April 2025 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 for April 2025 showing educational events and resources
Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
March 30, 2025	March 31, 2025	April 1, 2025 National Poetry Month begins Also try: types of poetry Financial Literacy Month begins Also try: personal finance, budgeting April Fool's Day Also try: jokes, pranks Ruins of Pompeii rediscovered (1748) Also try: Mount Vesuvius, volcanoes	April 2, 2025 World Autism Awareness Day Also try: asperger syndrome, learning disabilities Hans Christian Anderson born (1805) Also try: fairy tales, morals	April 3, 2025 National Find a Rainbow Day Also try: Roy G. Biv, visible light Jane Goodall born (1934) Also try: chimpanzees First iPad sold in the US (2010) Also try: future of technology, mobile devices	April 4, 2025 Maya Angelou born (1928) Also try: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, poetry NATO ratified (1949) Also try: Atlantic Alliance	April 5, 2025 Booker T. Washington born (1856) Also try: Atlanta Compromise Easter Island discovered (1722) Also try: Polynesia
April 6, 2025 Robert E. Peary and Matthew Henson reach the North Pole (1909) Also try: North Pole, arctic exploration US enters World War I (1917) Also try: Allied Powers	April 7, 2025 World Health Day Also try: healthy habits National Walking Day Also try: phyical fitness, wellness, exercise Billie Holiday born (1915) Also try: jazz	April 8, 2025 The Buddha born (536 B.C.) Also try: Buddhism, world religions Juan Ponce de Leon born (1460) Also try: European explorers, Age of Exploration	April 9, 2025 General Lee surrenders at Appomattox (1865) Also try: General Lee, American Civil War First known audio recording of a human voice (1860) Also try: phonographs, sound	April 10, 2025 Encourage a Young Writer Day Also try: creative writing, writing prompts The Great Gatsby published (1925) Also try: Roaring Twenties, F. Scott Fitzgerald	April 11, 2025 National Pet Day Also try: dogs, cats, domestic animals US Navy acquires its first submarine (1900) Also try: US Navy, submersibles	April 12, 2025 Beverly Cleary born (1916) Also try: Ramona Quimby American Civil War begins at Fort Sumter (1861) Also try: American Civil War
April 13, 2025 National Scrabble Day Also try: spelling, word games Guy Fawkes born (1570) Also try: Gunpowder Plot Thomas Jefferson born (1743) Also try: Founding Fathers, US presidents	April 14, 2025 Webster's Dictionary published (1828) Also try: dictionary skills, vocabulary skills President Abraham Lincoln assassinated (1865) Also try: John Wilkes Booth Titanic hits iceberg (1912) Also try: iceberg	April 15, 2025 US Tax Day Also try: taxes, Internal Revenue Service World Art Day Also try: painting, arts and crafts, sculpture, art history Leonardo da Vinci born (1452) Also try: Renaissance art, Mona Lisa	April 16, 2025 Wilbur Wright born (1867) Also try: Wright brothers, airplanes, aviation Apollo 16 launched from Cape Canaveral (1972) Also try: Cape Canaveral, NASA	April 17, 2025 National Haiku Poetry Day Also try: Japanese poetry Ellis Island Family History Day Also try: family history, ancestors, immigration Bay of Pigs Invasion (1961) Also try: Cuban Missile Crisis	April 18, 2025 Paul Revere's Famous Ride (1775) Also try: American Revolution San Francisco earthquake (1906) Also try: San Andreas fault	April 19, 2025 Oklahoma City Bombing Commemoration Day Also try: domestic terrorism American Revolutionary War begins (1775) Also try: Lexington and Concord
April 20, 2025 Easter Sunday Also try: Christianity Joan Miro born (1893) Also try: surrealism Deepwater Horizon oil rig explodes (2010) Also try: oil spills, oil rigs	April 21, 2025 John Muir born (1838) Also try: naturalists, national parks Rome founded (753 BC) Also try: Roman Empire, Ancient Rome	April 22, 2025 Earth Day Also try: environmentalism, recycle Immanuel Kant born (1724) Also try: philosophers, transcendentalism	April 23, 2025 William Shakespeare born (1564) Also try: Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Globe Theatre First US public school founded, Boston Latin School (1635) Also try: public education	April 24, 2025 Library of Congress established (1800) Also try: US Congress Hubble Telescope launched (1990) Also try: astronomy, space exploration	April 25, 2025 Ella Fitzgerald born (1917) Also try: jazz Bell Labs announces first silicon solar cell (1954) Also try: renewable energy, sources of energy Arbor Day Also try: trees, deciduous, conifers	April 26, 2025 National Richter Scale Day Also try: earthquakes, seismic waves Chernobyl disaster occurs (1986) Also try: nuclear accident, radiation
April 27, 2025 National Tell a Story Day Also try: story telling, oral tradition Samuel Morse born (1791) Also try: Morse code, communication technology	April 28, 2025 James Monroe born (1758) Also try: Founding Fathers, US presidents Harper Lee born (1926) Also try: To Kill a Mockingbird	April 29, 2025 International Dance Day Also try: choreography, ballet William Randolph Hearst born (1863) Also try: newspapers, yellow journalism	April 30, 2025 International Jazz Day Also try: Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith Louisiana Purchase (1803) Also try: US expansion	May 1, 2025	May 2, 2025	May 3, 2025

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