May 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

<< May 2018 >>

Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thur	Fri	Sat
29 International Dance Day Also try: choreography, ballet William Randolph Hearst born (1863) Also try: newspapers, yellow journalism	30 Louisiana Purchase (1803) Also try: US expansion International Jazz Day Also try: Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Dizzy Gillespie	1 May Day Also try: may pole, spring Physical Fitness and Sports Month begins Also try: sports, physical education Mother Goose Day Also try: nursery rhymes	2 William Herschel discovers first binary star Also try: William Herschel, astronomers King Charles II gives royal charter to Hudson's Bay Company (1670) Also try: fur trade, Canadian history	3 World Press Freedom Day Also try: 1st Amendment Margaret Thatcher becomes first female Prime Minister of the UK (1979) Also try: prime minister, parliamentary system	4 Four student protesters killed at Kent State (1970) Also try: anti-war protests, Vietnam War International Firefighters Day Also try: careers, jobs, public service	5 Cinco de Mayo Also try: Battle of Puebla National Cartoonist Day Also try: political cartoons, comic strips
6 Sigmund Freud born (1856) Also try: psychology Hindenburg Disaster (1937) Also try: hydrogen, airship	7 AP Testing Begins Also try: test taking strategies The RMS Lusitania sinks (1915) Also try: U-boat, submarine warfare Tchaikovsky born (1840) Also try: Classical period, composers	8 National Teacher Appreciation Day Also try: teacher gifts Harry S. Truman born (1884) Also try: US presidents German surrender: Victory in Europe Day (1945) Also try: WWII	9 Nelson Mandela elected president of South Africa (1994) Also try: apartheid, South Africa John Brown born (1800) Also try: Harpers Ferry, abolitionist	10 US transcontinental railroad completed (1869) Also try: Central Pacific Railroad, Union Pacific Railroad Jefferson Davis captured by Union troops (1865) Also try: American Civil War	11 Salvador Dali born (1904) Also try: surrealism, famous artists	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 US declares war with Mexico: Mexican-American War begins (1846) Also try: Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo Mother's Day Also try: mothers, families	14 Lewis and Clark begin expedition (1804) Also try: Corp of Discovery First US Space Station launched (1973) Also try: Skylab, space exploration	15 Ramadan Begins, North America Also try: Islam, Muslim calendar Johannes Kepler discovers Law of Harmonics (1618) Also try: Johannes Keplar, planetary motion	16 Mississippi River Steamboat Service begins (1817) Also try: Mississippi River	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: volcanoes John Winthrop elected first Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (1631) Also try: Massachusetts Bay Colony, colonial America	19 Anne Boleyn beheaded (1536) Also try: King Henry VIII
20 Charles Lindbergh begins transatlantic flight (1932) Also try: transatlantic flight Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis patent the first blue jeans (1873) Also try: blue jeans, clothing, fashion	21 American Red Cross founded by Clara Barton (1881) Also try: Clara Barton, emergency preparedness	22 Lassen Peak erupts (1915) Also try: volcanoes First major wagon train heading for the Pacific Northwest sets out on the Oregon Trail (1843) Also try: westward movement	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, civil engineering 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, puppets	26 Sally Ride born (1951) Also try: NASA, astronauts National Paper Airplane Day Also try: flight, engineering design
27 The Queen Mary takes maiden voyage (1936) Also try: passenger ships Golden Gate Bridge opens (1937) Also try: suspension bridges, San Fransisco	28 Amnesty International Day Also try: human rights, justice Memorial Day Also try: US military, war heroes Jim Thorpe born (1888) Also try: athletes	29 Edmund Hillary and Tenzig Norgay reach Mount Everest summit (1953) Also try: Everest expedition, mountains John F. Kennedy born (1917) Also try: US presidents Learn about Composting Day Also try: soil, gardening	30 Lincoln Memorial dedicated (1922) Also try: Abraham Lincoln	31 Walt Whitman born (1819) Also try: poetry World No Tobacco Day Also try: cigarettes, healthy habits	1 Audiobook Month Begins Also try: listening skills, literature First Superman comic book published (1938) Also try: superheroes, comic books	2 Radio first patented (1896) Also try: inventions, technology The Vandals sack Rome (455) Also try: Ancient Rome, Roman Empire

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