April 2011 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

<< April 2011 >>

Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thur	Fri	Sat
27 First cherry trees are planted in Washington D.C. in 1912 Also try: Capitol, Washington, Cherry Trees	28 Three Mile Island nuclear accident occurs in 1979 Also try: Nuclear Power, Nuclear Accidents, Pollution	29 Last U.S. troops leave Vietnam in 1973 Also try: Vietnam War	30 Artist Vincent van Gogh is born in 1853 Also try: Starry Night, Sunflowers, Expressionism, Post-Impressionism	31 Activist Cesar Chavez is born in 1927 Also try: Labor Rights, Nonviolence, Cesar Chavez Day, Hispanic Americans	1 April Fool's Day Also try: Jokes, Hoaxes, Practical Jokes	2 Author Hans Christian Anderson is born in 1805 Also try: Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid, Princess and the Pea
3 Biologist Jane Goodall is born in 1934 Also try: Chimpanzees, Primatology	4 NATO is ratified in 1949 Also try: North Atlantic Treaty Organization Poet and activist Maya Angelou is born in 1928 Also try: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, All God's Children Need Traveling, African Americans	5 Booker T Washington is born in 1856 Also try: Atlanta Compromise Address, Up From Slavery	6 Robert E. Peary and Matthew Henson reach the North Pole in 1909 Also try: Robert E. Peary, Matthew Henson, Explorers	7 World Health Day Also try: World Health Organization, WHO	8 The Buddha is born in 536 B.C. Also try: Siddhartha Gautama, Nirvana, Dharma, Karma, Buddhism	9 General Lee surrenders at Appomattox in 1865 Also try: Civil War, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant
10 F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes The Great Gatsby in 1925 Also try: F. Scott Fitzgerald	11 Lyndon Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968 Also try: Lyndon Johnson, Civil Rights	12 Civil War begins at Fort Sumter in 1861 Also try: Fort Sumter	13 President Thomas Jefferson is born in 1743 Also try: Louisiana Purchase, Nickel, Monticello	14 Titanic hits iceberg in 1912 Also try: Shipwrecks, Robert Ballard	15 Renaissance man Leonardo da Vinci is born in 1452 Also try: The Last Supper, Mona Lisa, Renaissance Man Tax Day Also try: Taxes, Economics	16 Aviator Wilbur Wright is born in 1867 Also try: Wright Brothers, Kittyhawk, Airplane
17 Dow Jones closes above 3,000 for the first time in 1991 Also try: Stock Market, Investing	18 San Francisco Earthquake occurs in 1906 Also try: San Andreas Fault, Geology, Seismology	19 Revolutionary War begins with the 'shot heard round the world' in 1775 Also try: Shot Heard Round the World, Concord	20 Artist Joan Miro is born in 1893 Also try: Surrealism	21 Naturalist John Muir is born in 1838 Also try: Yosemite, Conservationism, Sierra Club, Wilderness	22 First Earth Day is held in 1970 Also try: Earth, Environment	23 Take Your Daughters to Work Day Also try: Career Planning, Working Women, Women's Rights, Gender Equality Author William Shakespeare is born in 1564 Also try: The Bard, Sonnets, Playwrights, Romeo and Juliet
24 Library of Congress established in 1800 Also try: Libraries, Books, Research	25 Daniel Defoe publishes Robinson Crusoe in 1719 Also try: Daniel Defoe	26 A severe nuclear meltdown occurs at Chernobyl in Ukraine in 1986 Also try: Nuclear Power, Meltdown, Radioactivity, Contamination	27 Inventor Samuel Morse is born in 1791 Also try: Inventors, Morse Code, Telegraphic	28 First volume of Isaac Newton's 'Principia' is published in 1686 Also try: Universal Gravitation, Laws of Motion	29 Composer Duke Ellington is born in 1899 Also try: Jazz, Piano, Big Bands	30 U.S. doubles in size through the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 Also try: Thomas Jefferson, Lewis and Clark

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