Columbus Day

• Kids and Teens: People and Society: Biography: Explorers: Columbus, Christopher  (10)
• Kids and Teens: People and Society: Holidays and Special Days: Columbus Day  (12)
• Society: History: By Topic: Exploration: Explorers: Columbus, Christopher  (21)

Celebrate! Holidays In The U.S.A. - Columbus Day (Second Monday in October) - An introductory survey of the historical and social background of Columbus Day.

Celebrating Columbus Day at The Holiday Zone - Include history, printable worksheets and coloring pages, arts and crafts, poems, interactive puzzles, discussion topics, and language activities.

Columbus and Other Great Explorers - Provides a short history of the man and the holiday which bears his name. Also includes information on other famous journeys and explorations. From Infoplease.com

Columbus Day - Offers a history of the holiday along with printable crossword puzzles and word searches.

Columbus Day Activities and Games - Offers a variety of resources for the classroom teacher, including stories, poems, a skit, coloring pages, and craft ideas.

Columbus Day from Rumela.com - Provides the history, traditions, and facts of this holiday. Offers short biography of Christopher Columbus.

Columbus Day (United States) - Brief description relates the holiday's origin, tells how it is celebrated in the U.S., and lists other countries that observe it.

Columbus Day-Holiday Insights - Information about Columbus Day with links to ecards, games, and fun.

Dia de la Raza - Columbus Day, Native American Day and Dia de la Raza commemorate the exploration, colonization and multi-cultural and multi-ethnic heritage of the Americas.

Dia de la Raza - Offers historical facts and cultural information about this Latin American observance.

Día de la Raza - Article discusses Columbus Day in Costa Rica and explores how Columbus's discovery impacted the nation.

Día de la Raza - Celebrated throughout Latin America as the day of the arrival of Columbus and the birth of the first Latinoamericanos - the day of The Race (Día de la Raza).

Día de la Raza - Día de la Raza, a celebration of the modern Latin American and the contradictions of the Columbus celebration.

Indigenous Peoples Day - Describes the an event replacing Columbus Day in some parts of the United States and explains the rationale behind it.

John's Word Search Puzzles: Columbus Day - Printable word search includes terms related to Columbus's life.

Lesson Plan - Columbus Day - Lesson plan designed for use in the fourth or fifth grade classroom examines the Columbus Day holiday from a Native American perspective. From the College of Education at Utah State University.

T.J. Monkey's: How Columbus Day Came to Be - A humorous account of the origins of Columbus Day.

Today in History: October 12 - History and images related to Columbus Day. From the Library of Congress.