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Learn About December’s Holidays Do your students celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, or Three Kings Day? Maybe they celebrate St. Lucia Day or Ramadan. Chances are your class includes students who observe more than one of those events. Whether that is the case or not, December offers great opportunities for teaching about our multicultural world. Included: Handfuls of great teaching lessons and resources.

Whiteboards Stimulate Student Learning Start with a clean slate -- introduce mini-whiteboards to your classroom. Students love working on their own whiteboards; it's a great way of keeping an entire class actively involved in a lesson. Education World offers five lessons to engage students in learning with whiteboards. Included: Tips from whiteboard users plus alternatives to whiteboards.

Celebrate National Inclusive Schools Week Ideas for recognizing this special week, December 1-5.

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Lesson Plan of the Day See lesson plans posted on recent days. Search for lessons by subject.

Learning Game of the Week Review any subject, skill with this version of "Family Feud."

News for Kids The Obama’s choice for a new dog will continue a long history of White House pets.

Friday Fun Students reflect on and chronicle their lives from A to Z.

Search for Ice and Snow Students identify places on Earth where there is ice and snow, and then create a table showing where they found the information, and the geographic location of the snow and ice.

Box Cars and One-Eyed Jacks Math Games With Joanne and Jane This week: "Double Trouble” teaches adding double digits.

Vicki Cobb’s Show-Biz Science Create a "properties of light" holiday display.

Rhyme Time: Poems for Early Childhood
This week, early childhood editor Sue LaBella presents…
A Sense-sational Holiday
Early Childhood Teaching Themes
Early Childhood Teaching Theme Gifts to make.
Early Childhood Teaching Theme Our five senses and the holidays.
Early Childhood Teaching Theme Holidays and hiccups.

Bulletin Boards That Teach Holiday Mail from Around the U.S. -- Collect and "map” postmarks that students cut from holiday cards delivered to their families.

From the Math Machine Logic Zoo is a fun Web site for teaching about sorting, math attributes, and problem solving. (Grades 2-5)

Writing Bug Write new holiday lyrics for a familiar tune.

Teacher-Submitted Lesson Plans
Teacher Lesson #1 Santa teaches Newton's Three Laws of Motion.
Teacher Lesson #2 Learning about the life and poems of Emily Dickinson (birth date: December 10).

Fact Monster Hunts
Primary Hunt December Hunt #1.
Ele-Middle Hunt Hunt #13.

Every-Day Edits
Primary Edits Animals A to Z: Ladybug.
Ele-Middle Edits The Eiffel Tower, Alabama, Kwanzaa…

Vocab-u-lous! December Holiday words.

5-Minute Fillers Volume 24.

Work Sheet of the Week "Immigration Citizenship Test” -- could you pass the test?

Best Books for Teaching About…
Each week, Education World presents our Editors’ Choices for the best books for teaching about popular classroom themes. Check out our choices and add your own recommendations to the Readers’ Voices section of this week’s themed booklists:
Best Books for Teaching About...
December Holidays
Countries of the World

Just for This Month! See our December Month of Fun, December Word Search, and December Coloring Calendar. PLUS! Create your own work sheets for this month’s theme: Hanukkah, Christmas.