February 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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31
Franz Schubert born (1797)
Also try:
Romantic era, composers
Jackie Robinson born (1919)
Also try:
color barrier, baseball
13th Amendment passed, slavery abolished (1865)
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1
Black History Month begins
Also try:
African American history
Langston Hughes born (1901)
Also try:
Harlem Renaissance, jazz poetry
Four black students stage the first of the Greensboro sit-ins (1960)
Also try:
civil rights movement
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2
James Joyce born (1882)
Mexican-American War ends (1848)
Also try:
annexation of Texas, Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
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3
15th Amendment ratified (1870)
Also try:
voting rights
First operational weather satellite, ESSA-1 launched in US (1966)
Also try:
meteorology
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4
Rosa Parks born (1913)
Also try:
Montgomery Bus Boycott, civil rights movement
Yalta Conference begins (1945)
Also try:
World War II
First presidential election (1789)
Also try:
Electoral College, democracy
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5
First motion picture shown in Philadelphia (1870)
Also try:
cinematography, film history
National Wildlife Federation formed (1936)
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6
President Ronald Reagan born (1911)
Also try:
US presidents
Elizabeth II becomes Queen of England (1952)
Also try:
Queen of England, constitutional monarchy
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7
Super Bowl LV
Charles Dickens born (1812)
Laura Ingalls Wilder born (1867)
Also try:
Little House on the Prairie
Sir Thomas More born (1478)
Also try:
Utopia, Renaissance
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8
Jules Verne born (1828)
Also try:
science fiction
Japan declares war on Russia (1904)
Also try:
Russo-Japanese War
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9
William G. Morgan invents the game of volleyball (1895)
Also try:
team sports
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10
Treaty of Paris ends the French and Indian War (1763)
Also try:
Treaty of Paris
IMB computer Deep Blue defeats world chess champion (1996)
Also try:
computer programs, artificial intelligence
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11
Thomas Edison born (1847)
Nelson Mandela released from prison (1990)
Also try:
apartheid, South Africa
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12
President Abraham Lincoln born (1809)
Also try:
American Civil War, Lincoln Memorial
Chinese New Year
Also try:
Lunar New Year, Chinese culture
Charles Darwin born (1809)
Also try:
theory of evolution, natural selection
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13
The Negro National League organizes (1920)
Also try:
baseball, segregation
The American Temperance Society is established in Boston (1826)
Also try:
prohibition
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14
Valentine's Day
Also try:
Saint Valentine, cupid
Chemical element 103 Lawrencium discovered (1961)
Also try:
periodic table, chemical properties
YouTube launched (2005)
Also try:
digital video, social media
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15
Presidents' Day
Also try:
US presidents
Galileo Galilei born (1564)
Also try:
Scientific Revolution, astronomy
Susan B. Anthony born (1820)
Also try:
women's suffrage, 19th Amendment
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16
Mardi Gras
Also try:
carnival masks
Howard Carter enters Pharaoh Tutankhamun's tomb (1923)
Also try:
King Tut's tomb, Tutankhamun
Fidel Castro becomes 16th Prime Minister of Cuba (1959)
Also try:
Cuba
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17
After a tie in the Electoral College, Thomas Jefferson elected president (1801)
Also try:
Electoral College, democracy
Michael Jordan born (1963)
Also try:
basketball
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18
Former planet Pluto discovered (1930)
Also try:
solar system, dwarf planets
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn first published in the US (1885)
Also try:
Mark Twain, American literature
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19
Nicolaus Copernicus born (1473)
Also try:
heliocentric model, astronomy
Battle of Iwo Jima begins (1945)
Also try:
World War II, Pacific Theater
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20
John Glenn first American to orbit Earth (1962)
Also try:
space flight, astronauts
US Postal Service formally created (1792)
Also try:
mail, postage stamps
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21
Malcolm X assassinated (1965)
Also try:
civil rights movement
Washington Monument dedicated (1885)
Also try:
George Washington, national monuments
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22
George Washington born (1732)
Also try:
US presidents
"Miracle on Ice": US men's hockey team defeats Soviet Union in Winter Olympics (1980)
Also try:
Winter Olympics, Cold War
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23
W.E.B. Du Bois born (1868)
Also try:
civil rights, NAACP
Children in Pittsburgh receive first polio vaccine (1954)
Also try:
vaccines, modern medicine
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24
Steve Jobs is born (1955)
Also try:
entrepreneur
US House of Representatives vote to impeach President Andrew Johnson (1868)
Also try:
impeachment, checks and balances
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25
Digital Learning Day
Also try:
education technology
Anthony Burgess born (1917)
Also try:
A Clockwork Orange, dystopia
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26
Victor Hugo born (1802)
Also try:
Les Miserables
Grand Teton National Park established (1929)
Also try:
National Park Service, Calvin Coolidge
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27
John Steinbeck born (1902)
Also try:
The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow born (1807)
Also try:
lyric poetry
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28
DNA structure discovered (1953)
Also try:
double helix, genetics
National Tooth Fairy Day
Also try:
dental hygiene
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1
Women's History Month begins
Also try:
women's rights, gender equality
Yellowstone becomes world's first national park (1872)
Also try:
national parks
Salem Witch Trials begin (1692)
Also try:
the Crucible
Frederic Chopin born (1810)
Also try:
Romantic era
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2
Read Across America Day
Also try:
literature, reading skills
Dr. Seuss born (1904)
Also try:
Seuss political cartoons, Green Eggs and Ham
Republic of Texas declares independence from Mexico (1836)
Also try:
The Alamo
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3
Alexander Graham Bell born (1847)
"The Star-Spangled Banner" becomes national anthem (1931)
Also try:
national anthem
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4
National Grammar Day
Antonio Lucio Vivaldi born (1678)
Also try:
Baroque period
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5
The Boston Massacre (1770)
Also try:
American Revolution
Stapler patented in England by C.H. Gould (1868)
Also try:
school supplies, inventions
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6
Michelangelo born (1475)
Also try:
Renaissance art, sculpture
Decision reached in the Dred Scott case (1857)
Also try:
Missouri Compromise, slavery
Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table of elements (1869)
Also try:
Dmitri Mendeleev, periodic trends
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