December 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
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25
Andrew Carnegie born (1835)
Also try:
philanthropy, charity
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26
Alice in Wonderlands first published in America (1865)
Also try:
Lewis Carroll, fantasy genre
Charles Shultz born (1922)
Also try:
Charlie Brown, cartoonists
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27
Anders Celsius born (1701)
Also try:
temperature
Atmosphere discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris (2001)
Also try:
atmosphere, Hubble Space Telescope
Anders Celsius born (1701)
Also try:
temperature, thermometer
Anders Celsius born (1701)
Also try:
temperature, thermometer
Anders Celsius born (1701)
Also try:
temperature, thermometer
Anders Celsius born (1701)
Also try:
temperature, thermometer
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28
William Blake born (1757)
Also try:
Romantic Age, poets
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29
C.S. Lewis born (1898)
Also try:
The Chronicles of Narnia
Luisa May Alcott born (1832)
Also try:
Little Women
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30
Mark Twain born (1835)
Also try:
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Winston Churchill born (1874)
Also try:
British prime ministers
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1
Rosa Parks arrested for civil disobedience (1955)
Also try:
civil rights movement, Montgomery Bus Boycott
World AIDS Day
Also try:
HIV, immune system
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2
The Monroe Doctrine created (1823)
Also try:
James Monroe, foreign policy
George Seurat born (1859)
Also try:
Pointillism, Post-Impressionism
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3
International Day of Persons with Disabilities
Also try:
Americans with Disabilities Act
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4
National Cookie Day
Also try:
baking, cookie recipes
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5
Walt Disney born (1901)
Also try:
Disneyland, cartoons
Martin Van Buren born (1782)
Also try:
US presidents
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6
13th Amendment ratified, abolishing slavery (1865)
Also try:
Reconstruction, abolition
Encyclopedia Britannica published (1768)
Also try:
research skills
St. Nicholas Day
Also try:
Christmas traditions
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7
Japan attacks Pearl Harbor (1941)
Also try:
WWII
Galileo spacecraft arrives at Jupiter (1995)
Also try:
Jupiter
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8
Eli Whitney born (1785)
Also try:
cotton gin
Pretend to be a Time Traveler Day
Also try:
imagination, time capsule
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9
John Milton born (1608)
Also try:
Paradise Lost
The Petrified Forest National Park established in Arizona (1962)
Also try:
fossils, Arizona geography
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10
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn published (1884)
Also try:
Mark Twain
Emily Dickinson born (1830)
Also try:
slant rhyme, poetry
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11
The People's Republic of China joins the World Trade Organization (2001)
Also try:
World Trade Organization
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12
Guglielmo Marconi receives first transatlantic radio signal (1901)
Also try:
radio, wireless communication
The US Supreme Court releases decision in Bush v. Gore (2000)
Also try:
US Supreme Court, elections
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13
Sir Francis Drake sets sail from Plymouth, England on round-the-world voyage (1577)
Also try:
circumnavigation, English explorers
Saddam Hussein captured (2003)
Also try:
Iraq War
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14
Roald Amundsen reaches South Pole (1911)
Also try:
polar expeditions, South Pole
National Monkey Day
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15
Bill of Rights Day
Also try:
United States Constitution, amendments
Nero born (37)
Also try:
Ancient Rome, Roman rulers
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16
Boston Tea Party (1773)
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American Revolutionary, Sons of Liberty
Battle of the Bulge (1944)
Also try:
WWII
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17
Wright Brothers make their first successful flight (1903)
Also try:
aviation
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18
The Nutcracker Suite premieres in Russia (1892)
Also try:
ballet
Saturn's moon Epimetheus discovered (1966)
Also try:
Saturn, solar system
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19
A Christmas Carol published (1843)
Also try:
Charles Dickens
Last manned lunar flight, Apollo 17, returns to Earth (1972)
Also try:
Apollo 17, space exploration
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20
Trial against Auschwitz guards begins (1963)
Also try:
Holocaust, Nazi leaders
Grimm's Fairy Tales first published (1812)
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21
Pilgrims land at Plymouth (1620)
Also try:
Plymouth colony, Mayflower
Winter Solstice
Also try:
four seasons
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22
Mercury thermometer invented (1714)
Also try:
temperature
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23
The Federal Reserve created (1913)
Also try:
central banking
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24
Treaty of Ghent signed (1814)
Also try:
War of 1812
Christmas Eve
Also try:
Christmas carols
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25
Christmas Day
Also try:
Christmas around the world
William the Conqueror, Duke of Normandy crowned King of England (1066)
Also try:
Duke of Normandy
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26
Kwanzaa begins
Also try:
African heritage
First performance of King Lear (1606)
Also try:
William Shakespeare, Globe Theatre
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27
Louis Pasteur born (1822)
Also try:
vaccination, pasteurization
Johannes Kepler born (1571)
Also try:
Scientific Revolution, planetary motion
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28
Endangered Species Act passed (1973)
Also try:
extinction, wildlife
Woodrow Wilson born (1856)
Also try:
US presidents
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29
Massacre of Wounded Knee takes place (1890)
Also try:
Native American history
Mongolia declares independence from the Qing Dynasty (1911)
Also try:
Qing Dynasty
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30
Rudyard Kipling born (1865)
Also try:
British imperialism, The Jungle Book
Edwin Hubble announces discovery of other galaxies (1924)
Also try:
space exploration, the universe
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31
New Year's Eve
Also try:
midnight
Henri Matisse born (1869)
Also try:
modern art
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1
New Year's Day
Also try:
New Year's resolutions
National Thank You Month begins
Also try:
gratitude, appreciation
President Abraham Lincoln signs Emancipation Proclamation (1863)
Also try:
Abraham Lincoln, slavery
Ellis Island opens for immigration (1892)
Also try:
immigration
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2
Mahatma Gandhi begins march for peace in East Bengali (1947)
Also try:
colonial India, civil disobedience
USSR launches Mechta for first solar orbit (1959)
Also try:
space exploration, spacecraft
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3
Alaska named 49th state (1959)
Also try:
United States expansion, statehood
Israeli ground forces invade Gaza (2009)
J.R.R. Tolkien born (1892)
Also try:
The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit
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4
Spirit, a NASA Mars rover, lands successfully on Mars (2004)
Also try:
NASA missions, terrestrial planets
Isaac Newton born (1643)
Also try:
Scientific Revolution, Newton's laws of motion
Louis Braille born (1809)
Also try:
blindness, visual impairment
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5
George Washington Carver Day
Also try:
peanuts, crop rotation
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde published (1886)
Also try:
Robert Louis Stevenson
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