February 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

<< February 2013 >>

Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thur	Fri	Sat
27 Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is born in 1756 Also try: classical music, opera, symphony, Requiem	28 Space shuttle Challenger explodes in 1986 Also try: space shuttle, Christa McAuliffe, Teachers in Space	29 Political activist Thomas Paine is born in 1737 Also try: Common Sense, French Revolution, The American Crisis	30 President Franklin D. Roosevelt is born in 1882 Also try: FDR, 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 Super Bowl XLVII takes place in New Orleans Also try: Super Bowl, football 15th Amendment is ratified in 1870, making it illegal to deny voting based on race Also try: suffrage, voting, elections	4 Yalta Conference begins in 1945 Also try: Crimea Conference, Argonaut Conference, World War II Civil Rights leader Rosa Parks is born in 1913 Also try: Civil Rights, Montgomery bus boycotts	5 First motion picture is shown to a theater audience in Philadelphia in 1870 Also try: movies, film Weatherman's Day Also try: weather, meteorology	6 President Ronald Reagan is born in 1911 Also try: Reagan Administration, Reaganomics	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 Rock band 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 Chinese New Year Also try: Spring Festival, dim sum Treaty of Paris ended the French and Indian War in 1763 Also try: Seven Years' War, Ticonderoga, Treaty of Paris	11 Inventor and businessman Thomas Edison is born in 1847 Also try: electricity, light bulb, phonograph, motion picture camera	12 Mardi Gras Also try: Fat Tuesday, Shrove Tuesday, Ash Wednesday, Carnival season, Lent 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: economics, stock market	14 Valentine's Day Also try: St. Valentine, love	15 Physicist and astronomer Galileo Galilei is born in 1564 Also try: Scientific Revolution, laws of motion	16 Howard Carter locates Pharaoh Tutankhamen's tomb in 1923 Also try: King Tut, ancient Egypt, pharaoh
17 Basketball star Michael Jordan is born in 1963 Also try: basketball	18 President's Day; Washington's Birthday Also try: George Washington, Abraham Lincoln Former planet Pluto is discovered in 1930 Also try: solar system, planet, astronomy	19 Astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus is born in 1473 Also try: solar system, astronomer, Renaissance	20 Comic book series Batman & Robin debuts in 1944 Also try: Batman, hero, superhero John Glenn is the first American to orbit Earth in 1962 Also try: astronaut, NASA	21 Joan of Arc trial begins in England in 1431 Also try: Hundred Years' War, heroine Washington Monument is dedicated in 1885 Also try: monument, Washington D.C., George Washington	22 President George Washington is born in 1732 (celebrated on President's Day) Also try: Founding Father, Revolutionary War	23 Successful cloning of Dolly the sheep in 1997 Also try: DNA, Dolly the sheep, biotechnology
24 Entrepreneur Steve Jobs is born in 1955 Also try: technology, entrepreneur	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: Wild West Show, cowboy	27 Author John Steinbeck is born in 1902 Also try: The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, East of Eden	28 Salem Witch Trials begin in 1692 Also try: witchcraft, Massachusetts Bay Colony	1 Composer Frederic Chopin is born in 1810 Also try: Chopin, Romanticism, piano	2 Author Dr. Seuss is born in 1904 Also try: The Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham Read Across America Day Also try: book, literacy, Dr. Seuss, library

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