May 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
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25
Ella Fitzgerald born (1917)
Also try:
jazz
Bell Labs announces first silicon solar cell (1954)
Also try:
renewable energy, sources of energy
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26
Chernobyl disaster occurs (1986)
Also try:
nuclear accident, radiation
National Richter Scale Day
Also try:
earthquakes, seismic waves
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27
Samuel Morse born (1791)
Also try:
Morse code, communication technology
National Tell a Story Day
Also try:
story telling, oral tradition
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28
James Monroe born (1758)
Also try:
Founding Fathers, US presidents
Harper Lee born (1926)
Also try:
To Kill a Mockingbird
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29
International Dance Day
Also try:
choreography, ballet
William Randolph Hearst born (1863)
Also try:
newspapers, yellow journalism
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30
International Jazz Day
Louisiana Purchase (1803)
Also try:
US expansion
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1
Physical Fitness and Sports Month begins
Also try:
sports, physical education
National Mother Goose Day
Also try:
nursery rhymes
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2
William Herschel discovers first binary star (1780)
Also try:
William Herschel, astronomers
King Charles II gives royal charter to Hudson's Bay Company (1670)
Also try:
fur trade, Canadian history
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3
AP Testing begins
Also try:
test taking strategies
World Press Freedom Day
Also try:
First Amendment
Washington DC incorporated as a city (1802)
Also try:
capital cities
Niccolò Machiavelli born (1469)
Also try:
Italian Renaissance
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4
National Teacher Appreciation Day
Also try:
teacher gifts
International Firefighters Day
Margaret Thatcher becomes first female Prime Minister of the UK (1979)
Also try:
prime minister, parliamentary system
Four student protesters killed at Kent State (1970)
Also try:
anti-war protests, Vietnam War
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5
Cinco de Mayo
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Battle of Puebla
National Cartoonist Day
Also try:
political cartoons, comic strips
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6
Sigmund Freud born (1856)
Also try:
psychology
Hindenburg Disaster (1937)
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7
The RMS Lusitania sinks (1915)
Also try:
U-boat, submarine warfare
Tchaikovsky born (1840)
Also try:
Classical period, composers
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8
Harry S. Truman born (1884)
Also try:
US presidents
German surrender: Victory in Europe Day (1945)
Also try:
World War II
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9
John Brown born (1800)
Also try:
Harpers Ferry, abolitionists
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10
Nelson Mandela becomes president of South Africa (1994)
Also try:
apartheid, South Africa
US transcontinental railroad completed (1869)
Also try:
Central Pacific Railroad, Union Pacific Railroad
Jefferson Davis captured by Union troops (1865)
Also try:
American Civil War
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11
Ramadan ends, North America
Also try:
Islam, Muslim calendar
Salvador Dali born (1904)
Also try:
surrealism, famous artists
Richard Feynman born (1918)
Also try:
physicists, nobel prize
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12
Florence Nightingale born (1820)
Also try:
nursing, Crimean War
International Nurses Day
Also try:
medical careers
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13
US declares war with Mexico: Mexican-American War begins (1846)
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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Student hunger strike in Tiananmen Square (1989)
Also try:
hunger strike
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14
Lewis and Clark begin expedition (1804)
Also try:
Corp of Discovery
First US Space Station launched (1973)
Also try:
Skylab, space exploration
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15
Spring Astronomy Day
Also try:
space exploration, solar system
Johannes Kepler discovers his Harmonic Law (1618)
Also try:
Johannes Keplar, planetary motion
US Department of Agriculture created (1862)
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16
Mississippi River steamboat service begins (1817)
Also try:
Mississippi River
US Bureau of Mines founded (1910)
Also try:
mining industry, mineral resources
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17
Supreme Court rules on Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
Also try:
separate but equal, desegregation
Gary Paulson born (1939)
Also try:
Hatchet
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18
Mount St. Helens erupts (1980)
Also try:
volcanoes
John Winthrop elected first Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (1631)
Also try:
Massachusetts Bay Colony, colonial America
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19
Anne Boleyn, wife of King Henry VIII, beheaded (1536)
Also try:
King Henry VIII
The Empire State Building is designated a New York City landmark (1981)
Also try:
New York City, historic landmarks
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20
Charles Lindbergh begins first solo transatlantic flight (1927)
Also try:
transatlantic flight
Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis patent the first blue jeans (1873)
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21
American Red Cross founded by Clara Barton (1881)
Also try:
Clara Barton, emergency preparedness
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22
Lassen Peak erupts (1915)
Also try:
volcanoes
First major wagon train heading for the Pacific Northwest sets out on the Oregon Trail (1843)
Also try:
westward movement
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23
Carolus Linnaeus born (1707)
Also try:
biological classification, taxonomy
Scott O'Dell born (1898)
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Island of the Blue Dolphins
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24
Brooklyn Bridge opens (1883)
Also try:
bridges, civil engineering
Mary Had a Little Lamb published (1830)
Also try:
nursery rhyme
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25
Jesse Owens breaks six world records in one hour (1935)
Also try:
track and field
The Consitutional Convention begins in Philadelphia (1787)
Also try:
US Constitution, US government
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26
National Paper Airplane Day
Also try:
flight, engineering design
Sally Ride born (1951)
Also try:
NASA, astronauts
William and Frederick Langenheim take first photos of a solar eclipse in US (1854)
Also try:
photography, astronomy
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27
The Queen Mary takes maiden voyage (1936)
Also try:
passenger ships
Golden Gate Bridge opens (1937)
Also try:
suspension bridges, San Fransisco
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28
Amnesty International Day
Also try:
human rights, justice
Jim Thorpe born (1888)
Also try:
athletes
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29
John F. Kennedy born (1917)
Also try:
US presidents
Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reach Mount Everest summit (1953)
Also try:
Everest expedition, mountains
Learn About Composting Day
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30
National Creativity Day
Also try:
imagination, inventions
Lincoln Memorial dedicated (1922)
Also try:
Abraham Lincoln
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31
Memorial Day
Also try:
US military, war heroes
World No Tobacco Day
Also try:
cigarettes, healthy habits
Walt Whitman born (1819)
Also try:
poetry
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1
Audiobook Month Begins
Also try:
listening skills, literature
National Pen Pal Day
Also try:
friendly letters, friendship
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2
Snyder Act is passed, granting US citizenship to Native Americans (1924)
Also try:
Native Americans
The Vandals sack Rome (455)
Also try:
Ancient Rome, Roman Empire
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3
First US spacewalk conducted by Ed White (1965)
Also try:
Space Race, space travel
Casey at the Bat published (1888)
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4
The first Pulitzer Prize is awarded (1917)
19th Amendment passed (1919)
Also try:
women's suffrage, voting rights
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5
World Environment Day
Also try:
conservationism, environmentalism
Robert F. Kennedy assassinated (1968)
Also try:
the Kennedys
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