Web Picks for May
May 1: Holocaust Remembrance Day
- Holocaust Remembrance Day (U.S. Holocaust Museum) http://www.ushmm.org/remembrance/dor/calendar/
- Holocaust Studies http://www.aish.com/holocaust/default.asp
- Yom Hashoah War Remembrance Day http://history1900s.about.com/cs/holocaust/a/yomhashoah.htm
May 1: May Day
- May Day: A Cornucopia of Holidays http://www.infoplease.com/spot/mayday.html
- May Day Origins http://www.salmonriver.com/words/nancy/maia.html
May 1: Mother Goose Day
- Mother Goose Society http://www.librarysupport.net/mothergoosesociety/
- The Mother Goose Pages http://www.librarysupport.net/mothergoosesociety/
May 5: Cinco de Maya
- Cinco de Mayo Bingo http://www.kidsdomain.com/craft/bingo-cinco.html
- Cinco de Mayo Games and Activities http://holidays.kaboose.com/cinco-party.html
- Cinco de Mayo History http://www.vivacincodemayo.org/history.htm
May 10: Mother's Day
- Billy Bear's Happy Mother's Day http://www.billybear4kids.com/holidays/mother/mom.htm
- Happy Mother's Day http://theholidayspot.com/mothersday/
- Mother's Day http://holidays.kaboose.com/mothers-day/index.html
- Mother's Day Lesson Plans http://www.teachervision.fen.com/lesson-plans/lesson-6646.phtml
- Welcome to Mother's Day on the Net http://www.holidays.net/mother/
May 10: Pangea Day
- Pangea Day, May 10, 2008 http://www.pangeaday.org
May 17: Armed Forces Day
- All About the Military and the Draft http://www.suelebeau.com/military.htm
May 26: Memorial Day
Act of Duty http://www.pbs4549.org/duty/educares.
Memorial Day Activities for the Classroom http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/lesson119.shtml#Memorial%20Day
Memorial Day Lesson Plans http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/lesson313.shtml
Memorial Day Theme Worksheets http://www.edhelper.com/Memorial_Day.htm
War Memorials Around the World http://www.rockies.net/~spirit/grief/grief05.html
May 29, 1953: First People Climbed Mt. Everest
- Brief Biography of Sir Edmund Hillary http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/hil0pro-1
- Everest 50 (National Geographic) http://www.nationalgeographic.com/everest/
- Facts About Mt. Everest http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/everest/history/
- History of Mt. Everest (Nova) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/everest/history/