December 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

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Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thur	Fri	Sat
1 In 1913 Ford Motor Company introduces the first moving assembly line Also try: Ford Motor Company, manufacturing	2 President James Monroe declares the Monroe Doctrine in 1823 Also try: isolationism, James Monroe, foreign policy	3 The Tennessee Williams play, A Streetcar Named Desire, premieres in 1947 Also try: A Streetcar Named Desire, Glass Menagerie	4 The Grange is organized to protect farming interests 1867 Also try: farming, farmer, agriculture	5 International Volunteer Day Also try: civic responsibility, service learning, Peace Corps	6 The 13th Amendment is ratified in 1865, abolishing slavery Also try: emancipation, slavery, abolition First edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica is published in 1768 Also try: research skills	7 Japan attacks Pearl Harbor in 1941 Also try: World War II, Imperial Japan, WWII
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 UNICEF is established in 1946 Also try: children's rights, human rights, United Nations	12 Performer Frank Sinatra is born in 1915 Also try: 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, explorer
15 Bill of Rights Day Also try: Constitution, amendment	16 Boston Tea Party occurs in Boston in 1773 Also try: colonist, Tea Act, American Revolution Composer Ludwig van Beethoven is born in 1770 Also try: classical music, composer, piano, Romanticism	17 Wright Brothers make their first successful flight in 1903 Also try: Orville Wright, Wilbur Wright, aviation, airplane	18 Steven Spielberg is born in 1946 Also try: film director, screenwriter, entrepreneur	19 Charles Dickens publishes A Christmas Carol in 1843 Also try: Charles Dickens, Christmas	20 South Carolina becomes first state to secede from the Union in 1860 Also try: Civil War, slavery, Abraham Lincoln Trial against Auschwitz guards begins in 1963 Also try: WWII, Holocaust, concentration camp	21 Pilgrims land at Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1620 Also try: Plymouth Rock, Mayflower Compact, Puritan Winter solstice Also try: solstice, winter, season
22 The first string of Christmas lights were created in 1882 Also try: electricity, Christmas decoration	23 Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormon Church, is born in 1805 Also try: Joseph Smith, religion	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: African American heritage, Pan-African Movement A catastrophic tsunami strikes southeast Asia in 2004 Also try: Indian Ocean earthquake, Southeast Asia, tidal wave	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, biodiversity, environmental protection
29 The massacre of Wounded Knee takes place in 1890 Also try: Lakota, Sioux Indians, Native Americans	30 Edwin Hubble announces the existence of other galactic systems in 1924 Also try: galaxy, nebulae	31 New Year's Eve Also try: New Year, firework, New Year's resolution Soviet Union disbands in 1991 Also try: USSR, Iron Curtain	1 President Abraham Lincoln signs Emancipation Proclamation (1863) Also try: President Abraham Lincoln Ellis Island opens for immigration (1892) Also try: immigration New Year's Day Also try: New Years Resolutions	2 USSR launches Mechta for first solar orbit (1959) Also try: USSR Euro debuts (2002) Also try: currency Mahatma Gandhi begins march for peace in East Bengali (1947) Also try: Bengali	3 Alaska named 49th state (1959) Also try: United States expansion, statehood Israeli ground forces invade Gaza (2009) Also try: Arab-Israeli Conflict J.R.R. Tolkien born (1892) Also try: The Lord of the Rings	4 Spirit, a NASA Mars Rover, lands successfully on Mars (2004) Also try: Mars Scientist Isaac Newton born (1642) Also try: Scientific Revolution Louis Braille born (1809) Also try: disabilities

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