January 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

<< January 2017 >>

Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thur	Fri	Sat
1 New Year's Day Also try: New Year's resolutions National Thank You Month begins Also try: gratitude, appreciation President Abraham Lincoln signs Emancipation Proclamation (1863) Also try: President Abraham Lincoln, slavery Ellis Island opens for immigration (1892) Also try: immigration	2 USSR launches Mechta for first solar orbit (1959) Also try: space exploration Mahatma Gandhi begins march for peace in East Bengali (1947) Also try: Bengali	3 Alaska named 49th state (1959) Also try: United States expansion, statehood Israeli ground forces invade Gaza (2009) Also try: Arab-Israeli Conflict J.R.R. Tolkien born (1892) Also try: The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit	4 Spirit, a NASA Mars rover, lands successfully on Mars (2004) Also try: Mars, space exploration Scientist Isaac Newton born (1643) Also try: Scientific Revolution, Newton's laws of motion Louis Braille born (1809) Also try: blindness, visual impairment Euro debuts (1999) Also try: currency, European Union	5 George Washington Carver Day Also try: peanuts	6 Joan of Arc born (1412) Also try: Hundred Years' War	7 Jupiter's moons discovered (1610) Also try: Galileo Galilei President Millard Fillmore born (1800) Also try: Whig Party Zora Neale Hurston born (1891) Also try: Harlem Renaissance
8 Elvis Presley born (1935) Also try: rock 'n roll George Washington delivers first State of the Union Address (1790) Also try: George Washington	9 President Richard M. Nixon born (1913) Also try: Watergate Scandal Jean-Pierre Blanchard takes first US hot air balloon flight (1793) Also try: Jean-Pierre Blanchard	10 League of Nations is formed (1920) Also try: Paris Peace Conference Common Sense by Thomas Paine published (1776) Also try: Thomas Paine	11 Alexander Hamilton born (1755 or 1757) Also try: Founding Fathers Amelia Earhart flies solo from Honolulu to California (1935) Also try: aviation	12 Charles Perrault born (1628) Also try: fairy tales Earthquake in Haiti kills 230,000 (2010) Also try: natural disasters	13 First public radio broadcast (1910) Also try: mass media Rubber Ducky Day Also try: Duck Duck Goose	14 Clarinet invented (1690) Also try: reed instruments Henry Ford introduces the assembly line for Model T Fords (1914) Also try: assembly line, Model T
15 First Super Bowl (1967) Also try: football, NFL Elizabeth I crowned Queen of England (1559) Also try: Queen of England Martin Luther King, Jr. born (1929) Also try: Civil Rights Movement National Humanitarian Day Also try: human rights	16 National Appreciate a Dragon Day Also try: mythical creatures First publication of Don Quixote (1605) Also try: Miguel de Cervantes Operation Desert Storm announced (1991) Also try: Gulf War Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Also try: civil rights	17 Benjamin Franklin born (1706) Also try: American Enlightenment Prohibition begins (1920) Also try: Volstead Act	18 Robert Scott reaches the South Pole (1912) Also try: polar expeditions A.A. Milne born (1882) Also try: Winnie-The-Pooh National Thesaurus Day Also try: synonyms, antonyms	19 Edgar Allen Poe born (1809) Also try: macabre Paul Cezanne born (1839) Also try: post-impressionism	20 Penguin Awareness Day Also try: Arctic animals US Presidential Inauguration Also try: US president	21 Smallpox vaccination introduced (1799) Also try: immunization Neptune becomes outermost planet (1979) Also try: solar system, planets
22 The uranium atom split at Columbia University (1939) Also try: nuclear fission, Manhattan Project World's largest cheese (15,723 kg) manufactured, Wisconsin (1964) Also try: cheese	23 National Handwriting Day Also try: cursive, penmanship John Hancock born (1737) Also try: Declaration of Independence	24 Gold is discovered at Sutter's Mill (1848) Also try: Gold Rush	25 Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates US transcontinental telephone service (1915) Also try: Alexander Graham Bell The first Winter Olympics (1924) Also try: Olympia	26 Condoleezza Rice becomes first African American woman US Secretary of State (2005) Also try: Secretary of State	27 Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart born (1756) Also try: Classical period Paris Peace Accords signed, ending the Vietnam War (1973) Also try: Vietnam War Lewis Caroll born (1832) Also try: Alice in Wonderland Auschwitz Liberation Day (1945) Also try: Holocaust, WWII	28 Chinese New Year Also try: Chinese culture, China 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 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

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