April 2012 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

<< April 2012 >>

Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thur	Fri	Sat
1 April Fool's Day Also try: Jokes, Hoaxes, Practical Jokes	2 Author Hans Christian Anderson is born in 1805 Also try: Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid, Princess and the Pea	3 Biologist Jane Goodall is born in 1934 Also try: Chimpanzees, Primatology	4 NATO is ratified in 1949 Also try: North Atlantic Treaty Organization Poet and activist Maya Angelou is born in 1928 Also try: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, All God's Children Need Traveling, African Americans	5 Booker T Washington is born in 1856 Also try: Atlanta Compromise Address, Up From Slavery	6 Robert E. Peary and Matthew Henson reach the North Pole in 1909 Also try: Robert E. Peary, Matthew Henson, Explorers	7 World Health Day Also try: World Health Organization, WHO
8 Easter Also try: Resurrection of Jesus Christ, Easter eggs, Easter bunny The Buddha is born in 536 B.C. Also try: Siddhartha Gautama, Nirvana, Dharma, Karma, Buddhism	9 General Lee surrenders at Appomattox in 1865 Also try: Civil War, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant	10 F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes The Great Gatsby in 1925 Also try: F. Scott Fitzgerald	11 Lyndon Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968 Also try: Lyndon Johnson, Civil Rights	12 Civil War begins at Fort Sumter in 1861 Also try: Fort Sumter	13 President Thomas Jefferson is born in 1743 Also try: Louisiana Purchase, Nickel, Monticello	14 Titanic hits iceberg in 1912 Also try: Shipwrecks, Robert Ballard
15 Renaissance man Leonardo da Vinci is born in 1452 Also try: The Last Supper, Mona Lisa, Renaissance Man	16 Aviator Wilbur Wright is born in 1867 Also try: Wright Brothers, Kittyhawk, Airplane	17 Tax Day Also try: Taxes, Economics Dow Jones closes above 3,000 for the first time in 1991 Also try: Stock Market, Investing	18 San Francisco Earthquake occurs in 1906 Also try: San Andreas Fault, Geology, Seismology	19 Revolutionary War begins with the 'shot heard round the world' in 1775 Also try: Shot Heard Round the World, Concord	20 Artist Joan Miro is born in 1893 Also try: Surrealism	21 Naturalist John Muir is born in 1838 Also try: Yosemite, Conservationism, Sierra Club, Wilderness
22 First Earth Day is held in 1970 Also try: Earth, Environment	23 Author William Shakespeare is born in 1564 Also try: The Bard, Sonnets, Playwrights, Romeo and Juliet	24 Library of Congress established in 1800 Also try: Libraries, Books, Research	25 Daniel Defoe publishes Robinson Crusoe in 1719 Also try: Daniel Defoe	26 Take Your Daughters to Work Day Also try: Career Planning, Working Women, Women's Rights, Gender Equality	27 Arbor Day Also try: Trees, plant trees Inventor Samuel Morse is born in 1791 Also try: Inventors, Morse Code, Telegraphic	28 First volume of Isaac Newton's 'Principia' is published in 1686 Also try: Universal Gravitation, Laws of Motion
29 Composer Duke Ellington is born in 1899 Also try: Jazz, Piano, Big Bands	30 U.S. doubles in size through the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 Also try: Thomas Jefferson, Lewis and Clark	1 May Day Also try: Labor Movement, Working Class, International Worker's Day	2 Inventor Elijah McCoy is born in 1844 Also try: The Real McCoy, Inventors, Engines	3 National Teacher's Day Also try: Teachers, Teacher Appreciation Margaret Thatcher becomes the United Kingdom's first female Prime Minister in 1979 Also try: Parliament, Prime Minister	4 Four student protestors are killed at Kent State in 1970 Also try: Vietnam, Student Protests	5 Cinco de Mayo Also try: Battle of Puebla, Benito Juarez

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