May 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

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Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thur	Fri	Sat
29 Composer Duke Ellington is born in 1899 Also try: Jazz, Piano, Big Bands	30 U.S. doubles in size through the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 Also try: Thomas Jefferson, Lewis and Clark	1 May Day Also try: Labor Movement, Working Class, International Worker's Day	2 Inventor Elijah McCoy is born in 1844 Also try: The Real McCoy, Inventors, Engines	3 National Teacher's Day Also try: Teachers, Teacher Appreciation Margaret Thatcher becomes the United Kingdom's first female Prime Minister in 1979 Also try: Parliament, Prime Minister	4 Four student protestors are killed at Kent State in 1970 Also try: Vietnam, Student Protests	5 Cinco de Mayo Also try: Battle of Puebla, Benito Juarez
6 Psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud is born in 1856 Also try: Psychoanalysis, Dream Symbolism, Ego	7 The RMS Lusitania sinks Also try: WWI, u-boats, Germany	8 President Harry Truman is born in 1884 Also try: Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, Atomic Bombings German Surrender is signed on VE Day in 1945 Also try: Victory in Europe Day, WWII	9 Abolitionist John Brown is born in 1800 Also try: Harper's Ferry, Slavery	10 Ceremony is held to mark completion of 1st U.S. transcontinental railroad in 1869 Also try: Railroad, Transportation, Trains	11 Artist Salvador Dali is born in 1904 Also try: Surrealism	12 Nurse and Activist Florence Nightingale is born in 1820 Also try: Nursing, Lady With the Lamp
13 Mother's Day Also try: Motherhood, Mothers, Families Great Dust Bowl storm occurs in 1934 Also try: Depression, Migrants, Oakies, Grapes of Wrath	14 Lewis and Clark begin their expedition in 1803 Also try: Louisiana Purchase	15 Johannes Kepler discovers the Law of Harmonics in 1618 Also try: Scientific Revolution, Laws of Planetary Motion	16 Mississippi River steamboat service begins in 1817 Also try: Mississippi River	17 Supreme Court rules on Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education in 1954 Also try: Civil Rights, Segregation, Separate but Equal	18 Mt. St. Helens erupts in 1980 Also try: Volcanoes	19 Ringling Bros. circus premieres in 1884 Also try: Ringling Bros.
20 Entrepreneur Levi Strauss markets blue jeans in 1873 Also try: Clothing, Jeans	21 Aviator Charles Lindbergh lands the Spirit of St. Louis in Paris in 1927 Also try: Aviation, Spirit of St. Louis	22 First reported sighting of the Loch Ness monster in 1933 Also try: Nessie	23 Scientist Carolus Linnaeus is born in 1707 Also try: Taxonomy, Classification	24 Brooklyn Bridge is opened in 1883 Also try: Bridges, Suspension Bridges	25 Athlete Jesse Owens equals or breaks 6 world records in one hour in 1935 Also try: African Americans, Olympics, Track and Field	26 Astronaut Sally Ride is born in 1951 Also try: Astronauts, Space Travel
27 Queen Mary sails from Southampton on her maiden voyage in 1936 Also try: Transportation, Passenger Ships	28 Memorial Day Also try: Memorial Day, U.S. Soldiers, Federal Holiday, veterans Olympic Champion Jim Thorpe is born in 1888 Also try: Olympics, Pentathlon, Decathlon	29 Edmund Hillary and Tenzig Norgay reach Mt. Everest summit in 1953 Also try: Edmund Hillary, Tenzig Norgay, Mountain Climbing, Explorers	30 U.S. launches Surveyor I to the moon in 1966 Also try: Lunar Exploration, Space Travel, NASA	31 Poet Walt Whitman is born in 1819 Also try: Leaves of Grass, O Captain My Captain	1 First Superman comic is published in 1938 Also try: Comics, Superheroes, Heroes	2 Demonstrations occur at Tiananmen Square, Beijing 1989 Also try: China, Student Protests, Human Rights

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