December 2014 Curriculum Calendar - Lesson Plan Ideas by Date

Enhance your current curriculum with this fun reference calendar. Whether you want to highlight historic events, honor birthdays of significant people, or celebrate holidays, this is a valuable tool for every teacher. Click on any event to find a breadth of related teaching resources that will spark new ideas to spice up your daily lessons. There's something worth celebrating every day!

Curriculum Calendar

<< December 2014 >>

Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thur	Fri	Sat
30 Mark Twain born (1835) Also try: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	1 Rosa Parks arrested for civil disobedience (1955) Also try: Civil Rights Movement, Montgomery Bus Boycott World AIDS Day Also try: HIV, immune system	2 The Monroe Doctrine created (1823) Also try: James Monroe, foreign policy George Seurat born (1859) Also try: pointillism	3 International Day of Persons with Disabilities Also try: Americans with Disabilities Act	4 National Cookie Day Also try: baking, cookie recipes Monopoly, the game, debuts (1935) Also try: board games	5 Walt Disney born (1901) Also try: Disneyland E.D. Nixon and Rosa Parks lead the Montgomery Bus Boycott Also try: Civil Rights Movement, Rosa Parks	6 13th Amendment ratified, abolishing slavery (1865) Also try: abolition, Reconstruction Encyclopedia Britannica published (1768) Also try: research skills St. Nicholas Day Also try: Christmas traditions
7 Japan attacks Pearl Harbor (1941) Also try: WWII Galileo spacecraft arrives at Jupiter (1995) Also try: Jupiter	8 Eli Whitney born (1785) Also try: cotton gin Pretend to be a Time Traveler Day Also try: imagination, time capsule	9 John Milton born (1608) Also try: Paradise Lost The Petrified Forest National Park established in Arizona (1962) Also try: National Parks, fossils	10 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn published (1884) Also try: Mark Twain Emily Dickinson born (1880) Also try: slant rhyme, poetry	11 Muhammad leads an army of 10,000 to conquer Mecca (630) Also try: Mecca, Islam The People's Republic of China joins the World Trade Organization (2001) Also try: World Trade Organization	12 Guglielmo Marconi receives first transatlantic radio signal (1901) Also try: wireless telegraphy The United States Supreme Court releases decision in Bush v. Gore (2000) Also try: United States Supreme Court	13 Sir Francis Drake sets sail from Plymouth, England on round-the-world voyage (1577) Also try: circumnavigation, European explorers Saddam Hussein captured (2003) Also try: Iraq War
14 Roald Amundsen reaches South Pole (1911) Also try: South Pole, polar expeditions	15 Bill of Rights Day Also try: United States Constitution Nero born (37) Also try: Ancient Rome	16 Boston Tea Party occurs (1773) Also try: Revolutionary War, Sons of Liberty Battle of the Bulge (1944) Also try: WWII	17 Wright Brothers make their first successful flight (1903) Also try: aviation Hanukkah begins Also try: Judaism	18 The Nutcracker Suite premieres in Russia (1892) Also try: ballet Saturn's moon Epimetheus discovered (1966) Also try: solar system	19 A Christmas Carol published (1843) Also try: Charles Dickens Last manned lunar flight, Apollo 17 returns to Earth (1972) Also try: Apollo 17, space exploration	20 Trial against Auschwitz guards begins (1963) Also try: Holocaust, Nazi leaders
21 Pilgrims land at Plymouth (1620) Also try: Plymouth Winter Solstice Also try: four seasons, altitude	22 Mercury thermometer invented (1714) Also try: temperature National Haiku Poetry Day Also try: Japanese poetry	23 The Federal Reserve created (1913) Also try: central banking	24 Treaty of Ghent signed (1814) Also try: War of 1812 Christmas Eve Also try: Christmas carols	25 Christmas Day Also try: Christmas around the world William the Conqueror, Duke of Normandy crowned king of England (1066) Also try: Duke of Normandy	26 Kwanzaa begins Also try: African heritage First performance of King Lear (1606) Also try: Shakespeare, Globe Theatre	27 Louis Pasteur born (1822) Also try: vaccination, pasteurization Johannes Kepler born (1571) Also try: Scientific Revolution, planetary motion
28 Endangered Species Act passed (1973) Also try: extinction Pledge of Allegiance Day Also try: American flag	29 Massacre of Wounded Knee takes place (1890) Also try: native american history Mongolia gains independence from the Qing Dynasty (1911) Also try: Qing Dynasty	30 Rudyard Kipling born (1865) Also try: British Imperialism, The Jungle Book	31 New Year's Eve Also try: midnight Henri Matisse born (1869) Also try: modern art	1 National Thank You Month Begins Also try: gratitude President Abraham Lincoln signs Emancipation Proclamation (1863) Also try: President Abraham Lincoln Ellis Island opens for immigration (1892) Also try: immigration New Year's Day Also try: New Years Resolutions	2 USSR launches Mechta for first solar orbit (1959) Also try: USSR Euro debuts (2002) Also try: currency Mahatma Gandhi begins march for peace in East Bengali (1947) Also try: Bengali	3 Alaska named 49th state (1959) Also try: United States expansion, statehood Israeli ground forces invade Gaza (2009) Also try: Arab-Israeli Conflict J.R.R. Tolkien born (1892) Also try: The Lord of the Rings

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