May 2016 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

<< May 2016 >>

Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thur	Fri	Sat
1 May Day Also try: may pole, spring Physical Fitness and Sports Month Begins Also try: sports Mother Goose Day Also try: nursery rhymes	2 Nelson Mandela elected president of South Africa (1994) Also try: apartheid AP Testing Begins Also try: test taking strategies	3 World Press Freedom Day Also try: 1st Amendment Margaret Thatcher becomes first female Prime Minister (1979) Also try: Prime Minister National Teacher Appreciation Day Also try: teacher gifts	4 Four student protesters killed at Kent State (1970) Also try: anti-war protest, Vietnam War International Firefighters Day Also try: career exploration	5 Holocaust Remembrance Day Also try: WWII, genocide Cinco de Mayo Also try: Battle of Puebla National Cartoonist Day Also try: political cartoons, comic books	6 Sigmund Freud born (1856) Also try: philosophy Hindenburg Disaster (1937) Also try: hydrogen, airship	7 The RMS Lusitania sinks (1915) Also try: U-Boat, submarine warfare Tchaikovsky born (1840) Also try: Classical Period
8 Harry S. Truman born (1884) Also try: US Presidents German surrender: Victory in Europe Day (1945) Also try: WWII Mother's Day Also try: mothers	9 John Brown born (1800) Also try: Harpers Ferry, abolitionist First newspaper cartoon in the US (1754) Also try: political cartoons	10 US transcontinental railroad is completed (1869) Also try: Central Pacific Railroad, Union Pacific Railroad	11 Salvador Dali born (1904) Also try: surrealism	12 Florence Nightingale born (1820) Also try: nursing, Crimean War International Nurses Day Also try: medical careers	13 Student hunger strike in Tiananmen Square (1989) Also try: hunger strike Mexican-American War begins (1846) Also try: Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo	14 Spring Astronomy Day Also try: space exploration Lewis and Clark begin expedition (1803) Also try: Corp of Discovery First US Space Station launched (1973) Also try: Skylab
15 Johannes Kepler discovers Law of Harmonics (1618) Also try: Johannes Keplar	16 Mississippi River Steamboat Service begins (1817) Also try: Mississippi River First major wagon train heading for the Pacific Northwest sets out on the Oregon Trail (1843) Also try: westward movement	17 Supreme Court rules on Brown v. Board of Education (1954) Also try: separate but equal, desegregation Gary Paulson born (1939) Also try: Hatchet	18 Mount St. Helens erupts (1980) Also try: volcano	19 Anne Boleyn beheaded (1536) Also try: King Henry VIII	20 Charles Lindbergh begins transatlantic flight (1932) Also try: transatlantic flight	21 American Red Cross founded (1881) Also try: emergency preparedness
22 Lassen Peak erupts (1915) Also try: volcano	23 Carolus Linnaeus born (1707) Also try: biological classification Scott O'Dell born (1898) Also try: Island of the Blue Dolphins World Turtle Day Also try: reptiles	24 Brooklyn Bridge opens (1883) Also try: bridges Mary Had a Little Lamb published (1830) Also try: nursery rhyme	25 Jesse Owens breaks six world records in one hour (1935) Also try: track and field Cookie Monster "born" (1969) Also try: Sesame Street	26 Sally Ride born (1951) Also try: NASA, astronaut	27 The Queen Mary takes maiden voyage (1936) Also try: ship Golden Gate Bridge opens (1937) Also try: bridges	28 Amnesty International Day Also try: human rights, justice Jim Thorpe born (1888) Also try: athlete
29 Edmund Hillary and Tenzig Norgay reach Mount Everest summit (1953) Also try: Everest expedition John F. Kennedy born (1917) Also try: US Presidents Learn about Composting Day Also try: soil	30 Memorial Day Also try: US Military, war heroes Lincoln Memorial dedicated (1927) Also try: Abraham Lincoln	31 Poet Walt Whitman born (1819) Also try: poetry World No Tobacco Day Also try: cigarettes	1 Audiobook Month Begins Also try: listening, literature First Superman comic published (1938) Also try: superhero	2 Radio patented (1896) Also try: inventions The Vandals sack Rome (455) Also try: Ancient Rome	3 First US spacewalk (1965) Also try: Space Race Casey at the Bat published (1888) Also try: baseball, poetry	4 Aesop born (620 BC) Also try: fables 19th Amendment approved (1919) Also try: women's suffrage

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