Links to New Year's lesson plans and language-based activities

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• Ticker Time
  http://www.timeticker.com/main.htm
  See what time it is in various parts of the world.
  
  • World Time Zone Map
    
    
• Journey in Time
  http://www.fi.edu/time/Journey/
  • Activities for the Classroom: Online and printable activities.
  • Sun Clocks- Telling time with Shadows: Links, lesson plans, interactive activities.
    
    
    
• Multicultural Calendar
  http://www.kidlink.org/KIDPROJ/MCC/
  Holidays celebrated around the world sorted by month, holiday, country, and author. Links are included.
  

• A to Z Calendar Printouts
  http://www.enchantedlearning.com/calendar/
  
  
• When year 2009 Starts Around the World
  http://www.timeanddate.com/counters/firstnewyear.html
  A table of information of when year 2009 starts around the world.
  
  
• New Year's Celebrations Around the World
  http://www.topics-mag.com/internatl/holidays/new-year/page.htm
  Explanations of how New Year's is celebrated around the world with links.
  
  
• New Year Traditions
  http://www.fathertimes.net/traditions.htm
  Links to explanations of New Year celebrations around the world.
  
  
• Time: Person of the Year
  http://www.time.com/time/personoftheyear/
  Who will be named the Person of 2008? View photo essays, covers gallery, and previous picks.
  
  
• New Year's Activities
  http://www.dltk-kids.com/crafts/newyear/
  • New Year's Crafts
    
    
• New Year's Lesson Plans
  http://www.teachervision.com/lesson-plans/lesson-6649.html
  Includes printable worksheets and answer sheets.
  
  
• Chinese New Year Resources
  http://www.kiddyhouse.com/Teachers/
  Click on Lesson Plans > Holidays & Celebrations Lesson PLans. Includes background information, lesson plans, activities, black line masters.
  
  
• Chinese New Year
  http://www.teachervision.com/lesson-plans/lesson-6603.phtml
  Included here are links and lesson plans for the Chinese New Year. Printable lesson plans.
  
  
• Chinese New Year Lunar Calendar
  http://www.chinapage.com/newyear.html
  Jan. 26, 2009 is the first day of the year of the ox.
  
  
• Chinese New Year History
  http://www.new-year.co.uk/chinese/
  
  
• Chinese New Year
  http://www.educ.uvic.ca/faculty/mroth/438/CHINA/chinese_new_year.html
  Celebrations, traditions, decorations, taboos and superstitions.
  
  
• 12 Animals of Chinese Calendar
  http://www.chinapage.com/12animals.html
  The Chinese calendar cycle is explained.
  
  
• Chinese Calligraphy
  http://library.thinkquest.org/3614/
  Samples of brush strokes and symbols with explanations.
  
  
• Dragons in Ancient Culture
  http://www.chinapage.com/dragon1.html
  Art samples of dragons. 
  
  
• The Next Millennium, now what?
  http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/1999/future/
  Challenge your junior and intermediate students to imagine what will happen in areas of architecture, disease, language, furniture, education, parks and wilderness, faith, artificial intelligence, food, sports, money, space, fashion, and music, then check with and expert in their field. Click on "Play with the future" and view Mapping the Future, view the Gallery of the future and the video gallery then try the quiz. Use this site as a beginning point for the study of the Science Fiction genre.
  
  
• A thousand years of history
  http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/1999/millennium/
  CNN's video presentation summary. Provides and interesting timeline of great events that shaped our world.

Time

• Math Fact Cafe
  http://www.mathfactcafe.com/
  • Time Worksheets
    http://www.mathfactcafe.com/time/
    Generate time worksheets
    
    

Winter Activities (more Winter Activities)

• The Mitten
  http://www.bry-backmanor.org/actpag21.html
  Printable story and worksheet of the folktale.
  Level: Primary
  
  
• Snowflake poem
  http://www.bry-backmanor.org/actpag23.html
  Level: Primary
  
  
• Eduscapes: Snowflake Bentley
  http://www.eduscapes.com/library/s/snowflake_bentley.htm
  Many links on snowflakes and winter activities.
  
  
• Wilson A. Bentley: the Snowflake Man
  http://www.snowflakebentley.com/
  Biography of the "Snowflake Bentley". Click on resources for more links.
  
  
  

• New Year's Resolution for 4-Block Teachers
  http://teachers.net/4blocks/article15.html
  Articles to help 4-block teachers use time wisely and align curriculum.

Copyright 2001
Pat Elliott, Library Specialist
Sunday January 4, 2009 11:35 PM