August 2018 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 2018 >>

Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thur	Fri	Sat
29 NASA established (1958) Also try: space exploration, aeronautics, aerospace Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien first published (1954) Also try: J.R.R. Tolkien, fantasy genre	30 Henry Ford born (1863) Also try: assembly line, Ford Motor Company Emily Bronte born (1818) Also try: Wuthering Heights	31 J.K. Rowling born (1965) Also try: Harry Potter Uncommon Instrument Awareness Day Also try: music, homemade 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: public transportation The Lincoln Penny issued (1909) Also try: currency, US Mint	3 Christopher Columbus sets sail on his first voyage (1492) Also try: Age of Discovery Calvin Coolidge becomes president after the death of President Warren G. Harding (1923) Also try: Warren G. Harding, US presidents	4 Louis Armstrong born (1901) Also try: jazz Anne Frank and family arrested (1944) Also try: Holocaust, WWII Barack Obama born (1961) Also try: US presidents
5 Neil Armstrong born (1930) Also try: astronaut, space exploration	6 Hiroshima Day (1945) Also try: WWII, atomic bomb Alfred Lord Tennyson born (1809) Also try: poetry, Ulysses	7 Purple Heart Day Also try: war heroes First performance of Shakespeare's play, Macbeth (1606) Also try: William Shakespeare, tragedies	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 Walden by Henry David Thoreau first published (1854) Also try: Henry David Thoreau, transcendentalism	10 Herbert Hoover born (1847) Also try: US presidents	11 Mars moon Phobos discovered (1877) 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 World Elephant Day Also try: mammals	13 Hernan Cortes captures Tenochtitlán from the Aztecs (1521) Also try: Tenochtitlán, Aztecs, conquistadors	14 First photograph taken of Earth from space (1959) Also try: satellite imagery Largest blackout in US history (2003) Also try: power outage, electric grid President Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act (1935) Also try: FDR, New Deal	15 Napoleon Bonaparte born (1769) Also try: Napoleonic Wars Panama Canal formally opens (1914) Also try: Theodore Roosevelt, Isthmus of Panama India gains Independence from Great Britain (1947) Also try: British imperialism, Pakistan First new solar system found (2001) Also try: space exploration	16 Cyprus gains its independence from the United Kingdom (1960) Also try: European Union	17 Davy Crockett born (1786) Also try: Battle of the Alamo Kind of Blue by Miles Davis released (1959) Also try: jazz	18 Pierre Janssen discovers helium (1868) Also try: periodic table, elements
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: Massachusetts, colonial America Adolf Hitler becomes Fuhrer (1934) Also try: Fuhrer, Nazi Germany, causes of WWII	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 (565) Also try: sea monsters 12 nations sign the First Geneva Convention (1864) Also try: war crimes	23 First Opium War begins with the siege of Hong Kong (1839) Also try: Hong Kong, Qing Dynasty	24 Mount Vesuvius erupts, burying Pompeii (79) Also try: Pompeii, volcanoes	25 Amelia Earhart completes transcontinental flight (1932) Also try: transcontinental flight Nationwide opening of the film Wizard of Oz (first color movie) (1939) Also try: film, cinema National Park Service established (1916) Also try: national monuments, conservationism
26 Mother Teresa born (1910) Also try: humanitarians 19th Amendment takes effect (1920) Also try: women's suffrage, voting rights	27 Krakatoa erupts (1883) Also try: volcanic eruptions, lava 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, advertising	29 First Indian Reservation established (1758) Also try: Native American history Hurricane Katrina hits the Gulf Coast (2005) Also try: hurricanes, natural disasters	30 Thurgood Marshall confirmed as Supreme Court Justice (1967) Also try: Supreme Court, judicial branch Mary Shelley born (1797) Also try: Frankenstein, Gothic literature	31 First solar-powered car demonstrated in Chicago (1955) Also try: renewable energy	1 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway first published (1952) Also try: Ernest Hemingway Bobby Fischer earns world chess title (1972) Also try: Bobby Fischer

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