February 2012 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

<< February 2012 >>

Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thur	Fri	Sat
29 Patriot Thomas Paine is born in 1737 Also try: Common Sense, Founding Fathers	30 President Franklin Delano Roosevelt is born in 1882 Also try: FDR, President Roosevelt, New Deal, World War II, Liberalism	31 Baseball player Jackie Robinson is born in 1919 Also try: Baseball, African Americans, Segregation	1 National Freedom Day Also try: Emancipation Proclamation, Slavery, Abolition	2 Author James Joyce is born in 1882 Also try: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, Dubliners Groundhog Day Also try: Winter, Spring, Punxsutawney Phil	3 Black Suffrage, the15th Amendment, is ratified in 1870 Also try: Black Suffrage, Voting, Elections	4 Yalta Conference begins in 1945 Also try: Crimea Conference Civil Rights Leader Rosa Parks is born in 1913 Also try: Civil Rights, Bus Boycotts
5 First motion picture shown to a theater audience in Philadelphia in 1870 Also try: Movies, Film Super Bowl XLVI will take place in Indiana Also try: Super Bowl, football	6 President Ronald Reagan is born in 1911 Also try: Reagan Administration, Reaganomics, Star Wars	7 Author Charles Dickens is born in 1812 Also try: Christmas Carol, Great Expectations, Oliver Twist	8 Disney Studios officially forms in 1926 Also try: Walt Disney, Disneyland, Mickey Mouse	9 Beatles first appear on Ed Sullivan show to 73.7 million viewers in 1964 Also try: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Beatlemania	10 Treaty of Paris ended the French and Indian War in 1763 Also try: Seven Years' War, Ticonderoga	11 Inventor Thomas Edison is born in 1847 Also try: Inventor, Light Bulb
12 Naturalist Charles Darwin is born in 1809 Also try: Evolution, The Origin of Species President Abraham Lincoln is born in 1809 Also try: Emancipation Proclamation, Slavery, Civil War	13 Joseph L. Searles III becomes the first African American on the NYSE in 1970 Also try: African Americans, Stock Market	14 Valentine's Day Also try: St. Valentine, Love	15 Physicist and astronomer Galileo Galilei is born in 1564 Also try: Scientific Revolutions, Laws of Motion	16 Howard Carter locates Pharaoh Tutankhamen's tomb in 1923 Also try: King Tut, Ancient Egypt	17 Basketball star Michael Jordan is born in 1963 Also try: Basketball	18 Pluto is discovered in 1930 Also try: Solar System, Planets, Astronomy
19 Astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus is born in 1473 Also try: Solar System, Astronomy, Renaissance	20 President's Day; Washington's Birthday Also try: George Washington, Abraham Lincoln John Glenn is the first American to orbit Earth in 1962 Also try: Astronaut, Friendship 7	21 Joan of Arc trial begins in England in 1431 Also try: Jeanne d'Arc, Maid of Orleans Mardis Gras Also try: Fat Tuesday, Shrove Tuesday	22 President George Washington is born in 1732 (celebrated on President's Day) Also try: Founding Father, First President, Revolutionary War	23 Successful cloning of Dolly the Sheep in 1997 Also try: Clones, DNA, Dolly the Sheep	24 Pope Gregory the XIII announces the New Style or Gregorian calendar in 1582 Also try: Gregorian Calendar, Julian Calendar	25 First U.S. paper currency introduced by Lincoln in 1862 Also try: Abraham Lincoln, Civil War
26 Frontiersman Buffalo Bill Cody is born in 1846 Also try: Buffalo, Wild West Show	27 Author John Steinbeck is born in 1902 Also try: Grapes of Wrath, Cannery Row, Of Mice and Men	28 Salem Witch Trials begin in 1692 Also try: Witchcraft, Massachusetts Bay Colony	29	1 Composer Frederic Chopin is born in 1810 Also try: Romanticism, Piano	2 Author Dr. Seuss is born in 1904 Also try: Ted Geisel, Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham Read Across America Day Also try: Dr. Seuss, books, literacy	3 Inventor Alexander Graham Bell is born in 1847 Also try: Inventor, Telephone The 40th Annual Iditarod Also try: Race, dogs, snow

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