March 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
25 US paper currency introduced (1862) Also try: US Mint, greenbacks Anthony Burgess born (1917) Also try: A Clockwork Orange, dystopia	26 Victor Hugo born (1802) Also try: Les Miserables Grand Teton National Park established (1929) Also try: National Park Service, Calvin Coolidge	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 National Tooth Fairy Day Also try: oral hygiene, teeth DNA structure discovered (1953) Also try: double helix, genetics	1 Women's History Month Begins Also try: women's rights, gender equality Salem Witch Trials begin (1692) Also try: the Crucible Frederic Chopin born (1810) Also try: Romantic era Yellowstone becomes world's 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 Republic of Texas declares independence from Mexico (1836) Also try: The Alamo	3 Alexander Graham Bell born (1847) Also try: telephone, inventor First US child labor law regulating working hours passed (1842) Also try: 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: syntax, punctuation, linguistics	5 The Boston Massacre (1770) Also try: American Revolution Stapler patented in England (1868) Also try: inventions	6 Decision reached in the Dred Scott case (1857) Also try: Missouri Compromise, slavery Michelangelo born (1475) Also try: Renaissance art, sculpture Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table of elements (1869) Also try: Dmitri Mendeleev, periodic trends	7 Alexander Graham Bell patents telephone (1876) Also try: Alexander Graham Bell, inventions National Cereal Day Also try: grains, nutrition, breakfast	8 National Proofreading Day Also try: writing process, peer editing The New York Stock Exchange founded (1817) Also try: stock market, financial investments	9 The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith published (1776) Also try: Adam Smith, free market economy Ulysses S. Grant appointed commander of the Union Army (1864) Also try: American Civil War Barbie, the queen of toys, debuts (1959) Also try: toys, dolls	10 Harriet Tubman Day Also try: underground railroad, abolitionists US Senate lowers voting age to 18 (1971) Also try: voting rights, democracy
11 Daylight Saving Time begins Also try: time zones, seasons A 9.0 magnitude earthquake strikes Japan, resulting in the second largest nuclear accident in history (2011) Also try: Fukushima, earthquakes	12 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, photoelectric effect Math Pi Day Also try: circles, circumference, diameter	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 Stamp Act repealed by British Parliament (1766) Also try: American Revolution, 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 Chief Justice Earl Warren born (1891) Also try: supreme court, Brown v. Board of Education	20 Spring Equinox Also try: four seasons Lois Lowry born (1937) Also try: The Giver Uncle Tom's Cabin published (1852) Also try: abolitionists, Harriet Beecher Stowe	21 World Poetry Day Also try: writing poetry, types of poems Johann Sebastian Bach born (1685) Also try: Baroque period, classical composers World Down Syndrome Day Also try: disabilities, genetic disorders	22 Robert Millikan born (1868) Also try: physicists, oil-drop experiment Comet Hale-Bopp closest approach to Earth (1997) Also try: comets, astronomy	23 World Meteorological Day Also try: weather patterns, meteorology Second Reconstruction Act passed (1867) Also try: American Civil War, Andrew Johnson	24 Exxon Valdez causes worst oil spill in US history (1989) Also try: oil spill, water pollution Bhutan officially becomes a democracy (2008) Also try: democracy
25 Frederick Langenheim 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 hit by an 8.4 magnitude earthquake (1964) Also try: Richter scale, plate tectonics 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 War First batch of Coca-Cola produced (1886) Also try: soda	30 National Doctors Day Also try: medical careers Vincent van Gogh born (1853) Also try: famous artists, still life The Queensboro Bridge opens (1909) Also try: bridges, civil engineering	31 First US map published (1784) Also try: cartography Cesar Chavez born (1927) Also try: workers' rights Eiffel Tower opens (1889) Also try: Paris, France

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