February 2014 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 2014 >>

Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thur	Fri	Sat
26 Condoleezza Rice becomes first African American woman US Secretary of State (2005) Also try: Secretary of State	27 Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart born (1756) Also try: Classical Period Lewis Caroll born (1832) Also try: Alice in Wonderland Auschwitz Liberation Day Also try: Holocaust, WWII	28 Space shuttle Challenger explodes (1986) Also try: NASA, space exploration Jackson Pollock born (1912) Also try: abstract expressionism Pride and Prejudice published in United Kingdom (1813) Also try: Jane Austen	29 Thomas Paine born (1737) Also try: Common Sense National Puzzle Day Also try: brain teaser Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933) Also try: nationalism, causes of WWII	30 President Franklin D. Roosevelt born (1882) Also try: New Deal, FDR Vietnam War: Tet Offensive launched (1968) Also try: Vietnam War	31 Jackie Robinson born (1919) Also try: color barrier 13th Amendment, slavery abolished (1865) Also try: Abolition Franz Schubert born (1797) Also try: Romantic Era	1 National Freedom Day Also try: Liberty, independence Four black students stage the first of the Greensboro sit-ins (1960) Also try: Civil Rights Movement National Robinson Crusoe Day Also try: realistic fiction
2 James Joyce born (1882) Also try: Ulysses Groundhog Day Also try: shadows Mexican-American War ends (1848) Also try: annexation of Texas	3 First operational weather satellite, ESSA-1 launched in US (1966) Also try: meteorology 15th Amendment ratified (1870) Also try: voting rights	4 Yalta Conference begins (1945) Also try: WWII Rosa Parks born (1913) Also try: Montgomery Bus Boycott First presidential election (1789) Also try: election process	5 First motion picture shown in Philadelphia (1870) Also try: Thomas Edison Digital Learning Day Also try: media literacy	6 President Ronald Reagan born (1911) Also try: US Presidents Elizabeth II becomes Queen (1952) Also try: constitutional monarchy	7 Author Charles Dickens born (1812) Also try: A Christmas Carol, Oliver Twist, Victorian Period Laura Ingalls Wilder born (1867) Also try: Little House on the Prairie Thomas More born (1478) Also try: Utopia, Renaissance	8 Jules Verne born (1828) Also try: science fiction
9 Japan declares war on Russia (1904) Also try: Russo-Japanese War First United States combat troops are sent to South Vietnam (1965) Also try: Vietnam War Volleyball invented by W.G. Morgan (1895) Also try: sports	10 Chinese New Year Also try: Chinese culture, China Treaty of Paris ends the French and Indian War (1763) Also try: French and Indian War	11 Thomas Edison born (1847) Also try: light bulb, motion picture Nelson Mandela released from prison (1990) Also try: Apartheid	12 Mardi Gras Also try: carnival, Ash Wednesday President Abraham Lincoln born (1809) Also try: Civil War, Lincoln Memorial Charles Darwin born (1809) Also try: Theory of Evolution	13 National Negro Baseball League organizes (1920) Also try: segregation, baseball First public school (1635) Also try: public education Jesse James holds up first bank (1866) Also try: Civil War	14 Valentine's Day Also try: Saint Valentine Chemical elements: Element 103 Lawrencium discovered (1961) Also try: Periodic Table YouTube launched (2005) Also try: social media	15 Galileo Galilei born (1564) Also try: Scientific Revolution, astronomy Susan B. Anthony born (1820) Also try: women's suffrage National Hippo Day Also try: hippopotamus
16 Howard Carter locates Pharaoh Tutankhamen's tomb (1923) Also try: King Tut's Tomb	17 Michael Jordan born (1963) Also try: basketball	18 President's Day Also try: US Presidents Former planet Pluto discovered (1930) Also try: planets, solar system	19 Nicolaus Copernicus born (1473) Also try: heliocentric model First US teachers strike, Florida (1968) Also try: labor unions Chinese New Year Also try: Chinese culture, China	20 Comic book Batman & Robin debuts (1944) Also try: comic books, superhero John Glenn first American to orbit Earth (1962) Also try: space exploration	21 Malcolm X assassinated (1965) Also try: Civil Rights Movement Washington Monument dedicated (1885) Also try: George Washington	22 George Washington born (1732) Also try: US Presidents International Tongue Twister Day Also try: riddles, alliteration Calvin Coolidge gives first presidential radio address (1924) Also try: Calvin Coolidge
23 Successful cloning of Dolly the sheep (1997) Also try: cloning Johannes Gutenberg prints first book, the Bible (1455) Also try: printing press	24 Steve Jobs is born (1955) Also try: entrepreneur National Cupcake Day Also try: baking, cupcake decorating	25 US paper currency introduced (1862) Also try: US Mint Anthony Burgess born (1917) Also try: A Clockwork Orange, dystopia	26 Buffalo Bill Cody born (1846) Also try: Wild West Victor Hugo born (1802) Also try: Les Miserables	27 John Steinbeck born (1902) Also try: The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men Henry Wadsworth Longfellow born (1807) Also try: lyric poetry	28 Salem Witch Trials begin (1692) Also try: Salem, Massachusetts National Tooth Fairy Day Also try: losing teeth DNA structure discovered (1953) Also try: double helix	1 Frederic Chopin born (1810) Also try: Romantic Era Yellowstone becomes first national park (1872) Also try: national parks

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