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Labor Day Lessons and Teacher Resources :
Introduction:
"Labor Day is a United States federal holiday observed on the first Monday in September. ... The holiday originated in 1882 as the Central Labor Union of New York City sought to create 'a day off for the working citizens.' Congress made Labor Day a federal holiday on June 28, 1894, two months after the May Day Riots of 1894. May 4 was chosen to remember the Haymarket Affair. ... Today, Labor Day is often regarded as a day of rest and parades."
"Traditionally, Labor Day is celebrated by most Americans as the symbolic end of the summer. ... Families with school-age children take it as the last chance to travel before the end of summer. ... However, of late, schools have begun well before Labor Day, as early as July 24 in many urban districts..." Wikipedia
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Additional Resources:
- This is the history of Labor Day from the United States Department of Labor.
- Here is short story about Labor Day from the U.S. Embassy in Sweden.
- This USA.gov site includes information on all aspects of Labor Day from labor and labor union facts, occupational outlook and state job banks, career activities for kids, and back to school, recreation, and travel resources.
- Here are educational Labor Day activities including arts and crafts, puzzles and quizzes, games and activities, quotations, poetry, songs, book and vocabulary lists, and other printable materials.
- Crayola.com celebrates this holiday with a labor day worker's cube activity, seven additional lesson plans, some e-cards, and numerous craft projects.
- This is a curriculum of U.S. labor history for teachers sponsored by the Illinois Labor History Society.
- History.com presents Lewis W. Hine's photographic collection of child labor in America prior to 1918 on their Labor Day mini-site.
- Here are short articles about the Haymarket Tragedy and the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.
- This page is called "Labor Day - Kids Work Too!"
- This is an e-How article on labor laws for teens.
- See more labor related lessons in the Business & Economics section of our Social Studies pages
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