Celebrate the major and minor July holidays with this July Digital Bulletin Board!
Includes “big” holidays like Independence Day, Canada Day, and Bastille day, plus lesser-known celebrations like World Population Day and National Ice Cream Month.
This product has 66 slides & pages, and it includes:
- 58-slide presentation in Microsoft PowerPoint + Google Slides
- All body text is editable; you choose which slides you want to use.
- This presentation is for entertainment and communication. Students will learn a lot about July-related facts, but it is NOT meant to be a formal direct instruction library lesson.
- If automatic timings for each slide are set to 45 seconds each, the scrolling show will loop once every 44 minutes.
- Two (2) editable, differentiated scavenger hunts (3 pages, PowerPoint and PDF)
- Students “hunt” for images and information to answer 12 questions in the presentation. This gives students something to focus on during library checkout and downtime.
- “Easier” version – Students color the objects as they find them.
- “Harder” version – Students answer questions about the information in the slides, plus find smaller images.
- Answer key is included.
- List of 52 recommended books to accompany this lesson (1 page, PowerPoint and PDF)
- The list is editable and great to hand out to parents, teachers, and students looking for related books.
- Take-Home Extension Activities (2 pages, PowerPoint, Google Slides, and PDF)
- Text is editable, and includes several ways for students to share what they learned during the lesson.
- Instructions on how to set up PowerPoint slide timings (2 pages, PDF)
58 Digital Bulletin Board Slides:
- This July Digital Bulletin Board focuses on major and minor July holidays and celebrations (scroll down for full list of celebrations mentioned).
- Vocabulary Words of the Week: “pandemonium” and “pollinator”
- Fun facts about moths, ice cream flavors, the Liberty Bell, and more!!
- Famous July birthdays, featuring:
- Princess Diana – July 1, 1961
- Julius Caesar – July 12, 100 B.C.E.
- Sir Edmond Hillary – July 20, 1919
- Amelia Earhart – July 24, 1897
- Larkspur and water lily (July flowers)
- Ruby (July birthstone)
- 4 Would you rather and This or That question slides
- 3 Extreme Close-ups (photos zoomed in for students to guess what they are)
- 6 trivia questions with answers
- Daily and weekly schedule
- Library and school announcement template slides
- Reminders
- This week’s birthdays
July holidays and traditions included:
- National Hot Dog Month,
- National Ice Cream Month,
- National Peach Month,
- National Blueberry Month,
- National Fireworks Safety Month,
- American Zoo Day (1st),
- Canada Day (1st),
- Independence Day – United States (4th),
- Liberty Bell Day (8th),
- World Population Day (11th),
- Bastille Day – France (14th),
- Shark Awareness Day (14th),
- Cow Appreciation Day (14th),
- Pandemonium Day (14th),
- National Moon Day (20th),
- National Avocado Day (31st), and
- National Moth Week (last week of July).
Take-Home Extension Activities
Students love sharing their knowledge! With this editable 2-page July Library Handout, students can:
- Quiz siblings, friends, and family members about some of the facts they learned in the July Digital Bulletin Board;
- Learn to make a refreshing watermelon pizza;
- Review July vocabulary words from the lesson;
- Learn to draw an ice cream cone using simple, step-by-step directions;
- Learn how to sign “caterpillar” in American Sign Language;
- List of famous July birthdays from the presentation;
- List of July celebrations mentioned in the presentation.
Standards Addressed:
AASL National School Library Standards – See the AASL Standards Framework for Learners to view full text.
- Inquire – C.1. – D.1.
- Explore – A.1. – C.1.
Terms of Use
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