Volume 3, No. 9
28 November, 2003
[To view this newsletter on line:
http://www.emck.net/eline/03_11_28.htm.]
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The
nip in the air, and the occasional white flake from the sky...the holiday
season is near! What's
new: Look to our new Health and PE section, which will
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 Holidays Around the Globe
In keeping with the upcoming holiday spirit, here's a collection
of teaching and information resources aimed at holiday celebrations of all kinds -
across the state and across the globe! This theme has been a recurring one - be sure to see our December
6, 2002 issue for more holiday resources.
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Teaching Resources |
The Multi Cultural Calendarhttp://www.kidlink.org/KIDPROJ/MCC/
Kidlink (featured
in the April 18,
2003 edition of The Partnership
Help Desk) is an international resource by kids and for kids.
This calendar includes links to hundreds and hundreds of descriptions of
holidays from around the globe, most written by the kids who celebrate
them. The links are sorted by month, holiday, country, and author. There
are over 80 countries and almost 500 holidays represented!
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Five Holiday Lessons from Education Worldhttp://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/lesson/lesson327.shtml
Education
World was featured last year in our December
6, 2002 edition of The Partnership
Help Desk) , and is back with some new stuff! There's also
links to plans off site, including an excellent guide to holiday
cultural sensitivity from the Anti-Defamation League.
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Holiday Lessons from Lin and Don Donnhttp://members.aol.com/MrDonnLessons/Holidays.html
This privately-maintained website has links to a wide
range of holiday lesson plans, including many Mexican and Canadian
celebrations. Most resources are off-site, and the site is not searchable,
but the resources are organized by general categories including season.
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 University
of Kansas Medical Center - Celebrating Diversityhttp://www3.kumc.edu/diversity/
A nicely-constructed information site on the most common
holidays, beginning with December, 2003 and extending into 2004.
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| Content Area
Resources |
| The Arts |
| 'Twas the nocturnal segment of
the diurnal period preceding the annual Yuletide celebration,
and throughout our place of residence, kinetic activity was
not in evidence among the possessors of this potential,
including that species of domestic rodent known as Mus
musculus..." [Source - Not
Just for Kids] |
 Holiday
Lessons from The Teacher Source
http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/thismonth/dec01/index2.shtm
The
Teacher Source is a database of over 4,000 teaching ideas and
lessons, plus other services, maintained by the Public
Broadcasting Service, and arranged by monthly themes. The
December 2001 theme is aimed at music, dance, and theatre, and has
several clever ideas, including ideas on Kwanzaa which features the
official Kwanzaa website, and a lesson on parody poetry based on
"Twas the Night Before Christmas" for older students (see
right).
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| Health
and Physical Education |
http://www.pecentral.org/ Here's
a site dedicated to the needs of P-12 health and PE teachers. Begun by
then-Virginia Polytechnic Institute professor Mark Mantross and sponsored
by FlagHouse, Inc., PE Central is free, and chock full of materials and
suggestions for PE and health lessons. Be sure to check out their collection
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| Mathematics |
 DIMACS
- The 12 Days of Christmas and Pascal's Triangle
http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/~judyann/LP/lessons/12.days.pascal.html What
fun! In an activity tied to NCTM standards, this lesson plans uses
Pascal's Triangle to figure out the total number of gifts accumulated in
the famous Christmas song! This lesson comes from Rutger's Center for
Discrete Mathematics and Computer Science K-8 Leadership program. |
| Science |
 NASA's
The Calendarhttp://www-spof.gsfc.nasa.gov/stargaze/Lcalend.htm
Part of NASA's Book on the Web From
Stargazers to Starships by David P. Stern, this collection of high
school activities is about how our calendar (and many others) was
constructed. The ideas are related to astronomy and history, and the
lessons are constructed to support this
page of calendar information.
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| Social
Studies and Language Arts |
 LETSNet's
"Pick a Holiday"
http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/letsnet/noframes/subjects/ss/b8pop1.html
LETSNet
is a service of the Michigan State University's College of Education.
This lesson plan uses online sources (their links are dead, but
you can use ours above!) as materials in an activity for students to
explore and present a holiday celebration of their choice.
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