March Holidays Digital Bulletin Board & Scavenger Hunts for Elementary

This March Holidays Digital Bulletin Board is a scrolling slideshow of multiple March holiday traditions around the world with fun facts and trivia, plus a list of Recommended Reads.

Includes “big” holidays like St. Patrick’s Day and Women’s History Month, plus lesser-known celebrations like Holi, National Ranch Dressing Day, and National Pig Day.

This product has 56 slides & pages, and it includes:

• 48-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 March-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 45 minutes.
• Two (2) editable, differentiated scavenger hunts (3 pages, PowerPoint and PDF)
  • Students “hunt” for images and information in the Part 2 scrolling slides part of 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 36 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 for digital bulletin boards (2 pages, PDF)

48 Digital Bulletin Board Slides:

• This March Digital Bulletin Board focuses on major and minor March holidays and celebrations (scroll down for full list of March celebrations mentioned).
• Vocabulary Words of the Week: “soul music” and “equinox”
• Fun facts about pigs, Black Forest cake, Pi Day, Daylight Savings Time, and more
• Famous March birthdays, featuring:
  • Alexander Graham Bell (March 3, 1847)
  • Simone Biles (March 14, 1997)
  • Albert Einstein (March 14, 1879)
  • Harry Houdini (March 24, 1874)
  • Aretha Franklin (March 25, 1942)
• daffodils (March flower)
• aquamarine (March birthstone)
• Roman god Mars (how March got its name)
• 3 question slides: Would you rather, This or That, and Pick One questions
• 7 trivia questions with answers
• Daily and weekly schedule
• Library and school announcement template slides
• This week’s birthdays

March holidays and traditions included:

• Women’s History Month,
• National Nutrition Month,
• Irish American Heritage Month,
• Holi (date varies),
• National Pig Day (1st),
• National Anthem Day (3rd),
• International Women’s Day (8th),
• National Ranch Dressing Day (10th),
• Daylight Saving Time (second Sun. of March),
• Pi Day (14th),
• St. Patrick’s Day (17th),
• First Day of Spring / Spring Equinox (20th or 21st),
• National Chips and Dip Day (23rd),
• National Manatee Day (last Wed. of March),
• National Black Forest Cake Day (28th).

Take-Home Extension Activities

Students love sharing their knowledge! With this 2-page March Library Handout, students can:

• quiz siblings, friends, and family members about some of the facts they learned in the March Digital Bulletin Board;
• learn to make a St. Patrick’s Day “green things” party platter;
• review March vocabulary words from the lesson;
• learn to draw a leprechaun’s hat using simple, step-by-step directions;
• learn how to sign “green” in American Sign Language;
• list of famous March birthdays from the presentation;
• list of March 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.

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