Subject:  Holidays -- Part II

Season's Eating: Global Christmas
<http://www.foodtv.com/holidays/christmasaroundtheworld/0,5574,,00.html>
View holiday traditions and yuletide recipes from six countries. So, Joyeux
Noël, Buon Natale, and Feliz Navidad!

Christmas and Commercialism
<http://www.media-awareness.ca/eng/med/class/teamedia/xmastm.htm>
By taking a close-up look at the way advertising handles the holidays,
students will be analyzing the substance behind the hype and seeing how it
all measures up. (Secondary)

National Christmas Tree Association
<http://www.realchristmastrees.org/types.html>
Learn more about popular varieties of Christmas trees and investigate the
history of the Christmas tree.

Virtual Hanukah
<http://www.virtualchanukah.com/>
Hanukkah how-to, stories, recipes, games and more.

The Hanukah House
<http://www.zigzagworld.com/draw/>
Students can recreate a Hanukah scene online and learn Hebrew at the same
time.

Silent Night Museum
<http://www.silentnightmuseum.org/museum/index.htm>
Visit the Silent Night museum in Salzburg to learn the origins of this well
loved Christmas carol, written in a small village by a simple priest in
1816.

Polar Express Lesson Plans
<http://www.eduplace.com/tview/tviews/p/polarexpress.html>
Activities across the curriculum explore the themes in "The Polar Express".
(Primary)

Reindeer and Caribou
<http://www.mnh.si.edu/arctic/html/caribou_reindeer.html>
Facts and photos from the Arctic Studies Center.

Night Before Christmas
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/nation/jb_nation_moore_1.html
The story of how Clement Moore came to write the Christmas poem "A Visit
From St. Nicholas".