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All Crafts: Mothers Day Crafts Projects for Kids and Adults
A large set of links to interesting crafts and activities for celebrating Mother's Day.
Teachnology
Teachnology: Mother's Day Teaching Theme
Enhance teaching and learning Mother's Day with these great resources including activities, crafts, and more.
Vocabulary University
My vocabulary.com: Mother's Day
This is a variety of vocabulary puzzles and activities using vocabulary words pertaining to Mother's Day. It also offers an extensive list of Mother's Day vocabulary and lists of song titles.
Starfall
Starfall: Happy Mother's Day, Dear Dragon
This interactive fiction ebook focuses on the family and dragon celebrate Mother's Day. Students can choose to read independently or listen to each sentence.
Library of Congress
Loc: America's Story: The First Mother's Day
Mother's Day was begun by President Woodrow Wilson. This Library of Congress site gives you the background and some wonderful old photographs.
Teacher Planet
Teacher Planet: Mother's Day
Comprehensive source for teaching your learners about Mother's Day. Included are lessons and units, worksheets, poems, clipart, games and activities.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Making Bath Salts for Mother's Day, a Primary Chemistry Lesson
What do you know about salt? In this chemistry instructional activity, students will learn different things about salt: the chemical name, it's periodic table number, it's shape under the microscope, how it dissolves in water, and how to...
Starfall
Starfall: Happy Mother's Day, Dear Dragon
In this online storybook for early readers, students have the option of listening to the story as they read. The site provides a word list from the story.
My Hero Project
My Hero: Mother Teresa
This article on Mother Teresa, whose work in the slums of Calcutta and with the poor in other countries earned her recognition as the world's greatest champion of the downtrodden. There are images and links provided at this website, as...
Teachnology
Teachnology: May Teacher Resource Guide
Add to your classroom experience during the month of May with this excellent variety of resources while teaching such topics as Mother's Day, Cinco de Mayo, Memorial Day and other themes throughout the month.
Can Teach
Can Teach: Songs and Poems
This site features an extensive list of poems and songs for every event during the school year. Explore the seasons, colors, holidays, and more.
Other
Funology: Holiday Arts and Crafts
This resource has crafts and activities for holidays. Ideas are listed by holiday. Most can be done with common classroom and household supplies with little adult help.
Other
My Online Reading: Children's Story: My Mum
Digital storybook, with flippable pages, about some of the nice things mothers do for their children.
Read Works
Read Works: Grade 2: Three Lesson Unit: Sequence
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach students to retell and summarize a fiction story told in chronological order and a story told with flashback. Lessons are based on the books First Day...
Library of Congress
Loc: America's Story: 10 Suffragists Arrested, Picketing
Wives, mothers, and grandmothers were arrested outside the White House! Learn the circumstances behind this story in this 3 page article as they protested for the right to vote. Photographs and actual programs can be seen here.
Library of Congress
Loc: America's Story: Great War & Jazz Age (1914 1928)
This Library of Congress time-line series surveys World War I and the Jazz Age. When World War I broke out in Europe, many changes were going on in the United States. Women were voting for the first time and African-American culture was...
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Danielle's Place: Bible Theme Crafts for Kids
If you teach religion to elementary students, then you have to see this site! It is overflowing with creative ideas to use in your classroom and will get your students excited about the Bible. Many of these lessons also integrate math,...
Curated OER
Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Wv: Andrews Methodist Episcopal Church
Where the Mother's Day holiday was started.
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Julia Ward Howe
Julia was an abolitionist and poet. She is famous for the Battle Hymn of the Republic and for proclaiming Mother's Day in 1870. Mrs. Howe also focused her energy on women's suffrage.
University of Toronto (Canada)
University of Toronto: Poetry of Edmund Spenser
This site is provided by the University of Toronto. Index of poetry of Edmund Spenser, with links to each. Many poems include explanatory notes.
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The Jim Henson Company
The Jim Henson Company has provided a wonderful site regarding the company's productions and latest news. Follow links to detailed productions or even apply to work with the Jim Henson Company!
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Reading Discussion Guide: Cures for Heartbreak by Margo Rabb
In Cures for Heartbreak, Margo Rabb writes a fictional account of a 15-year old girl whose mother dies just days after being diagnosed with melanoma; then her father falls ill, too. Using vignettes - many appeared elsewhere as short...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Teachers: Rosa Parks: How I Fought for Civil Rights
Learn about African American Rosa Parks and her non-violent protest against racial discrimination. This resource addresses Parks' actions in the context of American race relations at the time. Read an interview with Parks about how she...
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Mama's Happy Christmas [Pdf]
"Mama's Happy Christmas" is a one page, fictional, reading passage about children creating a play for their sick mother on Christmas day. It is followed by constructed-response questions which require students to provide evidence from...
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