November 2020 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 2020 >>

Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thur	Fri	Sat
1 Native American Heritage Month begins Also try: heritage, ancestors Daylight Saving Time ends, Standard Time begins Also try: time zones European Union comes into existence (1993) Also try: Europe	2 Day of the Dead Also try: Dia de los Muertos James Polk born (1795) Also try: US presidents Warren G. Harding born (1865) and elected president (1920) Also try: US presidents	3 Election Day Also try: US presidents, democracy Chevrolet Motor Car Company incoporated (1911) Also try: automobile industry, transportation Linus Pauling wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1954) Also try: chemical bonds, biochemistry	4 First wagon train reaches California (1841) Also try: westward expansion, Oregon Trail Barack Obama becomes first African American elected as US president (2008) Also try: US presidents, elections	5 Guy Fawkes arrested for Gunpowder Plot (1605) Also try: Gunpowder Plot 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	7 Marie Curie born (1867) Also try: radioactivity, radioactive isotopes The New York City Museum of Modern Art opens (1929) Also try: art museums, art appreciation
8 Wilhelm Roentgen discovers x-rays (1895) Also try: electromagnetic spectrum, Wilhelm Roentgen National STEM/STEAM Day Also try: engineering, science experiments	9 Carl Sagan born (1934) Also try: astronomy, cosmology 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 Veterans Day Also try: US military World War I Armistice signed (1918) Also try: Woodrow Wilson, Fourteen Points Origami Day Also try: Japanese culture, arts and crafts	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 World Kindness Day Also try: compassion, character education Vietnam Veterans' Memorial dedicated (1982) Also try: Vietnam War	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, artists	16 Federal Reserve Bank opens for business (1914) Also try: central banking, financial literacy 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 Push-button phones used for the first time (1963) Also try: telecommunications US and Canada adopt a system of standard time zones (1883) Also try: Earth's rotation	19 President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address (1863) Also try: Battle of Gettysburg, Abraham Lincoln Impeachment hearings against President Bill Clinton begin (1998) Also try: President Bill Clinton	20 Edwin Hubble born (1889) Also try: Hubble telescope Garrett Morgan receives US patent for a traffic signal (1923) Also try: automobiles, inventions	21 Family Volunteer Day Also try: community service Voltaire born (1694) Also try: Enlightenment, philosophers Judas Maccabeus restores Jewish Temple in Jerusalem (164 BC) Also try: Judaism
22 President John F. Kennedy assassinated (1963) Also try: John F. Kennedy, US presidents Angela Merkel takes office as first female German Chancellor (2005) Also try: female leaders, German history	23 Fibonacci Day Also try: Golden Ratio, mathematicians Of Mice and Men debuts on Broadway (1937) Also try: John Steinbeck, Broadway plays	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 Thanksgiving Also try: turkey, gratitude Alice in Wonderland first published in America (1865) Also try: Lewis Carroll, fantasy genre Charles Shultz born (1922) Also try: Charlie Brown, cartoonists	27 National Native American Heritage Day Also try: ancestors Bill Nye born (1955) Also try: science education Atmosphere discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris (2001) Also try: atmosphere, Hubble Space Telescope	28 William Blake born (1757) Also try: Romantic Age, poets First pulsar observed (1967) Also try: neutron stars, cosmic rays
29 C.S. Lewis born (1898) Also try: The Chronicles of Narnia Louisa 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	2 The Monroe Doctrine created (1823) Also try: James Monroe, foreign policy George Seurat born (1859) Also try: pointillism, post-impressionism	3 International Day of Persons with Disabilities Also try: Americans with Disabilities Act Joseph Conrad born (1857) Also try: Heart of Darkness, English literature	4 Wildlife Conservation Day Also try: biodiversity National Dice Day Also try: probability	5 Walt Disney born (1901) Also try: Disneyland, cartoons Martin Van Buren born (1782) Also try: US presidents

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