Saluda School District One
Labor Day Lesson Plans...
       
                                              

Teaching ideas: Career/job search, student-created bulletin board, newspaper, posters,
parade, poetry study about labor through the eras, artistic rendition of labor through 
American history, music about labor throughout history, comparison of agricultural
society vs service society, primary resource study, research to include correct 
documentation, vocabulary study. Remind students to access For Students on the
webpage and then click on Research for reference sources.

http://www.edhelper.com/cat153.htm

Slow loading/excellent link to over 30 resources

http://www.teach-nology.com/teachers/lesson_plans
/holidays/labor/

Links

Teaching ideas

http://webcenter.netscape.teachervision.com/
tv/lpsearch/theme=Labor%20Day&grade=

Labor Day documents

Links to integration of art, poetry, literature

Excellent pre-K to grade 12 links

http://www.patriotism.org/laborday/page3.html

Grade 6-12

Roles of labor unions, government

Events, individuals

Comparison to Labor Day in other countries

http://www1.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/
990903friday.html

Grades 6-12

Websearch for resources

Using correct documentation

Checking validity of websites

http://teachervision.com/lesson-plans/lesson-1757.html

Grades 3-12

Creating a newspaper about Labor Day

http://www.lessonplanspage.com/LaborDay.htm

Grades 7-12 lesson plans
Links to poetry

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