August 2020 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 2020 >>

Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thur	Fri	Sat
26 Carl Jung born (1875) Also try: extroversion, introversion, psychology Jan Berenstain born (1923) Also try: The Berenstain Bears	27 National Korean War Armistice Day Also try: Korean Demilitarized Zone World War II: Allied forces successfully halt final Axis advance into Egypt (1942) Also try: Allied Forces	28 Beatrix Potter born (1866) Also try: The Tale of Peter Rabbit World War I begins (1914) Also try: The Great War	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 Uncommon Instrument Awareness Day Also try: music, homemade instruments J.K. Rowling born (1965) Also try: Harry Potter	1 National Water Quality Month Begins Also try: water pollution, water sources Herman Melville born (1819) Also try: Moby Dick Justinian I becomes sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire (527) Also try: Byzantine Empire
2 The Lincoln Penny first issued (1909) Also try: currency, US Mint Trial run of San Francisco cable car on Clay St. (1873) Also try: public transportation	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 Barack Obama born (1961) Also try: US presidents Louis Armstrong born (1901) Also try: jazz Anne Frank and family arrested (1944) Also try: Holocaust, World War II	5 Neil Armstrong born (1930) Also try: astronauts, space exploration	6 Hiroshima Day (1945) Also try: World War II, 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 Juan Ponce de Leon founds Caparra, the first European settlement in Puerto Rico (1508) Also try: European explorers, Puerto Rican history International Cat Day Also try: pets
9 Nagasaki Day (1945) Also try: World War II, atomic bomb Richard M. Nixon resigns (1974) Also try: Watergate scandal 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 World Elephant Day Also try: mammals Cleopatra commits suicide with an asp (30 BC) Also try: Ancient Egypt	13 Hernan Cortes captures Tenochtitlán from the Aztecs (1521) Also try: Tenochtitlán, Aztecs, conquistadors Opha May Jacob Johnson becomes first woman to join the US Marine Corps (1918) Also try: first women, armed forces	14 First photograph taken of Earth from space (1959) Also try: satellite imagery Largest blackout in US history (2003) Also try: power outage, power 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, the universe, cosmology
16 National Roller Coaster Day Also try: conservation of energy, laws of motion 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: noble gases, 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 World War II	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 Saint 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 Pluto is reclassified as a dwarf planet (2006) Also try: dwarf planets, solar system	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 Krakatoa erupts (1883) Also try: volcanic eruptions, lava	27 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 Henry VI becomes King of England at the age of 9 months (1422) Also try: King of England, English monarchy	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	2 Victory over Japan Day (1945) Also try: World War II, atomic bomb First successful open heart surgery (1952) Also try: surgery, medical technology	3 Treaty of Paris ends American Revolutionary War (1783) Also try: American Revolutionary War Richard "The Lionheart" crowned at Westminster (1189) Also try: King of England, Westminster	4 Henry Hudson discovers Manhattan (1609) Also try: New York, Age of Discovery Google founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin (1998) Also try: search engine, Digital Age	5 Jesse James born (1847) Also try: Wild West First Continental Congress assembles in Philadelphia (1774) Also try: Intolerable Acts, American Revolution

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