October 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

<< October 2018 >>

Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thur	Fri	Sat
30 Truman Capote born (1924) Also try: Breakfast at Tiffany's The Hoover Dam dedicated by FDR (1935) Also try: hydroelectricity	1 National Bullying Prevention Month Also try: cyberbullying Nazi leaders are sentenced at the Nuremberg Trials (1946) Also try: Holocaust, war crimes Yosemite National Park established by US Congress (1890) Also try: sequoia forest World Habitat Day Also try: conservationism, ecosystems	2 World Farm Animals Day Also try: cows, horses, chickens, pigs International Day of Non-Violence Also try: non-violent revolutions, Gandhi	3 East and West Germany reunify (1990) Also try: Berlin Wall	4 Construction begins on Mount Rushmore (1927) Also try: national monuments USSR launches Sputnik I (1957) Also try: Space Race	5 The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) debuts (1970) Also try: PBS	6 Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture (1889) Also try: motion picture, film history
7 Far side of the moon first observed by Luna 3 (1959) Also try: phases of the moon, space exploration Hua Guofeng becomes Mao Zedong's successor as chairman of Communist Party of China (1976) Also try: Mao Zedong	8 The Great Chicago Fire starts (1871) Also try: fire safety Columbus Day Also try: discovering America, Spanish explorers	9 The most recent supernova observed in the Milky Way (1604) Also try: Milky Way Leif Erikson Day Also try: discovering North America	10 International Walk to School Day Also try: physical fitness Metric system conceived (1796) Also try: measurement	11 Eleanor Roosevelt born (1884) Also try: first ladies Second Boer War begins (1899) Also try: South Africa	12 Columbus lands in the Bahamas (1492) Also try: Age of Discovery, European explorers The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy published (1979) Also try: science fiction	13 Fall Astronomy Day Also try: space exploration, solar system, universe George Washington lays White House cornerstone (1792) Also try: George Washington, Washington D.C.
14 Dwight D. Eisenhower born (1890) Also try: US presidents First gay rights march on Washington, DC (1979) Also try: civil rights	15 Nelson Mandela awarded Nobel Peace Prize (1993) Also try: Nelson Mandela	16 John Brown leads raid on Harpers Ferry (1859) Also try: John Brown Noah Webster born (1758) Also try: dictionary	17 National Fossil Day Also try: archaeology, dinosaurs US Department of Education created (1979) Also try: public education Black Poetry Day Also try: African American poets	18 Moby Dick published (1851) Also try: Herman Melville, symbolism	19 Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown, Revolutionary War ends (1781) Also try: Yorktown, American Revolution Saddam Hussein goes on trial for crimes against humanity (2005) Also try: crimes against humanity, Iraq War	20 US Senate ratifies Louisiana Purchase (1803) Also try: westward expansion Sydney Opera House opens (1973) Also try: opera, Australia
21 Thomas Edison unveils light bulb (1879) Also try: Thomas Edison, electricity Ferdinand Magellan discovers Strait of Magellan (1520) Also try: Strait of Magellan National Reptile Awareness Day Also try: turtles, lizards, snakes	22 Jean-Paul Sartre awarded Nobel Prize for Literature, but turns it down (1964) Also try: existentialism, Nobel Prize Soviet unmanned space mission Venera 9 lands on Venus (1975) Also try: Venus, space exploration	23 Women's Suffrage March in New York City (1915) Also try: 19th Amendment, voting rights	24 United Nations Day Also try: diplomacy, foreign relations Annie Edson Taylor becomes first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel (1901) Also try: waterfalls	25 Pablo Picasso born (1881) Also try: cubism US invades Grenada (1983) Also try: Caribbean, Ronald Regan	26 Erie Canal opens (1825) Also try: colonial transportation Hillary Clinton born (1947) Also try: Secretary of State	27 President Theodore Roosevelt born (1858) Also try: US presidents First New York City subway opens (1904) Also try: mass transit, public transportation
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

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