November 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
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: Liberty Island, New York City National Prohibition Act goes into effect (1919) Also try: Volstead Act, speakeasies Cuban Missile Crisis ends (1962) Also try: Cold War, Soviet Union, Cuba	29 Stock Market crashes, "Black Tuesday" (1929) Also try: Great Depression, stock market crash First ARPANET link established, precursor to the Internet (1969) Also try: computer networks, technology	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 Seven Billion Day: global population reaches 7,000,000,000 (2011) Also try: population growth	1 American Indian & Alaska Native Heritage Month begins Also try: heritage, ancestors 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 Daylight Saving Time ends, Standard Time begins Also try: time zones 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 The Bolshevik Revolution begins in Russia (1917) Also try: Russian Revolution, Vladimir Lenin	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 Origami Day Also try: Japanese culture, arts and crafts World War I Armistice signed (1918) Also try: Woodrow Wilson, Fourteen Points	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, famous painters 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 International Day for Tolerance Also try: character education Federal Reserve Bank opens for business (1914) Also try: central banking, financial literacy
17 Elizabethan era begins: Queen Mary I of England dies (1558) Also try: Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Mary I Suez Canal opens in Egypt (1869) Also try: Egypt	18 US and Canada adopt a system of standard time zones (1883) Also try: Earth's rotation Push-botton phones used for the first time (1963) Also try: telecommunications	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 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 Family Volunteer Day Also try: community service Fibonacci Day Also try: Golden Ratio, mathematicians Of Mice and Men debuts on Broadway (1937) Also try: John Steinbeck, Broadway plays
24 Zachary Taylor born (1784) Also try: US presidents Origin of Species published (1859) Also try: Charles Darwin, evolution	25 Andrew Carnegie born (1835) Also try: philanthropy, charity Thirty-five Amistad survivors return to Africa (1841) Also try: slavery	26 Charles Shultz born (1922) Also try: Charlie Brown, cartoonists Alice in Wonderland first published in America (1865) Also try: Lewis Carroll, fantasy genre	27 Anders Celsius born (1701) Also try: temperature, thermometer Bill Nye born (1955) Also try: science education Atmosphere discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris (2001) Also try: atmosphere, Hubble Space Telescope	28 Thanksgiving Also try: turkey, gratitude William Blake born (1757) Also try: Romantic Age, poets First pulsar observed (1967) Also try: neutron stars, cosmic rays	29 National Native American Heritage Day Also try: ancestors Louisa May Alcott born (1832) Also try: Little Women C.S. Lewis born (1898) Also try: The Chronicles of Narnia	30 Mark Twain born (1835) Also try: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Winston Churchill born (1874) Also try: British prime ministers

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