June 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

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Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thur	Fri	Sat
26 Astronaut Sally Ride is born in 1951 Also try: astronaut, space travel	27 Queen Mary sails from Southampton on her maiden voyage in 1936 Also try: transportation, passenger ship Memorial Day Also try: U.S. soldier, federal holiday, veteran	28 Amnesty International Day Also try: human rights, civil rights, discrimination Olympic champion Jim Thorpe is born in 1888 Also try: Olympics, athlete, track and field	29 Edmund Hillary and Tenzig Norgay reach Mount Everest summit in 1953 Also try: mountain climbing, explorer, Nepal	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, transcendentalism	1 First Superman comic is published in 1938 Also try: comic, superhero, hero
2 Radio is patented in 1896 Also try: patent, sound, radio wave	3 First U.S. spacewalk by Ed White in 1965 Also try: astronaut, NASA, space exploration	4 Demonstrations occur at Tiananmen Square, Beijing 1989 Also try: China, student protest, human rights First reliably recorded solar eclipse is noted by Chinese in 781 B.C. Also try: astronomy, China	5 First hot air balloon flight by the Montgolfier brothers in 1783 Also try: Montgolfier brothers, invention, weather, flight World Environment Day Also try: environmentalism, conservation, ecology	6 First drive-in movie theater opens in New Jersey in 1933 Also try: movie, film, automobile U.S. storms Normandy beaches in 1944 on D-Day Also try: Battle of Normandy, World War II	7 U.S. defeats Japan at Midway in 1942 Also try: Battle of Midway, World War II 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: train, 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 explorer, marine conservation, marine biology	12 Author Anne Frank is born in 1929 Also try: Anne Frank's Diary, Holocaust, concentration camp	13 China's Boxer Rebellion occurs in 1900 Also try: China, Chinese history	14 Activist Che Guevara is born in 1928 Also try: Marxism, 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, Father's Day Also try: fatherhood, parenting	17 Statue of Liberty arrives in New York in 1885 Also try: Lady Liberty, Ellis Island	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 World Refugee Day Also try: immigration, migration, human rights NAACP incorporates in 1911 Also try: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, African Americans	21 Summer solstice Also try: sun, solstice 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, martial arts	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, braille	28 Paul Bunyan Day Also try: lumberjack, American folklore, tall tale	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	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

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