Veterans Day 2009

This year Veterans Day falls on Wednesday November 11, 2009. Many students look at this as a nice break during the school week. Take it a step further and teach them the rationale behind this school holiday. Go even more indepth: create a "School Holidays" wiki where your students research different school holidays. Use the resources below to get started...

Teach-nology

Teach-nology has crafts, resources, vocabulary builders, and lesson plans to help you plan your activities for Veteran’s Day.




Education World

Lessons on Veteran’s Day and Memorial Day




Teacher Planet

Teacher Planet breaks down lessons and units by grade. They also have songs, poems, and word searches as well as a Veteran’s Day teaching guide



About.Com

About.com’s Veteran’s Day suggestions

Reach Every Child

Reach Every Child has some excellent resources. They have a link to activities that can be used to teach about Patriotism as well



Teacher Tube Video

A 6 minute video tribute to honor those who have served

Link to Additional Videos

This links to a TeacherTube video playlist of videos created for Veteran’s Day