January 2012 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

<< January 2012 >>

Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thur	Fri	Sat
1 Abraham Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 Also try: Abraham Lincoln, Slavery, Civil War New Year's Day Also try: New Year's Eve, Resolutions	2 Mahatma Gandhi begins march for peace in East Bengali in 1947 Also try: India, Nonviolence	3 Author J.R.R. Tolkien is born in 1892 Also try: Middle Earth, Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit	4 Scientist Isaac Newton is born in 1642 Also try: Laws of Motion, Universal Gravitation, Scientific Revolution	5 George Washington Carver Day Also try: African Americans, Peanuts, Inventors	6 Mountain man Jebediah Smith is born in 1798 Also try: trapper, explorer, mountain man	7 President Millard Fillmore is born in 1800 Also try: Presidents, Whig Party, Know Nothing Party
8 Rocker Elvis Presley is born in 1935 Also try: Rock and Roll	9 President Richard Milhous Nixon is born in 1913 Also try: Nixon, Watergate, Foreign Policy	10 League of Nations is formed in 1920 Also try: Paris Peace Conference, United Nations	11 Patriot Alexander Hamilton is born in 1755 Also try: Federalism, Secretary of Treasury	12 Patriot John Hancock is born in 1737 Also try: Continental Congress, Declaration of Independence	13 First radio set is advertised in 1906 Also try: Wireless, Broadcasting	14 Treaty of Paris is ratified, ending the Revolutionary War in 1784 Also try: Treaty of Paris
15 The first Super Bowl was played in 1967 Also try: Super Bowl, football	16 Martin Luther King Jr. Day Also try: Civil Rights, I Have a Dream, Nonviolence Biologist Dian Fossey is born in 1932 Also try: Gorillas, Gorillas in the Mist	17 Inventor and Patriot Benjamin Franklin is born in 1706 Also try: Inventor, Lightning Rod, Electricity	18 Robert Scott reaches the South Pole in 1912 Also try: South Pole, Explorers	19 Author Edgar Allen Poe is born in 1809 Also try: The Raven, The Tell-Tale Heart, Annabel Lee	20 LaMarcus Adna Thompson patents the rollercoaster in 1885 Also try: Patent, Gravity	21 Edward Jenner's smallpox vaccination is introduced in 1796 Also try: Edward Jenner, Vaccinations, Disease
22 The uranium atom is split at Columbia University in 1939 Also try: Nuclear Power, Nuclear Weapons	23 Chinese New Year Also try: Spring Festival, Dim Sum Paris Peace Accord ends the Vietnam War in 1973 Also try: Vietnam, Paris Peace Agreement	24 Gold is discovered in California in 1848 Also try: Gold Rush, Sutter's Fort, 49ers	25 Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service in 1915 Also try: Telephone 100th Day of School	26 Hockey player Wayne Gretzky is born in 1961 Also try: Winter Sports, Wayne Gretzky, The Great One	27 Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is born in 1756 Also try: Classical Music, Opera, Symphonies, Requiem	28 Space Shuttle Challenger exploded in 1986 Also try: Space Shuttle, Christa McAuliffe, Teachers in Space
29 Patriot Thomas Paine is born in 1737 Also try: Common Sense, Founding Fathers	30 President Franklin Delano Roosevelt is born in 1882 Also try: FDR, President Roosevelt, New Deal, World War II, Liberalism	31 Baseball player Jackie Robinson is born in 1919 Also try: Baseball, African Americans, Segregation	1 National Freedom Day Also try: Emancipation Proclamation, Slavery, Abolition	2 Author James Joyce is born in 1882 Also try: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, Dubliners Groundhog Day Also try: Winter, Spring, Punxsutawney Phil	3 Black Suffrage, the15th Amendment, is ratified in 1870 Also try: Black Suffrage, Voting, Elections	4 Yalta Conference begins in 1945 Also try: Crimea Conference Civil Rights Leader Rosa Parks is born in 1913 Also try: Civil Rights, Bus Boycotts

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