May Day Lesson Plans and Labor Links

May Day Lesson Plans

By Alan Haskvitz, national motivational speaker
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Haskvitz

A small link site with history of May Day
http://holidays.mrdonn.org/mayday.html

For primary level with craft ideas
http://www.first-school.ws/features/holiday/maydaystorypage.htm

More advanced May Day ideas
http://www.salmonriver.com/words/nancy/maia.html

Labor related lessons and links
Superior link site
http://www.42explore2.com/labor.htm

Terrific Site with all types of material
Child labor, women, songs, and more
http://www.labor-studies.org/lessons.htm

For middle and high school
A very complete and highly usable site with the history of labor clearly listed with excellent material by year.
http://www.kentlaw.edu/ilhs/curricul.htm

History of labor site
http://www.socialstudieshelp.com/Eco_Unionization.htm

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
An extremely important event in labor history.
http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/ntti/resources/lessons/fireinthesky/index.html

AFL/CIO site
http://www.aflcio.org/aboutus/history/history/links.cfm