Holiday
Websites!
Holiday
Websites!
Everything from Holiday Clipart to Great Holiday Lesson Plans.... the World Wide Web has it all! Add a Little Holiday Cheer into your December Lesson Plans and Handouts from Pre K-12th grade there something here for you!!
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The North pole teacher site,
student games, letters to Santa and more!
This site has more than you can do! Teachers,
students, and parents all have their own areas! Send a letter to Santa on this
site!
http://www.northpole.com/
Emphasize the Giving -- Not the Getting -- This Holiday Season
Are your students too focused on the “gimme” elements of the holiday season?
Teach them about the true meaning of the season by emphasizing the giving
over the getting. Included: Ten classroom activities that focus on doing good
things for other people!
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/lesson/lesson292.shtml
Snowflake Factory-
Make your own virtual snowflake. No scissors necessary. Great game to teach
symmetry. Comes with its own hole punches.
http://www.dinosaurdesign.com/SnowflakeFactory.htm
Apples for the teachers
This site has all kinds of activities on winter, Christmas, Hanukah, Kwanzaa and
more. Each holiday has crafts, games, songs, puzzles and more!
http://www.apples4theteacher.com/holidays/index.html#decemberactivities
All
Levels all areas lesson plans for The Holidays
If you need a little holiday inspiration check out
this site!
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/lesson/lesson290.shtml
Brighten Up the Holidays with Cross-Curriculum Activities
Across-the-curriculum activities that teach skills while celebrating the season!
http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/lesson093.shtml
Christmas
printables
Worksheets, Mazes, word searches, Adjective words, and more http://www.teach-nology.com/worksheets/misc/christmas/
Night Before Christmas
online
Get the story online and learn history
http://www.nightbeforechristmas.biz/poem.htm
Build your
own Snowman
Fun game to play!
http://www.frontiernet.net/~imaging/build_a_snowman.html
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Christmas
Around the World -
Learn about Christmas around the world and get links to other sites that teach
cultural differences
http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/lesson041.shtml
Holidays Around the World: A Festival of Lessons!
’Tis the season! Education World offers ten lessons about December celebrations
from several cultures. Included: A Hanukkah game, a Kwanzaa recipe, and an
activity that involves students in diagramming similarities and differences in
holiday celebrations!
http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/lesson213.shtml
Webquest Christmas around the world
Very good web quest for the holidays across the world.
http://www.oakview.ashland.k12.ky.us/Holidays/Christmas_WebQuest.html
Think Quest Holiday Around the
World -
Think Quest is a great way to learn.
http://library.thinkquest.org/10007/
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Christmas Clipart
Animated Christmas clipart
Christmas Gifs
Christmas E-cards FREE
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Web Quests can be a great way to teach kids!
Here are a few Web quests to use in your classroom.
Christmas Around the World WebQuest
http://hrsbstaff.ednet.ns.ca/nbarkhou/christmaswq/
Christmas
Shopping Web Quest (Special ed 4th-7th
grade)
http://coe.west.asu.edu/students/ttroiano/webq.htm
Web quest
Christmas Around the World
http://www.oakview.ashland.k12.ky.us/Holidays/Christmas_WebQuest.html
Scrooge For
Mayor (Middle school)
http://www.coollessons.org/Dickens.htm
Celebrate!
Celebrate! Dec-Jan holidays that the world celebrates
http://www.rcas.org/mb/holidaysdecjanwebquest.html
Dickens Web
quest (9-12th grade)
http://scots.covenant.edu/depts/education/dickens/index.htm
Christmas in
Mexico
(9th-12th grade Spanish)
http://rosarodz.tripod.com/webquest.htm
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Christmas Stories
Language Arts 9-12th grade
http://www.teachervision.fen.com/christmas/lesson-plan/4098.html
Using Literature to teach
Newton's laws of
Motion and Santa! (Middle School, Science)
http://www.education-world.com/a_tsl/archives/04-1/lesson037.shtml
Cute lesson plan to reinforce the laws of motion.
Teaching Similes
and metaphors with the Polar Express
(English 5th-8th)
http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/features/thepolarexpress/tg/polar.shtml#simile
Polar Express
Lesson Plans (elementary grades)
http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/lesson/lesson344.shtml
Writing and
Chicken Soup for the soul this Holiday Season
(5th-12th grade writing)
http://www.education-world.com/a_curr/teacher_feature/teacher_feature017.shtml
Very Cool idea, studnets will rember for a lifetime
Longest Candy Cane (3-5th grade measurement activity) http://www.lessonplanspage.com/MathArtChristmasLongestWeirdestCandyCaneYardMeasurementActivity45.htm
Activity for the
Season PE Game 2nd
and 3rd grades
http://www.lessonplanspage.com/PEOChristmasSantasWorkshopGame23.htm
Snowflake Lesson
http://www.lessonplanspage.com/ScienceArtCategorizingSnowflakes2.htm
Ebenezer Scrooge
Experience (Music k-5)
http://www.lessonplanspage.com/MusicChristmasEbeneezerScroogeMusicExperienceConcertIdeaK5.htm
Twelve Days of
Math (Math 3-7th)
http://www.lessonplanspage.com/MathMusicTheTwelveDaysOfMathChristmasSongIdea2.htm
Christmas
writing/Journal ideas (English 4th-10th)
http://www.lessonplanspage.com/LAMDChristmasJournalIdeas35.htm
A few ideas to get kids writing