- Brain Pop Leap Year video: Perfect for sharing with elementary students, short video explains Leap Year. login required
- What Is a Leap Year?: Great video for older elementary and middle school students. (at Youtube)
- Leap Year 101 – Next, When, List, Days, Calendar, Years, Calculation, Last, Rules: FactMonster entry, appropriate for elementary and middle students.
- Discovering Math: Intermediate: Number Theory video: From Discovery Education, this video is great for sharing with older students. login required
- Today is Leap Day!: ReadWriteThink's resources and activities for grades 3+.
- Celebrate Leap Day!: Fun Leap Year Quiz from Scholastic.
- Leap Year Lessons: Activities For Leap Day: Series of blog posts at TeachWithMe detailing fun and educational activities related to Leap Year.
- About.com History of Leap Year: Brief history of how February 29 came to be.
- Leap Year Oddities: Article discusses the challenges of being a "leaper," or a person born on February 29.
- Great Moments in Leap-Day History: Great sports moments that occurred on February 29.
Games to play:
- Leap frog!
- Say everything 4 times. Say everything 4 times. Say everything 4 times. Say everything 4 times.
- Leap Day Challenge: Page of "29" themed activities. (pdf)
- Leap Day Cyber Security Game: Leap Day facts intertwined with internet safety quiz.
And just for fun, enjoy "I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General" from Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance. In this comic opera, a character takes his Leap Day birthday very seriously, to the point where he agrees to be an indentured servant for 21 birthdays, or 63 years.
