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Celebrated the second Monday of each October, Columbus Day commerates Columbus's Oct. 12, 1492 landing in the New World. Columbus Day is a legal holiday in the United States. It is celebrated as Día de la Raza in much of Latin America.

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• Celebrating Columbus Day at The Holiday Zone

  http://theholidayzone.com/columbus/
  Include history, printable worksheets and coloring pages, arts and crafts, poems, interactive puzzles, discussion topics, and language activities.

• Columbus and Other Great Explorers

  http://www.infoplease.com/spot/columbusday1.html
  Provides a short history of the man and the holiday which bears his name. Also includes information on other famous journeys and explorations. From Infoplease.com

• Columbus Day

  http://sunniebunniezz.com/holiday/columbus.htm
  Offers a history of the holiday along with printable crossword puzzles and word searches.

• Columbus Day Activities and Games

  http://www.apples4theteacher.com/holidays/columbus-day/
  Offers a variety of resources for the classroom teacher, including stories, poems, a skit, coloring pages, and craft ideas.

• Columbus Day-Holiday Insights

  http://holidayinsights.com/other/columbus.htm
  Information about Columbus Day with links to ecards, games, and fun.

• Día de la Raza

  http://www.cocori.com/library/crinfo/columb.htm
  Article discusses Columbus Day in Costa Rica and explores how Columbus's discovery impacted the nation.

• Dia de la Raza

  http://gosouthamerica.about.com/cs/southamerica/a/CulDiaRaza.htm
  Offers historical facts and cultural information about this Latin American observance.

• Indigenous Peoples Day

  http://www.red-coral.net/Pow.html
  Describes the event replacing Columbus Day in some parts of the United States and explains the rationale behind it.

• John's Word Search Puzzles: Columbus Day

  http://www.thepotters.com/puzzles/kids/columbus.html
  Printable word search includes terms related to Columbus's life.

• Lesson Plan - Columbus Day

  http://teacherlink.ed.usu.edu/tlresources/units/Byrnes-celebrations/columbus.html
  Lesson plan designed for use in the fourth or fifth grade classroom examines the Columbus Day holiday from a Native American perspective. From the College of Education at Utah State University.

• Today in History: October 12

  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/oct12.html
  History and images related to Columbus Day. From the Library of Congress.

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