January 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

<< January 2018 >>

Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thur	Fri	Sat
31 New Year's Eve Also try: midnight Henri Matisse born (1869) Also try: modern art	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: 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 Bengal (1947) Also try: East Bengal, civil disobedience	3 Alaska named 49th state (1959) Also try: United States expansion, statehood Israeli ground forces invade Gaza (2009) Also try: Arab-Israeli Conflict, Israel, Palestine 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: NASA missions, space exploration Isaac Newton born (1643) Also try: Scientific Revolution, Newton's laws of motion Louis Braille born (1809) Also try: blindness, visual impairment	5 George Washington Carver Day Also try: peanuts, crop rotation The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde published (1886) Also try: Robert Louis Stevenson	6 Joan of Arc born (1412) Also try: Hundred Years' War Theory of continental drift first presented by Alfred Wegener (1912) Also try: Alfred Wegener, Pangaea
7 Jupiter's moons discovered (1610) Also try: Galileo Galilei, telescopes President Millard Fillmore born (1800) Also try: Whig Party, US presidents 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, US presidents Jean-Pierre Blanchard takes first hot air balloon flight in the US (1793) Also try: Jean-Pierre Blanchard, history of flight	10 League of Nations formed (1920) Also try: Paris Peace Conference Common Sense by Thomas Paine published (1776) Also try: Thomas Paine, American Revolution	11 Alexander Hamilton born (1755) Also try: Founding Fathers, The Federalist Papers Amelia Earhart flies solo from Honolulu to California (1935) Also try: aviation, history of flight	12 Charles Perrault born (1628) Also try: fairy tales Earthquake in Haiti kills 230,000 (2010) Also try: natural disasters, plate tectonics	13 First public radio broadcast (1910) Also try: mass media
14 Clarinet invented in Nurnberg, Germany (1690) Also try: reed instruments, woodwinds Henry Ford introduces assembly line for the Model T (1914) Also try: assembly line, manufacturing, automobiles	15 First Super Bowl (1967) Also try: football, NFL Elizabeth I crowned Queen of England (1559) Also try: Queen of England, monarchy Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Also try: civil rights movement	16 National Appreciate a Dragon Day Also try: mythical creatures, fantasy literature First publication of Don Quixote (1605) Also try: Miguel de Cervantes Operation Desert Storm announced (1991) Also try: Gulf War, George H. W. Bush	17 Benjamin Franklin born (1706) Also try: American Enlightenment, inventors Prohibition begins (1920) Also try: Volstead Act, 18th amendement Captain James Cook is the first to cross the Antarctic Circle (1773) Also try: Antarctica, English explorers	18 A.A. Milne born (1882) Also try: Winnie-the-Pooh National Thesaurus Day Also try: synonyms, antonyms	19 Edgar Allan Poe born (1809) Also try: Tell-Tale Heart, Fall of the House of Usher James Watt born (1736) Also try: inventors, steam engines	20 Penguin Awareness Day Also try: birds, animal adaptations John Marshall appointed Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court (1801) Also try: supreme court, judicial branch
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 Sir Francis Bacon born (1561) Also try: scientific method, inductive reasoning	23 National Handwriting Day Also try: cursive, penmanship John Hancock born (1737) Also try: Declaration of Independence	24 Gold discovered at Sutter's Mill (1848) Also try: Gold Rush Edith Wharton born (1862) Also try: Ethan Frome, Nobel Prize	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 Rocky Mountain National Park established in Colorado (1915) Also try: national parks	27 Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart born (1756) Also try: Classical period, composers Paris Peace Accords signed, ending the Vietnam War (1973) Also try: Vietnam War Lewis Carroll born (1832) Also try: Alice in Wonderland Auschwitz Liberation Day (1945) Also try: Holocaust, WWII
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

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