This site offers extensive resources for teaching poetry. Find interviews with poets, ideas for poetry lessons, book lists, and ways to use poetry across the curriculum. There are also resources specifically for National Poetry Month....

Customize and print a calendar that starts which the month and year of your choosing and covers twelve months.

Study the math and history involved in the development of the 12 month calendar. There are lots of links to informative time and calendar websites to assist you.

A storehouse of resources about the Jewish calendar from the educational wing of the Lubavitch Hasidim movement. Choose to view information about particluar holy days. View a current calendar page (by day, week, or month) to see events...

Well-organized website depicts the "Fascinating history of the human endeavor to organize our lives in accordance with the sun and stars." Gives an overview and specifics of the basis of calendars through the ages.

This website offers plenty of links for activities around the topic of calendar math using estimation, measurement, and computations.

A lesson plan that gives an overview of solar and lunar calendars, their history and lore. Also, of the day and the month, and their relations to the rotational period of the Earth and the orbital period of the Moon.For versions in...

The names of the Spanish months and days are included on this site's reference chart. After reviewing the Spanish months and days shown on the poster, an interactive online game can be played.

An encyclopedia entry about the Jewish calendar with information on the history of the calendar as well as on the modern Jewish calendar, which dates from 3761 BCE. Names of the months, length of the months, leap years, and similar...

Great resource for all types of holidays throughout Mexico. A key conveniently marks them as you choose each month. Additional links give even more info.

This site offers two ideas for lessons/activities for students during "Get Caught Reading" month. It was taken from ReadWriteThink's calendar on May 1, 2007, and includes activities, web links, and a bibliography.

A month by month calendar of holidays and fiestas in Mexico, in both English and Spanish.

This site provides great practice on the concept of using a calendar and elapsed time. Students can first learn about the topic by watching a step by step instruction video that also points out areas of concern. Finally, students can...

Presents facts about time and dates, how to use timetables and calculate time.

A selection from Plutarch that highlights Caesar's desire to reform the calendar and how he came about with the changes he enforced.

A brief classroom activity lesson for students of all ages in commemoration of National Poetry Month. Includes links and a bibliography. Check out the links to various poetry websites and activities.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Student exposed to basic design of calendar and how to understand the days of the week and the month. Student will understand how to move forward in the calendar month and how many days are in each month.

Provides background information about the Islamic Calendar, also called the Hijri. Explains the differences between the Gregorian calendar and the Islamic Calendar; lists important holidays and the months of the Islamic year. Provides...

Irina visits her grandfather Alexander in his toy store. Join them to learn more about calendars and temperatures!

This learning game is a fun slider puzzle for children to practice putting months in order. Slide pieces up and down and each time a month is placed in the correct spot and the monkeys will get closer to the banana!

The purpose of this lesson is to acquire appropriate calendar vocabulary for future use in exercises, dialogues and everyday conversations. This lesson should be followed by a series of lessons on perfecting the knowledge of the newly...

This activity is designed to help learners evaluate numerical expressions by using order of operations. The students will be provided a calendar for the current month of the year. Learners will then be provided with a worksheet that...

Holidays help us celebrate who we are and who we were! Many of these celebrations are centuries old. Click on each month for an explanation of each holiday and the days it falls on for a specific year.

Here is an easy-to-understand description of Ramadan, the Month of Fasting. Find the meaning of Ramadan, why fasting is important, devotion to God, the food in Ramadan, and the spirit of Ramadan.