April 2016 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 2016 >>

Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thur	Fri	Sat
27 8.4 earthquake hits Alaska (1964) Also try: Richter scale Ptolemy V ascends to the throne of Egypt (196 BC) Also try: Ancient Egypt Easter Sunday Also try: Christianity	28 Three Mile Island nuclear accident occurs (1979) Also try: radiation	29 Last US troops leave Vietnam (1973) Also try: Vietnam aftermath Coca-Cola invented (1886) Also try: soda	30 Vincent van Gogh born (1853) Also try: famous artists, still life The Queensboro Bridge opens (1909) Also try: bridges Doctor's Day Also try: medical careers	31 First US map published (1784) Also try: cartography Cesar Chavez born (1927) Also try: worker's rights Eiffel Tower opens (1889) Also try: Paris, France	1 National Poetry Month Begins Also try: types of poetry April Fool's Day Also try: jokes, pranks Ruins of Pompeii rediscovered (1748) Also try: Mount Vesuvius	2 Hans Christian Anderson born (1805) Also try: moral, fairy tales World Autism Awareness Day Also try: learning disabilities
3 Jane Goodall born (1934) Also try: chimpanzee First iPad sold in the US (2010) Also try: future of technology Find a Rainbow Day Also try: Roy G. Biv	4 NATO ratified (1949) Also try: Atlantic Alliance Maya Angelou born (1928) Also try: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings	5 Booker T. Washington born (1856) Also try: Atlanta Compromise Easter Island discovered (1722) Also try: Polynesia	6 Robert E. Peary and Matthew Henson reach the North Pole (1909) Also try: North Pole US enters WWI (1917) Also try: Allied Powers	7 World Health Day Also try: healthy habits	8 The Buddha born (536 B.C.) Also try: Buddhism	9 General Lee surrenders at Appomattox (1865) Also try: General Lee Suez Canal cleared and opens to shipping (1957) Also try: ship transport
10 The Great Gatsby published (1925) Also try: Roaring Twenties Encourage a Young Writer Day Also try: creative writing	11 Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act (1968) Also try: Lyndon B. Johnson Albert Einstein reveals the Theory of Relativity (1905) Also try: Albert Einstein	12 Civil War begins at Fort Sumter (1861) Also try: Civil War Beverly Cleary born (1916) Also try: Ramona Quimby	13 Thomas Jefferson born (1743) Also try: Founding Fathers Guy Fawkes born (1570) Also try: Gunpowder Plot Scrabble Day Also try: spelling	14 Titanic hits iceberg (1912) Also try: iceberg Webster's Dictionary published (1828) Also try: dictionary skills Lincoln assassinated (1865) Also try: John Wilks Booth	15 Tax Day Also try: taxes Leonardo da Vinci born ( 1452) Also try: Renaissance Art, Mona Lisa World Art Day Also try: painting, arts and crafts, sculpture, art history	16 Wilbur Wright born (1867) Also try: Wright brothers Launch of Apollo 16 from Cape Canaveral (1972) Also try: Cape Canaveral
17 Ellis Island Family History Day Also try: family history Bay of Pigs invasion (1961) Also try: Cuban Missile Crisis National Haiku Poetry Day Also try: Japanese poetry	18 San Francisco Earthquake (1906) Also try: San Andreas Fault Paul Revere's Famous Ride (1775) Also try: American Revolution	19 Revolutionary War begins (1775) Also try: Lexington and Concord Oklahoma City Bombing Commemoration Day Also try: Oklahoma	20 Joan Miro born (1893) Also try: surrealism	21 John Muir born (1838) Also try: National Parks, environmental conservation Rome is founded (753 BC) Also try: Roman Empire	22 Earth Day Also try: environment, recycle National Jelly Bean Day Also try: counting, sugar	23 William Shakespeare born (1564) Also try: globe theater, Sonnet, iambic pentameter
24 Library of Congress established (1800) Also try: US Congress	25 Hubble Telescope is launched (1990) Also try: astronomy, space shuttle	26 Chernobyl disaster occurs (1986) Also try: nuclear accident, radiation Richter Scale Day Also try: earthquake	27 Samuel Morse born ( 1791) Also try: Morse code Tell a Story Day Also try: story telling	28 International Astronomy Day Also try: space science, outer space Isaac Newton's Principia published (1686) Also try: Issac Newton James Monroe born (1758) Also try: Founding Fathers	29 Arbor Day Also try: plant trees International Dance Day Also try: choreography	30 Louisiana Purchase (1803) Also try: US expansion International Jazz Day Also try: Miles Davis, Louis Armstrong

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