January Calendar Nuggets


Wheat Bread Month & Bread Machine Baking Month - invite a baker to class; make bread; study wheat...where is it grown, etc.; find what kind of jobs are connected to wheat; survey family & friends and chart the favorite kinds of breads; explore how bread machines work; write stories or poems about bread and bread making

National Soup Month - make a list of soups, poll classes or family as to favorites and graph the results; evaluate and compare the nutritional content of soup labels; write poems, stories about soups; make soup; collect soup recipes and make a class cookbook

National Whale Watching Month
National Marine Mammal Laboratory
WhaleTimes Seabed
Whales
Whale Songs
WhaleNet
Southern Australian Whale Centre

National Eagle Watch Month
American Bald Eagle Information
American Bald Eagle Foundation
The Bald Eagle - Nebraska's Winter Visitors
Bald Eagle
Bald Eagle Info
US Fish & Wildlife Society's Bald Eagle Info
Bald Eagles: An American Success Story
The Southern Bald Eagle

January 1, 1735 - Paul Revere's birthday - Paul Revere: An American Patriot (includes worksheet activity); The Real Midnight Ride: Timeline of Events & Graphic Organizer to compare & contrast Paul Revere's Ride with the factual account; Midnight Rider: A Paul Revere Virtual Museum; Paul Revere's Other Ride; Paul's Story
January 1, 1752 - Betsy Ross & the American Flag
January 1, 1863 - First recorded Bowling Match
January 1, 1892 - Ellis Island opened

January 2, 1879 - Birthday of Swan Frittea, inventor of the Eskimo Pie
January 2, 1788 - Georgia Becomes a State
January 2, 1870 - Construction began on the Brooklyn Bridge -
January 2, 1974 - President Richard Nixon signed a measure setting highway speeds at 55 mph maximum.

January 3, 1871 - Margarine patented
January 3, 1888 - Waxed Paper Drinking Straw patented by Marvin Stone
January 3, 1892 - J. R. R. Tolkein's Birthday
January 3, 1959 - Alaska admitted to the Union as the 49th state

January 4, 1809 - Louis Braille's Birthday - Louis Braille Biography; The Braille Alphabet - The Story of Louis Braille
January 4, 1643 - Sir Isaac Newton's Birthday
January 4, 1785 - Jacob Grimm's Birthday
January 4, 1887 - Thomas Stevens arrived in San Francisco, CA, completing the first around the world bicycle trip. Bicycle Museum

January 5, 1864 - Birthday of Scientist George Washington Carver

January 6, 1681 - First recorded boxing match (Duke of Albemarle's butler vs. his butcher)
January 6, 1759 - George Washington marries Martha Dandridge Curtis
January 6, 1838 - Samuel Morse made first public demonstration of telegraph
January 6, 1878 - Birthday of  Carl Sandburg
January 6, 1893 - Great Northern Railway connects Seattle with East Coast
January 6, 1912 - New Mexico becomes 47th state
January 6, 1914 - Stock brokerage firm of Merrill Lynch founded
January 6, 1930 - First diesel engine automobile trip (in a Packard sedan) completed
January 6, 1941 - FDR's "4 Freedoms" speech (speech, worship, from want, and from fear)
January 6, 1942 - First around world flight (Pan Am "Pacific Clipper")
January 6, 1945 - Future President George Bush married Barbara Pierce in Rye, NY
January 6, 1958 - Gibson patents the Flying V Guitar
January 6, 1987 - 100th US Congress convenes

January 7, 1782 - First U.S. Commercial Bank
January 7, 1800 - Millard Fillmore, 13th president, born in New York

January 8, 1935 -  Elvis Presley's birthday
January 8, 1673 - Federal Postal Service began with deliveries between New York & Boston.

January 9, 1913 - Richard Nixon, 37th president, Born in California
January 9 - Aviation Day in US - 1st Balloon Flight in 1793
January 9, 1929 - First School for Seeing Eye Dogs  established - Scroll down for a wonderful story

January 10, 1845 - Poets Elizabeth Barrett & Robert Browning began corresponding; Victorian Web: The Relationship of Elizabeth Barrett Browning & Robert Browning
January 10, 1920 - League of Nations formed
January 10, 1946 - First Meeting of the United Nations General Assembly
January 10, 1911 - First Aerial Photograph taken

January 11, 1935 - Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly solo from Hawaii to California.
January 11 - International Thank-You Day
January 11 - National Clean Off Your Desk Day

January 12, 1876 - Author Jack London's birthday; Jack London International
January 12, 1990 - Hattie Wyatt Caraway of Arkansas became the first woman elected to the Senate.

January 13, 1957 - Frisbee introduced by Wham-O
January 13, 1826 - Birthday of Stephen Foster, composer (My Old Kentucky Home, Beautiful Dreamer, Camptown Races, Sewanee River, more); Center for American Music
January 13, 1990 - Douglas Wilder was inaugurated in Virginia, becoming the nation's first African-American governor.

January 14, 1784 - Revolutionary War ended - Treaty of Paris
January 14, 1875 - Albert Schweitzer's birthday - Albert Schweitzer Association
January 6, 1898 - Queen Victoria made the first ever phone call in Britain.
January 14, 1914 - Henry Ford's first automobile assembly line went into operation.

