November 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

<< November 2013 >>

Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thur	Fri	Sat
27 President Theodore Roosevelt is born in 1858 Also try: national parks, Panama Canal, conservationism	28 Statue of Liberty is dedicated in 1886 Also try: American Revolution, New York, immigration Physician Jonas Salk is born in 1914 Also try: polio, vaccine, public health	29 The Internet is created in 1969 Also try: World Wide Web	30 President John Quincy Adams is born in 1735 Also try: Revolutionary War	31 Halloween Also try: Halloween costume, All Hallow's Eve, pumpkin	1 Day of the Dead Also try: Dia de los Muertos, Mexico European Union comes into existence in 1993 Also try: European Commission, Euro	2 Frontiersman Daniel Boone is born in 1734 Also try: folk hero, the Wilderness Road
3 Quantum chemist Linus Pauling wins Nobel Chemistry Prize in 1954 Also try: quantum mechanics, Nobel Prize Daylight savings ends Also try: Energy Policy Act, time zone	4 First wagon train on Oregon Trail from Independence, Missouri reaches California in 1841 Also try: manifest destiny, westward expansion, pioneer	5 Guy Fawkes Day Also try: England, Parliament, Gunpowder Plot	6 James Naismith, the inventor of basketball, is born 1861 Also try: inventor, sport Supernova is observed in the constellation Cassiopeia in 1572 Also try: constellation, Cassiopeia, stellar explosion	7 Chemist and physicist Marie Curie is born in 1867 Also try: radiology, radiation	8 Christian Barnard, the surgeon who performed the first heart transplant, is born in 1922 Also try: heart disease, healthy heart, surgery	9 Astronomer Carl Sagan is born in 1934 Also try: SETI, Cosmos, Mars Pathfinder
10 Sesame Street debuts on PBS in 1969 Also try: PBS, Elmo Great Wall of China is opened for tourism in 1970 Also try: tourism, China	11 WWI Armistice is signed in 1918 Also try: Western Front, World War I, WWI Veterans' Day Also try: Armistice Day, soldier	12 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: memorial, Vietnam, Maya Lin	14 Artist Claude Monet is born in 1840 Also try: Impressionism	15 America Recycles Day Also try: waste management, environment, reduce, reuse	16 Federal Reserve Bank opens for business in 1914 Also try: central banking, economics
17 Suez Canal opens in Egypt in 1869 Also try: canal, shipping	18 Disney character Mickey Mouse's appeared in his first feature in 1928 Also try: Mickey Mouse, animation, Walt Disney Copyright Office issues its 10 millionth registration in 1960 Also try: intellectual property, plagiarism	19 President Abraham 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 liberty	22 President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in 1963 Also try: Lee Harvey Oswald, JFK, assassination	23 Outlaw William "Billy the Kid" Bonney is born in 1859 Also try: Wild West, westward expansion
24 Darwin publishes Origin of Species in 1859 Also try: Darwin, evolution	25 Thirty-five 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, mummy, pharaoh	27 Beginning of Hanukkah (Nov. 27 - Dec. 5) Also try: Hanukkah, Jews, menorah Rocker Jimi Hendrix is born in 1942 Also try: rock and roll, guitar	28 Thanksgiving Also try: Pilgrims, Indians, Plymouth Rock Ferdinand Magellan passes through the Straits of Magellan in 1520 Also try: Ferdinand Magellan, explorer	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

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