July 2013 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 2013 >>

Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thur	Fri	Sat
30 Margaret Mitchell publishes Gone with the Wind in 1936 Also try: Margaret Mitchell, Civil War	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 an eighty-three day filibuster in Senate Also try: civil rights, filibuster, Senate	3 Artist John Singleton Copley is born in 1738 Also try: portrait, 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 show, clothing designer	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 sport	8 Stock Market falls to lowest point during Great Depression in 1932 Also try: stock market, investing	9 Ramadan begins Also try: Islam, Muslim calendar	10 Boris Yeltsin is sworn in as Russia's first 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: portrait, 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, astronaut	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 Author Ernest Hemingway's birthday in 1899 Also try: For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms	22 Broadway and film composer Alan Menken is born in 1949 Also try: musical, Disney movie, composer, soundtrack	23 Charles Menches invents the ice cream cone in 1904 Also try: dessert, dairy food	24 Hiram Bingham III 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: commonwealth	26 Psychologist Carl Jung is born in 1875 Also try: collective unconscious, psychology, symbolism	27 National Korean War Armistice Day Also try: Korean War
28 Children's author Beatrix Potter is born in 1866 Also try: Peter Rabbit, illustration	29 NASA established in 1958 Also try: space exploration, astronomy, solar system	30 Automaker Henry Ford is born in 1863 Also try: Ford Motor Company, automobile, assembly line	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 car	3 Christopher Columbus sets sail on his first voyage in 1492 Also try: explorer, America First ships pass through the Panama Canal in 1914 Also try: Theodore Roosevelt, shipping, Panama

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