August 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

<< August 2024 >>

Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thur	Fri	Sat
28 National Parents' Day Also try: families, mothers, fathers World Nature Conservation Day Also try: conservation, ecology Beatrix Potter born (1866) Also try: The Tale of Peter Rabbit World War I begins (1914) Also try: The Great War	29 Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien first published (1954) Also try: J.R.R. Tolkien, fantasy genre NASA established (1958) Also try: space exploration, aeronautics, aerospace	30 Emily Bronte born (1818) Also try: Wuthering Heights Henry Ford born (1863) Also try: assembly line, Ford Motor Company	31 Uncommon Instrument Awareness Day Also try: music, homemade instruments J.K. Rowling born (1965) Also try: Harry Potter	1 National Water Quality Month Begins Also try: water pollution, water sources Herman Melville born (1819) Also try: Moby Dick Justinian I becomes sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire (527) Also try: Byzantine Empire	2 Declaraton of Independence is signed in Philadelphia by 56 members of Congress (1776) Also try: equality, government Trial run of San Francisco cable car on Clay St. (1873) Also try: public transportation The Lincoln Penny first issued (1909) Also try: currency, US Mint	3 Christopher Columbus sets sail on his first voyage (1492) Also try: Age of Discovery Calvin Coolidge becomes president after the death of President Warren G. Harding (1923) Also try: Warren G. Harding, US presidents
4 Louis Armstrong born (1901) Also try: jazz Barack Obama born (1961) Also try: US presidents Anne Frank and family arrested (1944) Also try: Holocaust, World War II	5 Neil Armstrong born (1930) Also try: astronauts, space exploration First transatlantic telegraph cable completed (1858) Also try: telecommunications	6 Hiroshima Day (1945) Also try: World War II, atomic bomb Alfred Lord Tennyson born (1809) Also try: poetry, Ulysses	7 Purple Heart Day Also try: war heroes First performance of Shakespeare's play, Macbeth (1606) Also try: William Shakespeare, tragedies	8 International Cat Day Also try: pets Juan Ponce de Leon founds Caparra, the first European settlement in Puerto Rico (1508) Also try: European explorers, Puerto Rican history	9 Nagasaki Day (1945) Also try: World War II, atomic bomb Walden by Henry David Thoreau first published (1854) Also try: Henry David Thoreau, transcendentalism Richard M. Nixon resigns (1974) Also try: Watergate scandal	10 Herbert Hoover born (1847) Also try: US presidents Ruth Bader Ginsburg sworn in as an Associate Supreme Court Justice (1993) Also try: judicial system
11 The Watts Riots begin in Los Angeles (1964) Also try: civil rights movement	12 World Elephant Day Also try: mammals Cleopatra commits suicide with an asp (30 BC) Also try: Ancient Egypt Issac M Singer parents first practical sewing machine (1851) Also try: home economics, textiles	13 Hernan Cortes captures Tenochtitlán from the Aztecs (1521) Also try: Tenochtitlán, Aztecs, conquistadors Opha May Jacob Johnson becomes first woman to join the US Marine Corps (1918) Also try: first women, armed forces	14 President Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act (1935) Also try: FDR, New Deal First photograph taken of Earth from space (1959) Also try: satellite imagery Largest blackout in US history (2003) Also try: power outage, power grid	15 Napoleon Bonaparte born (1769) Also try: Napoleonic Wars Panama Canal formally opens (1914) Also try: Theodore Roosevelt, Isthmus of Panama India gains Independence from Great Britain (1947) Also try: British imperialism, Pakistan First new solar system found (2001) Also try: space exploration, the universe, cosmology	16 National Roller Coaster Day Also try: conservation of energy, laws of motion Cyprus gains its independence from the United Kingdom (1960) Also try: European Union	17 Davy Crockett born (1786) Also try: Battle of the Alamo Kind of Blue by Miles Davis released (1959) Also try: jazz
18 Pierre Janssen discovers helium (1868) Also try: noble gases, elements Mars moon Phobos discovered (1877) Also try: Mars	19 William J. Clinton born (1946) Also try: US presidents Five people executed after being convicted of witchcraft at the Salem Witch Trials (1692) Also try: Massachusetts, colonial America Adolf Hitler becomes Fuhrer (1934) Also try: Fuhrer, Nazi Germany, causes of World War II	20 Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture debuts (1882) Also try: classical music Leon Trotsky assassinated (1940) Also try: Russian Civil War, Marxism	21 Nat Turner leads a slave rebellion (1831) Also try: slave rebellion Mona Lisa painting stolen (1911) Also try: Leonardo da Vinci	22 Saint Columba reports seeing a monster in Loch Ness, Scotland (565) Also try: sea monsters 12 nations sign the First Geneva Convention (1864) Also try: war crimes	23 First Opium War begins with the siege of Hong Kong (1839) Also try: Hong Kong, Qing Dynasty	24 Mount Vesuvius erupts, burying Pompeii (79) Also try: Pompeii, volcanoes Pluto is reclassified as a dwarf planet (2006) Also try: dwarf planets, solar system
25 National Park Service established (1916) Also try: national monuments, conservationism Amelia Earhart completes transcontinental flight (1932) Also try: transcontinental flight Nationwide opening of the film Wizard of Oz (first color movie) (1939) Also try: film, cinema	26 Mother Teresa born (1910) Also try: humanitarians Krakatoa erupts (1883) Also try: volcanic eruptions, lava 19th Amendment takes effect (1920) Also try: women's suffrage, voting rights	27 Lyndon B. Johnson born (1908) Also try: US presidents George Bissell and Edwin L. Drake drill first US oil well (1859) Also try: petroleum	28 First radio commercial airs in New York City (1922) Also try: marketing, advertising Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivers "I Have a Dream" speech (1963) Also try: civil rights movement, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.	29 First Indian reservation established (1758) Also try: Native American history Hurricane Katrina hits the Gulf Coast (2005) Also try: hurricanes, natural disasters	30 Mary Shelley born (1797) Also try: Frankenstein, Gothic literature Thurgood Marshall confirmed as Supreme Court Justice (1967) Also try: Supreme Court, judicial branch	31 Henry VI becomes King of England at the age of 9 months (1422) Also try: King of England, English monarchy First solar-powered car demonstrated in Chicago (1955) Also try: renewable energy

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