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 January is National Health Month

Great Sites for Teaching about Health

Coloring Activity

Say "Happy New Year" in many languages
Ellis Island Opened

kThe Drinking Straw was Patented

Georgia became the 4th U.S. state (1788)

Information : The Fifty States of the United States

 Alaska Admission Day

Explore Alaska: Three Scavenger Hunts

Louis Braille’s Birthday

Jacob Grimm, German librarian and fairy tale collector, born (1785)

Using Fairy Tales to Debate Ethics

George Washington Carver Day
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National Bird Day

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Joan of Arc’s Birthday
Label a map of France.

Millard Fillmore’s Birthday

Elvis Presley’s Birthday

Aviation Anniversary

National Static Electricity Day

Women’s Suffrage

First Meeting of United Nations

Milk Day
Milk was delivered in bottles for the first time in 1878.

Amelia Earhart began a flight from Honolulu, HI to Oakland, CA becoming the first woman to fly solo across the Pacific Ocean (1935)

Pyramid Mysteries Unearthed

National Handwriting Day

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Rubber Duckie's Birthday

Douglas Wilder

Benedict Arnold’s Birthday

Martin Luther King Day
Take a quiz on MLK Jr.

Persian Gulf War Began

Dian Fossey, the world's leading authority on the mountain gorilla (Gorillas in the Mist), was born

Benjamin Franklin's Birthday

Pooh Day

WWI Peace Congress opened in Versailles, France (1919)

Popcorn Day

Robert E. Lee, commander of Confederate forces during the Civil War, born

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John F. Kennedy's Inauguration

Ethan Allen, frontiersman and Revolutionary War leader of the Vermont Green Mountain Boys, born

Do Something Day

Boy Scouts Begins

Lord George Gordon Byron, English Romantic poet born

National School Nurse Day

National Handwriting Day

 California Gold Rush

 

Macintosh Computer Released

Alexander Graham Bell  transcontinental telephone service begins

National Bird

Michigan became a state, 1837
Read a page on Michigan, then take a quiz.

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Mozart’s Birthday

Challenger Explodes

Alice Neel (artist) born, 1900
Color one of Neel's paintings

National Puzzle Day

Chinese New Year

Year of the Pig

Kansas became the 34th state in the U.S.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Birthday

Read about FDR, then write a paragraph on him.

Islamic New Year

Jackie Robinson’s Birthday

Print and take a quiz on African-American history

   

 

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