Resources exclusively for sixth grade students at Skyridge Middle School.
Holiday Research Project
GENERAL Holiday Sites:
For these sites, spend time looking for YOUR country and its celebrations.
- NEW- Museum of Science and Industry Holidays Around the World
- NEW-Holidays From Around the World
- *Santa's Net Around the World
- Festivals of Light (site covers 7 festivals)
- National Geographic Winter Celebrations
- Hoover Library: Christmas Around the World
- Winter Customs Around the World
- Christmas Celebrations-iloveindia
- Christmas-Day-Christmas Around the World
- Christmas Around the World (music on the site)
- Christmas Celebrations Around the World
- World of Christmas (links are on the right)
- International Christmas
- Christmas Traditions
- Christmas Traditions Around the World (Very cool!!)
- *Christmas Cultures-Very cool. Look along the left for a list of countries.
- Religious Traditions
- NEW-G'Day Mate… Christmas in Australia and Christmas in Australia
RECIPES
- Saint Nicholas Recipes
- Christmas at the Holiday Spot: Recipes
- Holiday Eats: Holiday Recipes-There is a menu of different celebrations across the top.
- Eating and Recipes
DIWALI
KWANZAA
- Family Culture-Kwanzaa
- Official Kwanzaa Website
- Everything About Kwanzaa
- Kwanzaa History.com
- Holidays.Net: Kwanzaa
- Kwanzaa Recipes
HANUKKAH
- Hanukkah Traditions
- Chanukah
- Information Please-Hanukkah
- All About Hanukkah
- How Hanukkah Works
- Holidays.Net: Chanukah
- Jewish Holidays
LA POSADA
- Holiday Traditions of Mexico (La Posada)
- Christmas in Mexico
- Christmas Traditions in Mexico
- Mexico Vacation Travels
- Why Christmas.com: Mexico
- Las Posadas: Mexico Culture
- Christmas in Mexico
THREE KINGS DAY or Epiphany
- Three Kings Day
- Three Kings
- Three Kings Traditions around the world
- NEW-Hispanic Traditions for Three Kings
- NEW The Season of Epiphany
- NEW News story about Epiphany with a slide show (pay attention to the captions)
ST. LUCIA's DAY
- Christmas is Sweden
- Slovak Traditions: St. Lucia
- Kansas Public Library: Saint Lucia Day
- Britannica: St. Lucia’s Day (This is the bib…)
- How To Celebrate St. Lucia's Day
- St. Lucia's Day in Scandinavia
CHINESE NEW YEAR
- CNY
- Celebration of Chinese New Year
- Chinese New Year Crafts and Details
- About.com: Chinese New Year
- Chinese New Year: Lantern Festival
RAMADAN
- Ramadan on the Net
- Hartman, Holly. "Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr." Factmonster. (bib is not done, but this provides the author information).
- Islamic Holidays and Observances
- Ramadan Question & Answer
- Holiday Spot: History of Ramadan
- Ramadan in Turkey
JAPANESE NEW YEAR
- Manga Style Japanese New Year
- Japanese New Year-Shogotsu
- Family Culture-Japanese New Year
- Japan Guide: Japanese New Year
- Japanese New Year Across Japan
- Japanese New Year's Food
- Rituals and Symbols of the Japanese New Year
- Japanese New Year Pictures/from a blog…fun to look at.
- New Year's Celebrations in Japan
COUNTRY RESEARCH happens with online encyclopedia WORLDBOOK, Culturegrams, and NetTrekker in addition to print sources. Here are some other online resources to try:
- Countries with National Geographic is GREAT!
- CIA World Factbook - Look at the pull down menu to the right and click the + to expand the view.
- Country Reports- Amazing! Great for "tidbits" of unique information about a country.
- Atlapedia is also amazing.
- FactMonster Country Research
- CULTUREGRAMS-Username is CamasHS • Password is Makers
