3/12/2012 Everyone's Irish on St. Patrick's Day

TOP 20 SITES FOR YOU AND YOUR STUDENTS ON ST. PATRICK'S DAY!

In honor of this past weekend's St. Patrick's Day Parade in Atlantic City, I am posting some of my favorite resources for teaching St. Patrick's Day.

The most fun can be had on http://www.irelandseye.com/leprechaun/webcam.htm, where my students and I keep a sharp look out for passing leprechauns.  During the month of March students also build leprechaun traps to demonstrate their mastery of simple machines.  This lesson will be posted tomorrow.
For now here are some other great sites to learn about St. Patrick's Day.

1. St. Patrick's Day on History.com
2. Ways to Celebrate from ABC News
3. 10 Things You Didn't Know About St. Patrick's Day from TIME
4. Celebrating St. Patrick's Day Slideshow
5. 8 St. Patrick's Day Tales and Traditions from TIME
6. A Brief History of St. Patrick's Day from TIME Photos
7. MSNBC video - Who Was St. Patrick?
8. Interesting Facts About St. Patrick from the BBC
9. NYPD Pipes and Drums
10. ESOL Courses on St. Patrick's Day
11. St. Patrick's Day Science Tricks
12. WebQuests from One Stop English
13. Irish Music by Wraggle Taggle
14. About Traditional Irish Music
15. Irish Immigration on Think Quest
16. Irish Immigration from a UK site
17. Irish Immigrants in the United States

18. Irish Genealogy Tool Kit
19. Irish Potato Famine