| General Sites | Lesson plans | Poems/Songs |
| Arts/Crafts | Colouring & Activity Pages | Fun Stuff |
| Meet the Groundhogs | Clip Art | |
This page was updated on Tuesday, January 27, 2009
These first sites are more general, with facts, history and other information about Groundhog Day.
| A Positive Light | A look primarily at Punxsutawney Phil and the history behind Groundhog's Day. |
| Stormfax Weather Almanac | A wonderful site full of history and facts. Talks about the history of Punxsutawney Phil and Candlemas. Also listed is all the years that Phil has made his predictions from 1887 onwards. |
| 2Learn.com - Groundhog Day | A list of links for groundhog day, many I have already listed here, but there are a couple of new ones too. |
| Groundhogs.com | This is somewhat of a commercial site featuring books and characters about Punxsutawney Phil and his "family". There are some neat areas on the site and some may find the books and resources also useful. |
| Groundhog Day - Is it Spring Yet? | This site has some short but useful information on the history of Groundhog Day. |
| Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania | Home of Phil! This site has neat information on the town itself, from Groundhog Day to what's happening around the town. |
| 123 Holiday Net | Groundhog day history as well as groundhog trivia, groundhog information, shadows and more! |
| About.com | This page has a lot of historical information on Groundhog day as well as information and frequently asked questions about Punxsutawney Phil. There are links, photos and more! |
| About.com - Home and Garden | A neat page about Groundhogs and your garden. Plus they have other information on the history of the holiday, how groundhogs live and more! |
| Wikipedia | A great explanation of the history of Groundhog day and how it is celebrated. |
| Childfun | Quite a few activities, songs, poems and art ideas for Groundhog day. Geared for the younger grades. There is quite a bit of advertising, but just scroll down and you'll see all the ideas available. |
| Perpetual Preschool | Games, art, songs and activities designed for the primary grades. |
| Education World | A number of ideas for teaching about groundhog day across the curriculum. |
| Groundhog Day Quiz | This quiz is part of a site that offers instruction, lessons and quizzes for ESL students. The quiz could easily be used in a classroom setting. |
| Kaboose Family Network | A number of links to sites with history, games, colouring pages, songs and more! A good site for students as well to use. |
| Project Groundhog | This has been an ongoing project for several years now. There is a link on the main page where you can submit your email address to be notified of the next project. At this time only last year's information is available. |
| Everything Preschool | This site offers ideas for art, science, games and more for preschool aged children. |
| Songs 4 Teachers | Some general information about the day plus a song and a few printable activities. |
| Kidsturncentral | Students can do an on-line poll on whether they think the groundhog will see his shadow or not this year. View last year's results and do some activities as well. |
| Teaching is a Work of Heart | A Groundhog Unit - songs, writing ideas, literature, crafts and more! |
| ABC Teach | A few different items you can use in your classroom from writing paper to a word search. |
| Great Groundhogs | A one day unit plan for teaching about groundhogs. |
| Groundhog Day Site for Teachers | This site has a number of links including some for activity pages. |
| Groundhog Day | This one is by some Basset Hounds and features another original song done on the theme of Sitting on the Dock of the Bay. |
| Here's a Little Groundhog | A cute poem with a nice clip-art picture. Could be printed and used with a class poetry collection. |
| Childfun | Quite a few activities, songs, poems and art ideas for Groundhog day. Geared for the younger grades. |
| Perpetual Preschool | Games, art, songs and activities designed for the primary grades. |
| CanTeach | Groundhog Day Poems |
| Project Groundhog | 4 cute poems to share with your class. |
| Childfun | Quite a few activities, songs, poems and art ideas for Groundhog day. Geared for the younger grades. |
| Perpetual Preschool | Games, art, songs and activities designed for the primary grades. |
| Enchanted Learning | A puppet and a mask activity along with some colouring pages and activity pages makes this a great site to visit. |
| DLTK's Crafts | A cute toilet paper roll craft as well as some colouring pages and history information. |
| Preschool Education | 3 easy crafts to do with younger students. |
| Danielle's Place | A cute template to make a Groundhog Day hat. |
| ZZZZ Groundhog Craft | A cute craft of a sleeping groundhog. |
| Help the groundhog find it's shadow | A simple activity page geared for pre-K or special education students. |
| Preschool Colouring Book | Four cute colouring pages. |
| All About Colouring | More pictures for colouring. |
| Colouring Book Fun | A couple of colouring pages of groundhogs seeing their shadow or not seeing it. |
| Apples 4 the Teacher | A couple of cute colouring pages. |
| Groundhog Day Email Cards | Send a email card to someone this Groundhog's Day |
| 123 Greetings | More email cards to send |
| The Holiday Spot | Email greetings, wallpaper, quizzes, colouring pages and more. |
| Groundhog Day Concentration Game | A fun site for children! |
| Starfall - Groundhog's Day Story | A fun on-line story for younger children to read! |
| Lil Finger's Storybook | A fun site for kids - there is a groundhog predictor, coloring pages and more! |
| Web Clipart | Some fun pictures of groundhogs in snow and other weather. |
Here are web pages for as many Groundhogs on the web that I came across. These web pages are the official sites for these Groundhogs.
| Wiarton Willie - Canada's Groundhog | Links to activities for teachers and what's new for 2009. |
| Balzac Billy - Alberta's Groundhog | Check out Balzac Billy and his new website. |
| Punxsutawney Phil - Groundhog.org | Here is Phil's site. He's been around for awhile and of course the movie Groundhog Day made him even more famous. This is a great site too with lots of information, links, etc., and it's kept up-to-date. |
| Yellow River Game Ranch | Meet General Lee "Beau" - Georgia's groundhog supreme |
| Mile Square Farm - Peewee the Woodchuck | Vermont's own critter - they are quick to point out that Groundhogs go by a number of names including woodchucks. |
| Hog Haven with Duke and Duchess | These groundhogs reside near Lums Pond State Park which is in Delaware. |
| Spanish Joe | Meet the psychic predictor for Northern Ontario. This page has a great write-up on the characteristics of groundhogs. |
| Groundhog Enterprises | Learn about the groundhogs of Alaska! |
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