June 2018 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
27 The Queen Mary takes maiden voyage (1936) Also try: passenger ships Golden Gate Bridge opens (1937) Also try: suspension bridges, San Fransisco	28 Amnesty International Day Also try: human rights, justice Memorial Day Also try: US military, war heroes Jim Thorpe born (1888) Also try: athletes	29 Edmund Hillary and Tenzig Norgay reach Mount Everest summit (1953) Also try: Everest expedition, mountains John F. Kennedy born (1917) Also try: US presidents Learn about Composting Day Also try: soil, gardening	30 Lincoln Memorial dedicated (1922) Also try: Abraham Lincoln	31 Walt Whitman born (1819) Also try: poetry World No Tobacco Day Also try: cigarettes, healthy habits	1 Audiobook Month Begins Also try: listening skills, literature First Superman comic book published (1938) Also try: superheroes, comic books	2 Radio first patented (1896) Also try: inventions, technology The Vandals sack Rome (455) Also try: Ancient Rome, Roman Empire
3 First US spacewalk (1965) Also try: Space Race, space travel Casey at the Bat published (1888) Also try: baseball, poetry	4 Aesop born (620 BC) Also try: fables 19th Amendment passed (1919) Also try: women's suffrage, voting rights	5 Robert F. Kennedy assassinated (1968) Also try: the Kennedys World Environment Day Also try: conservationism, environmentalism	6 First drive-in movie theater opens (1933) Also try: film history US storms Normandy beaches, D-Day (1944) Also try: Normandy, WWII	7 US defeats Japan at the Battle of Midway (1942) Also try: Pacific theater, WWII Vatican City becomes a sovereign state (1929) Also try: Catholicism, popes	8 Frank Lloyd Wright born (1867) Also try: architecture World Oceans Day Also try: marine animals 1984 published (1949) Also try: dystopia, George Orwell	9 Roman Emperor Nero dies (68) Also try: Ancient Rome Donald Duck "born" (1934) Also try: cartoons, Walt Disney
10 Benjamin Franklin's kite struck by lightning (1752) Also try: lightning, electricity 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, coral Jacques Cousteau born (1910) Also try: marine conservation	12 Anne Frank born (1929) Also try: Holocaust, WWII George H. W. Bush born (1924) Also try: US presidents	13 China's Boxer Rebellion begins (1900) Also try: nationalism, Chinese history 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: US flags 2018 FIFA World Cup begins Also try: soccer	15 Magna Carta signed (1215) Also try: rule of law Global Wind Day Also try: wind energy, wind turbines, weather patterns	16 New Deal program approved by Congress (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 City M.C. Escher born (1898) Also try: tessellation, graphic art Father's Day Also try: fathers, families	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 Blaise Pascal born (1623) Also try: Pascal's Law, mathematicians	20 World Refugee Day Also try: human rights NAACP incorporates (1911) Also try: civil rights, racial equality The asteroid Eureka discovered (1990) Also try: space science	21 Summer Solstice Also try: four seasons, axial tilt Japanese forces on Okinawa surrender to US (1945) Also try: Pacific theater, WWII	22 US Department of Justice established (1870) Also try: law enforcement, justice	23 US Secret Service created (1860) Also try: Department of Homeland Security United Nations Public Service Day Also try: United Nations, community service
24 First documented UFO sighting (1947) Also try: extraterrestrials John Cabot lands in North America (1497) Also try: Age of Exploration, Italian explorers International Fairy Day Also try: mythical creatures, Iceland	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 in the US (1819) Also try: bike safety, inventions	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 King Henry VIII born (1491) Also try: King of England, monarchy	29 The Globe Theatre burns to the ground (1613) Also try: Shakespeare, London First iPhone released (2007) Also try: cell phones	30 Gone with the Wind published (1936) Also try: American Civil War National Meteor Day Also try: astronomy

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