September 2018 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 2018 >>

Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thur	Fri	Sat
26 Mother Teresa born (1910) Also try: humanitarians 19th Amendment takes effect (1920) Also try: women's suffrage, voting rights	27 Krakatoa erupts (1883) Also try: volcanic eruptions, lava Lyndon B. Johnson born (1908) Also try: US presidents	28 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers "I Have a Dream" speech (1963) Also try: civil rights movement, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. First radio commercial airs in New York City (1922) Also try: marketing, advertising	29 First Indian Reservation established (1758) Also try: Native American history Hurricane Katrina hits the Gulf Coast (2005) Also try: hurricanes, natural disasters	30 Thurgood Marshall confirmed as Supreme Court Justice (1967) Also try: Supreme Court, judicial branch Mary Shelley born (1797) Also try: Frankenstein, Gothic literature	31 First solar-powered car demonstrated in Chicago (1955) Also try: renewable energy	1 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway first published (1952) Also try: Ernest Hemingway Bobby Fischer earns world chess title (1972) Also try: Bobby Fischer
2 First successful open heart surgery (1952) Also try: surgery, medical technology Victory over Japan Day (1945) Also try: WWII, atomic bomb	3 Treaty of Paris ends American Revolutionary War (1783) Also try: American Revolutionary War Richard "The Lionheart" crowned at Westminster (1189) Also try: King of England, Westminster Labor Day Also try: American Labor Movement	4 Henry Hudson discovers Manhattan (1609) Also try: New York, Age of Discovery Google founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin (1998) Also try: search engine, Digital Age	5 Jesse James born (1847) Also try: Wild West First Continental Congress assembles in Philadelphia (1774) Also try: Intolerable Acts, American Revolution	6 National Read a Book Day Also try: novels, author study John Dalton born (1766) Also try: atomic theory, chemists	7 ESPN debuts (1979) Also try: sports broadcasting	8 International Literacy Day Also try: reading fluency
9 Leo Tolstoy born (1828) Also try: War and Peace, Anna Karenina National Grandparents Day Also try: heritage, family tree	10 Switzerland joins the United Nations (2002) Also try: United Nations World Suicide Prevention Day Also try: mental health	11 September 11th Remembrance Day Also try: terrorism	12 Lascaux cave paintings discovered (1940) Also try: Paleolithic era, anthropology Mae Jemison becomes first African American woman in space (1992) Also try: astronauts, NASA, space exploration	13 Roald Dahl born (1916) Also try: Matilda, James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Milton Hershey born (1857) Also try: chocolate	14 Francis Scott Key writes "The Star-Spangled Banner" (1814) Also try: "The Star-Spangled Banner" Ivan Pavlov born (1849) Also try: classical conditioning, psychology	15 Hispanic Heritage Month Begins Also try: Latin America, Spain Tomie dePaola born (1934) Also try: Strega Nona, children's books The Nuremberg Laws deprive German Jews of citizenship (1935) Also try: Holocaust
16 Mexican Independence Day (1810) Also try: Mexican history The Mayflower starts voyage to North America (1620) Also try: pilgrims, colonial America	17 Constitution Day: United States Constitution signed (1787) Also try: supreme law, Separation of Powers, Bill of Rights	18 The New York Times first published (1851) Also try: newspaper, print media Fugitive Slave Act passed (1850) Also try: slavery, Underground Railroad	19 Otzi the Iceman discovered (1991) Also try: mummy, anthropology Talk Like a Pirate Day Also try: Blackbeard, Treasure Island	20 Upton Sinclair born (1878) Also try: The Jungle, muckraking, meat packing industry President George W. Bush declares a "war on terror" (2001) Also try: "war on terror"	21 The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien first published (1937) Also try: The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien H.G. Wells born (1866) Also try: War of the Worlds, science fiction	22 Autumnal Equinox Also try: autumn, celestial sphere
23 Planet Neptune discovered (1846) Also try: planets, solar system The Phantom of the Opera published (1909) Also try: Gaston Leroux, musical theater	24 Dwight D. Eisenhower mandates desegregation of Little Rock schools (1957) Also try: desegregation National Punctuation Day Also try: grammar, commas, apostrophes, semicolons	25 Shel Silverstein born (1930) Also try: The Giving Tree, poetry William Faulkner born (1897) Also try: American literature	26 Johnny Appleseed born (1774) Also try: apples, American pioneers Sir Francis Drake finishes circumnavigation of the earth (1580) Also try: circumnavigation, European explorers	27 Samuel Adams born (1722) Also try: Founding Fathers, Articles of Confederation, Continental Congress Ancestor Appreciation Day Also try: heritage, family tree	28 William the Conqueror invades England (1066) Also try: Battle of Hastings SpaceX launches first private spacecraft, the Falcon 1, into orbit (2008) Also try: space exploration, rockets	29 Common Program written for the future People's Republic of China (1949) Also try: communism Miguel de Cervantes born (1547) Also try: Don Quixote
30 Truman Capote born (1924) Also try: Breakfast at Tiffany's The Hoover Dam dedicated by FDR (1935) Also try: hydroelectricity	1 National Bullying Prevention Month Also try: cyberbullying Nazi leaders are sentenced at the Nuremberg Trials (1946) Also try: Holocaust, war crimes Yosemite National Park established by US Congress (1890) Also try: sequoia forest World Habitat Day Also try: conservationism, ecosystems	2 World Farm Animals Day Also try: cows, horses, chickens, pigs International Day of Non-Violence Also try: non-violent revolutions, Gandhi	3 East and West Germany reunify (1990) Also try: Berlin Wall	4 Construction begins on Mount Rushmore (1927) Also try: national monuments USSR launches Sputnik I (1957) Also try: Space Race	5 The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) debuts (1970) Also try: PBS	6 Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture (1889) Also try: motion picture, film history

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