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PBSLearningmedia.org has a section called “All About The Holidays” with many short videos and other resources on lots of holidays. Just put “holidays” into the search.

• link: https://pbslearningmedia.org

Nuggets of Information: Veterans Day for Kids by Bald Beagle

• link: https://youtu.be/PC3Q-N07WY4

https://youtu.be/PC3Q-N07WY4

quick video with lots of Holidays and dates

• link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyMBvHiErhA

I discovered a series on Amazon Prime that has episodes featuring different holidays and festivals celebrated around the world. Each episode is about an hour long and contains subtitles from different languages spoken.

Here are some books we found helpful for this lesson:
Celebrations Around the World: The Fabulous Celebrations you Won't Want to Miss by Katy Halford (instead of having my daughter do Mexico/Canada/China on the worksheet, I had her pick her 4 favorites from this book.
What Do You Celebrate?: Holidays and Festivals Around the World by by Whitney Stewart and Christiane Engel - this has some recipes and crafts

World map with political boundaries. Map is clickable. This was useful for Activity 4 to help identify countries by shape.

• link: https://geology.com/world/world-map.shtml

This fit in really well with this lesson - specifically the beginning of the lesson about symbols and the American Flag.

• link: http://www.brainpopjr.com/socialstudies/citizenship/ussymbols/

After learning about holidays around the world (Holi in Indian is a fascinating one), have your child make up their own holiday. What day(s) is it? What does it celebrate? How is it celebrated? What colors (if any) are used to represent it? What foods are served? How long does it last? What communities celebrate it?

I haven't done this lesson yet, but on this website you can find all of the holidays in any country. It also shows the flag of that country and you can map it.

• link: http://www.earthcalendar.net/_php/CountrySearch.php