March 2014 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 2014 >>

Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thur	Fri	Sat
23 Successful cloning of Dolly the sheep (1997) Also try: cloning Johannes Gutenberg prints first book, the Bible (1455) Also try: printing press	24 Steve Jobs is born (1955) Also try: entrepreneur National Cupcake Day Also try: baking, cupcake decorating	25 US paper currency introduced (1862) Also try: US Mint Anthony Burgess born (1917) Also try: A Clockwork Orange, dystopia	26 Buffalo Bill Cody born (1846) Also try: Wild West Victor Hugo born (1802) Also try: Les Miserables	27 John Steinbeck born (1902) Also try: The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men Henry Wadsworth Longfellow born (1807) Also try: lyric poetry	28 Salem Witch Trials begin (1692) Also try: Salem, Massachusetts National Tooth Fairy Day Also try: losing teeth DNA structure discovered (1953) Also try: double helix	1 Frederic Chopin born (1810) Also try: Romantic Era Yellowstone becomes first national park (1872) Also try: national parks
2 Dr. Seuss born (1904) Also try: Seuss political cartoons, anapestic meter Read Across America Day Also try: reading	3 Alexander Graham Bell born (1847) Also try: telephone, inventor First US child labor law regulating working hours passed (1842) Also try: labor laws, Industrial Revolution Star Spangled Banner becomes national anthem (1931) Also try: national anthem	4 Antonio Lucio Vivaldi born (1678) Also try: Baroque Period National Grammar Day Also try: phonetics, linguistics	5 The Boston Massacre (1770) Also try: American Revolution Stapler invented (1868) Also try: inventions	6 A decision in the Dred Scott case reached (1857) Also try: Missouri Compromise, slavery Michelangelo born (1475) Also try: Renaissance Art, sculpture	7 Alexander Graham Bell patents telephone (1876) Also try: Alexander Graham Bell National Cereal Day Also try: grains, nutrition	8 The New York Stock Exchange founded (1817) Also try: stock market
9 Barbie, the queen of toys, debuts (1959) Also try: toys	10 Senate lowers voting age to 18 (1971) Also try: US Senate Harriet Tubman Day Also try: underground railroad, Civil War	11 Moscow becomes capital of revolutionary Russia (1918) Also try: Moscow An earthquake measuring 9.0 in magnitude strikes Japan, triggering a tsunami and the second largest nuclear accident in history (2011) Also try: fukushima	12 Jack Kerouac born (1922) Also try: Beat Generation World Math Day Also try: math games Truman Doctrine enacted (1947) Also try: Cold War, Harry Truman	13 Cortez lands in Mexico (1519) Also try: Spanish Conquistador Sir William Herschel discovers Uranus Also try: Uranus	14 Albert Einstein born (1879) Also try: Theory of Relativity Math Pi Day Also try: 3.14	15 Julius Caesar assassinated (44BC) Also try: Roman Empire Andrew Jackson born (1767) Also try: US Presidents
16 The Scarlet Letter published (1850) Also try: Puritan, Nathaniel Hawthorne James Madison born (1751) Also try: US Presidents	17 Saint Patrick's Day Also try: Irish heritage	18 British Parliament repeals the Stamp Act (1766) Also try: Revolutionary War, Declaratory Acts Cosmonaut Alexey Leonov becomes the first person to conduct a space walk (1965) Also try: space walk, Space Race	19 Iraq War begins (2003) Also try: War on Terror	20 Lois Lowry born (1937) Also try: The Giver Spring Equinox Also try: four seasons Uncle Tom's Cabin published (1852) Also try: abolitionists, Civil War	21 World Poetry Day Also try: exploring poetry Johann Sebastian Bach born (1685) Also try: Baroque Period World Down Syndrome Day Also try: Disabilities, Down syndrome	22 Niagara Falls runs out of water because of a drought (1903) Also try: drought Comet Hale-Bopp closest approach to Earth (1997) Also try: comet
23 World Meteorological Day Also try: weather patterns US Senate approves its first budget in four years (2013) Also try: Federal Budget	24 Exxon Valdez causes worst oil spill in U.S. history (1989) Also try: oil spill Bhutan officially becomes a democracy (2008) Also try: democracy	25 Frederick Laggenheim takes first photo of a solar eclipse (1857) Also try: photography Constantine begins his reign as Catholic Pope (708) Also try: Catholicism, pope	26 Robert Frost born (1874) Also try: narrative poetry Tennessee Williams born (1911) Also try: A Streetcar Named Desire	27 8.4 earthquake hits Alaska (1964) Also try: Richter scale Ptolemy V ascends to the throne of Egypt (196 BC) Also try: Ancient Egypt	28 Three Mile Island nuclear accident occurs (1979) Also try: nuclear accident, radiation	29 Last US troops leave Vietnam (1973) Also try: Vietnam aftermath Coca-Cola invented (1886) Also try: soda
30 Vincent van Gogh born (1853) Also try: famous artists, still life The Queensboro Bridge opens (1909) Also try: bridges Doctor's Day Also try: medical careers	31 First US map published (1784) Also try: cartography Cesar Chavez born (1927) Also try: worker's rights Eiffel Tower opens (1889) Also try: Paris, France	1 April Fool's Day Also try: jokes, pranks Ruins of Pompeii rediscovered (1748) Also try: Mount Vesuvius	2 Hans Christian Anderson born (1805) Also try: moral, fairy tales World Autism Awareness Day Also try: learning disabilities	3 Jane Goodall born (1934) Also try: chimpanzee First iPad sold in the US (2010) Also try: future of technology Find a Rainbow Day Also try: Roy G. Biv	4 NATO ratified (1949) Also try: Atlantic Alliance Maya Angelou born (1928) Also try: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings	5 Booker T. Washington born (1856) Also try: Atlanta Compromise Easter Island discovered (1722) Also try: Polynesia

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