March 2017 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 2017 >>

Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thur	Fri	Sat
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 Mardi Gras Also try: carnival masks National Tooth Fairy Day Also try: oral hygiene DNA structure discovered (1953) Also try: double helix	1 Women's History Month Begins Also try: women's rights Salem Witch Trials begin (1692) Also try: the Crucible 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, Green Eggs and Ham Read Across America Day Also try: literature, reading skills	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 "The 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, breakfast	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: voting rights Harriet Tubman Day Also try: underground railroad, Civil War	11 An earthquake measuring 9.0 in magnitude strikes Japan, triggering a tsunami and the second largest nuclear accident in history (2011) Also try: Fukushima, earthquakes
12 Daylight Saving Time begins Also try: time zones, seasons Moscow becomes capital of revolutionary Russia (1918) Also try: Moscow Jack Kerouac born (1922) Also try: Beat generation Truman Doctrine enacted (1947) Also try: Cold War, Harry Truman	13 Hernan Cortes lands in Mexico (1519) Also try: Spanish Conquistador Sir William Herschel discovers Uranus (1781) Also try: Uranus, solar system	14 Albert Einstein born (1879) Also try: Theory of Relativity Math Pi Day Also try: circles, circumference	15 Julius Caesar assassinated (44 BC) Also try: Roman Empire, Ides of March Andrew Jackson born (1767) Also try: US Presidents	16 The Scarlet Letter published (1850) Also try: Puritans, Nathaniel Hawthorne James Madison born (1751) Also try: US Presidents	17 Saint Patrick's Day Also try: Irish heritage, Ireland	18 British Parliament repeals the Stamp Act (1766) Also try: Revolutionary War, Declaratory Act Cosmonaut Alexey Leonov becomes the first person to conduct a space walk (1965) Also try: Space Race, space exploration
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, Harriet Beecher Stowe	21 World Poetry Day Also try: writing poetry Johann Sebastian Bach born (1685) Also try: Baroque Period World Down Syndrome Day Also try: disabilities	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: coments	23 World Meteorological Day Also try: weather patterns, meteorology US Senate approves its first federal budget in four years (2013) Also try: legislative branch	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, popes
26 Robert Frost born (1874) Also try: narrative poetry Tennessee Williams born (1911) Also try: A Streetcar Named Desire	27 Alaska is hit by an 8.4 magnitude earthquake (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: radiation, nuclear energy	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 Alaska purchased from Russia (1867) Also try: US expansion The Queensboro Bridge opens (1909) Also try: bridges National 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 National Poetry Month Begins Also try: types of poetry April Fool's Day Also try: jokes, pranks Ruins of Pompeii rediscovered (1748) Also try: Mount Vesuvius

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