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How to Create an Almanac

An almanac is a book that contains important weather and climate information as well as historical information for each day of the year. The climate information might include daily average temperatures, precipitation information and average wind speeds. Historical information might include the birthdays of famous actors, artists, presidents and other important public figures. The almanac may also contain pictures of important people or landmarks or art by local or worldwide painters, photographers, gardeners or cartoonists. Almanacs can have a theme that applies to a certain trade or a particular country, state or town.

Instructions

    • 1

      Decide how big you want your almanac to be. You can create a page for every day, a page for every week, or even a page for every month. If you are working with many students in a class you can pick a month for each student to fill out or a day out of each month for each student to complete.

    • 2

      Create a template for each page of your almanac that includes a few basic pieces of information such as daily average high and low temperatures.

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      Decide whether you want to have a theme for each week or month of the year. These themes will give the almanac consistancy but also allow you to give each person a creative outlet where they can express their individuality. For example, you could have a snowman theme for the month of December, and each person could create a different drawing or picture of a snowman for a page of the almanac.

    • 4

      Fill in each page of the almanac with interesting and relevant information. You may want to highlight the day of a large or disasterous storm or earthquake, or a famous quote by an author who was born or died on a certain day. You can also include such information as phase of the moon, holidays, recipies, poetry, brain teasers, words of the day, puzzles and whatever else you can think of.

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