February 2017 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 2017 >>

Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thur	Fri	Sat
29 Thomas Paine born (1737) Also try: Common Sense National Puzzle Day Also try: brain teaser	30 Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933) Also try: nationalism, causes of WWII President Franklin D. Roosevelt born (1882) Also try: New Deal, FDR	31 Vietnam War: Tet Offensive launched (1968) Also try: Vietnam War 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: African American history 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, seasons 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, Electoral College
5 First motion picture shown in Philadelphia (1870) Also try: cinematography Super Bowl 51 Also try: football, NFL	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 Japan declares war on Russia (1904) Also try: Russo-Japanese War	9 First United States combat troops are sent to South Vietnam (1965) Also try: Vietnam War Volleyball invented by William 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, phonograph Nelson Mandela released from prison (1990) Also try: Apartheid, South Africa
12 President Abraham Lincoln born (1809) Also try: Civil War, Lincoln Memorial Charles Darwin born (1809) Also try: Theory of Evolution, natural selection	13 The Negro National League organizes (1920) Also try: baseball, segregation Jesse James holds up first bank (1866) Also try: American Civil War	14 Valentine's Day Also try: Saint Valentine, cupid Chemical element 103 Lawrencium discovered (1961) Also try: periodic table, Lawrencium YouTube launched (2005) Also try: social media, digital video	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, Tutankhamen	17 Michael Jordan born (1963) Also try: basketball	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 Presidents Day Also try: United States Presidents John Glenn first American to orbit Earth (1962) Also try: space flight, 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 public presidential radio address (1924) Also try: Calvin Coolidge	23 Digital Learning Day Also try: media literacy 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, greenbacks 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 Mardi Gras Also try: carnival masks National Tooth Fairy Day Also try: oral hygiene DNA structure discovered (1953) Also try: double helix	1 Women's History Month Begins Also try: women's rights Salem Witch Trials begin (1692) Also try: the Crucible 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, Green Eggs and Ham 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

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