January 15, 1892 - Basketball's official birthday
January 15, 1967 - First Super Bowl played

 Martin Luther King - Collection of resources from United Streaming
January 15, 1929 - Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday
Martin Luther King, Jr. & the Power of Nonviolence  - Grades 6-8 Lesson
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project - Grades 3-12 Lesson
Court Documents Related to Martin Luther King, Jr. & Memphis Sanitation Workers - Grades 5-12 Lesson
Depression & World War II: Progress Through Peace - Grades 3-8; describes life of MLK
The Life and Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. - Grades 3-5 Lesson
Let Freedom Ring: The Life & Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. - Grades 3-5 Lesson
Dr. King's Dream - Grades K-2
Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Power of Nonviolence - Grades 6-8 Lesson
Martin Luther King Day - Grades 6-12 Lesson
I Have a Dream Found Word Mover - Grades 3-8 - Interactive - Students move the words of the speech to create a found  poem. This interactive activity accompanies this lesson: How Big Are Martin's Bug Words? Thinking About the Future
Ordinary People, Ordinary Places: The Civil Rights Movement - Grades 9-12 Lesson
MLK Milestones from Crayola - Primary Grades - You must register, but it's free.
Letter from a Birmingham Jail - Grades 6-12 Lesson
The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. - Grades 3-12 - Online Comic Book from the Illustrated History Magazine Series
MLK and the Civil Rights Movement from The Seattle Times (includes student essays, class conversations, biography, timeline, study guide, quizzes, resources)

Benjamin Franklin
January 17, 1706 - Birth of Benjamin Franklin, US Statesman & Philosopher
Jefferson vs. Franklin: Revolutionary Philosophers - Grades 6-8 Lesson
Benjamin Franklin: American Inventor - Read about him, then take the quiz.
Benjamin Franklin: Glimpses of a Man
Ben Franklin Scavenger Hunt

January 17, 1919 - Popeye the Sailorman Debuts in the "Thimble Theatre" Comic Strip
January 17, 1942 - Muhammad Ali's  birthday
January 17, 1945 - End of Nazi Occupation; Holocaust and Resistance - Grades 9-12; U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
January 17 - National Hat Day

January 18, 1882 - Birthday of A. A. Milne, children's author & creator of Winnie the Pooh
January 18, 1778 - British Capt. James Cook discovers the Hawaiian Islands, which he calls the Sandwich Islands.

January 19, 1809 - Birth of Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, and the Unreliable Narrator - Grades 6-8
January 19 - Penguin Awareness Day
January 19 - National Popcorn Day

January 21, 1824 - Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson's birthday

January 21 - National Hugging Day

January 22 - Chinese New Year; Chinese New Year Lessons from TeacherVision
January 22 - National Compliment Day

January 23 - National Handwriting Day - Practice!
January 23 - National Pie Day

January 24, 1848 - John Marshall discovered gold in California and the Gold Rush began.
January 24, 1908 - Sir Robert Baden-Powell organized the First Boy Scout Troop in England.
January 24, 1920 - Eskimo Pie was invented by Christian Nelson.

January 25, 1905 - World's Largest Diamond found
January 25, 1915 - Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas A. Watson made the First Transcontinental Telephone Call between New York and San Francisco.
January 25, 1851 - Sojourner Truth addresses 1st Black Women's Rights Convention; Portrait of a Hero - Grades K-2

January 25, 1924 - First Winter Olympics; Winter Olympics Lessons from TeacherVision
January 25 - Popcorn Day

January 26 - Australia Day - Facts & Lessons from Surfin' the Net with Kids; Teaching Resources
January 26, 1996 - Responding to a subpoena, Hillary Rodham Clinton testifies before a grand jury investigating Whitewater, the first time a first lady ever did so.

January 27, 1880 - Thomas Edison Receives Patent for Electric Lamp
January 27, 1832 - Lewis Carroll born; A Trip to Wonderland - Grades K-2; Childhood Through the Looking Glass - Grades 6-8

January 27, 1926 - Television was born
January 27 -  Mozart's Birthday ; TeacherPlanet.com Resources - Lessons, Units, Clip Art,  Webquests, Audio Files
The Mozart Project

January 28 - Educator Christa McAuliffe Day
January 28, 1986 - Space Shuttle Challenger Explodes, Killing 7 Astronauts

January 29, 1886 - First Gasoline Powered Car Made by Karl Benz
January 29, 1900 - American Baseball League formed
January 29, 1963 - Robert Frost, US Poet, Died; Poems that tell a Story: Narrative and Persona in the Poetry of Robert Frost - Grades 6-8

January 29 - National Puzzle Day - In 1913 the New York World published the first-ever crossword.
Scrambler  - Scroll down and select Scrambler.
Internet Coach Puzzle Center
UpToTen.com - 600 games & activities
Discovery School's Puzzlemaker
Math Goodies Puzzle Library
Puzzles from TeacherPlanet - all types of puzzles; teaching with puzzles
Jigzone
SuperKids Word Scrambler
Weather Puzzles

January 30, 1568 - The Stock Exchange was born (called The Royal Exchange)
January 30, 1882 - Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd US President, born; Franklin D. Roosevelt
Worth a Thousand Words: Depression-Era Photographs - Grades 9-12
January 30, 1915 - Congress Created the US Coast Guard
January 30, 1933 - "The Lone Ranger" Radio Show  premiered

January 31, 1599 - London's famous Globe Theater was founded
January 31, 1865 - Congress passed 13th Amendment abolishing slavery in US. Freedmen & Southern Society Project; Families in Bondage - Grades 9-12 Lesson
January 31, 1947 - Nolan Ryan, baseball player's birthday
January 31, 1919 - Jackie Robinson, birthday of first black man to play major league baseball
January 31, 1961 - A chimpanzee named Ham traveled into space & returned.
January 31, 1797 - Franz Schubert, famous composer's birthday; his music from the Classical Music Library.