March 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
24 Entrepreneur Steve Jobs is born in 1955 Also try: technology, entrepreneur	25 First U.S. paper currency introduced by Lincoln in 1862 Also try: Abraham Lincoln, Civil War	26 Frontiersman Buffalo Bill Cody is born in 1846 Also try: Wild West Show, cowboy	27 Author John Steinbeck is born in 1902 Also try: The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, East of Eden	28 Salem Witch Trials begin in 1692 Also try: witchcraft, Massachusetts Bay Colony	1 Composer Frederic Chopin is born in 1810 Also try: Chopin, Romanticism, piano	2 Author Dr. Seuss is born in 1904 Also try: The Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham Read Across America Day Also try: book, literacy, Dr. Seuss, library
3 Inventor Alexander Graham Bell is born in 1847 Also try: inventor, telephone	4 Composer Antonio Lucio Vivaldi is born in 1678 Also try: Baroque music, composer	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: slavery, emancipation, Dred Scott Decision	7 Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone in 1876 Also try: Alexander Graham Bell, inventors	8 International Women's Day Also try: women's rights, gender equality	9 First female cadets accepted at West Point in 1976 Also try: military, military officers Barbie, the queen of toys, debuts in 1959 Also try: Barbie, doll
10 Senate lowers the voting age to 18 in 1971 Also try: Bill of Rights, voting age	11 Romeo and Juliet wed in 1302 Also try: Shakespeare, tragedy	12 Author Jack Kerouac is born in 1922 Also try: Beat Generation	13 Spanish explorer Cortez lands in Mexico in 1519 Also try: conquistador, Aztecs	14 Physicist Albert Einstein is born in 1879 Also try: physicist, Nobel Prize Math Pi Day Also try: pi, discovering pi	15 Julius Caesar is assassinated on the Ides of March Also try: ancient Rome, Ides of March	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, female athlete	18 The British Parliament repeals the Stamp Act in 1766 Also try: Revolutionary War, American independence	19 Iraq War began in 2003 Also try: George W. Bush, Iraq, terrorism	20 Author Lois Lowry is born in 1937 Also try: Number the Stars, The Giver Spring equinox Also try: season, equinox	21 Human Rights Day in South Africa Also try: Universal Declaration of Human Rights, apartheid	22 Gutenberg Bible becomes the first printed book in 1457 Also try: printing press, invention	23 World Meteorological Day Also try: weather, meteorology
24 Exxon Valdez runs aground in 1989 resulting in worst oil spill in U.S. history Also try: oil spill, water pollution	25 Singer Aretha Franklin is born in 1942 Also try: gospel music, soul music	26 Poet Robert Frost is born 1874 Also try: The Road Not Taken, poetry	27 First cherry trees are planted in Washington D.C. in 1912 Also try: capitol, Washington, cherry tree	28 Three Mile Island nuclear accident occurs in 1979 Also try: nuclear power, nuclear accident, radiation	29 Last U.S. troops leave Vietnam in 1973 Also try: Vietnam War, communism, Cold War	30 Artist Vincent van Gogh is born in 1853 Also try: Starry Night, Expressionism, Post-Impressionism
31 Easter Also try: Easter egg, Easter bunny Activist Cesar Chavez is born in 1927 Also try: labor rights, nonviolence, Cesar Chavez Day, Hispanic American	1 April Fool's Day Also try: joke, hoax, practical joke	2 Author Hans Christian Anderson is born in 1805 Also try: fairy tale, The Little Mermaid, Princess and the Pea	3 Biologist Jane Goodall is born in 1934 Also try: chimpanzee, endangered species	4 NATO is ratified in 1949 Also try: North Atlantic Treaty Organization Poet and activist Maya Angelou is born in 1928 Also try: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes	5 Booker T. Washington is born in 1856 Also try: orator	6 Robert E. Peary and Matthew Henson reach the North Pole in 1909 Also try: polar expedition, Robert E. Peary, Matthew Henson, explorer

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