Women's History Month and - St. Patrick's - Iditarod - Lewis & Clark - Pi Day

BestKidsBookSite.com - lists of books, crafts, ideas - St. Patrick's - Women's History
Bookish Calendar
March - from a Log Cabin Librarian
March - at MIKids
March calendar - ReadWriteThink.org - connected calendar
March Events - Teachers Corner
March Holidays and celebrations - Sue LeBeau, every date you'd want to know about
March Madness - hotlist of ideas - EdTEch Center Kennesaw
Monthly Activity Calendar - Enchanted Learning

Celebrate Dr. Seuss - links to ideas Dr. Seuss National Memorial Dr. Seuss Hangman online Fun with Seuss - lots of links Horton hears a who web site Index to Dr. Seuss - books and characters Seussentennial Seussville.com - with games under Playground Seussville Storymaker - type up a story with sound and replay Video interview with Mrs. Dr. Seuss (Audrey Geisel) Voice of Dr. Seuss

World Math Day -- open to students, parents and teachers

• Iditarod
• Lewis and Clark Bicentennial
• Square Root Day - 3/3/09
  Calculate a square root -- Square root clock game -- Square Root Tic Tac Toe
• Ezra Jack Keats birthday - March 11
  • with animated online stories : Clementine and the Cactus Louie, Maggie and the Pirates
• Pi Day celebrations - March 14
  • Approximating Pi -FLASH explanation with inscribed polygons
  • Ask Dr. Math about Pi - Math Forum - history, etc.
  • Million numbers of Pi -PiDay.org
  • Pi Day - Education World - plan a Pi Party, trivia, lesson plans, links
  • Pi day - Math with Mr. Herte - various activities
  • Pi Land - with trivia game
  • Teach Pi.org - songs, rap and more
• St. Patrick's Day - set of links, ideas -- The Leprechaun Trap - a story from Highlights Magazine
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  How to catch a leprechaun How to trap a leprechan Leprechaun traps - Kaboose.com trap pictures (74) from About.com Games St. Patrick's Day games - aKidsHeart.com Shamrock streamer TicTacToe - PrimaryGames.com song

  BestKidsBookSite.com - lists of books, crafts, ideas - St. Patrick's Facts from the Census Bureau about all things Irish The History of St. Patrick's Day History Channel online video St. Patrick - story of his life from Catholic online St. Patrick's Day links from Debbie's Unit factory: lesson plans, craft ideas, coloring pages, and other activities- elementary, preschool age St. Patrick's fun at Kids Domain St. Patrick's theme - from AtoZ Teacher- lesson plans, word puzzles, songs, craft ideas, and other activities plus information on the life of Saint Patrick

• March 28, 1592 birthday of Johann Amos Comenius, a Czech teacher and writer
  • Orbis Pictus, (Google books) by Comenius - first informational picture book for children - 1657
    
    • ImaginaryMuseum.org - interactive exhibit
    • Orbis Picutre Book award for Outstanding Nonfiction for children -- NCTE--
    • 100 picutre books everyone should know - NY Public Library

Women's History

• American Women - Library of Congress Memory collection
• Children's Encyclopedia of Women by 3rd and 4th grade students at Pocantico Hills School in Sleepy Hollow, NY with links to support information
• Distinguished Women Past and Present biographies
• Female Nobel Prize Laureates biographical information about the women in all fields who have won
• First Ladies biographies of the wives of the Presidents
• March is Women's History Month - WeeklyReader - with pinrtable activities, like crossword puzzle,and links to women
• My Hero - pictured list to click on for biography
• National Women's Hall of Fame
• National Women's History Project
• Women Artists in History
• Women's History - links from Reach Every Child
• Women's History Month - History Channel
• Women's History Month - list from North Boston PL
• Women's History Month - Time for Kids - with timeline, online quiz, history of Women's History Month
• Woman's work is never done - photographs and info from before Revolution through Industrial Revolution - American Antiquarian Society
• Women Working, 1730-1930 Harvard collection - look under Browse

Lesson plans/Ideas

• CyberHunt on famous women - Scholastic - interactive
  • Women who dared - another interactive internet hunt
• Female voices in historical narratives an annotated list of picture books which portray women in history
• Gale - Women History Resources activities and information to complement classroom topics

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