• Holidays Around the World: A Festival of Lessons!
  Education World offers ten lessons about December celebrations, observances, and activities from several cultures.
• December Holidays 2000
  Join Education World in celebrating holiday cultural experiences from around the world during this festive season!

St. Francis of Assisi assembled one of the first Nativity scenes, in Greccio, Italy (1223)

• Multicultural Holidays
  Among the best on the Web for teaching about multicultural holidays.

"Silent Night" by Franz Gruber was performed for the first time, at the Church of St. Nikolaus in Oberndorff, Austria (1818)

• Making the Case for Music Education

German and British troops declared an unofficial truce to celebrate Christmas during World War I (1914)

Robert Burns, Scottish poet (Auld Lang Syne), born (1759)

• Great Sites for Teaching About…Poetry
  
• Volumes of Verse: Poetry Resources on the Internet
  You have probably heard the Web compared to a virtual library. In the case of poetry, that statement couldn't be more true. Poets from William Blake to Walt Whitman now have virtual homes in cyberspace.

Robert Boyle, Irish physicist and chemist who conducted experiments with color, born (1627)

• Science Center 9-12
  Resources and tools from our Science Center

Benedict Arnold, American general and traitor during the Revolutionary War, born (1741)

• Great Sites for Teaching About...The American Revolution
  Best sites on the web for teaching about the American Revolution time period.

Somerset Maugham, novelist (Of Human Bondage), born in Paris (1874)

Virginia Woolf, English author (Jacob's Room, To the Lighthouse), born (1882)

General George Washington and his troops crossed the Delaware River for a surprise attack against Hessian forces at Trenton, N.J. (1776)

• Great Sites for Teaching About...The American Revolution
  Best sites on the web for teaching about the American Revolution time period.

Comedian Charlie Chaplin died in Switzerland at age 88 (1977)

Clara Barton, volunteer nurse during the Civil War and the founder of the American Red Cross, born (1821)

• Great Sites for Teaching about Heroes