New+Year's+Activities

> http://www.timeticker.com/main.htm > See what time it is in various parts of the world. > Explanations of how New Year's is celebrated around the world with links. > http://www.fathertimes.net/traditions.htm > Links to explanations of New Year celebrations around the world.
 * [|**Ticker Time**]
 * **[|World Time Zone Map]**
 * **[|Journey in Time>]**http://www.fi.edu/time/Journey/
 *  [|**Activities for the Classroom**]**:** Online and printable activities.
 * **[|Sun Clocks- Telling time with Shadows]: Links, lesson plans, interactive activities.**
 * **[|Multicultural Calendar>]**[|http://www.kidlink.org/KIDPROJ/MCC/>]Holidays celebrated around the world sorted by month, holiday, country, and author. Links are included.
 * **[|A to Z Calendar Printouts>]**[|http://www.enchantedlearning.com/calendar/>]
 * **[|When year 2009 Starts Around the World>]**[|http://www.timeanddate.com/counters/firstnewyear.html>]A table of information of when year 2009 starts around the world.
 * [|**New Year's Celebrations Around the World**> http://www.topics-mag.com/internatl/holidays/new-year/page.htm]
 * [|**New Year Traditions**]
 * **[|Time: Person of the Year>]**[|http://www.time.com/time/personoftheyear/>]Who will be named the Person of 2008? View photo essays, covers gallery, and previous picks.
 * **[|New Year's Activities>]**http://www.dltk-kids.com/crafts/newyear/
 * **[|New Year's Crafts>>]**
 * **[|New Year's Lesson Plans>]**[|http://www.teachervision.com/lesson-plans/lesson-6649.html>]Includes printable worksheets and answer sheets.
 * **[|Chinese New Year Resources>]**[|http://www.kiddyhouse.com/Teachers/>]Click on Lesson Plans > Holidays & Celebrations Lesson PLans. Includes background information, lesson plans, activities, black line masters.
 * [|**Chinese New Year**> http://www.teachervision.com/lesson-plans/lesson-6603.phtml>]Included here are links and lesson plans for the Chinese New Year. Printable lesson plans.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">**[|Chinese New Year Lunar Calendar>]**[|http://www.chinapage.com/newyear.html>]Jan. 26, 2009 is the first day of the year of the ox.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">**[|Chinese New Year History>]**[|http://www.new-year.co.uk/chinese/>]
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">**[|Chinese New Year>]**[|http://www.educ.uvic.ca/faculty/mroth/438/CHINA/chinese_new_year.html>]Celebrations, traditions, decorations, taboos and superstitions.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">**[|12 Animals of Chinese Calendar>]**[|http://www.chinapage.com/12animals.html>]The Chinese calendar cycle is explained.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">**[|Chinese Calligraphy>]**[|http://library.thinkquest.org/3614/>]Samples of brush strokes and symbols with explanations.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">**[|Dragons in Ancient Culture>]**[|http://www.chinapage.com/dragon1.html>]Art samples of dragons.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">**[|The Next Millennium, now what?>]**[|http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/1999/future/>]Challenge your junior and intermediate students to imagine what will happen in areas of architecture, disease, language, furniture, education, parks and wilderness, faith, artificial intelligence, food, sports, money, space, fashion, and music, then check with and expert in their field. Click on "Play with the future" and view Mapping the Future, view the Gallery of the future and the video gallery then try the quiz. Use this site as a beginning point for the study of the Science Fiction genre.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">**[|A thousand years of history>]**[|http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/1999/millennium/>]CNN's video presentation summary. Provides and interesting timeline of great events that shaped our world.