August 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

<< August 2016 >>

Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thur	Fri	Sat
31 J.K. Rowling born (1965) Also try: Harry Potter Uncommon Instrument Awareness Day Also try: music, explore instruments	1 Herman Melville born (1819) Also try: Moby Dick National Water Quality Month Begins Also try: water pollution, water sources Justinian I becomes sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire (527) Also try: Byzantine Empire	2 Trial run of San Francisco cable car on Clay St. (1873) Also try: transportation The Lincoln Penny issued (1909) Also try: currency, Abraham Lincoln	3 Christopher Columbus sets sail on his first voyage (1492) Also try: Age of Discovery First ships pass through Panama Canal (1914) Also try: Theodore Roosevelt, Isthmus of Panama	4 Louis Armstrong born (1901) Also try: jazz, Harlem Renaissance Anne Frank and family arrested (1944) Also try: Holocaust Barack Obama born (1961) Also try: US Presidents	5 Neil Armstrong born (1930) Also try: astronaut, space exploration Opening Ceremony for Summer Olympics in Rio Also try: sports	6 Hiroshima Day (1945) Also try: WWII, atomic bomb Alfred Lord Tennyson born (1809) Also try: poetry, Ulysses
7 First photographs take of Earth from space (1959) Also try: satellite imagery Purple Heart Day Also try: war heroes	8 Richard M. Nixon resigns (1974) Also try: Watergate scandal US dollar created (1786) Also try: currency	9 Nagasaki Day (1945) Also try: WWII, atomic bomb	10 Construction begins on Mount Rushmore (1927) Also try: national monuments Herbert Hoover born (1847) Also try: US Presidents	11 Mars moon Phobos is discovered (1677) Also try: Mars The Watts Riots begin in Los Angeles (1964) Also try: Civil Rights Movement	12 Cleopatra commits suicide with an asp (30 BC) Also try: Ancient Egypt	13 Hernan Cortes captures Mexico City from the Aztecs (1521) Also try: Mexico City, Aztecs
14 Largest blackout in US history (2003) Also try: power outage President FDR signs the Social Security Act (1935) Also try: FDR, New Deal	15 Napoleon Bonaparte born (1769) Also try: Napoleonic Wars India gains Independence from the British Indian Empire (1947) Also try: British Indian Empire	16 Cyprus gains its independence from the United Kingdom (1961) Also try: European Union New solar system found (2001) Also try: space exploration	17 Davy Crockett born (1786) Also try: Battle of the Alamo Kind of Blue by Miles Davis released (1959) Also try: Jazz	18 The film Wizard of Oz (first color movie) premiers (1939) Also try: film Pierre Janssen discovers helium (1868) Also try: Periodic Table	19 William J. Clinton born (1946) Also try: US Presidents Five people executed after being convicted of witchcraft at the Salem Witch Trials (1692) Also try: Salem, Massachusetts Hitler becomes Fuhrer (1934) Also try: Fuhrer	20 Leon Trotsky assassinated (1940) Also try: Russian Civil War, Marxism Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture debuts (1882) Also try: classical music
21 Nat Turner leads a slave rebellion (1831) Also try: slave rebellion Mona Lisa painting stolen (1911) Also try: Leonardo da Vinci	22 Columba reports seeing a monster in Loch Ness, Scotland (564) Also try: sea monsters 12 nations sign the First Geneva Convention (1864) Also try: war crimes, WWII	23 Largest known prime number discovered (1973) Also try: number theory First Opium War begins with the siege of Hong Kong (1839) Also try: Hong Kong	24 Mount Vesuvius erupts, burying Pompeii (79) Also try: Pompeii	25 Amelia Earhart completes transcontinental flight (1932) Also try: transcontinental flight National Park Service established (1916) Also try: Nation Parks, conservation	26 Mother Teresa born (1910) Also try: humanitarian 19th Amendment passed (1920) Also try: women's suffrage, voting rights	27 Krakatoa volcanoes erupt (1886) Also try: volcano, magma Lyndon B. Johnson born (1908) Also try: US Presidents
28 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers "I Have a Dream" speech (1963) Also try: Civil Rights Movement, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. First radio commercial airs in New York City (1922) Also try: marketing	29 First Indian Reservation established (1758) Also try: Native American history Hurricane Katrina hits the Gulf Coast (2005) Also try: hurricanes	30 Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as Supreme Court Justice (1967) Also try: the Supreme Court Mary Shelly born (1797) Also try: Frankenstein, Gothic literature	31 First solar powered car demonstrated in Chicago (1955) Also try: renewable energy	1 Bobby Fischer earns world chess title (1972) Also try: Bobby Fischer	2 First successful open heart surgery (1952) Also try: surgery Victory over Japan Day (1945) Also try: WWII, atomic bomb	3 Treaty of Paris ends American Revolutionary War (1783) Also try: American Revolutionary War Richard "The Lionheart" crowned at Westminster (1189) Also try: Westminster

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