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Home > Learning Calendar > This Day > December 1st

    D E C E M B E R     1st    
December 2000
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December 17 - December 23, 2000
December 24 - December 30, 2000
December 31 - January 06, 2000

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Holidays Around the World: A Festival of Lessons!
’Tis the season! This week, Education World offers ten lessons about December celebrations, observances, and activities from several cultures. Included: A Hanukkah game, a Kwanzaa recipe, and an activity that involves students in diagramming similarities and differences in holiday celebrations!

December Holidays
Join Education World as we celebrate the holiday season. We have articles, lesson ideas, site reviews, books, crafts, clipart and much more -- all to help you meet all your holiday needs!

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Scientists announced that they had virtually mapped all 34 million chemical letters of the number 22 human chromosome, the 2nd smallest of the 23 pairs (1999)



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