June 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
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	27 Memorial Day Also try: US military, war heroes The Queen Mary takes maiden voyage (1936) Also try: passenger ships Golden Gate Bridge opens (1937) Also try: suspension bridges, San Fransisco	28 Amnesty International Day Also try: human rights, justice Jim Thorpe born (1888) Also try: athletes	29 Learn About Composting Day Also try: soil, gardening John F. Kennedy born (1917) Also try: US presidents Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reach Mount Everest summit (1953) Also try: Everest expedition, mountains	30 National Creativity Day Also try: imagination, inventions Lincoln Memorial dedicated (1922) Also try: Abraham Lincoln	31 World No Tobacco Day Also try: cigarettes, healthy habits Walt Whitman born (1819) Also try: poetry	1 Audiobook Month Begins Also try: listening skills, literature National Pen Pal Day Also try: friendly letters, friendship
2 The Vandals sack Rome (455) Also try: Ancient Rome, Roman Empire Snyder Act is passed, granting US citizenship to Native Americans (1924) Also try: Native Americans	3 Ed White conducts first US spacewalk (1965) Also try: Space Race, space travel Casey at the Bat published (1888) Also try: baseball, poetry	4 The first Pulitzer Prize is awarded (1917) Also try: journalism, literature, musical composition 19th Amendment passed (1919) Also try: women's suffrage, voting rights	5 World Environment Day Also try: conservationism, environmentalism Robert F. Kennedy assassinated (1968) Also try: the Kennedys	6 US storms Normandy beaches, D-Day (1944) Also try: Normandy, World War II	7 Vatican City becomes a sovereign state (1929) Also try: Catholicism, popes US defeats Japan at the Battle of Midway (1942) Also try: Pacific theater, World War II	8 World Oceans Day Also try: hydrosphere, marine animals Frank Lloyd Wright born (1867) Also try: architecture 1984 published (1949) Also try: dystopia, George Orwell
9 Roman Emperor Nero dies (68) Also try: Ancient Rome Donald Duck is "born" (1934) Also try: cartoons, Walt Disney	10 Maurice Sendak born (1928) Also try: Where the Wild Things Are Benjamin Franklin's kite struck by lightning (1752) Also try: lightning, electricity	11 Great Barrier Reef discovered (1770) Also try: Natural Wonders of the World, Australia, coral Jacques Cousteau born (1910) Also try: marine conservation	12 George H. W. Bush born (1924) Also try: US presidents Anne Frank born (1929) Also try: Holocaust, World War II	13 William Butler Yeats born (1865) Also try: poetry, Irish literature China's Boxer Rebellion begins (1900) Also try: nationalism, Chinese history Supreme Court decison on Miranda v. Arizona establishes Miranda rights (1966) Also try: Supreme Court decisions	14 Flag Day Also try: US flags First Caldecott Medal awarded (1938) Also try: children's books	15 Global Wind Day Also try: wind energy, wind turbines, weather patterns Magna Carta signed (1215) Also try: rule of law
16 Father's Day Also try: fathers, families "House Divided" speech delivered (1858) Also try: Abraham Lincoln New Deal program approved by Congress (1933) Also try: FDR, Great Depression	17 M.C. Escher born (1898) Also try: tessellation, graphic art Statue of Liberty arrives in New York (1885) Also try: New York City	18 International Sushi Day Also try: Japanese food, seafood War of 1812 begins (1812) Also try: military conflict Napoleon defeated at Waterloo (1815) Also try: Waterloo	19 Juneteenth (Slave Liberation Day) (1865) Also try: Slave Liberation Day Blaise Pascal born (1623) Also try: Pascal's Law, mathematicians	20 Summer Solstice Also try: four seasons, axial tilt World Refugee Day Also try: human rights NAACP incorporates (1911) Also try: civil rights, racial equality The asteroid Eureka discovered (1990) Also try: space science	21 Japanese forces on Okinawa surrender to US (1945) Also try: Pacific theater, World War II	22 World Rainforest Day Also try: ecosystems, Amazon US Department of Justice established (1870) Also try: law enforcement, federal government
23 United Nations Public Service Day Also try: United Nations Frederick Douglass is first African American to receive nomination for US president (1888) Also try: US president, elections	24 John Cabot lands in North America (1497) Also try: Age of Exploration, Italian explorers First documented UFO sighting (1947) Also try: extraterrestrials, science fiction	25 Eric Carle born (1929) Also try: The Very Hungry Caterpillar Battle of Little Bighorn fought (1876) Also try: Custer's Last Stand First color television broadcast (1951) Also try: 1950s, mass communication	26 Bicycle patented in the US (1819) Also try: bike safety, inventions 50 nations sign United Nations Charter in San Francisco (1945) Also try: international relations	27 Helen Keller born (1880) Also try: famous women, women's suffrage "Happy Birthday" song composed (1859) Also try: birthday traditions	28 Paul Bunyan Day Also try: tall tales, folktales King Henry VIII born (1491) Also try: King of England, monarchy	29 The Globe Theatre burns to the ground (1613) Also try: Shakespeare, London First iPhone released (2007) Also try: cell phones, modern technology
30 National Meteor Day Also try: astronomy Gone with the Wind published (1936) Also try: American Civil War	1 Canada Day Also try: Quebec, Yukon Territory Battle of Gettysburg (1863) Also try: American Civil War, Gettysburg Address	2 First steam engine patented (1698) Also try: Thomas Savery Civil Rights Act passed after 83-day filibuster (1964) Also try: filibuster, legislative process	3 John Singleton Copley born (1738) Also try: portrait artist, colonial New England Dow Jones and Company publishes first stock average (1884) Also try: stock market	4 US Independence Day Also try: Fourth of July, Declaration of Independence Supernova detected within the constellation Taurus (1054) Also try: constellations	5 First recorded sighting of a tornado in the US (1643) Also try: natural disasters, severe weather Isaac Newton's Principia published (1687) Also try: Issac Newton The Law of Return is passed allowing Jewish people to return to Israel (1950) Also try: Israel-Palestine Conflict Successful cloning of Dolly the sheep (1996) Also try: cloning, DNA	6 President George W. Bush born (1946) Also try: US president, elections Republican Party formed (1854) Also try: political parties, democracy

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