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Keeping Students Focused During the Holiday Season

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
There are easy ways to make the day before a school break fun, exciting, and productive.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Vacation Fitness Lesson Plan

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This lesson is a very relatable fitness activity! Students use their bodies to move through the motions of going on a vacation.
Interactive
Vocabulary University

My vocabulary.com: Vacations

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page has a variety of vocabulary puzzles and activities using 16 vocabulary words pertaining to vacations. It also offers an extensive word list of vacation vocabulary and ideas for lesson plans.
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Other

English Montreal School Board: Vacation Re Quest: A Webquest

For Teachers 4th - 8th
This site features a dedicated and enthusiastic travel agent who wants to be prepared to provide the ultimate vacation packages for any client that uses your agency. Students research one of four countries and work with a partner to...
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Read Works

Read Works: Space Vacation

For Teachers 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about tourists paying for vacation trips to the space station with astronauts. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in drawing conclusions.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: The Lollipops' Vacation

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A scanned copy of the 1896 publication of The Lollipops' Vacation by Sophie Swett, a fiction book for children.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Vacation Fun for Boys and Girls by w.w. Houston and Co.

For Students 2nd - 4th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Vacation Fun for Boys and Girls by W.W. Houston and Co. (c1894), a collection of illustrated children's stories and poems.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Winter Vacation

For Students 2nd - 4th
A scanned copy of the 1853 publication of Winter Vacation, a fiction book for children.
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Other

Shaw Guides: Learning Vacation & Creative Career Program

For Students 9th - 10th
There are thousands of learning vacations and fun career programs here to choose from. What would you like to learn about?
Primary
Bartleby

Bartleby.com: "At a Vacation Exercise" by John Milton

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the original, online text of the poem "At a Vacation Exercise" by John Milton. Cursor down for the text.
eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: The Long Vacation by Charlotte M. Yonge

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the complete text of the novel The Long Vacation by Charlotte M. Yonge.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Our Summer Vacation

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This lesson will be used after a study of Alabama. It will incorporate the theme of vacationing into information learned about state parks in Alabama. Students will make a book about favorite state parks in Alabama and favorite things to...
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Other

Greenpeace: Explore Alberta a Tar Sands Vacation Video

For Students 9th - 10th
This video is a satirical look at what a summer vacation to the tar sands would be like. Awaken to propane cannons scaring birds off the toxic lakes, take your children to swim at a tarry beach, and so on. You can also check the weather...
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Other

Alaska Vacation and Travel Information: Explore Alaska's Regions

For Students 9th - 10th
This portal site provides information, maps, photographs and tourist information for each of Alaska's primary geographic regions, such as the Inside Passage where Glacier Bay is located.
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The Franklin Institute

Franklin Institute: In Quiry: Minutes From Me: Latitude, Longitude and Vacations

For Teachers 6th - 8th
An explanation of latitude and longitude along with a classroom activity that uses the location of students' vacation destinations for charting latitudes and longitudes.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: New York City: Shopping on a Family Vacation

For Students 1st - 9th
Travel to New York City with the family on vacation. Where to take the kids shopping.
eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: "Mr. Ledbetter's Vacation" by H. G. Wells

For Students 9th - 10th
Text of the short story "Mr. Ledbetter's Vacation" by H. G. Wells. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)
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Read Works

Read Works: Summer Vacation

For Teachers 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a boy named Jose who learned the importance of a weather forecast. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Marilyn J. Brackney

Imagination Factory: What Did You Do on Your Summer Vacation?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Here is an art idea for young students returning to school after summer break. Website provides ideas for making unique collages conveying any theme.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 2.nbt How Many Days Until Summer Vacation?

For Teachers 2nd
This lesson plan has students solving a real world word problem using addition or subtraction.
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Other

Renouveau Vacances

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out about the history of this resort, their vacation suggestions, how to reserve, and location of the resorts.
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University of Texas at Austin

Francais Interactif Les Vacances

For Students 9th - 10th
Weather, seasons, geography, activities - all thins related to vacations presented with extensive vocabulary list, interactive audio, video and interview clips utilizing vocab in context. Has links to important grammatical concepts and...
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Family Education

Family Education: Family Vacations: Visiting Farms

For Students Pre-K - 1st
These farms may not be close to you, but will give you some good ideas about visiting family farms in your area. It will do your heart good to see your kids doing farm chores.
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For Students 9th - 10th
Discover why so many people travel to Spain. It's more than a vacation spot.

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