September 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

<< September 2012 >>

Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thur	Fri	Sat
26 Peace Prize winner Mother Teresa is born in 1910 Also try: Calcutta, Nobel Peace Prize, Missionaries of Charity 19th Amendment is passed in 1920 allowing women to vote Also try: Women's Suffrage, Voting	27 Krakatoa erupts in 1886 with explosions heard 3,000 miles away Also try: Volcanoes, Indonesia	28 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers his 'I Have a Dream' speech in 1963 Also try: Civil Rights, Segregation The 1st radio commercial airs in New York City in 1922 Also try: Commercials, Advertising, Wireless	29 1st U.S. Indian Reservation is established in 1758 Also try: Native Americans	30 Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as Supreme Court Justice in 1967 Also try: Supreme Court, African Americans	31 1st solar powered car is demonstrated in Chicago in 1955 Also try: Renewable Resources, Energy	1 Bobby Fischer defeats Boris Spassky for world chess title in 1972 Also try: Chess, Grand Master
2 1st successful open heart surgery occurs in 1952 Also try: Surgery, Medicine, Heart Failure	3 Labor Day Also try: Unions, Labor Movement Treaty of Paris is signed in 1783 Also try: Revolutionary War, Treaty of Versailles, 2cd Treaty of Paris	4 Henry Hudson discovered Manhattan in 1609 Also try: Manhattan, Hudson River, English Explorers	5 Outlaw Jesse James is born in 1847 Also try: Outlaws, Wild West	6 Chemist John Dalton is born in 1766 Also try: Atomic Theory, New System of Chemical Philosophy	7 ESPN debuts in 1979 Also try: Sports, Entertainment	8 International Literacy Day Also try: Illiteracy, Reading
9 Grandparents Day Also try: Grandparents, family, heritage Novelist Leo Tolstoy is born in 1828 Also try: Russian Literature, War and Peace, Anna Karenina	10 Switzerland joins the United Nations in 2002 Also try: United Nations, Neutrality	11 911 Remembrance Day Also try: September 11, Al Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden, Twin Towers, World Trade Center	12 Lascaux Cave Paintings are discovered in 1940 Also try: Cave Paintings, Prehistoric Art	13 Author Roald Dahl is born in 1916 Also try: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach	14 Francis Scott Key writes the Star Spangled Banner in 1814 Also try: Francis Scott Key, National Anthem	15 Author James Fenimore Cooper is born in 1789 Also try: Last of the Mohicans, The Deerslayer
16 Mexican Independence Day Also try: Father Hidalgo, El Grito	17 Citizenship Day Also try: Civics, Volunteerism, Civic Responsibility	18 Cyclist Lance Armstrong is born in 1971 Also try: Cyclists, Bicycles, Tour de France, Cancer Survivors	19 International Talk Like a Pirate Day Also try: Treasure, Ship, Blackbeard	20 Billie Jean King defeats Bobby Riggs in 1973 Also try: Battle of the Sexes, Tennis, Sexism	21 Author H.G. Wells is born in 1866 Also try: The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man, The Time Machine	22 The office of the United States Postmaster General is established by Congress in 1789 Also try: American Revolution, Mail, USPS Autumn Equinox Also try: Vernal Equinox, Solstice, Fall
23 Largest known prime number is discovered in 1973 Also try: Division, Primes	24 Eisenhower mandates desegregation of Little Rock schools in 1957 Also try: Little Rock Nine, Civil Rights, Desegregation	25 Poet Shel Silverstein is born in 1930 Also try: The Giving Tree, Where the Sidewalk Ends	26 Folk hero Johnny Appleseed is born in 1774 Also try: John Chapman, Apple Trees, Ecology, Trees	27 Patriot Samuel Adams is born in 1722 Also try: Patriots, Revolutionary War	28 Artist Caravaggio is born in 1573 Also try: Baroque Art, Naturalism, Chiaroscuro	29 Author Miguel de Cervantes is born in 1547 Also try: Spanish Literature, Don Quixote
30 Author Truman Capote is born in 1924 Also try: Breakfast at Tiffany's, In Cold Blood	1 Nazi leaders are sentenced at the Nuremberg Trials in 1946 Also try: World War II, Holocaust, Nazism	2 Social leader Mahatma Gandhi is born in 1869 Also try: Satyagraha, Civil Disobedience, Nonviolence, India, Mahatma Gandhi	3 East and West Germany reunify in 1990 Also try: Cold War, Berlin Wall, Iron Curtain	4 USSR launches Sputnik I in 1957 Also try: Satellites, Cold War, Space Race	5 Dramatist and politician Vaclav Havel is born in 1936 Also try: Czech Republic, Czechoslovakia, Velvet Revolution	6 Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture in 1889 Also try: Movies, Film

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