August 2024 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 for August 2024 showing educational events and resources
Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
July 28, 2024	July 29, 2024	July 30, 2024	July 31, 2024	August 1, 2024 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	August 2, 2024 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	August 3, 2024 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
August 4, 2024 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	August 5, 2024 Neil Armstrong born (1930) Also try: astronauts, space exploration First transatlantic telegraph cable completed (1858) Also try: telecommunications	August 6, 2024 Hiroshima Day (1945) Also try: World War II, atomic bomb Alfred Lord Tennyson born (1809) Also try: poetry, Ulysses	August 7, 2024 Purple Heart Day Also try: war heroes First performance of Shakespeare's play, Macbeth (1606) Also try: William Shakespeare, tragedies	August 8, 2024 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	August 9, 2024 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	August 10, 2024 Herbert Hoover born (1847) Also try: US presidents Ruth Bader Ginsburg sworn in as an Associate Supreme Court Justice (1993) Also try: judicial system
August 11, 2024 The Watts Riots begin in Los Angeles (1964) Also try: civil rights movement	August 12, 2024 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	August 13, 2024 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	August 14, 2024 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	August 15, 2024 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	August 16, 2024 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	August 17, 2024 Davy Crockett born (1786) Also try: Battle of the Alamo Kind of Blue by Miles Davis released (1959) Also try: jazz
August 18, 2024 Pierre Janssen discovers helium (1868) Also try: noble gases, elements Mars moon Phobos discovered (1877) Also try: Mars	August 19, 2024 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	August 20, 2024 Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture debuts (1882) Also try: classical music Leon Trotsky assassinated (1940) Also try: Russian Civil War, Marxism	August 21, 2024 Nat Turner leads a slave rebellion (1831) Also try: slave rebellion Mona Lisa painting stolen (1911) Also try: Leonardo da Vinci	August 22, 2024 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	August 23, 2024 First Opium War begins with the siege of Hong Kong (1839) Also try: Hong Kong, Qing Dynasty	August 24, 2024 Mount Vesuvius erupts, burying Pompeii (79) Also try: Pompeii, volcanoes Pluto is reclassified as a dwarf planet (2006) Also try: dwarf planets, solar system
August 25, 2024 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	August 26, 2024 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	August 27, 2024 Lyndon B. Johnson born (1908) Also try: US presidents George Bissell and Edwin L. Drake drill first US oil well (1859) Also try: petroleum	August 28, 2024 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.	August 29, 2024 First Indian reservation established (1758) Also try: Native American history Hurricane Katrina hits the Gulf Coast (2005) Also try: hurricanes, natural disasters	August 30, 2024 Mary Shelley born (1797) Also try: Frankenstein, Gothic literature Thurgood Marshall confirmed as Supreme Court Justice (1967) Also try: Supreme Court, judicial branch	August 31, 2024 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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