Memorial Day

Korean War Veterans Memorial - Southeast of the Lincoln Memorial, 19 sculptures stand under the watchful eye of a sea of faces upon a granite wall. This is a reminder of the human cost of defending freedom. (Y, M, O, T)

Memorial Day - From EasyFunSchool.com (Y,M)

Annie's "Memorial Day Kids" Page - From Annie's Homepage.com (Y,M)

Memorial Day Activities - Crossword Puzzles, Logic Puzzles, Online Picture Puzzles, Quizzes, Word Fill-Ins, Word Search Puzzles and Sites listing lesson plans and activities available from the Web. (Y,M)

Celebrating Memorial Day - From KidsTurnCentral.com (Y,M)

Memorial Day Activities for Kids - From Apples4theteacher.com (Y,M)

Memorial Day - From NOBLE: North of Boston Library Exchange. (Y,M)

Kid Memorial Day Craft Ideas - From Freekidcrafts.com. (Y,M)

USS Arizona Memorial - The official website of the memorial from the National Park Service (Y, M, O, T)

Veterans in my family - Students create a visual of family members who are/were veterans. Grades Pre-K-12 (Y, M, O, T)

Vietnam Veterans Memorial - Offical site from the From the National Park Service. (Y, M, O, T)

Arlington National Cemetary - Official website of the cemetery. If you can not visit the cemetery, check out the site map to this website or the historical information tab located on the home page. (Y, M, O, T)

National D-Day Memorial - Find resources remembering the Normandy Invasion, commonly known as D-Day, by the Allied Forces. From the National D-Day Memorial site in Bedford, Virginia (so located because proportionally Bedford suffered the greatest number of losses from any US community). (T)

Celebrating America's Freedoms - From the Virginia DOE, most of these Veteran's Day activities would work well for Memorial Day as well. (T)

Memorial Day crafts, projects, and printouts - elementary crafts and printouts from Enchanted Learning (Y)

Memorial Day websites - Celebrated in most states on the last Monday in May, Memorial Day is a time to remember the U.S. men and woman who lost their lives serving their country. Originally known as Decoration Day, it was established in 1868 to commemorate the dead from the Civil War. Over the years it came to serve as a day to remember all U.S. men and women killed or missing in action in all wars. (T)

Memorial Day printables - Puzzles and many printables from EdHelper.com. Grades 2-6 (Y,M)

Why remember? - resources for A Day of Remembrance from Veterans' Affairs Canada (Y, M, O, T)

Korean War Veterans Memorial - from the National Park Service (Y, M, O, T)