June 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

<< June 2012 >>

Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thur	Fri	Sat
27 Queen Mary sails from Southampton on her maiden voyage in 1936 Also try: Transportation, Passenger Ships	28 Memorial Day Also try: Memorial Day, U.S. Soldiers, Federal Holiday, veterans Olympic Champion Jim Thorpe is born in 1888 Also try: Olympics, Pentathlon, Decathlon	29 Edmund Hillary and Tenzig Norgay reach Mt. Everest summit in 1953 Also try: Edmund Hillary, Tenzig Norgay, Mountain Climbing, Explorers	30 U.S. launches Surveyor I to the moon in 1966 Also try: Lunar Exploration, Space Travel, NASA	31 Poet Walt Whitman is born in 1819 Also try: Leaves of Grass, O Captain My Captain	1 First Superman comic is published in 1938 Also try: Comics, Superheroes, Heroes	2 Demonstrations occur at Tiananmen Square, Beijing 1989 Also try: China, Student Protests, Human Rights
3 Casey at Bat is published in 1888 Also try: Baseball, Mudville Nine, Ernest Thayer	4 First reliably recorded solar eclipse is noted by Chinese in 780 B.C. Also try: Astronomy, China	5 The Apple II computer goes on sale in 1977 Also try: PCs, Personal Computers, BASIC World Environment Day Also try: Environmentalism	6 U.S. defeats Japan at Midway in 1942 Also try: Battle of Midway, World War II U.S. storms Normandy beaches in 1944 on D-Day Also try: Battle of Normandy, World War II	7 Vatican City becomes a sovereign state in 1929 Also try: Catholicism, Pope, Italy	8 Architect Frank Lloyd Wright is born in 1867 Also try: Organic Architecture, Robie House	9 Inventor of the steam locomotive, George Stephenson, is born in 1781 Also try: Trains, Transportation, George Stephenson
10 Benjamin Franklin's kite is struck by lightning in 1752 Also try: Electricity, Conductivity	11 Kamehameha Day Also try: Kamehameha the Great, Hawaii Ocean explorer Jacques Cousteau is born in 1910 Also try: Ocean Explorers, Calypso	12 Author Anne Frank is born in 1929 Also try: Anne Frank's Diary, Holocaust, Concentration Camps	13 China's Boxer Rebellion occurs in 1900 Also try: China, Chinese History	14 Activist Che Guevara is born in 1928 Also try: Marxism, El Che, Cuban Revolution Flag Day Also try: U.S. Flag, Woodrow Wilson, Second Continental Congress	15 Magna Carta is signed in 1215 Also try: Constitutional Law, English Law	16 FDR opens his New Deal program in 1933 Also try: FDR, Great Depression, The First 100 Days
17 Father's Day Also try: Fatherhood, Parenting Statue of Liberty arrives in New York in 1885 Also try: Lady Liberty	18 Napoleon defeated at Waterloo in 1815 Also try: Napoleon Bonaparte, Waterloo	19 First organized baseball game is played in Hoboken, New Jersey in 1846 Also try: America's Pastime	20 Summer Solstice Also try: Sun, Solstice NAACP incorporates in 1911 Also try: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, African Americans	21 Japanese Forces on Okinawa surrender to U.S. in 1945 Also try: WWII, Japan	22 The bicycle is patented 1819 Also try: Transportation, Mobility, Tour de France	23 U.S. secret service created in 1860 Also try: Presidential Protection, Counterfeiting, Fraud
24 Boxer Jack Dempsey is born in 1895 Also try: Boxing, Heavyweight Champion, Kid Blackie	25 Battle of Little Bighorn is fought in 1876 Also try: General George Custer, 7th Calvary, Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse	26 50 Nations sign United Nations charter in San Francisco in 1945 Also try: Constitution of the United Nations	27 Author Helen Keller is born in 1880 Also try: The Miracle Worker, Anne Sullivan, The Story of My Life	28 Paul Bunyan Day Also try: Lumberjack, American Folklore, Tall Tales	29 In 1613 the Globe Theatre in London burns to the ground Also try: Shakespeare, Theatre, Drama	30 Margaret Mitchell publishes Gone With the Wind in 1936 Also try: Margaret Mitchell, Civil War

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