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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