January 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

<< January 2011 >>

Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thur	Fri	Sat
26 Beginning of Kwanzaa (Dec. 26-Jan. 1) Also try: Seven Principles, African American Heritage, Pan-African Movement A catastrophic tsunami strikes southeast Asia in 2004 Also try: Indian Ocean Earthquake, Southeast Asia, Tidal Waves	27 Microbiologist Louis Pasteur is born in 1822 Also try: Pasteurization, Bacteria, Germ Theory	28 Endangered Species Act of 1973 is passed Also try: Extinction, Whales, Biodiversity	29 The massacre of Wounded Knee takes place in 1890 Also try: 7th Calvary, Lakota, Sioux Indians, Ghost Dance	30 Edwin Hubble announces the existence of other galactic systems in 1924 Also try: Galaxies	31 New Year's Eve Also try: New Year, Fireworks Soviet Union disbands in 1991 Also try: USSR, Iron Curtain	1 Abraham Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 Also try: Abraham Lincoln, Slavery, Civil War New Year's Day Also try: New Year's Eve, Resolutions Patriot Paul Revere is born in 1735 Also try: Sons of Liberty, Midnight Rider
2 Mahatma Gandhi begins march for peace in 1947 Also try: India, Nonviolence	3 Author J.R.R. Tolkien is born 1892 Also try: Middle Earth, Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit	4 Scientist Isaac Newton is born in 1642 Also try: Laws of Motion, Universal Gravitation, Scientific Revolution	5 George Washington Carver Day Also try: African Americans, Peanuts, Inventors	6 Epiphany Also try: Three Kings Day, Magi, Los Reyes Magos	7 President Millard Fillmore is born in 1800 Also try: Presidents, Whig Party, Know Nothing Party	8 Rocker Elvis Presley is born in 1935 Also try: Rock and Roll
9 President Richard Milhous Nixon is born in 1913 Also try: Nixon, Watergate, Foreign Policy	10 League of Nations is formed 1920 Also try: Paris Peace Conference, United Nations	11 Patriot Alexander Hamilton is born in 1755 Also try: Federalism, Secretary of Treasury	12 Patriot John Hancock is born in 1737 Also try: Continental Congress, Declaration of Independence	13 First radio set is advertised in 1906 Also try: Wireless, Broadcasting	14 U.S. ratifies treaty with England ending the Revolutionary War Also try: Treaty of Paris	15 Civil Rights Leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is born in 1929; Martin Luther King Day Also try: Civil Rights, I Have a Dream, Nonviolence
16 Biologist Dian Fossey is born in 1932 Also try: Gorillas, Gorillas in the Mist	17 Inventor and Patriot Benjamin Franklin is born in 1706 Also try: Inventor, Lightning Rod, Electricity	18 Robert Scott reaches the South Pole in 1912 Also try: South Pole, Explorers	19 Author Edgar Allen Poe is born in 1809 Also try: The Raven, The Tell-Tale Heart, Annabel Lee	20 LaMarcus Adna Thompson patents the rollercoaster in 1885 Also try: Patent, Gravity	21 Edward Jenner's smallpox vaccination is introduced in 1799 Also try: Edward Jenner, Vaccinations, Disease	22 The uranium atom is split at Columbia University in 1939 Also try: Nuclear Power, Nuclear Weapons
23 Nixon announces an accord has been reached to end the Vietnam War in 1973 Also try: Vietnam, Paris Peace Agreement	24 Gold is discovered in California in 1848 Also try: Gold Rush, Sutter's Fort, 49ers	25 Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service in 1915 Also try: Telephone	26 Hockey player Wayne Gretzky is born in 1961 Also try: Winter Sports, Wayne Gretzky, The Great One	27 Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is born in 1756 Also try: Classical Music, Opera, Symphonies, Requiem	28 Space Shuttle Challenger exploded in 1986 Also try: Space Shuttle, Christa McAuliffe, Teachers in Space	29 Patriot Thomas Paine is born in 1737 Also try: Common Sense, Founding Fathers
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

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