Units By Event/Date

If you are looking for an idea for a specific day of the year, here are our units arranged by date. You may also be interested in our Holiday Helps.

January

3 – alaskan flag Alaska became a state

17 – USAF flying over buring kuwait oil fields Operation Desert Storm began

18 – A. A. Milne born (Winnie-the-Pooh)

26 – kangaroo crossing sign Australia Day commemorating first ship landing to colonize Australia

27 – Incandescent light bulb patented by Thomas Edison

February

2 – giant wooden groundhog Groundhog Day

3 – abandoned wagon Horace Greeley born (westward expansion)

7 – laura ingalls wilder photo Laura Ingalls Wilder born (Little House on the Prairie series)

10 – cover tales from shakespeare Charles Lamb born (Shakespeare introduction)

17 – First ship makes transit of the Suez Canal

24 – roman clock face Gregorian calendar declared official by Pope Gregory XIII

March

sled team 1st Saturday – Iditarod

3 – mt rushmore Mt. Rushmore Memorial Commission authorized

7 – south pole station Amundsen announced he had reached the South Pole.

10 – Alexander Graham Bell transmitted first words over a telephone

15 – maine flag Maine became a state

17 – vanguard 1 photo First Vanguard satellite launched

20 – equinox illustration The spring equinox

21 – portrait of bach Johann Sebastian Bach born

24 – Fanny Crosby born

29 – oil pump Edwin Drake born (oil well)

31 – Eiffel Tower dedicated

April

7 – dominoes Domino Theory articulated in a speech by Eisenhower

11 – 10-year sun photo montage German astronomer Samuel Heinrich Schwabe died (solar cycles)

14 – American Dictionary of the English Language completed by Webster

18 – san andreas fault Great San Fransisco earthquake

21 – spanish-american war naval battle Spanish-American war

22 – "The Oklahoma Land Rush, April 22, 1889" by John Steuart Curry First Oklahoma land rush

audubon print 26 – John James Audubon born (birds)

28 – signing of treaty Treaty of San Fransisco ends World War II

May

2 – leonardo da vinci self portrait Leonardo da Vinci dies

5 – portrait napoleon Napoleon dies

10 – Golden Spike ceremony for the first transcontinental railroad

edwar lear photo 12 – Edward Lear born (limericks)

16 – skyscraper Irving Washington Colburn born (glass)

mt saint helens 18 – Mount St. Helens erupts (volcanoes)

comet 19 – Earth passes through the tail of Halley’s comet

26 – montana state flag Territory of Montana created

June

2 – coronation portrait of queen elizabeth ii Queen Elizabeth II coronation

9 – cartier Cartier discovers the St. Lawrence River

14 – flag Flag Day

16 – dam US Army Corp of Engineers established

28 – wwi poster The Beginning of World War I

July

4 – Stephen Meek Born (Oregon Trail)

5 – secret service badge The Secret Service created

13 – marconi Marconi receives U.S. Patent for wireless telegraphy

20 – apollo 11 patch Men first land on the moon

August

9 – smokey bear - only YOU Smokey Bear created (fire & fire safety)

September

7 – grandma moses photo Grandma Moses born

20 – delaware state flag State Constitution of Delaware adopted and put into effect

October

20 – Lee de Forest First triode vacuum tube demonstrated

24 – anton van leeuwenhoek portrait Anton van Leeuwenhoek born (microscopes)

November

First Tuesday (every four years) – vote Presidential election

1 – ivy mike First hydrogen bomb detonated

15 – pike's peak Pike first sights Pike’s Peak

Units not tied to a date

cover cedric the forester Cedric the Forester (book study/knights and castles)

illustration from fox and grapes Fox and the Grapes

little gardener Gardening

running horse The Horse

cover the little red hen Little Red Hen (book study)

world globe in grass Our Wonderful World (nature studies)

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