May 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
28 First volume of Isaac Newton's "Principia" is published in 1686 Also try: universal gravitation, laws of motion	29 Composer Duke Ellington is born in 1899 Also try: jazz, piano, Harlem Renaissance	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	2 Inventor Elijah McCoy is born in 1844 Also try: the real McCoy, inventor, engine, engineer	3 World Press Freedom Day Also try: freedom of speech, journalism, First Amendment 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 War, student protest
5 Cinco de Mayo Also try: Battle of Puebla, Benito Juarez	6 Psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud is born in 1856 Also try: psychoanalysis, psychology	7 National Teacher's Day Also try: teacher, teacher appreciation The RMS Lusitania sinks, 1915 Also try: WWI, U-boats, Germany	8 President Harry S. Truman is born in 1884 Also try: Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, atomic bombing 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 first U.S. transcontinental railroad in 1869 Also try: railroad, transportation, train	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, Crimean War Mother's Day Also try: motherhood, mothers, family	13 Great Dust Bowl storm occurs in 1934 Also try: Great Depression, migrants, The 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, Kepler's laws	16 Mississippi River steamboat service begins in 1817 Also try: Mississippi River	17 Supreme Court rules on Brown v. Topeka Board of Education in 1954 Also try: civil rights, segregation, separate but equal	18 Mount St. Helens erupts in 1980 Also try: volcano, plate tectonics
19 Ringling Brothers Circus premieres in 1884 Also try: Ringling Brothers	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 International Day for Biological Diversity Also try: biodiversity, evolution, ecosystem	23 Scientist Carolus Linnaeus is born in 1707 Also try: taxonomy, classification	24 Brooklyn Bridge is opened in 1883 Also try: bridge, suspension bridge, engineering	25 Athlete Jesse Owens equals or breaks six world records in 1 hour in 1935 Also try: Olympics, track and field, athlete
26 Astronaut Sally Ride is born in 1951 Also try: astronaut, space travel	27 Queen Mary sails from Southampton on her maiden voyage in 1936 Also try: transportation, passenger ship Memorial Day Also try: U.S. soldier, federal holiday, veteran	28 Amnesty International Day Also try: human rights, civil rights, discrimination Olympic champion Jim Thorpe is born in 1888 Also try: Olympics, athlete, track and field	29 Edmund Hillary and Tenzig Norgay reach Mount Everest summit in 1953 Also try: mountain climbing, explorer, Nepal	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, transcendentalism	1 First Superman comic is published in 1938 Also try: comic, superhero, hero

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