February 2016 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 2016 >>

Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thur	Fri	Sat
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 Black History Month Begins Also try: famous African Americans Four black students stage the first of the Greensboro sit-ins (1960) Also try: Civil Rights Movement	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	6 President Ronald Reagan born (1911) Also try: US Presidents Elizabeth II becomes Queen (1952) Also try: constitutional monarchy
7 Super Bowl 50 Also try: football 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 Chinese New Year Also try: Chinese culture, China	9 Mardi Gras Also try: carnival masks 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 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 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: American Civil War
14 Valentine's Day Also try: Saint Valentine Chemical element 103 Lawrencium discovered (1961) Also try: Periodic Table, Lawrencium YouTube launched (2005) Also try: social media	15 Presidents Day Also try: United States Presidents 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, Tutankhamen	17 Michael Jordan born (1963) Also try: basketball Digital Learning Day Also try: media literacy	18 Former planet Pluto discovered (1930) Also try: solar system, planets	19 Nicolaus Copernicus born (1473) Also try: heliocentric model First US teachers strike, Florida (1968) Also try: labor unions	20 John Glenn first American to orbit Earth (1962) Also try: space exploration, astronauts
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 Calvin Coolidge gives first presidential radio address (1924) Also try: Calvin Coolidge	23 Johannes Gutenberg prints first book, the Bible (1455) Also try: printing press, the Bible	24 Steve Jobs is born (1955) Also try: entrepreneur	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: the Crucible National Tooth Fairy Day Also try: losing teeth DNA structure discovered (1953) Also try: double helix	29 Leap Day Also try: leap year, calendar	1 Women's History Month Begins Also try: women's rights Frederic Chopin born (1810) Also try: Romantic Era Yellowstone becomes first national park (1872) Also try: national parks	2 Dr. Seuss born (1904) Also try: Seuss political cartoons, anapestic meter Read Across America Day Also try: literature, reading skills	3 Alexander Graham Bell born (1847) Also try: telephone, inventor First US child labor law regulating working hours passed (1842) Also try: labor laws, Industrial Revolution "The Star-Spangled Banner" becomes national anthem (1931) Also try: national anthem	4 Antonio Lucio Vivaldi born (1678) Also try: Baroque Period National Grammar Day Also try: phonetics, linguistics	5 The Boston Massacre (1770) Also try: American Revolution Stapler invented (1868) Also try: inventions

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