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 for November 2026 showing educational events and resources
Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
November 1, 2026 Native American & Alaska Native Heritage Month begins Also try: heritage, ancestors European Union comes into existence (1993) Also try: Europe Daylight Saving Time ends, Standard Time begins Also try: time zones	November 2, 2026 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	November 3, 2026 Chevrolet Motor Car Company incoporated (1911) Also try: automobile industry, transportation Linus Pauling wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1954) Also try: chemical bonds, biochemistry	November 4, 2026 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	November 5, 2026 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	November 6, 2026 Inventor of basketball, James Naismith, born (1861) Also try: James Naismith The Bolshevik Revolution begins in Russia (1917) Also try: Russian Revolution, Vladimir Lenin	November 7, 2026 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
November 8, 2026 Wilhelm Roentgen discovers x-rays (1895) Also try: electromagnetic spectrum, Wilhelm Roentgen National STEM/STEAM Day Also try: engineering, science experiments	November 9, 2026 Carl Sagan born (1934) Also try: astronomy, cosmology Kristallnacht begins (1938) Also try: Holocaust	November 10, 2026 Sesame Street debuts on PBS (1969) Also try: puppets Great Wall of China opens for tourism (1970) Also try: Ming Dynasty, Chinese history	November 11, 2026 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	November 12, 2026 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	November 13, 2026 World Kindness Day Also try: compassion, character education Vietnam Veterans' Memorial dedicated (1982) Also try: Vietnam War	November 14, 2026 Claude Monet born (1840) Also try: impressionism, famous painters Treasure Island first published as a book (1883) Also try: Robert Louis Stevenson
November 15, 2026 America Recycles Day Also try: recycled art, conservationism Georgia O'Keeffe born (1887) Also try: painting flowers, artists	November 16, 2026 International Day for Tolerance Also try: character education Federal Reserve Bank opens for business (1914) Also try: central banking, financial literacy	November 17, 2026 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	November 18, 2026 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	November 19, 2026 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	November 20, 2026 Edwin Hubble born (1889) Also try: Hubble telescope Garrett Morgan receives US patent for a traffic signal (1923) Also try: automobiles, inventions	November 21, 2026 Voltaire born (1694) Also try: Enlightenment, philosophers Judas Maccabeus restores Jewish Temple in Jerusalem (164 BC) Also try: Judaism
November 22, 2026 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 Family Volunteer Day Also try: community service	November 23, 2026 Fibonacci Day Also try: Golden Ratio, mathematicians Of Mice and Men debuts on Broadway (1937) Also try: John Steinbeck, Broadway plays	November 24, 2026 Zachary Taylor born (1784) Also try: US presidents Origin of Species published (1859) Also try: Charles Darwin, evolution	November 25, 2026 Andrew Carnegie born (1835) Also try: philanthropy, charity Thirty-five Amistad survivors return to Africa (1841) Also try: slavery	November 26, 2026 Charles Shultz born (1922) Also try: Charlie Brown, cartoonists Alice in Wonderland first published in America (1865) Also try: Lewis Carroll, fantasy genre Thanksgiving Also try: turkey, gratitude	November 27, 2026 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	November 28, 2026 William Blake born (1757) Also try: Romantic Age, poets First pulsar observed (1967) Also try: neutron stars, cosmic rays National Native American Heritage Day Also try: ancestors
November 29, 2026 Louisa May Alcott born (1832) Also try: Little Women C.S. Lewis born (1898) Also try: The Chronicles of Narnia	November 30, 2026 Mark Twain born (1835) Also try: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Winston Churchill born (1874) Also try: British prime ministers	December 1, 2026	December 2, 2026	December 3, 2026	December 4, 2026	December 5, 2026

Jump to another Curriculum Calendar Month:

November Curriculum Calendar - Lesson Plan Ideas by Date

Curriculum Calendar

Jump to another month