ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Celebrate Cynthia Rylant's Birthday!
This site provides the opportunity to celebrate the birthday of Cynthia Rylant, a famous children's author. Activities related to the understanding of "plot" are included, along with links to other websites about Cynthia Ryland and her...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Birthday Fitness Lesson Plan
In this lesson, surrounding a theme children love, their birthdays, students will exercise, move and stretch in way you might while celebrating a birthday.
Utah State University
Teacher Link: Celebrations: A Resource Guide for Teachers
TeacherLINK at Utah State University offers a wealth of topics and project information on celebrations held throughout the world. Click on "Topics and Authors," to access a long list of available lesson plans on a variety of...
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Family: Birthday Party
A simple story about the things you do at a birthday party. Includes audio narration in 14 additional languages with text in English.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Abraham Lincoln's Birthday
Celebrate our 16th president's birthday by learning more about his life and completing these classroom activities. Includes general information, lesson plans, speeches, images, and videos.
Read Works
Read Works: A Big Birthday Celebration
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the Lotus Lantern Festival celebrating Buddha's birthday. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Read Works
Read Works: Happy Birthday
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about how birthdays are celebrated in different countries. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Read Works
Read Works: Happy Birthday!
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about celebrating Abraham Lincoln's birthday. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
CommonLit
Common Lit: Earth Day Birthday
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...
Read Works
Read Works: Owen Interstate Wants to Celebrate
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a boy named Owen who has a very different way to celebrate his birthday. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Library of Congress
Loc: Poetry 180: A Birthday Candle
The non-prose piece describes a thirtieth birthday candle being blown out and the thoughts surrounding this event.
NWT Literacy Council
Nwt Literacy Council: How to Kit: Literacy Activities for Holidays [Pdf]
'Literacy Activities for Holidays' is an extensive collection (150 pages) of activities for celebrating the traditional holidays of Valentines Day, Halloween, Easter, Christmas and Thanksgiving. Birthdays are also included.
Other
The Virtual Vine: Birthdays
A fellow teacher suggests creative ways to use birthdays as a teaching tool!
BBC
Bbc News: Mandela Celebrates 90th Birthday
A timeline of Nelson Mandela's life accompanied by videos of significant events.
Other
Earth's Birthday Project: Educating About the Earth
This site is loaded with science activities for elementary students. There are role plays, recipes, dances, writing exercises and craft ideas. You can also raise you own luna moths, praying mantids, ladybugs or carnivorous plants. Lots...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Celebrations
[Free Registration/Login Required] An interactive introduction to birthday, Christmas and wedding celebrations prompting children to draw on their own experiences of these events.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Celebrating Seuss!
In honor of Dr. Seuss's birthday students will explore and develop a love of the literature of Dr. Seuss through read-alouds and activities such as a birthday party, rhyming word matching, and graphing. Several Internet links are...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: It's Your Birthday, Dr. Seuss!
This lesson plan is intended to be used during the month of March when the class is preparing to celebrate Dr. Seuss Day. After listening to and reading different stories by Dr. Seuss, the students have opportunities to compare and...
Library of Congress
Loc: With Malice Toward None: The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibition
Through a vast collection of articles, photographs, etc. the Library of Congress is offering an exhaustive exhibition in honor of the bicentennial celebration of President Abraham Lincoln.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Robert Johnson Classroom Activity
This classroom activity is intended as a celebration and commemoration of blues legend Robert Johnson's birthday. From ReadWriteThink's calendar on May 8, 2007.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Mozart's 250th Birthday
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is a brief overview of Mozart's life, celebrating his 250th birthday on January 27, 2006 and includes Activote questions for assessment.
PBS
Mpr: F. Scott Fitzgerald's 100th Birthday
Maintained by Minnesota Public Radio, this website celebrates Fitzgerald's centenary (1996), offering links to biographical information, information on the author's connection to St. Paul, MN, and the comments of other authors about...
Library of Congress
Loc: Poetry 180: June 11
In this non-prose piece, the poet shares his experience with a birthday passing without much celebration.
The Franklin Institute
A Penny Flipped Is Science Learned
What is the probability that a penny will land on heads when flipped? Test this on Ben Franklin's birthday and find out!