January 2015 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
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28
Endangered Species Act passed (1973)
Also try:
extinction
Pledge of Allegiance Day
Also try:
American flag
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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
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30
Rudyard Kipling born (1865)
Also try:
British Imperialism, The Jungle Book
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31
New Year's Eve
Also try:
midnight
Henri Matisse born (1869)
Also try:
modern art
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1
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
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2
USSR launches Mechta for first solar orbit (1959)
Also try:
USSR
Mahatma Gandhi begins march for peace in East Bengali (1947)
Also try:
Bengali
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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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4
Spirit, a NASA Mars Rover, lands successfully on Mars (2004)
Also try:
Mars
Scientist Isaac Newton born (1642)
Also try:
Scientific Revolution
Louis Braille born (1809)
Also try:
disabilities
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5
George Washington Carver Day
Also try:
peanuts
X-Ray discovered (1896)
Also try:
medical inventions
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6
Joan of Arc born (1412)
Also try:
Hundred Years' War
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7
Jupiter's moons discovered (1610)
Also try:
Galileo Galilei
President Millard Fillmore born (1800)
Also try:
Whig Party
Zora Neale Hurston born (1891)
Also try:
Harlem Renaissance
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8
Elvis Presley born (1935)
Also try:
Rock 'n Roll
George Washington delivers first State of the Union Address (1790)
Also try:
George Washington
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9
President Richard M. Nixon born (1913)
Also try:
Watergate Scandal
Jean-Pierre Blanchard takes first US hot air balloon flight (1793)
Also try:
Jean-Pierre Blanchard
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10
League of Nations is formed (1920)
Also try:
Paris Peace Conference
Common Sense by Thomas Paine published (1776)
Also try:
Thomas Paine
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11
Alexander Hamilton born (1755)
Also try:
Founding Fathers
Amelia Earhart flies solo from Honolulu to California (1935)
Also try:
aviation
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12
John Hancock born (1737)
Also try:
Declaration of Independence, signatures
Charles Perrault born (1629)
Also try:
Fairy Tales
Earthquake in Haiti kills 230,000 (2010)
Also try:
natural disasters
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13
First public radio broadcast (1910)
Also try:
mass communication
Elizabeth I crowned Queen of England (1559)
Also try:
Queen of England
Rubber Ducky Day
Also try:
Duck Duck Goose
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14
Revolutionary War ends (1784)
Also try:
Congress of the Confederation
Clarinet invented (1690)
Also try:
instruments
Henry Ford introduces the assembly line for Model T Fords (1914)
Also try:
assembly line
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15
First Super Bowl (1967)
Also try:
football
Martin Luther King Jr. born (1929)
Also try:
Civil Rights Movement
National Humanitarian Day
Also try:
human rights
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16
Prohibition begins (1920)
Also try:
Volstead Act
National Appreciate a Dragon Day
Also try:
mythical creatures
Operation Desert Storm announced (1991)
Also try:
Gulf War
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17
Benjamin Franklin born (1706)
Also try:
American Enlightenment
First publication of Don Quixote (1605)
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18
Robert Scott reaches the South Pole (1912)
Also try:
polar expeditions
A.A. Milne born (1882)
Also try:
Winnie-The-Pooh
National Thesaurus Day
Also try:
visual thesaurus
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19
Edgar Allen Poe born (1809)
Also try:
macabre
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Also try:
Civil Rights Movement
Paul Cezanne born (1839)
Also try:
post-impressionism
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20
Inauguration Day
Also try:
Oath of Office
Penguin Awareness Day
Also try:
Arctic animals
Ronald Reagan becomes oldest president (1981)
Also try:
Reaganomics
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21
Smallpox vaccination introduced (1799)
Also try:
immunization
Neptune becomes outermost planet (1979)
Also try:
solar system, planets
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22
The uranium atom split at Columbia University (1939)
Also try:
nuclear fission, Manhattan Project
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23
National Handwriting Day
Also try:
cursive
Paris Peace Accords end the Vietnam War (1973)
Also try:
Vietnam War
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24
Gold is discovered at Sutter's Mill (1848)
Also try:
Gold Rush
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25
Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates US transcontinental telephone service (1915)
Also try:
Alexander Graham Bell
The first Winter Olympics (1924)
Also try:
classroom Olympics, Olympia
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26
Condoleezza Rice becomes first African American woman US Secretary of State (2005)
Also try:
Secretary of State
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27
Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart born (1756)
Also try:
Classical Period
Lewis Caroll born (1832)
Also try:
Alice in Wonderland
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28
Space shuttle Challenger explodes (1986)
Also try:
NASA, space exploration
Jackson Pollock born (1912)
Also try:
abstract expressionism
Pride and Prejudice published in United Kingdom (1813)
Also try:
Jane Austen
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29
Thomas Paine born (1737)
Also try:
Common Sense
National Puzzle Day
Also try:
brain teaser
Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)
Also try:
nationalism, causes of WWII
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30
President Franklin D. Roosevelt born (1882)
Vietnam War: Tet Offensive launched (1968)
Also try:
Vietnam War
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31
Jackie Robinson born (1919)
Also try:
color barrier
13th Amendment, slavery abolished (1865)
Also try:
Abolition
Franz Schubert born (1797)
Also try:
Romantic Era
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