Here are a few of the ways teachers have used our calendar in the past.
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• Students become daily reporters during calendar time. Assign one day of the month to each student (or pair of students). Students use our calendar to research "their" day and report on one or two special events during the daily calendar time.
  
• Following "big tests" some of our teachers use the food celebrations included on our calendar as a focus for their classroom celebrations. Example: Pancake Day -- the entire fourth grade in one school decided to celebrate by eating pancakes, teachers plotted each student's favorite type of pancake using Excel and created a class chart, students created pancake people, wrote a pancake story -- well, you get the idea!
  
• Many teachers use our product as a "carrot" to reward students throughout the day by allowing them to explore the calendar during recess or as part of a learning center activity...our calendar is an excellent resource for inquiry-based learning.
  
• Every student will be expected to write a biography about a significant person in history at some point in time. The problem is, they frequently do not know who to write about or they always choose people that are most familiar to them. Give students an opportunity to select a person from our calendar (tell them to look for the icons) as part of their biography project. We feature a myriad of artists, authors, inventors, etc.
  
• Teachers in every curriculum area and grade level report that they use various sites found in our calendar to develop sponge activities throughout the year.
  
• An entire school celebrated Poetry Month -- students wrote poems and published an online Poetry book.
  
• Teachers frequently bookmark our bonus sites and use them for more in-depth units of study.
  
• Teachers have used the suggested webquests and activities that are sprinkled throughout the calendar.
  
• One teacher was thrilled to see that it was "Hot Cocoa Day," as her students were studying Switzerland---her students sipped on Hot Swiss Cocoa as they worked on their Social Studies unit.
  
• Teachers reportedly use the calendar during computer lab time -- they know our researched sites offer safe Internet options for those students who complete their computer projects early.
  
• Some teachers scan our calendar using the standard icons first; then, they read the top of the calendar.