Child Abuse Prevention Month

• Children At-Risk
  Resources from our Early Childhood Education Community.

Community Services Month (California)

• Is Community Service a Waste of Time?
  Many educators use the terms community service and service learning interchangeably. They are two very different concepts, though. What is the difference? Should your students participate in one or the other? Included: Education World talks to the experts about what it takes to create a real service-learning project -- if that's possible.
• Service Learning in Action Across the Grades
  No matter what grade level or subject you teach, service-learning projects can add a new dimension to your curriculum. This week, Education World offers examples of three excellent service-learning projects -- one each at the elementary, middle, and high school levels. Each project is an example of true service learning. Included: Individual projects that involve students in creating Web pages for nonprofits, link the generations, and introduce students to the inner workings of community government.
• Students Learn While Helping at Soup Kitchen
  How do you teach compassion? A project launched by teachers and students at Presentation of Mary Academy in Hudson, N.H., is designed to do just that. Classroom learning is tied closely to the students' participation in a project carried on with the Nashua Soup Kitchen and Shelter. Included: Details of how service learning can be tied to learning across the curriculum!
• Earth Inc. -- A Service-Learning Lesson Plan
  A well-planned service-learning project should include stated academic and service goals, strategies for assessment, and opportunities for reflection. As an example, the Social Studies Education Consortium offers a template for a model service project -- and teachers from offer their project. Included: Cross-curriculum goals, activities, and more!

International Amateur Radio Month

International Guitar Month

Keep America Beautiful Month

• Keep America Beautiful Organization

Listening Awareness Month

Math Education Month

• World's Largest Math Event

Month of the Young Child

• Early Childhood Community
  This community has been created to celebrate the creativity and dedication of all those who participate in the education of young children.

Multicultural Communication Month

National Bike Month

National Egg Month

• Why All the EGGS-citement About EGGS?
  Eggs-ploit the egg with an eggs-plosion of across-the curriculum egg-tivities forallgrades!

National Food Month

• Canteloupe Instead of Cupcakes? Believe It
  “Nutrition can’t be a unit; it has to be ongoing.” Those are the words of Sabina M. Mosso, who teaches preschoolers and kindergartners at Anna Boyd Child Development Center in Columbia, South Carolina. The Dole Food Company has recognized Mosso’s outstanding efforts to improve student nutrition, both in her school, and in other school districts in her state. Mosso knew she had won a huge victory when one of her students showed up on his birthday with a fruit tray instead of cupcakes!
• The Food Pyramid: Three Projects That Teach Kids About Nutrition
  While students load up on soft drinks, sweets, and high-fat foods, their teachers long for ways to help them understand what that kind of diet does to growing bodies. Three educators shared with Education World their latest attempts to halt the spread of junk food -- online projects! Students share information, compare data, and learn about foods from around the world.

National Garden Month

• Grow a Garden of Opportunity!
  Classroom gardens, whether outside or indoors, provide the perfect opportunity to bring life to lessons in science, history, math -- even poetry!
• Gems from the Garden --- Digging Up Activities for All Ages!
  As temperatures warm and snow melts, educators search for ways to invite new growth into their classrooms. The Internet is full of hands-on activities for the indoor and outdoor gardener. Plant a seed, design a garden, or investigate the life of a worm --- welcome the new season with those activities and a crop of others! Included: Online resources for students to plan and plant their own Fantasy Farm!
• Schoolyard Soil Dwellers: What’s Living in Your Schoolyard?
  "As a part of an online project called Schoolyard Soil Dwellers, students are digging up their playgrounds to uncover critters that make the land their home. Participants in this creative online project are discovering the rewards of getting their hands dirty and comparing data across the miles!
• GREAT SITES FOR TEACHING ABOUT…Gardens
  "Each week, Education World’s Great Sites for Teaching About … page highlights Web sites to help educators work timely themes into their lessons. This week’s sites are among the best on the Web for teaching about gardens.

National Poetry Month

• Invent Your Own Poetry Form: An End-of-the-Year Activity!
• Rhyme Time Poetry Plans and Projects
• Seventh Graders Writing Italian Sonnets You Bet!
• It's Raining Cats and Dogs

National STDs Education and Awareness Month

National Teaching and Joy Month

• National Education Association

National Youth Sports Safety Month

• National Youth Sports Safety Foundation, Inc

Older Americans Month

Personal History Awareness Month

Philatelic Societies Month

• Put a Stamp On History!
  Let your students vote online for the subjects of some soon-to-be released stamps! And that's just part of the fun with the United States Postal Service's "Celebrate the Century" program, a program that comes complete with valuable cross-curriculum teaching tools to highlight the people, places, events, and trends of each decade of the 20th century. Check out this program and other stamp-related resources online. Let your students "put their stamp on history"! Included: News of free stamp-related teaching materials from the USPS!

Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Month

• ASPCA Organization

School Library Media Month

• Librarians Online!
  The best tools on the Web for cybrarians! With so much of the world's information online, today's librarian has been transformed into a media specialist with a specialty in online information access -- a cyber-librarian or "cybrarian"! Included: The best resources to aid cybrarians in their quest to make information accessible to all!
• Celebrating America's Libraries

Sports Eye Safety Month

Stress Awareness Month

• The Eyes Have It!
  According to the American Academy of Ophthalmology, more than 100,000 people incur eye injuries each year and more than half of the victims of those injuries are children. September is Children's Eye and Health Safety Month, the perfect time to begin teaching your students about the importance of taking care of their eyes.

Women's Health Care Month