Open Directory - Society: Holidays: Columbus Day
See also: - Include history, printable worksheets and coloring pages, arts and crafts, poems, interactive puzzles, discussion topics, and language activities. - Offers a history of the holiday along with printable crossword puzzles and word searches. - Brief description relates the holiday's origin, tells how it is celebrated in the U.S., and lists other countries that observe it. - Offers a variety of resources for the classroom teacher, including stories, poems, a skit, coloring pages, and craft ideas. - Provides the history, traditions, and facts of this holiday. Offers short biography of Christopher Columbus. - Information about Columbus Day with links to ecards, games, and fun. - Provides a short history of the man and the holiday which bears his name. Also includes information on other famous journeys and explorations. From Infoplease.com - Columbus Day, Native American Day and Dia de la Raza commemorate the exploration, colonization and multi-cultural and multi-ethnic heritage of the Americas. - Offers historical facts and cultural information about this Latin American observance. - Article discusses Columbus Day in Costa Rica and explores how Columbus's discovery impacted the nation. - Describes the event replacing Columbus Day in some parts of the United States and explains the rationale behind it. - Printable word search includes terms related to Columbus's life. - Lesson plan designed for use in the fourth or fifth grade classroom examines the Columbus Day holiday from a Native American perspective. From the College of Education at Utah State University. - History and images related to Columbus Day. From the Library of Congress.
