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July 2018

July is “National Picnic Month”

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Sun. Jul. 1

Canada Day (Canada)

Take a quiz on Canada.

Mon. Jul. 2

Ancestry Day, Haiti

Make a family tree.

Halfway Point of the Year

Learn about the fraction 1/2

Vermont became the first colony to abolish slavery, 1777

Take a quiz on the geography of Vermont.

Tue. Jul. 3

Idaho became a state, 1890

Read a page on Idaho, then take a quiz.

Wed. Jul. 4

Independence Day (US)

Make a July 4th activity book.

Thu. Jul. 5

National Day of Venezuela

Color the countries of South America.

Fri. Jul. 6

National Day of Malawi

Label the countries of Africa.

Last Quarter Moon

7:51 AM GMT

Read about the moon, then take a quiz.

Aphelion Day

4:47 PM GMT

The Earth is at its farthest distance from the Sun. Label an orbital diagram.

George W. Bush born, 1946

Take a quiz on President Bush.

Sat. Jul. 7

Hawaiian Island Kingdom annexed by the US, 1898

Take a quiz on the map of Hawaii.

Camillo Golgi (biologist) born, 1843

Label a cell.

Sun. Jul. 8

The first American passport was issued, 1796

Make a book about yourself.

Mon. Jul. 9

Britain proclaimed that the Australian colonies would be united (as of January 1, 1901) as the Commonwealth of Australia, 1900

Label a map of Australia.

Tue. Jul. 10

Boris Yeltsin sworn in as Russia's first elected President, 1991

Label a map of Russia.

Wyoming became a state, 1890

Read a page on Wyoming, then take a quiz.

Wed. Jul. 11

Skylab, USA's 1st space station, fell to Earth; pieces scattered from the SE Indian Ocean to Western Australia, 1979

Label a map of the Earth, marking where pieces of Skylab fell.

James Abbott McNeil Whistler (artist) born, 1834

Color a painting by Whistler.

Thu. Jul. 12

R. Buckminster Fuller born, 1895

Make polyhedra.

Fri. Jul. 13

Partial Solar Eclipse

2:48 AM GMT

Read about solar eclipses, then label a solar eclipse diagram.

New Moon

2:48 AM GMT

Read about the phases of the moon, and then label the phases on a worksheet.

Queen Victoria became the first monarch to live in Buckingham Palace, 1837

Make a castle from a cardboard box.

Friday the 13th

Sat. Jul. 14

Bastille Day, France

Color a French flag and take a quiz.

Sun. Jul. 15

Rembrandt Van Rijn (artist) born, 1606

Draw your self-portrait and describe yourself.

Mon. Jul. 16

Roald Amundsen (explorer) born, 1872

Read about Amundsen, then take a quiz on his adventures.

Tue. Jul. 17

Constitution Day, South Korea

Read about, color, and take a quiz on the South Korean flag.

The first U.S. dental school (at Harvard Univ.) was established, 1867

Take a quiz on teeth.

Wed. Jul. 18

John Glenn (astronaut) born, 1921

Do a cloze activity on Glenn.

Rolihlahla (Nelson) Mandela (activist, President of South Africa) born, 1918

Do an activity on Nelson Mandela.

Thu. Jul. 19

First Quarter Moon

7:52 PM GMT

Take an interactive quiz on the moon.

Stick Out Your Tongue Day

Label the tongue.

Fri. Jul. 20

First Moon Landing (Apollo 11), 1969

Read about the moon, then take a quiz.

Unmanned US Viking 1 landed on Mars and took the first photographs from the Martian surface, 1976

Take a quiz on Mars.

Sat. Jul. 21

Independence Day, Belgium

Read about, color, and take a quiz on the Belgian flag.

New Hampshire became a state, 1788

Read a page on New Hampshire, then take a quiz.

Sun. Jul. 22

Alexander Calder (artist) born, 1898

Read a page on Calder, then make your own mobile.

Mon. Jul. 23

The International Whaling Commission voted for a total ban on commercial whaling, 1982 (which took effect in 1985)

Label a whale.

Tue. Jul. 24

Simon Bolivar born, 1783

Label South America.

Wed. Jul. 25

Svetlana Savitskaya was the first woman to walk in space, 1984

Read about firsts in space, then take a quiz.

Thu. Jul. 26

Liberia's Flag Adopted, 1847

Color the flag of Liberia and take a quiz.

Carl Jung (psychoanalyst) born, 1875

Write a page on a dream that you’ve had.

New York became a state, 1788

Read a page on New York, then take a quiz.

Fri. Jul. 27

Full Moon

8:20 PM GMT

Read about the moon, then take a quiz.

Total Lunar Eclipse

8:20 PM GMT

Label a lunar eclipse.

Completion of Atlantic telegraph cable, 1866

Label the Earth’s oceans, marking the cable, which ran from Ireland to Newfoundland, Canada.

Sat. Jul. 28

Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, starting World War I, 1914

Do a cloze activity on World War I.

First solar eclipse was photographed, 1851

Read about solar eclipses, then label a solar eclipse diagram.

Sun. Jul. 29

NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) was authorized by Congress, 1958

Make a Solar System coloring book.

Mon. Jul. 30

Comedy Day

Write about the funniest thing you’ve ever seen or heard.

Tue. Jul. 31

U.S. Patent Office issues its first patent, 1790

Write about an invention you’d like to have or make.

J.K. Rowling (author) born, 1965

Write about a book you enjoyed reading.

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