February 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 February 2024 showing educational events and resources
Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
January 28, 2024	January 29, 2024	January 30, 2024	January 31, 2024	February 1, 2024 Black History Month begins Also try: African American history National Freedom Day Also try: Abraham Lincoln, 13th Amendment, liberty National Girls and Women in Sports Day Also try: female athletes Langston Hughes born (1901) Also try: Harlem Renaissance, jazz poetry Four black students stage the first of the Greensboro sit-ins (1960) Also try: civil rights movement	February 2, 2024 Groundhog Day Also try: seasons, shadows James Joyce born (1882) Also try: Ulysses, Dubliners Mexican-American War ends (1848) Also try: annexation of Texas, Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo The Battle of Stalingrad ends with the surrender of German troops to the Soviets (1943) Also try: World War II battles	February 3, 2024 15th Amendment ratified (1870) Also try: voting rights First operational weather satellite, ESSA-1 launched in US (1966) Also try: meteorology
February 4, 2024 National Create a Vacuum Day Also try: air pressure, vacuum of space Rosa Parks born (1913) Also try: Montgomery Bus Boycott, civil rights movement First presidential election (1789) Also try: Electoral College, democracy Yalta Conference begins (1945) Also try: World War II	February 5, 2024 First motion picture shown in Philadelphia (1870) Also try: cinematography, film history National Wildlife Federation formed (1936) Also try: nature, animals, conservationism	February 6, 2024 President Ronald Reagan born (1911) Also try: US presidents Elizabeth II becomes Queen of England (1952) Also try: Queen of England, constitutional monarchy	February 7, 2024 National Periodic Table Day Also try: scientific elements, Dimitri Sir Thomas More born (1478) Also try: Utopia, Renaissance Charles Dickens born (1812) Also try: A Christmas Carol, Oliver Twist, Victorian era Laura Ingalls Wilder born (1867) Also try: Little House on the Prairie	February 8, 2024 Jules Verne born (1828) Also try: science fiction Japan declares war on Russia (1904) Also try: Russo-Japanese War	February 9, 2024 National Pizza Pie Day Also try: food, nutrition William G. Morgan invents the game of volleyball (1895) Also try: team sports	February 10, 2024 Chinese New Year Also try: Lunar New Year, Chinese culture Treaty of Paris ends the French and Indian War (1763) Also try: Treaty of Paris IBM computer Deep Blue defeats world chess champion (1996) Also try: computer programs, artificial intelligence
February 11, 2024 Super Bowl LVIII Also try: football, NFL Thomas Edison born (1847) Also try: light bulb, phonograph, inventors The Pennsylvania Hospital opens as the first American hospital (1753) Also try: health care, doctors, nurses	February 12, 2024 President Abraham Lincoln born (1809) Also try: American Civil War, Lincoln Memorial Charles Darwin born (1809) Also try: theory of evolution, natural selection	February 13, 2024 Mardi Gras Also try: carnival masks The American Temperance Society is established in Boston (1826) Also try: prohibition The Negro National League organizes (1920) Also try: baseball, segregation	February 14, 2024 Valentine's Day Also try: Saint Valentine, cupid YouTube launched (2005) Also try: digital video, social media	February 15, 2024 Galileo Galilei born (1564) Also try: Scientific Revolution, astronomy Susan B. Anthony born (1820) Also try: women's suffrage, 19th Amendment	February 16, 2024 Howard Carter enters Pharaoh Tutankhamun's tomb (1923) Also try: King Tut's tomb, Tutankhamun Fidel Castro becomes 16th Prime Minister of Cuba (1959) Also try: Cuba	February 17, 2024 Michael Jordan born (1963) Also try: basketball After a tie in the Electoral College, Thomas Jefferson elected president (1801) Also try: Electoral College, democracy
February 18, 2024 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn first published in the US (1885) Also try: Mark Twain, American literature Dwarf planet Pluto discovered (1930) Also try: solar system, dwarf planets	February 19, 2024 Presidents' Day Also try: US presidents Nicolaus Copernicus born (1473) Also try: heliocentric model, astronomy Battle of Iwo Jima begins (1945) Also try: World War II, Pacific Theater	February 20, 2024 US Postal Service formally created (1792) Also try: mail, postage stamps John Glenn first American to orbit Earth (1962) Also try: space flight, astronauts	February 21, 2024 Washington Monument dedicated (1885) Also try: George Washington, national monuments Malcolm X assassinated (1965) Also try: civil rights movement	February 22, 2024 George Washington born (1732) Also try: US presidents "Miracle on Ice": US men's hockey team defeats Soviet Union in Winter Olympics (1980) Also try: Winter Olympics, Cold War	February 23, 2024 W.E.B. Du Bois born (1868) Also try: civil rights, NAACP Children in Pittsburgh receive first polio vaccine (1954) Also try: vaccines, modern medicine	February 24, 2024 Steve Jobs is born (1955) Also try: entrepreneur US House of Representatives vote to impeach President Andrew Johnson (1868) Also try: impeachment, checks and balances
February 25, 2024 Anthony Burgess born (1917) Also try: A Clockwork Orange, dystopia	February 26, 2024 Victor Hugo born (1802) Also try: Les Miserables Grand Teton National Park established (1929) Also try: National Park Service, Calvin Coolidge	February 27, 2024 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow born (1807) Also try: lyric poetry John Steinbeck born (1902) Also try: The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men	February 28, 2024 National Tooth Fairy Day Also try: dental hygiene DNA structure discovered (1953) Also try: double helix, genetics	February 29, 2024 Leap Day Also try: leap year, calendar Digital Learning Day Also try: education technology	March 1, 2024	March 2, 2024

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