November 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

<< November 2012 >>

Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thur	Fri	Sat
28 Physician Jonas Salk is born in 1914 Also try: Polio, Vaccines, March of Dimes	29 The Internet is created in 1969 Also try: World Wide Web, Net	30 President John Adams is born in 1735 Also try: Founding Fathers, Revolutionary War, Republicanism	31 Halloween Also try: Halloween Costumes, All Hallow's Eve, Day of the Dead	1 European Union comes into existence in 1993 Also try: EC, Euro	2 Frontiersman Daniel Boone is born in 1734 Also try: Folk Heroes, The Wilderness Road	3 Quantum chemist Linus Pauling wins Nobel Chemistry Prize in 1954 Also try: Quantum Mechanics, Nobel Prize
4 Daylight Savings Ends Also try: Energy Policy Act, Time Zones Humorist Will Rogers is born in 1879 Also try: Ziegfeld Follies, Silent Films, Radio	5 Ronald Reagan discloses that he has Alzheimer's Disease in 1994 Also try: Ronald Reagan, Dementia, Neurodegenerative Disease	6 Election Day Also try: voting, democracy Supernova is observed in the constellation Cassiopeia in 1572 Also try: Constellations, Cassiopeia, Stellar Explosions	7 Chemist and physicist Marie Curie is born in 1867 Also try: Madame Curie, Radiology, Radiation	8 Christian Barnard, the surgeon who performed the first heart transplant, is born in 1922 Also try: Heart Disease, Christian Barnard	9 Astronomer Carl Sagan is born in 1934 Also try: SETI, Cosmos, Mars Pathfinder	10 Great Wall of China is opened for tourism in 1970 Also try: UNESCO World Heritage Sites, China
11 WWI Armistice is signed in 1918 Also try: Western Front, The Great War, WWI	12 Veterans' Day Also try: Armistice Day, Soldiers Activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton is born in 1815 Also try: Women's Rights, Abolition, Temperance	13 Vietnam Veterans' Memorial is dedicated in 1982 Also try: Memorials, Vietnam, Maya Lin	14 Artist Claude Monet is born in 1840 Also try: Impressionism, Giverny, Water Lily Pond	15 America Recycles Day Also try: Waste Management, Environment, Reduce, Reuse	16 Federal Reserve Bank opens for business in 1914 Also try: Central Banking, The Feds	17 Suez Canal opens in Egypt in 1869 Also try: Canals, Shipping
18 Copyright Office issues its 10 millionth registration in 1960 Also try: Intellectual Property	19 Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address in 1863 Also try: Abraham Lincoln, Battle of Gettysburg, American Civil War	20 Universal Children's Day Also try: UNICEF, Child Labor Astronomer Edwin Hubble is born in 1889 Also try: Hubble Telescope, Nebulae	21 Philosopher Voltaire is born in 1694 Also try: French Enlightenment, Civil Liberties	22 President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in 1963 Also try: Lee Harvey Oswald, JFK, Grassy Knoll	23 Outlaw William "Billy the Kid" Bonney is born in 1859 Also try: William Bonney, Pat Garrett, Wild West	24 Thanksgiving Also try: Pilgrims, Indians, Plymouth Rock Darwin publishes Origin of Species in 1859 Also try: Darwin, Evolution
25 35 Amistad survivors return to Africa in 1841 Also try: Slavery, Abolition	26 Howard Carter enters the sealed tomb of King Tutankhamen in 1922 Also try: King Tut, Ancient Egypt, Mummies	27 Rocker Jimi Hendrix is born in 1942 Also try: Rock-n-Roll, Guitars	28 Ferdinand Magellan passes through the Straits of Magellan in 1520 Also try: Ferdinand Magellan, Explorers	29 Author C.S. Lewis is born in 1898 Also try: Narnia, The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe	30 Author Mark Twain is born in 1835 Also try: Samuel Clemens, Tom Sawyer, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	1 In 1913 Ford Motor Company introduces the first moving assembly line Also try: Ford Motor Company, Manufacturing

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