July 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

<< July 2012 >>

Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thur	Fri	Sat
1 Canada Day Also try: Dominion Day	2 Battle of Gettysburg is fought in 1863 Also try: Civil War, Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed after 83 day filibuster in Senate Also try: Civil Rights, Filibuster	3 Artist John Singleton Copley is born in 1738 Also try: Portraits, Colonial Art	4 Independence Day Also try: Fourth of July, Declaration of Independence	5 The bikini makes its fashion debut in Paris in 1946 Also try: Fashion Shows, Clothing Designers	6 President George W. Bush is born in 1946 Also try: Iraq War, No Child Left Behind, War on Terror	7 Champion Figure Skater Michelle Kwan is born in 1980 Also try: Figure Skating, Winter Sports
8 Stock Market falls to lowest point during Great Depression in 1932 Also try: Stock Market, Investing	9 Inventor Elias Howe is born 1819 Also try: Sewing Machine	10 Boris Yeltsin is sworn in as Russia's 1st elected president in 1991 Also try: Russia, Communism, USSR	11 Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr duel in 1804 Also try: Alexander Hamilton, Dueling	12 Author and philosopher Henry David Thoreau is born in 1817 Also try: Walden, Walden Pond, Civil Disobedience	13 Roman Emperor Julius Caesar is born in 100 B.C. Also try: Ancient Rome, Roman Empire	14 Bastille Day Also try: French Independence, French Revolution
15 Artist Rembrandt Van Rijn is born in 1606 Also try: Dutch Golden Age, Chiaroscuro	16 Islamic calendar begins in 622 Also try: Islam, Muslim Calendar	17 Potsdam Conference takes place in 1945 Also try: World War II, FDR, Stalin, Churchill	18 Astronaut John Glenn is born in 1921 Also try: NASA, Space Travel, Astronauts	19 First Women's Rights Convention at Seneca Falls in 1848 Also try: Seneca Falls, Feminism	20 Apollo II makes first Moon Landing in 1969 Also try: Apollo Spacecraft, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin	21 Jesse James and gang rob their first train in 1873 Also try: Outlaw Gangs, Wild West
22 Broadway and film composer Alan Menken is born in 1949 Also try: Musicals, Disney Movies, Alan Menken, Soundtracks	23 Charles Menches invents the ice cream cone in 1904 Also try: Desserts, Dairy Foods	24 Hiram Bingham locates the ancient Incan ruins of Macchu Picchu in 1911 Also try: Incan Civilization, Inca	25 Puerto Rico becomes a U.S. commonwealth in 1952 Also try: Commonwealths	26 Psychologist Carl Jung is born in 1875 Also try: Analytical Psychology, Dream Analysis, Jungian Psychology	27 National Korean War Armistice Day Also try: Korean War	28 Children's Author Beatrix Potter is born in 1866 Also try: Peter Rabbit, Benjamin Bunny
29 Italian dictator Benito Mussolini is born in 1883 Also try: Italy, Fascism, Axis Powers, WWII	30 Automaker Henry Ford is born in 1863 Also try: Ford Motor Company, Automobile	31 Author J.K. Rowling is born in 1965 Also try: Harry Potter	1 Author Herman Melville is born in 1819 Also try: Moby Dick	2 Trial run of San Francisco cable car on Clay St. in 1873 Also try: Transportation, Cable Cars	3 First ships pass through the Panama Canal in 1914 Also try: Theodore Roosevelt, Shipping, Panama	4 Musician Louis Armstrong is born in 1901 Also try: Satchmo, Jazz, Trumpet

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