February 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

<< February 2011 >>

Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thur	Fri	Sat
30 President Franklin Delano Roosevelt is born in 1882 Also try: FDR, President Roosevelt, New Deal, World War II, Liberalism	31 Baseball player Jackie Robinson is born in 1919 Also try: Baseball, African Americans, Segregation	1 National Freedom Day Also try: Emancipation Proclamation, Slavery, Abolition	2 Author James Joyce is born in 1882 Also try: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, Dubliners Groundhog Day Also try: Winter, Spring, Punxsutawney Phil	3 Artist Norman Rockwell is born in 1894 Also try: Saturday Evening Post, Four Freedoms Black Suffrage, the15th Amendment, is ratified in 1870 Also try: Black Suffrage, Voting, Elections Chinese New Year Also try: Spring Festival, Dim Sum	4 Yalta Conference begins in 1945 Also try: Crimea Conference Civil Rights Leader Rosa Parks is born in 1913 Also try: Civil Rights, Bus Boycotts Aviator Charles Lindbergh is born in 1902 Also try: Aviation, Spirit of St. Louis	5 First motion picture shown to a theater audience in Philadelphia, 1870 Also try: Movies, Film
6 President Ronald Reagan is born in 1911 Also try: Reagan Administration, Reaganomics, Star Wars	7 Author Charles Dickens is born in 1812 Also try: Christmas Carol, Great Expectations, Oliver Twist	8 Disney Studios officially form in 1926 Also try: Walt Disney, Disneyland, Mickey Mouse	9 Beatles first appear on Ed Sullivan show to 73.7 million viewers Also try: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Beatlemania	10 Treaty of Paris ended the French and Indian War in 1763 Also try: Seven Years' War, Ticonderoga	11 Inventor Thomas Edison is born in 1847 Also try: Inventor, Light Bulb	12 Naturalist Charles Darwin is born in 1809 Also try: Evolution, The Origin of Species President Abraham Lincoln is born in 1809 Also try: Emancipation Proclamation, Slavery, Civil War
13 Joseph L. Searles III becomes the first African American member of the New York Stock Exchange in 1970 Also try: African Americans, Stock Market	14 Valentine's Day Also try: St. Valentine, Love	15 Physicist and astronomer Galileo Galilei is born in 1564 Also try: Scientific Revolutions, Laws of Motion	16 Howard Carter locates Pharaoh Tutankhamen's tomb in 1923 Also try: King Tut, Ancient Egypt	17 Basketball star Michael Jordan is born in 1963 Also try: Basketball	18 Pluto is discovered in 1930 Also try: Solar System, Planets, Astronomy	19 Astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus is born in 1473 Also try: Solar System, Astronomy, Renaissance
20 Photographer Ansel Adams is born in 1902 Also try: Photography, Yosemite John Glenn is the first American to orbit Earth in 1962 Also try: Astronaut, Friendship 7	21 President's Day Also try: George Washington, Abraham Lincoln England begins trial against Joan of Arc in 1431 Also try: Jeanne d'Arc, Maid of Orleans	22 President George Washington is born in 1732 Also try: Founding Father, First President, Revolutionary War	23 Dolly the Sheep becomes an example of successful cloning in 1997 Also try: Clones, DNA, Dolly the Sheep	24 Pope Gregory the XIII announces the New Style or Gregorian calendar in 1582 Also try: Gregorian Calendar, Julian Calendar	25 First U.S. paper currency introduced by Lincoln in 1862 Also try: Abraham Lincoln, Civil War	26 Frontiersman Buffalo Bill Cody is born in 1846 Also try: Buffalo, Wild West Show
27 Author John Steinbeck is born in 1902 Also try: Grapes of Wrath, Cannery Row, Of Mice and Men	28 Salem Witch Trials begin in 1692 Also try: Witchcraft, Massachusetts Bay Colony	1 Composer Frederic Chopin is born in 1810 Also try: Romanticism, Piano	2 Author Dr. Seuss is born in 1904 Also try: Ted Geisel, Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham	3 Inventor Alexander Graham Bell is born in 1847 Also try: Inventor, Telephone	4 Composer Antonio Lucio Vivaldi is born in 1678 Also try: The Four Seasons, Baroque Music	5 The Boston Massacre takes place in 1770 Also try: Townshend Act, Revolutionary War

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