April 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 for April 2026 showing educational events and resources
Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
March 29, 2026	March 30, 2026	March 31, 2026	April 1, 2026 National Poetry Month begins Also try: types of poetry Financial Literacy Month begins Also try: personal finance, budgeting April Fool's Day Also try: jokes, pranks Ruins of Pompeii rediscovered (1748) Also try: Mount Vesuvius, volcanoes	April 2, 2026 World Autism Awareness Day Also try: asperger syndrome, learning disabilities Hans Christian Anderson born (1805) Also try: fairy tales, morals	April 3, 2026 National Find a Rainbow Day Also try: Roy G. Biv, visible light Jane Goodall born (1934) Also try: chimpanzees First iPad sold in the US (2010) Also try: future of technology, mobile devices	April 4, 2026 Maya Angelou born (1928) Also try: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, poetry NATO ratified (1949) Also try: Atlantic Alliance
April 5, 2026 Booker T. Washington born (1856) Also try: Atlanta Compromise Easter Island discovered (1722) Also try: Polynesia Easter Sunday (Western Christian) Also try: Christianity	April 6, 2026 Robert E. Peary and Matthew Henson reach the North Pole (1909) Also try: North Pole, arctic exploration US enters World War I (1917) Also try: Allied Powers	April 7, 2026 World Health Day Also try: healthy habits National Walking Day Also try: phyical fitness, wellness, exercise Billie Holiday born (1915) Also try: jazz	April 8, 2026 The Buddha born (536 B.C.) Also try: Buddhism, world religions Juan Ponce de Leon born (1460) Also try: European explorers, Age of Exploration	April 9, 2026 General Lee surrenders at Appomattox (1865) Also try: General Lee, American Civil War First known audio recording of a human voice (1860) Also try: phonographs, sound	April 10, 2026 Encourage a Young Writer Day Also try: creative writing, writing prompts The Great Gatsby published (1925) Also try: Roaring Twenties, F. Scott Fitzgerald	April 11, 2026 National Pet Day Also try: dogs, cats, domestic animals US Navy acquires its first submarine (1900) Also try: US Navy, submersibles
April 12, 2026 Beverly Cleary born (1916) Also try: Ramona Quimby American Civil War begins at Fort Sumter (1861) Also try: American Civil War	April 13, 2026 National Scrabble Day Also try: spelling, word games Guy Fawkes born (1570) Also try: Gunpowder Plot Thomas Jefferson born (1743) Also try: Founding Fathers, US presidents	April 14, 2026 Webster's Dictionary published (1828) Also try: dictionary skills, vocabulary skills President Abraham Lincoln assassinated (1865) Also try: John Wilkes Booth Titanic hits iceberg (1912) Also try: iceberg	April 15, 2026 US Tax Day Also try: taxes, Internal Revenue Service World Art Day Also try: painting, arts and crafts, sculpture, art history Leonardo da Vinci born (1452) Also try: Renaissance art, Mona Lisa	April 16, 2026 Wilbur Wright born (1867) Also try: Wright brothers, airplanes, aviation Apollo 16 launched from Cape Canaveral (1972) Also try: Cape Canaveral, NASA	April 17, 2026 National Haiku Poetry Day Also try: Japanese poetry Ellis Island Family History Day Also try: family history, ancestors, immigration Bay of Pigs Invasion (1961) Also try: Cuban Missile Crisis	April 18, 2026 Paul Revere's Famous Ride (1775) Also try: American Revolution San Francisco earthquake (1906) Also try: San Andreas fault
April 19, 2026 Oklahoma City Bombing Commemoration Day Also try: domestic terrorism American Revolutionary War begins (1775) Also try: Lexington and Concord	April 20, 2026 Joan Miro born (1893) Also try: surrealism Deepwater Horizon oil rig explodes (2010) Also try: oil spills, oil rigs	April 21, 2026 John Muir born (1838) Also try: naturalists, national parks Rome founded (753 BC) Also try: Roman Empire, Ancient Rome	April 22, 2026 Earth Day Also try: environmentalism, recycle Immanuel Kant born (1724) Also try: philosophers, transcendentalism	April 23, 2026 William Shakespeare born (1564) Also try: Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Globe Theatre First US public school founded, Boston Latin School (1635) Also try: public education	April 24, 2026 Library of Congress established (1800) Also try: US Congress Hubble Telescope launched (1990) Also try: astronomy, space exploration	April 25, 2026 Ella Fitzgerald born (1917) Also try: jazz Bell Labs announces first silicon solar cell (1954) Also try: renewable energy, sources of energy Arbor Day Also try: trees, deciduous, conifers
April 26, 2026 National Richter Scale Day Also try: earthquakes, seismic waves Chernobyl disaster occurs (1986) Also try: nuclear accident, radiation	April 27, 2026 National Tell a Story Day Also try: story telling, oral tradition Samuel Morse born (1791) Also try: Morse code, communication technology	April 28, 2026 James Monroe born (1758) Also try: Founding Fathers, US presidents Harper Lee born (1926) Also try: To Kill a Mockingbird	April 29, 2026 International Dance Day Also try: choreography, ballet William Randolph Hearst born (1863) Also try: newspapers, yellow journalism	April 30, 2026 International Jazz Day Also try: Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith Louisiana Purchase (1803) Also try: US expansion	May 1, 2026	May 2, 2026

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