Curated OER
Chinese New Year Dragon Parade
Students research Chinese New Year celebrations to find out about traditions such as food, music, red banners on doors, parades, and fireworks. Students then view images of traditional Chinese dragons, and create their own dragons.
Curated OER
Clowns
Students read books, learn about the letter c, and eat with clown noses on to learn about clowns. In this clowns lesson plan, students also have a parade where they dress like clowns.
Read Works
Read Works: Thanking Brave Americans
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about Veterans Day. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Maine Historical Society
Maine Memory Network: Exhibit: A Day for Remembering
Using historically significant documents and images the celebration of Memorial Day is traced from the late 1800s on.
Chateau Meddybemps
Bean Time: But That Wasn't the Best Part in Spanish
Beantime Stories offers pictures and a story in Spanish about all the parts of a parade.
Other
Art, Repetition, and Jacob Lawrence
A great idea for a lesson including the style of Jacob Lawrence's "Parade." Not only includes lesson, but also a list of artists with similar styles to Lawrence. Lesson is under Instructional Unit Three.
Curated OER
Bean Time: But That Wasnt the Best Part in Spanish
Beantime Stories offers pictures and a story in Spanish about all the parts of a parade.
Curated OER
Labor Day Parade, Main Street, Buffalo, New York
Overhead view of the first Labor Day parade, in Buffalo, New York on September 5, 1882.