February 2020 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 2020 >>

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 Rocky Mountain National Park established in Colorado (1915) Also try: national parks, conservationism	27 International Holocaust Remembrance Day Also try: World War II, Auschwitz, Judaism Lewis Carroll born (1832) Also try: Alice in Wonderland Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart born (1756) Also try: Classical period, composers Paris Peace Accords signed, ending the Vietnam War (1973) Also try: Vietnam War	28 Jackson Pollock born (1912) Also try: abstract expressionism, artists Space shuttle Challenger explodes (1986) Also try: NASA, space missions 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 Thomas Paine born (1737) Also try: Common Sense, American Revolution	30 President Franklin D. Roosevelt born (1882) Also try: New Deal, FDR, US presidents Vietnam War: Tet Offensive launched (1968) Also try: Vietnam War Erno Rubik patents the Rubik's cube (1975) Also try: puzzles, problem solving	31 Franz Schubert born (1797) Also try: Romantic era, composers Jackie Robinson born (1919) Also try: color barrier, baseball 13th Amendment passed, slavery abolished (1865) Also try: abolition, slavery	1 Black History Month begins Also try: African American history Langston Hughes born (1901) Also try: Harlem Renaissance, jazz poetry Four black students stage the first of the Greensboro sit-ins (1960) Also try: civil rights movement
2 Groundhog Day Also try: seasons, shadows James Joyce born (1882) Also try: Ulysses, Dubliners Mexican-American War ends (1848) Also try: annexation of Texas, Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo Super Bowl LIV Also try: football, NFL	3 15th Amendment ratified (1870) Also try: voting rights First operational weather satellite, ESSA-1 launched in US (1966) Also try: meteorology	4 Rosa Parks born (1913) Also try: Montgomery Bus Boycott, civil rights movement Yalta Conference begins (1945) Also try: World War II First presidential election (1789) Also try: Electoral College, democracy	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 William G. Morgan invents the game of volleyball (1895) Also try: team sports National Pizza Pie Day Also try: food, nutrition	10 Treaty of Paris ends the French and Indian War (1763) Also try: Treaty of Paris IMB computer Deep Blue defeats world chess champion (1996) Also try: computer programs, artificial intelligence	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 The Negro National League organizes (1920) Also try: baseball, segregation The American Temperance Society is established in Boston (1826) Also try: prohibition	14 Valentine's Day Also try: Saint Valentine, cupid Chemical element 103 Lawrencium discovered (1961) Also try: periodic table, chemical properties 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
16 Howard Carter enters Pharaoh Tutankhamun's tomb (1923) Also try: King Tut's tomb, Tutankhamun Fidel Castro becomes 16th Prime Minister of Cuba (1959) Also try: Cuba	17 Presidents' Day Also try: US presidents After a tie in the Electoral College, Thomas Jefferson elected president (1801) Also try: Electoral College, democracy Michael Jordan born (1963) Also try: basketball	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 Nicolaus Copernicus born (1473) Also try: heliocentric model, astronomy Battle of Iwo Jima begins (1945) Also try: World War II, Pacific Theater	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 "Miracle on Ice": US men's hockey team defeats Soviet Union in 1980 Winter Olympics Also try: Winter Olympics, Cold War
23 W.E.B. Du Bois born (1868) Also try: civil rights, NAACP Children in Pittsburgh receive first polio vaccine (1954) Also try: vaccines, modern medicine	24 Steve Jobs is born (1955) Also try: entrepreneur US House of Representatives vote to impeach President Andrew Johnson (1868) Also try: impeachment, checks and balances	25 Mardi Gras Also try: carnival masks 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 Digital Learning Day Also try: education technology John Steinbeck born (1902) Also try: The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men Henry Wadsworth Longfellow born (1807) Also try: lyric poetry	28 DNA structure discovered (1953) Also try: double helix, genetics National Tooth Fairy Day Also try: dental hygiene	29 Leap Day Also try: leap year, calendar

Jump to another Curriculum Calendar Month: