November 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
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30
John Quincy Adams born (1735)
Also try:
US Presidents
War of the Worlds broadcast (1938)
Also try:
Orson Wells
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31
Halloween
Also try:
costumes, Halloween traditions
Seven Billion Day: global population reaches 7,000,000,000 (2011)
Also try:
billion
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1
Day of the Dead
Also try:
el dia de los muertos
Native American Heritage Month Begins
Also try:
heritage
European Union comes into existence (1993)
Also try:
Europe
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2
The Russian Empire declares war on Ottoman Empire (1914)
Also try:
WWI, Ottoman Empire
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3
Linus Pauling wins Nobel Chemistry Prize (1954)
Also try:
molecular biology
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4
First wagon train on Oregon Trail reaches California (1841)
Also try:
Westward Movement, Oregon Trail
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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
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6
Daylight Saving Time ends, Standard Time begins
Also try:
time zones
Inventor of basketball James Naismith born (1861)
Also try:
James Naismith
Supernova observed in the constellation Cassiopeia (1572)
Also try:
Cassiopeia
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7
Marie Curie born (1867)
Also try:
radioactivity, radioactive isotopes
The New York City Museum of Modern Art opens (1929)
Also try:
art galleries
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8
X-Ray discovered (1895)
Also try:
electromagnetic radiation
Election Day
Also try:
United States presidents, democracy
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9
Astronomer Carl Sagan born (1934)
Also try:
astronomy
Kristallnacht begins (1938)
Also try:
Holocaust
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10
Sesame Street debuts on PBS (1969)
Also try:
puppets
Great Wall of China opens for tourism (1970)
Also try:
Ming Dynasty, China
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11
WWI Armistice signed (1918)
Also try:
Woodrow Wilson, Fourteen Points
Origami Day
Also try:
Japanese culture
Veterans Day
Also try:
US Military
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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
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13
Vietnam Veterans' Memorial dedicated (1982)
Also try:
Vietnam War
World Kindness Day
Also try:
character education
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14
Artist Claude Monet born (1840)
Also try:
impressionism
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15
America Recycles Day
Also try:
recycled art, conservation
Georgia O'Keeffe born (1887)
Also try:
painting flowers
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16
Federal Reserve Bank opens for business (1914)
Also try:
central banking
International Day for Tolerance
Also try:
character education
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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, Quen Mary I
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18
Antarctica discovered (1820)
Also try:
continents, South Pole
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19
President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address (1863)
Also try:
Battle of Gettysburg
Impeachment hearings against President Bill Clinton begin (1998)
Also try:
President Bill Clinton
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20
Edwin Hubble born (1889)
Also try:
Hubble telescope
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21
Voltaire born (1694)
Also try:
Enlightenment, philosophy
Judas Maccabeus restores Jewish Temple in Jerusalem (164 BC)
Also try:
Judaism
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22
John F. Kennedy assassinated (1963)
Also try:
Kennedy administration
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23
Fibonacci Day
Also try:
Golden Ratio
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24
Origin of Species published (1859)
Also try:
Charles Darwin, evolution
Jack Ruby kills Lee Harvey Oswald (1963)
Also try:
Kennedy assassination
Thanksgiving
Also try:
turkey, give thanks
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25
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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
Small Business Saturday
Also try:
economics, capitalism
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27
Anders Celsius born (1701)
Also try:
temperature
Hydrogen atmosphere discovered on the extra solar planet Osiris (2001)
Also try:
planet Osiris
National Native American Heritage Day
Also try:
celebrating heritage
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28
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29
C.S. Lewis born (1898)
Also try:
Christianity, The Chronicles of Narnia
Luisa May Alcott born (1832)
Also try:
Little Women
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30
Mark Twain born (1835)
Also try:
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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1
Rosa Parks arrested for civil disobedience (1955)
Also try:
Civil Rights Movement, Montgomery Bus Boycott
World AIDS Day
Also try:
HIV, immune system
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2
The Monroe Doctrine created (1823)
Also try:
James Monroe, foreign policy
George Seurat born (1859)
Also try:
pointillism
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3
International Day of Persons with Disabilities
Also try:
Americans with Disabilities Act
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