Resources

These web sites were used to research holidays around the world:

• Holidays: A Sampler from Around the World from Scholastic

• Holidays Around the World - by Country from Holiday Insights

• Holidays Around the World from World Book Encyclopedia

• Around the World Holidays from Yahoo Kids

• Inside for the Holidays from ZuZu

• History of Holidays personal reflections and some historical information written and collected by Bill Petro.

• Multicultural Calendar kids from all over the world post how they are celebrate their country's holidays and festivals.

• Holidays & Festivals by Ms. Hos-McGrane's Grade 5 Students.

• Holidays & Celebrations from Around the World from Topics Online Magazine

• Holidays Around the World: A Festival of Lessons! from Education World

• Earth Calendar Excellent resource where you can search for holidays by date, country, religion.

• Holidays around the World for K-12 from Internet School Library Media Center

• Holidays Around the World Glossary from Kids' Turn Central

The Pole to Pole idea came from the Pole to Pole Project created by Ms. Hos-McGrane and her 5th grade class in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

These web sites were used to find copyright free images:

• flickrCC

• Flicker Creative Commons Search

• flickr advanced search

• flickr storm

• Creative Commons Search

• Sources of copyright friendly graphics

• Awesome clipart for educators

• Wisegorilla

• freefoto.com

• aarinfreephoto.com

• imagebase

• PD Photo

• Wikipedia Free Image Resources

• public domain pictures

To create this project we used:

• Wikispaces to create a space to collaborate, communicate, create and share. Take a look at our wiki.

• Inspiration to create the concept maps used to write about our favorite holidays.

• Dreamweaver and Coffee Cup HTML Editor to create the web pages and Macromedia Fireworks to make the interactive continent map.

• Cooltext.com to created banners and buttons.