March 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

<< March 2012 >>

Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thur	Fri	Sat
26 Frontiersman Buffalo Bill Cody is born in 1846 Also try: Buffalo, Wild West Show	27 Author John Steinbeck is born in 1902 Also try: Grapes of Wrath, Cannery Row, Of Mice and Men	28 Salem Witch Trials begin in 1692 Also try: Witchcraft, Massachusetts Bay Colony	29	1 Composer Frederic Chopin is born in 1810 Also try: Romanticism, Piano	2 Author Dr. Seuss is born in 1904 Also try: Ted Geisel, Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham Read Across America Day Also try: Dr. Seuss, books, literacy	3 Inventor Alexander Graham Bell is born in 1847 Also try: Inventor, Telephone The 40th Annual Iditarod Also try: Race, dogs, snow
4 Composer Antonio Lucio Vivaldi is born in 1678 Also try: The Four Seasons, Baroque Music	5 The Boston Massacre takes place in 1770 Also try: Townshend Act, Revolutionary War	6 A decision in the Dred Scott case is reached in 1857 Also try: Dred Scott vs. Sanford, Slavery, Emancipation	7 Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone in 1876 Also try: Alexander Graham Bell, Inventors	8 International Women's Day Also try: Working Women, Women's Rights, Gender Equality	9 First female cadets accepted at West Point in 1976 Also try: Military, Corps of Cadets, Military Officers Barbie, the queen of toys, debuts in 1959 Also try: Barbie, Dolls	10 Senate lowers the voting age to 18 in 1971 Also try: 26th Amendment, Voting Age
11 Romeo and Juliet wed in 1302 Also try: Shakespeare, Tragedy	12 Author Jack Kerouac is born in 1922 Also try: Beatniks, Beat Generation, On the Road, The Dharma Bums	13 Spanish explorer Cortez lands in Mexico in 1519 Also try: Conquistadors, Aztecs	14 Physicist Albert Einstein is born in 1879 Also try: Relativity, Nobel Prize Math Pi Day Also try: Pi, Pi Approximation Day	15 Julius Caesar is assassinated on the Ides of March Also try: Julius Caesar, Ancient Rome	16 Nathaniel Hawthorne publishes the Scarlet Letter in 1850 Also try: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Puritans	17 Saint Patrick's Day Also try: St. Patrick, Ireland, Shamrock, Leprechaun Soccer player Mia Hamm is born in 1972 Also try: Soccer
18 The British Parliament repeals the Stamp Act in 1766 Also try: Revolutionary War, Independence	19 Gunfighter Wyatt Earp is born in 1848 Also try: OK Corral, Old West	20 Psychologist B.F. Skinner is born in 1904 Also try: Experimental Psychology, Behaviorism Spring Equinox Also try: Seasons, Equinox	21 Human Rights Day in South Africa Also try: Bill of Human Rights, Apartheid	22 Gutenberg Bible becomes the first printed book in 1457 Also try: Printing Press, Inventions	23 Japanese Director Akira Kurosawa is born in 1910 Also try: Japanese Film, Film Directors, Japan	24 Exxon Valdez runs aground in 1989 resulting in worst oil spill in U.S. history Also try: Oil Spills, Pollution
25 Singer Aretha Franklin is born in 1942 Also try: Queen of Soul, Gospel Music, R&B Music, African Americans	26 Poet Robert Frost is born 1874 Also try: The Road Not Taken, Nothing Gold Can Stay	27 First cherry trees are planted in Washington D.C. in 1912 Also try: Capitol, Washington, Cherry Trees	28 Three Mile Island nuclear accident occurs in 1979 Also try: Nuclear Power, Nuclear Accidents, Pollution	29 Last U.S. troops leave Vietnam in 1973 Also try: Vietnam War	30 Artist Vincent van Gogh is born in 1853 Also try: Starry Night, Sunflowers, Expressionism, Post-Impressionism	31 Activist Cesar Chavez is born in 1927 Also try: Labor Rights, Nonviolence, Cesar Chavez Day, Hispanic Americans

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