January 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

<< January 2020 >>

Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thur	Fri	Sat
29 Massacre of Wounded Knee takes place (1890) Also try: Native American history Mongolia declares independence from the Qing Dynasty (1911) Also try: Qing Dynasty	30 Hanukkah ends Also try: Judaism Rudyard Kipling born (1865) Also try: British imperialism, The Jungle Book Edwin Hubble announces discovery of other galaxies (1924) Also try: space exploration, the universe	31 New Year's Eve Also try: calendars, 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 Mahatma Gandhi begins march for peace in East Bengali (1947) Also try: colonial India, civil disobedience USSR launches Mechta for first solar orbit (1959) Also try: space exploration, spacecraft	3 Alaska named 49th state (1959) Also try: US 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, successfully lands on Mars (2004) Also try: NASA missions, terrestrial planets 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 The theory of continental drift first presented by Alfred Wegener (1912) Also try: Alfred Wegener, Pangaea	7 President Millard Fillmore born (1800) Also try: Whig Party, US presidents Zora Neale Hurston born (1891) Also try: Harlem Renaissance Jupiter's moons discovered (1610) Also try: Galileo Galilei, telescopes	8 Elvis Presley born (1935) Also try: rock 'n roll, popular music 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 Common Sense by Thomas Paine published (1776) Also try: Thomas Paine, American Revolution League of Nations formed (1920) Also try: Paris Peace Conference	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 Publication of first "Mickey Mouse" comic strip (1930) Also try: comic strips, Walt Disney	14 Clarinet invented in Nuremberg, Germany (1690) Also try: woodwinds, musical instruments First Model T automobile is built on an assembly line (1914) Also try: Henry Ford, manufacturing, automobiles	15 Elizabeth I crowned Queen of England (1559) Also try: Queen of England, monarchy First Super Bowl (1967) Also try: football, advertising	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 Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Also try: civil rights movement, nonviolence John Marshall appointed Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court (1801) Also try: supreme court, judicial branch Penguin Awareness Day Also try: birds, animal adaptations	21 Neptune becomes outermost planet (1979) Also try: solar system, planets King Louis XVI executed for treason (1793) Also try: French Revolution	22 Sir Francis Bacon born (1561) Also try: scientific method, inductive reasoning The uranium atom split at Columbia University (1939) Also try: nuclear fission, Manhattan Project	23 National Handwriting Day Also try: cursive, penmanship John Hancock born (1737) Also try: Declaration of Independence	24 Edith Wharton born (1862) Also try: Ethan Frome, Pulitzer Prize Gold discovered at Sutter's Mill (1848) Also try: Gold Rush	25 Chinese New Year Also try: Lunar New Year, Chinese culture 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, 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

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