February 2018 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 2018 >>

Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thur	Fri	Sat
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 National Puzzle Day Also try: brain teaser, riddle President William McKinley born (1843) Also try: US presidents, Spanish–American War	30 Erno Rubik patents the Rubik's cube (1975) Also try: puzzles President Franklin D. Roosevelt born (1882) Also try: New Deal, FDR, US presidents	31 Vietnam War: Tet Offensive launched (1968) Also try: Vietnam War Jackie Robinson born (1919) Also try: color barrier, baseball 13th Amendment passed, 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 Langston Hughes born (1902) Also try: Harlem Renaissance, jazz poetry	2 James Joyce born (1882) Also try: Ulysses, Dubliners Groundhog Day Also try: shadows, seasons Mexican-American War ends (1848) Also try: annexation of Texas, Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo	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, civil rights movement First presidential election (1789) Also try: Electoral College, democracy Super Bowl 52 Also try: football, NFL	5 First motion picture shown in Philadelphia (1870) Also try: cinematography, film history National Wildlife Federation formed (1936) Also try: nature, animals, conservationism	6 President Ronald Reagan born (1911) Also try: US presidents Elizabeth II becomes Queen of England (1952) Also try: Queen of England, constitutional monarchy	7 Charles Dickens born (1812) Also try: A Christmas Carol, Oliver Twist, Victorian era Laura Ingalls Wilder born (1867) Also try: Little House on the Prairie Sir 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 2018 Winter Oympics begin in PyeonChang, South Korea Also try: winter sports Thomas Paine born (1737) Also try: Common Sense, American Revolution First US combat troops are sent to South Vietnam (1965) Also try: Vietnam War	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, inventors Nelson Mandela released from prison (1990) Also try: apartheid, South Africa	12 President Abraham Lincoln born (1809) Also try: American Civil War, Lincoln Memorial Charles Darwin born (1809) Also try: Theory of Evolution, natural selection	13 Mardi Gras Also try: carnival masks The Negro National League organizes (1920) Also try: baseball, segregation	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: digital video, social media	15 Galileo Galilei born (1564) Also try: Scientific Revolution, astronomy Susan B. Anthony born (1820) Also try: women's suffrage, 19th Amendment National Hippo Day Also try: hippopotamus, aquatic mammals	16 Chinese New Year Also try: Lunar New Year, Chinese culture Howard Carter enters Pharaoh Tutankhamun's tomb (1923) Also try: King Tut's tomb, Tutankhamun	17 Michael Jordan born (1963) Also try: basketball After a tie in the Electoral College, Thomas Jefferson elected president (1801) Also try: Electoral College, democracy
18 Former planet Pluto discovered (1930) Also try: solar system, dwarf planets Adventures of Huckleberry Finn first published in the US (1885) Also try: Mark Twain, American literature	19 Presidents Day Also try: US presidents Nicolaus Copernicus born (1473) Also try: heliocentric model, astronomy	20 John Glenn first American to orbit Earth (1962) Also try: space flight, astronauts US Postal Service formally created (1792) Also try: mail, postage stamps	21 Malcolm X assassinated (1965) Also try: civil rights movement Washington Monument dedicated (1885) Also try: George Washington, national monuments	22 George Washington born (1732) Also try: US presidents Calvin Coolidge gives first public presidential radio address (1924) Also try: Calvin Coolidge, FCC Digital Learning Day Also try: education technology	23 Johannes Gutenberg prints first book, the Bible (1455) Also try: printing press, the Bible W.E.B. Du Bois born (1868) Also try: civil rights, NAACP	24 Steve Jobs is born (1955) Also try: entrepreneur US House of Representatives vote to impeach President Andrew Johnson Also try: impeachment, checks and balances
25 US paper currency introduced (1862) Also try: US Mint, greenbacks Anthony Burgess born (1917) Also try: A Clockwork Orange, dystopia	26 Victor Hugo born (1802) Also try: Les Miserables Grand Teton National Park established (1929) Also try: National Park Service, Calvin Coolidge	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 National Tooth Fairy Day Also try: oral hygiene, teeth DNA structure discovered (1953) Also try: double helix, genetics	1 Women's History Month Begins Also try: women's rights, gender equality Salem Witch Trials begin (1692) Also try: the Crucible Frederic Chopin born (1810) Also try: Romantic era Yellowstone becomes world's 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 Republic of Texas declares independence from Mexico (1836) Also try: The Alamo	3 Alexander Graham Bell born (1847) Also try: telephone, inventor First US child labor law regulating working hours passed (1842) Also try: Industrial Revolution "The Star-Spangled Banner" becomes national anthem (1931) Also try: national anthem

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