December 2019 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 2019 >>

Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thur	Fri	Sat
1 Rosa Parks arrested for civil disobedience (1955) Also try: civil rights movement, Montgomery Bus Boycott World AIDS Day Also try: HIV, immune system	2 The Monroe Doctrine created (1823) Also try: James Monroe, foreign policy George Seurat born (1859) Also try: pointillism, post-impressionism	3 International Day of Persons with Disabilities Also try: Americans with Disabilities Act Joseph Conrad born (1857) Also try: Heart of Darkness, English literature	4 National Dice Day Also try: probability Wildlife Conservation Day Also try: biodiversity	5 Walt Disney born (1901) Also try: Disneyland, cartoons Martin Van Buren born (1782) Also try: US presidents	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	7 Japan attacks Pearl Harbor (1941) Also try: World War II Galileo spacecraft arrives at Jupiter (1995) Also try: Jupiter
8 Eli Whitney born (1785) Also try: cotton gin, American inventors Pretend to be a Time Traveler Day Also try: imagination, time capsule	9 John Milton born (1608) Also try: Paradise Lost The Petrified Forest National Park established in Arizona (1962) Also try: fossils, Arizona geography	10 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn published (1884) Also try: Mark Twain Emily Dickinson born (1830) Also try: slant rhyme, poetry	11 Muhammad leads an army of 10,000 to conquer Mecca (629) Also try: Mecca, Islam The People's Republic of China joins the World Trade Organization (2001) Also try: World Trade Organization	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	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	14 National Monkey Day Also try: primates, gorillas, chimpanzees Roald Amundsen reaches South Pole (1911) Also try: polar expeditions, South Pole
15 Bill of Rights Day Also try: United States Constitution, amendments Nero born (37) Also try: Ancient Rome, Roman rulers	16 Boston Tea Party (1773) Also try: American Revolutionary, Sons of Liberty Battle of the Bulge (1944) Also try: World War II	17 Wright Brothers make their first successful flight (1903) Also try: aviation Aztec Calendar Stone discovered in Mexico City (1790) Also try: Aztecs, calendars	18 The Nutcracker Suite premieres in Russia (1892) Also try: ballet Saturn's moon Epimetheus discovered (1966) Also try: Saturn, solar system	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	20 Trial against Auschwitz guards begins (1963) Also try: Holocaust, Nazi leaders Grimm's Fairy Tales first published (1812) Also try: folklore, folktales	21 Pilgrims land at Plymouth (1620) Also try: Plymouth colony, Mayflower Winter Solstice Also try: four seasons
22 Hanukkah begins Also try: Judaism	23 The Federal Reserve created (1913) Also try: central banking Giovanni Cassini discovers Rhea, a moon of Saturn (1672) Also try: Saturn, moons	24 Treaty of Ghent signed (1814) Also try: War of 1812 Christmas Eve Also try: Christmas carols	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	26 Kwanzaa begins Also try: African heritage First performance of King Lear (1606) Also try: William Shakespeare, Globe Theatre	27 Louis Pasteur born (1822) Also try: vaccination, pasteurization Johannes Kepler born (1571) Also try: Scientific Revolution, planetary motion	28 Endangered Species Act passed (1973) Also try: extinction, wildlife management Woodrow Wilson born (1856) Also try: US presidents
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	30 Hanukkah ends Also try: Judaism 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	31 New Year's Eve Also try: calendars, midnight Henri Matisse born (1869) Also try: modern art	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	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	3 Alaska named 49th state (1959) Also try: US expansion, statehood Israeli ground forces invade Gaza (2009) Also try: Arab-Israeli Conflict, Israel, Palestine J.R.R. Tolkien born (1892) Also try: The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit	4 Spirit, a NASA Mars rover, successfully lands 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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