October Ideas -
Columbus Day - Day of the Dead -Dictionary Day - Halloween - Hispanic Heritage Month- Month of Mary - Spiders

• October - ABC Teach
• October holidays and celebrations - SueLeBeau - all sorts of dates - tons of Halloween links
• October interactive calendar and activities - Enchanted Learning
• October MI Kids
• October: monthly themes - Eduplace - bugs, computers, explorers, dinosaurs, Ramadan - activities and internet resources
• Read, Write, Think - linked calendar of the month
• Popcorn Month - Wyandot Museum, Popcorn History, Popcorn Activities, Popcorn Institute
• Teacher's calendar of events - Education Oasis
• VocabularyUniversity school calendar with thematic ideas, reproducables and interactive (middle and junior high school)
• Wise Guide - Library of Congress American Memory Collection and more

Hispanic Heritage Month - September 15-October 15

• Celebrate H ispanic Heritage Month -Education World
  • Hispanic Heritage Month - Education World lesson plans
• Hispanic Heritage Month - Sue LeBeau's list of links

Columbus Day

• Columbus - ABC Teach
• Columbus Day - Enchanted Learning
• Columbus Day - Holiday Zone
• Columbus Day - KidsDomain - quite a list of links
• Columbus Letter - 1494 - UMaine
• Columbus Navigation homepage - with links to the ships and crew and what they ate
• Just where was Columbus? - EducationWorld
• 1492: An Ongoing Voyage Library of Congress - discover what the New World was like before and immediately after Columbus's visit

Day of the Dead

• Day of the Dead - Mexico Connect - with several links
• Day of the Dead Mexican crafts and activities - Enchanted Learning
• Dia de los Muertos - AZCentral.com - history, food, altars
• Papel Picado - Mexican cut paper
• SugarSkull - sugar skull making instructions

Dictionary Day - October 16th - Noah Webster -- biography / more biography

Fire Prevention Week - Oct. 5-11 - Scholastic slide show and game

Make a difference Day - 4th Saturday in October

• 366 Community Service Ideas
• Organizations started by kids
• Peace Corps - Teens

Halloween

• Halloween - ABC Teach
• Halloween - Enchanted Learning - Halloween Crafts, Cards, Decorations, and Treats
• Halloween - Internet4Kids
• Halloween clipart - KidsDomain
• Halloween - crafts, actiivities, printables - Activity Village UK
• HalloweenKids.com - Unicef - decorating pumpkins, send a Halloween "ghostcard," read about celebrations around the world
• Halloween Paint and Make picture
• Halloween songs - Educational Cyber Playground
• Halloween Theme - AtoZ Teacher Stuff - lesson plans, craft ideas, songs, and poems
• History of Halloween - History Channel
• Games
  • Carve a pumpkin
  • Grubfest
  • Pumpkin Blast
  • Shuger's rush
• Pumpkins
  • Extreme Pumpkins
  • Pumpkin carving patters - DLTK

Spiders

• Arachnids - Enchanted Learning - printouts
• Spider Ideas - activities, information, coloring pages -TeachingHeart
• The Spider page - real information about spiders
• Theme Fun: Spiders - Easy Fun School

World Food Day - October 16

• Build a world without hunger and poverty
• Cost of Food - Global Roundup - BBC
• Food Security - Global Education, Australia

Other months

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