April 2017 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 2017 >>

Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thur	Fri	Sat
26 Robert Frost born (1874) Also try: narrative poetry Tennessee Williams born (1911) Also try: A Streetcar Named Desire	27 Alaska is hit by an 8.4 magnitude earthquake (1964) Also try: Richter scale Ptolemy V ascends to the throne of Egypt (196 BC) Also try: Ancient Egypt	28 Three Mile Island nuclear accident occurs (1979) Also try: radiation, nuclear energy	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 Alaska purchased from Russia (1867) Also try: US expansion The Queensboro Bridge opens (1909) Also try: bridges National 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, poetry	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, American Civil War Suez Canal cleared for shipping (1957) Also try: ship transport	10 The Great Gatsby published (1925) Also try: Roaring Twenties, F. Scott Fitzgerald 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 Abraham Lincoln assassinated (1865) Also try: John Wilks Booth	15 US 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 Easter Sunday Also try: Christianity Wilbur Wright born (1867) Also try: Wright brothers, airplanes 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 Bat Appreciation Day Also try: bats, nocturnal 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 First US public school is founded, Boston Latin School (1635) Also try: public education	24 Library of Congress established (1800) Also try: US Congress Hubble Telescope is launched (1990) Also try: astronomy, space shuttle	25	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, oral tradition	28 James Monroe born (1758) Also try: Founding Fathers Arbor Day Also try: plant trees Holocaust Remembrance Day Also try: WWII, genocide	29 Spring Astronomy Day Also try: space exploration International Dance Day Also try: choreography
30 Louisiana Purchase (1803) Also try: US expansion International Jazz Day Also try: Miles Davis, Louis Armstrong	1 May Day Also try: may pole, spring Physical Fitness and Sports Month Begins Also try: sports, physical education Mother Goose Day Also try: nursery rhymes AP Testing Begins Also try: test taking strategies	2 National Teacher Appreciation Day Also try: teacher gifts	3 World Press Freedom Day Also try: 1st Amendment Margaret Thatcher becomes first female Prime Minister (1979) Also try: Prime Minister	4 Four student protesters killed at Kent State (1970) Also try: anti-war protest, Vietnam War International Firefighters Day Also try: career exploration	5 Cinco de Mayo Also try: Battle of Puebla National Cartoonist Day Also try: political cartoons, comic books	6 Sigmund Freud born (1856) Also try: philosophy Hindenburg Disaster (1937) Also try: hydrogen, airship

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