April 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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Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thur	Fri	Sat
31 Easter Sunday Also try: Christianity Cesar Chavez born (1927) Also try: workers' rights First US map published (1784) Also try: cartography Eiffel Tower opens (1889) Also try: Paris, France	1 National Poetry Month begins Also try: types of poetry Financial Literacy Month begins Also try: personal finance, budgeting April Fool's Day Also try: jokes, pranks Ruins of Pompeii rediscovered (1748) Also try: Mount Vesuvius, volcanoes	2 World Autism Awareness Day Also try: asperger syndrome, learning disabilities Hans Christian Anderson born (1805) Also try: fairy tales, morals	3 National Find a Rainbow Day Also try: Roy G. Biv, visible light Jane Goodall born (1934) Also try: chimpanzees First iPad sold in the US (2010) Also try: future of technology, mobile devices	4 Maya Angelou born (1928) Also try: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, poetry NATO ratified (1949) Also try: Atlantic Alliance	5 Booker T. Washington born (1856) Also try: Atlanta Compromise Easter Island discovered (1722) Also try: Polynesia	6 Robert E. Peary and Matthew Henson reach the North Pole (1909) Also try: North Pole, arctic exploration US enters World War I (1917) Also try: Allied Powers
7 World Health Day Also try: healthy habits National Walking Day Also try: phyical fitness, wellness, exercise Billie Holiday born (1915) Also try: jazz	8 Ramadan ends, North America Also try: Islam, Muslim calendar The Buddha born (536 B.C.) Also try: Buddhism, world religions Juan Ponce de Leon born (1460) Also try: European explorers, Age of Exploration	9 General Lee surrenders at Appomattox (1865) Also try: General Lee, American Civil War First known audio recording of a human voice (1860) Also try: phonographs, sound	10 Encourage a Young Writer Day Also try: creative writing, writing prompts The Great Gatsby published (1925) Also try: Roaring Twenties, F. Scott Fitzgerald	11 National Pet Day Also try: dogs, cats, domestic animals US Navy acquires its first submarine (1900) Also try: US Navy, submersibles	12 Beverly Cleary born (1916) Also try: Ramona Quimby American Civil War begins at Fort Sumter (1861) Also try: American Civil War	13 National Scrabble Day Also try: spelling, word games Guy Fawkes born (1570) Also try: Gunpowder Plot Thomas Jefferson born (1743) Also try: Founding Fathers, US presidents
14 Webster's Dictionary published (1828) Also try: dictionary skills, vocabulary skills President Abraham Lincoln assassinated (1865) Also try: John Wilkes Booth Titanic hits iceberg (1912) Also try: iceberg	15 US Tax Day Also try: taxes, Internal Revenue Service World Art Day Also try: painting, arts and crafts, sculpture, art history Leonardo da Vinci born (1452) Also try: Renaissance art, Mona Lisa	16 Wilbur Wright born (1867) Also try: Wright brothers, airplanes, aviation Apollo 16 launched from Cape Canaveral (1972) Also try: Cape Canaveral, NASA	17 National Haiku Poetry Day Also try: Japanese poetry Ellis Island Family History Day Also try: family history, ancestors, immigration Bay of Pigs Invasion (1961) Also try: Cuban Missile Crisis	18 Paul Revere's Famous Ride (1775) Also try: American Revolution San Francisco earthquake (1906) Also try: San Andreas fault	19 Oklahoma City Bombing Commemoration Day Also try: domestic terrorism American Revolutionary War begins (1775) Also try: Lexington and Concord	20 Joan Miro born (1893) Also try: surrealism Deepwater Horizon oil rig explodes (2010) Also try: oil spills, oil rigs
21 John Muir born (1838) Also try: naturalists, national parks Rome founded (753 BC) Also try: Roman Empire, Ancient Rome	22 Earth Day Also try: environmentalism, recycle Immanuel Kant born (1724) Also try: philosophers, transcendentalism	23 William Shakespeare born (1564) Also try: Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Globe Theatre First US public school founded, Boston Latin School (1635) Also try: public education	24 Library of Congress established (1800) Also try: US Congress Hubble Telescope launched (1990) Also try: astronomy, space exploration	25 Ella Fitzgerald born (1917) Also try: jazz Bell Labs announces first silicon solar cell (1954) Also try: renewable energy, sources of energy	26 Arbor Day Also try: trees, deciduous, conifers National Richter Scale Day Also try: earthquakes, seismic waves Chernobyl disaster occurs (1986) Also try: nuclear accident, radiation	27 National Tell a Story Day Also try: story telling, oral tradition Samuel Morse born (1791) Also try: Morse code, communication technology
28 James Monroe born (1758) Also try: Founding Fathers, US presidents Harper Lee born (1926) Also try: To Kill a Mockingbird	29 International Dance Day Also try: choreography, ballet William Randolph Hearst born (1863) Also try: newspapers, yellow journalism	30 International Jazz Day Also try: Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith Louisiana Purchase (1803) Also try: US expansion	1 Asian American and Pacific Island Heritage Month begins Also try: Asian culture, multiculturalism Mental Health Awareness Month begins Also try: emotional health, wellness Physical Fitness and Sports Month begins Also try: sports, physical education National Mother Goose Day Also try: nursery rhymes	2 King Charles II gives royal charter to Hudson's Bay Company (1670) Also try: fur trade, Canadian history William Herschel discovers first binary star (1780) Also try: William Herschel, astronomers	3 World Press Freedom Day Also try: First Amendment Niccolò Machiavelli born (1469) Also try: Italian Renaissance Washington DC incorporated as a city (1802) Also try: capital cities	4 International Firefighters Day Also try: careers, jobs, public service 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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