Part of the annual celebration of the Chinese New Year is the lantern festival. Tween Tribune tells the story of these traditional symbols of the culture.

Five great tips to incorporate into your daily newscasts are discussed in this article at SchoolTV.

Kids learn about Chinese New Year. The history and facts about this holiday celebrating the start of the year in China.

A good holiday story for children is "Uncle Richard's New Year's Dinner" about starting the new year with a home cooked dinner. Read the full text of this short story by Lucy M. Montgomery on this site.

"What could you smell on the streets of New York in 1890?" An interesting question that this paper answers well by examining an exhibit at the New York Public Library entitled "Garbage: The History and Politics of Trash in New York City."

New Year's Day 1892, Ellis Island became a significant entrance into the United States for immigrants coming from far and wide. January 1, 2017, marks the 125th year of the iconic New York island.

This site provides an excellent guide for new teachers, addressing how to work with a variety of people, including veteran teachers, parents, principals, and others.

It's not surprising the United States would have challenges in its first years. Read about the problems with foreign countries, its own citizens who resisted taxes, and dealings with Native Americans.

This site provides an excellent guide for new teachers, addressing how to work with a variety of people, including veteran teachers, parents, principals, and others.

If you don't know that the incandescent light was a failure before it was a success, it's easy to write off some modern energy innovations like solar panels because they haven't hit the big time fast enough. Worse, the fairy-tale view of...

This article from the Seattle Times describes the dawning of the atomic age. Illustrates the events of the detonation of the first atomic bomb in Trinity, New Mexico, just before the Hiroshima bomb.

Anticipation, survival, disillusionment, rejuvenation, and reflection are the phases discussed in this New Teacher Center article.

Anticipation, survival, disillusionment, rejuvenation, and reflection are the phases discussed in this New Teacher Center article.

Discusses technology being used to improve airport security in the wake of the terrorist attacks in recent years. [Date of Article: April 28, 2010]

Potato farmers spend billions of dollars every year to fight blight - a disease that can wipe out potato crops. Now scientists have discovered a wild variety of potato that is immune to blight. See the advantages and possible...

This section of the larger website Discovering Lewis & Clark examines how the Corps of Discovery celebrated three special days-Christmas Day, New Year's Day, and Independence Day-with a mixture of traditions.

Read and listen to Franklin D. Roosevelt's second inaugural address where he points out the problems and progress made in his previous four years. He goes on to lay out his plans for his next term.

Read Franklin Roosevelt's second inaugural address in which he assesses the previous four years and lays out his plan for the next.

History and mathematics merge in this lesson that explores the origin of the calendar. Learn how it all got started in this detailed lesson that includes a simple months of the year game and a more challenging time conversion game. Both...

Eleven documents and two maps detailing the almost two hundred year struggle between England and Spain for hegemony in the Caribbean.

An interesting look at the difficulty of conducting the first national census in 1790. Find a snap shot of American society in that year and a glimpse of what the future held.

As many as three million buffalo were killed in two years after the coming of the railroad. This site tells the story through quotes from one of the hunters and from Native American writer Scott Momaday and others.

This is an online study guide/notes for the non-fiction book Hiroshima by John Hersey including author information, literary elements, chapter-by-chapter summaries/notes, study questions, and analysis. The book tells the stories of six...

Choose from dozens of simple crafts including activities for the holidays, animal crafts and much more.