June 2016 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 2016 >>

Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thur	Fri	Sat
29 Edmund Hillary and Tenzig Norgay reach Mount Everest summit (1953) Also try: Everest expedition John F. Kennedy born (1917) Also try: US Presidents Learn about Composting Day Also try: soil	30 Memorial Day Also try: US Military, war heroes Lincoln Memorial dedicated (1927) Also try: Abraham Lincoln	31 Poet Walt Whitman born (1819) Also try: poetry World No Tobacco Day Also try: cigarettes	1 Audiobook Month Begins Also try: listening, literature First Superman comic published (1938) Also try: superhero	2 Radio patented (1896) Also try: inventions The Vandals sack Rome (455) Also try: Ancient Rome	3 First US spacewalk (1965) Also try: Space Race Casey at the Bat published (1888) Also try: baseball, poetry	4 Aesop born (620 BC) Also try: fables 19th Amendment approved (1919) Also try: women's suffrage
5 Robert F. Kennedy assassinated (1968) Also try: the Kennedys World Environment Day Also try: conservation	6 First drive-in movie theater opens (1933) Also try: movies U.S. storms Normandy beaches, D-Day (1944) Also try: Normandy Ramadan Begins, North America Also try: Islam, Muslim calendar	7 U.S. defeats Japan at Midway (1942) Also try: Pacific theater Vatican City becomes a sovereign state (1929) Also try: Catholicism, pope	8 Frank Lloyd Wright born (1867) Also try: Wright brothers World Oceans Day Also try: marine animals 1984 published (1949) Also try: dystopia	9 Roman Emperor Nero dies (53) Also try: Ancient Rome Donald Duck "born" (1934) Also try: cartoon	10 Benjamin Franklin's kite struck by lightning (1752) Also try: lightning Maurice Sendak born (1928) Also try: Where the Wild Things Are	11 Great Barrier Reef discovered (1770) Also try: Natural Wonders of the World, Australia Jacques Cousteau born (1910) Also try: marine conservation
12 Anne Frank born (1929) Also try: Holocaust George H. W. Bush born (1924) Also try: US Presidents	13 China's Boxer Rebellion (1900) Also try: nationalism William Butler Yeats born (1865) Also try: poetry, Irish literature	14 First Caldecott Medal Awarded (1938) Also try: children's books Flag Day Also try: world flags	15 Magna Carta signed (1215) Also try: rule of law	16 New Deal program opens (1933) Also try: FDR, Great Depression "House Divided" speech delivered (1858) Also try: Abraham Lincoln	17 Statue of Liberty arrives in New York (1885) Also try: New York M.C. Escher born (1898) Also try: tessellation, graphic art	18 Napoleon defeated at Waterloo (1815) Also try: Waterloo War of 1812 begins (1812) Also try: military conflict International Sushi Day Also try: Japanese food
19 Juneteenth (Slave Liberation Day) (1865) Also try: Slave Liberation Day Father's Day Also try: fathers	20 World Refugee Day Also try: human rights NAACP incorporates (1911) Also try: civil rights, race relations The asteroid Eureka discovered (1990) Also try: space science Summer Solstice Also try: four seasons, axial tilt	21 Japanese forces on Okinawa surrender to U.S. (1945) Also try: Pacific theater	22 US Department of Justice established (1870) Also try: law enforcement, justice	23 U.S. Secret Service created (1860) Also try: Department of Homeland Security Public Service Day Also try: community service	24 First documented UFO sighting (1947) Also try: extraterrestrial John Cabot lands in North America (1497) Also try: Age of Exploration International Fairy Day Also try: mythical creatures	25 Battle of Little Bighorn fought (1876) Also try: Custer's Last Stand Eric Carle born (1929) Also try: The Very Hungry Caterpillar First color television broadcast (1951) Also try: 1950s, mass communication
26 50 nations sign United Nations Charter in San Francisco (1945) Also try: international relations Bicycle patented (1819) Also try: bicycle safety	27 Helen Keller born (1880) Also try: famous women, women's suffrage "Happy Birthday" song written (1859) Also try: birthday traditions	28 Paul Bunyan Day Also try: tall tales, folktales	29 The Globe Theatre burns to the ground (1613) Also try: Shakespeare, London First iPhone released (2007) Also try: technology, cell phones	30 Gone with the Wind published (1936) Also try: Civil War, Reconstruction Meteor Day Also try: astronomy	1 National Ice Cream Month Begins Also try: making ice cream Canada Day Also try: North America Battle of Gettysburg (1863) Also try: Civil War, Gettysburg Address	2 Civil Rights Act passed after 83-day filibuster (1964) Also try: filibuster First steam engine patented (1698) Also try: Thomas Savery

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