  • White Socks only - read on StoryLine online
• Celebrating Black History (Time)
• Culture and Change: Black History - Scholastic
• Education World - Black History list of links
• February is Black History Month - Weekly Reader
• 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
• My Hero - scroll through a FLASH pictures to several, click on to see biography
• Negro League Legacy learn about the baseball players: team histories; audio and video presentations; Hall of Fame inductees; Historical stats
• 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
• Weekly Reader - Black History Month - with Pop Quiz online - and stories and activities

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