Black History Month Resources

Check out these sites for resources for Black History Month: 

Black History Month top picks at your fingertips, by Lindsey Petlak, scholastic.com

NEA - Black History Month lessons & resources, by Phil Nast

Smithsonian Education - Black History teaching resources

Site hosted by The Library of Congress - African American History Month

6 teaching tools for Black History Month, by Matt Davis, edutopia blog - six great links to sites with additional lesson plans and resources

History.com - Black History Month

MiddleWeb - Black history past & present, by Susan Curtis

Resources for Black History Month

 

 

 

 

In celebration of Black History Month, iCONN’s Black History Month web page is now available again.  The page offers access to a Proquest database free of charge and towards the bottom of the page there are approximately 28 web links to additional information and resources for Black History Month. 

 

 

 PBS CELEBRATES BLACK HISTORY MONTH WITH NEW PROGRAMS AND A DIGITAL CAMPAIGN THAT UNITES MORE THAN A CENTURY OF HISTORY AND CULTURE - Check out the programing being offered this February!

Classroom resources to help CELEBRATE National Poetry Month!

Yes, April is also Nation Poetry Month! 

Check out Edutopia Editorial Assistant Matt Davis's blog post for resources teachers can use to include poetry in classroom lessons --- http://www.edutopia.org/blog/national-poetry-month-teacher-resources-matt-davis

What's A Poem?

A whisper,
a shout,
thoughts turned     
inside out.

A laugh,
a sigh,
an echo
passing by.

A rhythm,
a rhyme,
a moment
caught in time.

A moon,
a star,
a glimpse
of who you are.

--Charles Ghigna

National Autism Awareness Month

April is National Autism Awareness Month and the Autism community has been clebrating April as National Autism Awareness Month since the 1970s.  The United States recognizes April as a special opportunity to highlight the growing need for concern and awareness and to educate the public about autism and issues within the the autism community. 

Check out the Autism Society website page on National Austism Awareness Month.

In addition, The IDEA Partnership has put together an awesome list of resources on autism, follow this link to the list http://www.ideapartnership.org/documents/ASD-Collection/2-2013/ASD_resource-guide.pdf?utm_source=Copy+of+Autism+Final&utm_campaign=ASD+Campaign&utm_medium=email

Monthly Celebrations Get Organized, Order Gardening, Polka and Soup of course!!

Well --- I was pondering this morning on what to blog ---- I decided to check out what the January Monthly celebrations were ------ so here goes:

While it is National Get Organized Month ---- I am going to get organized to celebrate National Mail Order Gardening Month by of course ordering some garden supplies after I have organized my garden supply catalogs --- while listening to some polka music since it is also National Polka Music Month ---- while eating some soup while I am perusing and organizing my gardening supply catalogs listening to the polka music since it is also National Soup Month!!!!

And if you think I might be joking, check out these links (by the way next weekend in Chicago they are going to “rock” the polka!):

National Association of Professional Organizers
 
Direct Gardening Association - DGA (formerly Mailorder Gardening Association (MGA)

International Polka Association - IPA 

IPA celebrates January being "National Polka Month" - Festival of Bands - Chicago

National Soup Month