April 2013 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 2013 >>

Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thur	Fri	Sat
31 Easter Also try: Easter egg, Easter bunny Activist Cesar Chavez is born in 1927 Also try: labor rights, nonviolence, Cesar Chavez Day, Hispanic American	1 April Fool's Day Also try: joke, hoax, practical joke	2 Author Hans Christian Anderson is born in 1805 Also try: fairy tale, The Little Mermaid, Princess and the Pea	3 Biologist Jane Goodall is born in 1934 Also try: chimpanzee, endangered species	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 Shoes	5 Booker T. Washington is born in 1856 Also try: orator	6 Robert E. Peary and Matthew Henson reach the North Pole in 1909 Also try: polar expedition, Robert E. Peary, Matthew Henson, explorer
7 Holocaust Remembrance Day Also try: World War II, WWII, genocide, Nazi Germany World Health Day Also try: World Health Organization, United Nations	8 Illustrator Trina Schart Hyman is born on 1939 Also try: illustration, children's book 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, roaring twenties	11 Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968 Also try: Lyndon B. Johnson, civil rights	12 Civil War begins at Fort Sumter in 1861 Also try: Fort Sumter, Abraham Lincoln	13 President Thomas Jefferson is born in 1743 Also try: Louisiana Purchase, nickel, Monticello
14 Titanic hits iceberg in 1912 Also try: shipwreck, Robert Ballard	15 Tax Day Also try: economics Renaissance man Leonardo da Vinci is born in 1452 Also try: Renaissance, Mona Lisa, Renaissance man	16 Aviator Wilbur Wright is born in 1867 Also try: Wright brothers, aviation, airplane	17 Ellis Island Family History Day Also try: immigration, State of Liberty, family tree 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, Battles of Lexington and Concord	20 Artist Joan Miro is born in 1893 Also try: Surrealism
21 Naturalist John Muir is born in 1838 Also try: Yosemite, conservation, Sierra Club, national park	22 First Earth Day is held in 1970 Also try: earth, environment	23 Author William Shakespeare is born in 1564 Also try: sonnet, playwright, Romeo and Juliet, theater art	24 Library of Congress established in 1800 Also try: library, book, Washington D.C.	25 Daniel Defoe publishes Robinson Crusoe in 1719 Also try: Daniel Defoe Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day Also try: career planning, exploring career	26 Chernobyl nuclear reactor disaster occurs in 1986 Also try: nuclear energy, radiation, nuclear power Arbor Day Also try: tree, plant tree	27 Inventor Samuel Morse is born in 1791 Also try: inventor, Morse code, telegraph
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, Harlem Renaissance	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	2 Inventor Elijah McCoy is born in 1844 Also try: the real McCoy, inventor, engine, engineer	3 World Press Freedom Day Also try: freedom of speech, journalism, First Amendment 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 War, student protest

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