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

• Log Cabin Librarian - Activities Calendars
• October - ABC Teach
• October interactive calendar and activities - Enchanted Learning
• October: monthly themes - Eduplace - bugs, computers, explorers, dinosaurs, Ramadan - activities and internet resources
• Read, Write, Think - linked calendar of the month
• Teacher's calendar of events - Education Oasis
• Wise Guide - Library of Congress American Memory Collection and more

Hispanic Heritage Month - September 15-October 15

• Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month -Education World
  • Hispanic Heritage Month - Education World lesson plans

Columbus Day

• Columbus - ABC Teach
• Columbus Day - Enchanted Learning
• Columbus Day - Kaboose- quite a list of links
• Columbus Navigation homepage - with links to the ships and crew
• 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 -- Fact sheet about him and Brief Bio and longer History

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

Halloween

• Greatest Halloween Card Ever - eCard
• 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 Theme - AtoZ Teacher Stuff - lesson plans, craft ideas, songs, and poems
• History of Halloween - History Channel video clip(3 min.)
• Pumpkins
  • Carve a pumpkin or Online Pumpkin Carving
  • Everything you wanted to know about pumpkins video clip- History Channel (1 min.)
  • Extreme Pumpkins
  • Pumpkin carving patterns - DLTK
• Three Pumpkin Pirates - a story to read online (no audio)
  • Three pumpkin pirates back for more

Make a difference Day - 4th Saturday in October

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

• Alfred Nobel powerpoint - history of Nobel prizes (17 minutes)
• Find the author game - literature winners
• Ig Nobel awards - spoof awards

Spiders --
Spiders and Scorpions at ExploringNature.org [ username = sjseattle password = jaguars ]
Spiders on Grzimeks Animal Encyclopedia (with audio) [password = seat_log]
Spider myths - Burke Museum

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

World Food Day - October 16

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

Other months

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