November 2018 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

<< November 2018 >>

Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thur	Fri	Sat
28 Statue of Liberty dedicated (1886) Also try: New York, Liberty Island National Prohibition Act passed (1919) Also try: Volstead Act, speakeasies Cuban Missile Crisis ends (1962) Also try: Cold War, Soviet Union, Cuba	29 First ARPANET link established, the Internet (1969) Also try: technology, computer networks Stock Market crashes, "Black Tuesday" (1929) Also try: Great Depression, stock market crash	30 John Adams born (1735) Also try: US presidents War of the Worlds radio broadcast (1938) Also try: H.G. Wells	31 Halloween Also try: costumes, Halloween traditions Day of the Dead Also try: el Dia de los Muertos Seven Billion Day: global population reaches 7,000,000,000 (2011) Also try: population growth	1 Native American Heritage Month begins Also try: heritage, ancestors European Union comes into existence (1993) Also try: Europe	2 James Polk born (1795) Also try: US presidents Warren G. Harding born (1865) and elected president (1920) Also try: US presidents	3 Chevrolet Motor Car Company incoporated (1911) Also try: automobile industry, transportation Linus Pauling wins Nobe Prize in Chemistry (1954) Also try: molecular biology, biochemistry
4 First wagon train reaches California (1841) Also try: westward movement, Oregon Trail Daylight Saving Time ends, Standard Time begins Also try: time zones	5 Guy Fawkes arrested for Gunpowder Plot (1605) Also try: Guy Fawkes Susan B. Anthony votes and is fined $100 (1872) Also try: women's suffrage, 19th Amendment	6 Inventor of basketball, James Naismith, born (1861) Also try: James Naismith Supernova observed in the constellation Cassiopeia (1572) Also try: Cassiopeia, stars	7 Marie Curie born (1867) Also try: radioactivity, radioactive isotopes The New York City Museum of Modern Art opens (1929) Also try: art galleries, art museums	8 X-rays discovered (1895) Also try: electromagnetic spectrum, Wilhelm Roentgen National STEM/STEAM Day Also try: engineering, science experiments	9 Carl Sagan born (1934) Also try: astronomy Kristallnacht begins (1938) Also try: Holocaust	10 Sesame Street debuts on PBS (1969) Also try: puppets Great Wall of China opens for tourism (1970) Also try: Ming Dynasty, Chinese history
11 WWI Armistice signed (1918) Also try: Woodrow Wilson, Fourteen Points Origami Day Also try: Japanese culture, arts and crafts Veterans Day Also try: US military	12 Elizabeth Cady Stanton born (1815) Also try: abolitionists, suffragists, Seneca Falls Joseph Stalin becomes ruler of the Soviet Union (1927) Also try: Soviet Union, socialism	13 Vietnam Veterans' Memorial dedicated (1982) Also try: Vietnam War World Kindness Day Also try: character education	14 Claude Monet born (1840) Also try: impressionism Treasure Island first published as a book (1883) Also try: Robert Louis Stevenson	15 America Recycles Day Also try: recycled art, conservationism Georgia O'Keeffe born (1887) Also try: painting flowers	16 Federal Reserve Bank opens for business (1914) Also try: central banking International Day for Tolerance Also try: character education	17 Suez Canal opens in Egypt (1869) Also try: Egypt Elizabethan era begins: Queen Mary I of England dies (1558) Also try: Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Mary I
18 Antarctica discovered (1820) Also try: continents, South Pole	19 President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address (1863) Also try: Battle of Gettysburg Impeachment hearings against President Bill Clinton begin (1998) Also try: President Bill Clinton	20 Edwin Hubble born (1889) Also try: Hubble telescope	21 Voltaire born (1694) Also try: Enlightenment, philosophers Judas Maccabeus restores Jewish Temple in Jerusalem (164 BC) Also try: Judaism, Jerusalem	22 Thanksgiving Also try: turkey, gratitude	23 Fibonacci Day Also try: Golden Ratio National Native American Heritage Day Also try: ancestors	24 Origin of Species published (1859) Also try: Charles Darwin, evolution Zachary Taylor born (1784) Also try: US presidents
25 Thirty-five Amistad survivors return to Africa (1841) Also try: slavery Andrew Carnegie born (1835) Also try: philanthropy, charity	26 Alice in Wonderlands first published in America (1865) Also try: Lewis Carroll, fantasy genre Charles Shultz born (1922) Also try: Charlie Brown, cartoonists	27 Anders Celsius born (1701) Also try: temperature Atmosphere discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris (2001) Also try: atmosphere, Hubble Space Telescope Anders Celsius born (1701) Also try: temperature, thermometer Anders Celsius born (1701) Also try: temperature, thermometer Anders Celsius born (1701) Also try: temperature, thermometer Anders Celsius born (1701) Also try: temperature, thermometer	28 William Blake born (1757) Also try: Romantic Age, poets	29 C.S. Lewis born (1898) Also try: The Chronicles of Narnia Luisa May Alcott born (1832) Also try: Little Women	30 Mark Twain born (1835) Also try: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Winston Churchill born (1874) Also try: British prime ministers	1 Rosa Parks arrested for civil disobedience (1955) Also try: civil rights movement, Montgomery Bus Boycott World AIDS Day Also try: HIV, immune system

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