August 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

<< August 2013 >>

Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thur	Fri	Sat
28 Children's author Beatrix Potter is born in 1866 Also try: Peter Rabbit, illustration	29 NASA established in 1958 Also try: space exploration, astronomy, solar system	30 Automaker Henry Ford is born in 1863 Also try: Ford Motor Company, automobile, assembly line	31 Author J.K. Rowling is born in 1965 Also try: Harry Potter	1 Author Herman Melville is born in 1819 Also try: Moby Dick	2 Trial run of San Francisco cable car on Clay St. in 1873 Also try: transportation, cable car	3 Christopher Columbus sets sail on his first voyage in 1492 Also try: explorer, America First ships pass through the Panama Canal in 1914 Also try: Theodore Roosevelt, shipping, Panama
4 Musician Louis Armstrong is born in 1901 Also try: Satchmo, jazz, trumpet	5 Astronaut Neil Armstrong is born in 1930 Also try: astronaut, moon landing	6 Hiroshima Day 1945 Also try: atomic bomb, Nagasaki, atomic weapon, World War II	7 First pictures of Earth are taken from space in 1959 Also try: satellite, satellite imagery George Washington creates the Order of the Purple Heart in 1782 Also try: veteran, war casualty, hero	8 Richard M. Nixon resigns in 1974 Also try: Watergate, impeachment, Nixon presidency	9 Nagasaki Day 1945 Also try: atomic bomb, Hiroshima, atomic weapon, World War II Thomas Edison receives a patent for a two-way telegraph in 1892 Also try: telegraph, patent, invention	10 Construction begins on Mount Rushmore in 1927 Also try: monument, sculpture, Gutzon Borglum
11 Author Alex Haley is born in 1921 Also try: The Autobiography of Malcolm X	12 Tennis champion Pete Sampras is born in 1971 Also try: athlete	13 Hernan Cortes captures Mexico City from the Aztecs in 1521 Also try: Spanish explorer, conquistador, Aztecs	14 Victory over Japan Day Also try: Potsdam Declaration, WWII, World War II President FDR signs the Social Security Act in 1935 Also try: Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt, New Deal	15 Napoleon Bonaparte is born in 1769 Also try: Napoleonic Wars, French Empire, French Revolution	16 Cyprus gains its independence from the United Kingdom in 1960 Also try: independence, United Kingdom	17 Frontiersman Davy Crockett is born in 1786 Also try: Alamo, Texas Revolution, tall tale
18 Congress creates the Bureau of Immigration in 1894 Also try: immigration	19 President William J. Clinton is born in Hope, Arkansas in 1946 Also try: Bill Clinton, Clinton presidency Indianapolis speedway holds its first automobile race 1909 Also try: Indianapolis 500, acceleration, speed	20 Leon Trotsky assassinated in Mexico in 1940 Also try: Russian Revolution, Marxism, Communism	21 Nat Turner leads a slave rebellion in Virginia in 1831 Also try: slavery, slave revolt	22 International Red Cross is founded in 1864 Also try: Red Cross, Red Crescent, philanthropy	23 Largest known prime number is discovered in 1973 Also try: division, prime Basketball star Kobe Bryant is born in 1978 Also try: Kobe Bryant, Lakers	24 Mount Vesuvius erupts, burying Pompeii in 79 Also try: Mount Vesuvius, volcano, Roman Empire
25 Amelia Earhart completes transcontinental flight in 1932 Also try: aviator, aviation, women's history	26 Peace Prize winner Mother Teresa is born in 1910 Also try: India, Nobel Peace Prize, community service 19th Amendment is passed in 1920, allowing women to vote Also try: women's suffrage, voting, women's rights	27 Krakatoa volcanoes erupt in 1886 with explosions heard 3,000 miles away Also try: volcano, Indonesia, plate tectonics, geology	28 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers his "I Have a Dream" speech in 1963 Also try: civil rights, segregation The first radio commercial airs in New York City in 1922 Also try: commercial, advertising, radio wave	29 First U.S. Indian Reservation is established in 1758, at Indian Mills, New Jersey Also try: Native Americans	30 Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as Supreme Court Justice in 1967 Also try: Supreme Court, Brown v. Board of Education	31 Princess Diana of Wales dies in 1997 Also try: England, role model First solar powered car is demonstrated in Chicago in 1955 Also try: renewable resources, energy

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