November 2014 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 2014 >>

Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thur	Fri	Sat
26 Erie Canal opens (1825) Also try: colonial transportation Hillary Clinton born (1947) Also try: Secretary of State	27 President Theodore Roosevelt born (1858) Also try: US Presidents First New York City subway opens (1904) Also try: mass transportation	28 Statue of Liberty dedicated (1886) Also try: New York, Liberty Island National Prohibition Act passed (1919) Also try: Volstead Act, speakeasies Cuban Missile Crisis ends (1962) Also try: Cold War, Soviet Union, Cuba	29 First ARPANET link established, the Internet (1969) Also try: technology Stock Market crashes, "Black Tuesday" (1929) Also try: Great Depression, stock market crash	30 John Quincy Adams born (1735) Also try: US Presidents War of the Worlds broadcast (1938) Also try: Orson Wells	31 Halloween Also try: costumes, Halloween traditions Seven Billion Day: global population reaches 7,000,000,000 (2011) Also try: billion	1 Day of the Dead Also try: el dia de los muertos Prime Meridian Day Also try: longitude, hemispheres European Union comes into existence (1993) Also try: Europe
2 The Russian Empire declares war on Ottoman Empire (1914) Also try: WWI, Ottoman Empire Daylight Savings ends, Standard Time begins Also try: time zones	3 Linus Pauling wins Nobel Chemistry Prize (1954) Also try: molecular biology	4 First wagon train on Oregon Trail reaches California (1841) Also try: Westward Movement, Oregon Trail Election Day Also try: voting, election process	5 Guy Fawkes arrested for Gunpowder Plot (1605) Also try: Guy Fawkes Susan B. Anthony votes and is fined $100 (1872) Also try: women's suffrage, 19th Amendment	6 Inventor of basketball James Naismith born (1861) Also try: James Naismith Supernova observed in the constellation Cassiopeia (1572) Also try: constellation, Cassiopeia	7 Marie Curie born (1867) Also try: radioactivity, radioactive isotopes The New York City Museum of Modern Art opens (1929) Also try: modern art, art gallery	8 National Parents as Teachers Day Also try: homework, parenting X-Ray discovered (1895) Also try: electromagnetic radiation
9 Astronomer Carl Sagan born (1934) Also try: astronomy Kristallnacht begins (1938) Also try: Holocaust	10 Sesame Street debuts on PBS (1969) Also try: PBS Great Wall of China opens for tourism (1970) Also try: Ming Dynasty, China	11 WWI Armistice signed (1918) Also try: Woodrow Wilson, Fourteen Points, Origami Day Also try: Japanese culture Veterans Day Also try: US Military	12 Elizabeth Cady Stanton born (1815) Also try: abolitionist, Seneca Falls Joseph Stalin becomes ruler of the Soviet Union (1927) Also try: Soviet Union, Socialism	13 Vietnam Veterans' Memorial dedicated (1982) Also try: Vietnam War World Kindness Day Also try: character education	14 Artist Claude Monet born (1840) Also try: impressionism	15 America Recycles Day Also try: recycled art, conservation Georgia O'Keeffe born (1887) Also try: painting flowers
16 Federal Reserve Bank opens for business (1914) Also try: central banking International Day for Tolerance Also try: character education	17 Suez Canal opens in Egypt (1869) Also try: Egypt Elizabethan era begins: Queen Mary I of England dies (1558) Also try: Queen Elizabeth I	18 Antarctica discovered (1820) Also try: continents, South Pole William Tell Day Also try: folk tales	19 President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address (1863) Also try: Abraham Lincoln, Battle of Gettysburg Impeachment hearings against President Bill Clinton begin (1998) Also try: Bill Clinton	20 Edwin Hubble born (1889) Also try: Hubble telescope	21 Voltaire born (1694) Also try: Enlightenment, philosophy Judas Maccabeus restores Jewish Temple in Jerusalem (164 BC) Also try: Judaism, Jerusalem	22 John F. Kennedy assassinated (1963) Also try: Kennedy administration
23 Fibonacci Day Also try: Golden Ratio	24 Origin of Species published (1859) Also try: Charles Darwin, evolution Jack Ruby kills Lee Harvey Oswald (1963) Also try: Kennedy assassination	25 Thirty-five Amistad survivors return to Africa (1841) Also try: Africa, slavery	26 Howard Carter enters King Tutankhamen's tomb (1922) Also try: King Tut's Tomb, Ancient Egypt Charles Shultz born (1922) Also try: Charlie Brown, cartoonist	27 Anders Celsius born (1701) Also try: temperature Hydrogen atmosphere discovered on the extra solar planet Osiris (2001) Also try: planet Osiris, extra solar	28 Thanksgiving Also try: turkey, give thanks National Native American Heritage Day Also try: celebrating heritage	29 C.S. Lewis born (1898) Also try: Christianity, The Chronicles of Narnia Luisa May Alcott born (1832) Also try: Little Women
30 Mark Twain born (1835) Also try: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	1 Rosa Parks arrested for civil disobedience (1955) Also try: Civil Rights Movement, Montgomery Bus Boycott World AIDS Day Also try: HIV, immune system	2 The Monroe Doctrine created (1823) Also try: James Monroe, foreign policy George Seurat born (1859) Also try: pointillism	3 International Day of Persons with Disabilities Also try: Americans with Disabilities Act	4 National Cookie Day Also try: baking, cookie recipes Monopoly, the game, debuts (1935) Also try: board games	5 Walt Disney born (1901) Also try: Disneyland E.D. Nixon and Rosa Parks lead the Montgomery Bus Boycott Also try: Civil Rights Movement, Rosa Parks	6 13th Amendment ratified, abolishing slavery (1865) Also try: abolition, Reconstruction Encyclopedia Britannica published (1768) Also try: research skills St. Nicholas Day Also try: Christmas traditions

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