December 2011 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

<< December 2011 >>

Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thur	Fri	Sat
27 Rocker Jimi Hendrix is born in 1942 Also try: Rock-n-Roll, Guitars	28 Ferdinand Magellan passes through the Straits of Magellan in 1520 Also try: Ferdinand Magellan, Explorers	29 Author C.S. Lewis is born in 1898 Also try: Narnia, The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe	30 Author Mark Twain is born in 1835 Also try: Samuel Clemens, Tom Sawyer, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	1 In 1913 Ford Motor Company introduces the first moving assembly line Also try: Ford Motor Company, Manufacturing	2 James Monroe declares the Monroe Doctrine in 1823 Also try: Isolationism, Neutrality, James Monroe	3 The Tennessee Williams play A Streetcar Named Desire premieres in 1947 Also try: A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Glass Menagerie
4 The Grange is organized to protect farming interests 1867 Also try: Farming, Patrons of Husbandry	5 International Volunteer Day Also try: Volunteerism, Red Cross, Peace Corps	6 1st edition of Encyclopedia Britannica is published in 1768 Also try: Research Skills	7 Japan attacks Pearl Harbor in 1941 Also try: World War II, USS Arizona, Imperial Japan	8 The North American Free Trade Agreement is signed in 1993 Also try: NAFTA, Bill Clinton	9 Poet and Puritan John Milton is born in 1608 Also try: Paradise Lost	10 Human Rights Day Also try: Universal Declaration of Human Rights, United Nations
11 Marconi sends first transatlantic radio signal in 1901 Also try: Marconi, Wireless	12 Performer Frank Sinatra is born in 1915 Also try: Great American Songbook, My Way, Pop Music	13 The Mona Lisa is returned to the Louvre after being stolen in 1911 Also try: Leonardo da Vinci, The Louvre	14 Roald Amundsen is the first man to reach the South Pole in 1911 Also try: Roald Amundsen	15 Bill of Rights Day Also try: Constitution, Amendments	16 Composer Ludwig van Beethoven is born in 1770 Also try: Classical Music, Ode to Joy, Piano, Romanticism	17 Wright Brothers make their 1st successful flight in 1903 Also try: Orville Wright, Wilbur Wright, Aviation, Airplane
18 In 1865 the 13th Amendment is ratified, abolishing slavery Also try: Emancipation, Slavery, Abolition	19 Charles Dickens publishes A Christmas Carol in 1843 Also try: Charles Dickens, Christmas	20 Trial against Auschwitz guards begins in 1963 Also try: WWII, Holocaust, Concentration Camps	21 Pilgrims land at Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1620 Also try: Plymouth Rock, Mayflower Compact, Puritans	22 Winter Solstice Also try: Solstice, Winter, Seasons Edward Johnson creates 1st string of Christmas lights in 1882 Also try: Thomas Edison, Christmas Decorations	23 Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormon Church, is born in 1805 Also try: Joseph Smith, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints	24 Treaty of Ghent is signed in 1814 Also try: War of 1812
25 Christmas Also try: Christianity, Jesus, Bethlehem, Nativity	26 Beginning of Kwanzaa (Dec. 26-Jan. 1) Also try: Seven Principles, African American Heritage, Pan-African Movement A catastrophic tsunami strikes southeast Asia in 2004 Also try: Indian Ocean Earthquake, Southeast Asia, Tidal Waves	27 Microbiologist Louis Pasteur is born in 1822 Also try: Pasteurization, Bacteria, Germ Theory	28 Endangered Species Act of 1973 is passed Also try: Extinction, Whales, Biodiversity	29 The massacre of Wounded Knee takes place in 1890 Also try: 7th Calvary, Lakota, Sioux Indians, Ghost Dance	30 Edwin Hubble announces the existence of other galactic systems in 1924 Also try: Galaxies	31 New Year's Eve Also try: New Year, Fireworks Soviet Union disbands in 1991 Also try: USSR, Iron Curtain

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