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Use the entries in the list to link math and science topics to the days of a specific month--or use the entries at any time of the year as they fit your needs. Watch throughout the year for new entries.

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January
		100th Day of School (K-6)
		A Calculator Here, a GPS There -- Implementing Technology in Your Science or Math Classroom (6-12)
		Elementary, My Dear Watson. It's Deductive Reasoning! (5-10)
		Frisbee as Science and More (8-12)
		Get That Grant! (PreK-12)
		Monarch Butterflies (3-10)
		Seems Like Fall Was Just Yesterday, or Hibernation (K-7)
		Technology in the Classroom -- Beyond Beginner (3-7)
		Technology in the Classroom -- For the Beginner (1-6)
		Technology in the Classroom -- Onward to the Advanced! (3-8)
		Twigs, Scars, and Winter Buds (3-6)

February
		Clyde Tombaugh and the Discovery of Pluto (6-12)
		Exploring Careers: Aerospace Engineering (7-12)
		Exploring Careers: Chemical Engineering (7-12)
		Exploring Careers: Civil Engineering (7-12)
		Exploring Careers: Electrical Engineering (7-12)
		Exploring Careers: Environmental Engineering (7-12)
		Exploring Careers: Genetic Engineering (9-12)
		Exploring Careers: Industrial Engineering (7-12)
		Exploring Careers: Mechanical Engineering (7-12)
		Exploring Careers: Nuclear Engineering (7-12)
		Looking at Snowflakes (K-6)
		Ratio, Proportion, and Mount Rushmore: Sculpting on a Monumental Scale (6-10)
		Reading for the Fun of It: African American Inventors, Scientists, and Mathematicians (K-12)
		Reading for the Fun of It: Richard Feynman (6-12)

March
		Bell's Telephone Patent (3-12)
		Breaking News: Ice Shelf in Antarctica (6-12)
		Emmy Noether (8-12+)
		For Your Viewing Pleasure -- Comet Ikeya-Zhang (6-12)
		Johnny Appleseed Day (K-6)
		Largest U.S. Quake (5-12)
		Lucy Beaman Hobbs Taylor (5-12)
		Peanut Butter Lover's Day (K-8)
		Pi Day (6-12)
		Planet Pluto (6-12)
		The Eyes of March (K-12)

April
		ARCHitecture -- Roman Style (4-12)
		Area Day (PreK-12)
		Area, Perimeter, and Five Easy Pieces (4-10)
		Charles Richter (3-12)
		Geometry and Spatial Sense (K-5)
		Measurement (K-10)
		Net Income--How Much Money Do You Have After Taxes? (6-10)
		Number and Operations (K-8)
		Red, Blue, Red, Blue, Red, Blue -- You Guessed It! Patterns (K-12)
		Ruska Builds the First Electron Microscope (9-12+)
		Safety Pins (5-12)
		What Are the Chances? Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability (K-8)
		World's Largest Math Event 2001 (K-12)
		World's Largest Math Event 2002 (PreK-12+)

May
		Alan Shepard, First American in Space (K-12)
		Forensic Friday: CCSI -- Classroom Crime Scene Investigation (9-12)
		Glacier National Park (K-12)
		Katherine Adebola Okikiolu, Twenty-First Century Mathematician (6-12)
		Rachel Carson -- A Voice for All Seasons (3-12)
		The Real McCoy (Elijah McCoy) (1-10)
		Wall of Water! (5-12)
		Who Invented Color Photography? (7-12)

June
		ENC Focus
		A Little Insight into a Lot of Insects (K-6)
		Ben Franklin and Lightning (1-6)
		Bicycles and Gears (1-8)
		Digital Dozen
		Mathematics Competitions -- Everybody Wins! (4-12)
		Reality Show: The Falcons (K-12)
		Summer Reading: Summer Is for Growing (PreK-12)
		Tunguska, Canyonlands, and Barringer Crater -- National Meteor Day (6-12)

July
		Fireworks (1-12)
		Reading for the Fun of It: The Math-Literature Connection (8-12)
		Rube Goldberg (5-12)
		Summer Reading: Bubbles and Other Science Experiments (PreK-12)
		Summer Reading: Math for the Fun of It, Part 1 (PreK-9)
		Summer Reading: Worms, Insects, and Spiders (PreK-8)

August
		Golden Mean Day (7-12)
		Krakatoa -- Beginning of the "Global Village" (6-12)
		Pompeii and Mount Vesuvius (6-12)
		Statistics of the Descriptive Variety (4-12)
		Summer Reading: Creatures of the Sea (K-12)
		Summer Reading: For the Birds (PreK-12)
		Summer Reading: Math for the Fun of It, Part 2 (PreK-6)
		Summer Reading: Measuring Things (K-12)
		Yellow Fever: Linking Science and History (6-12)

September
		A Girl's Place Is in the Science Room (K-12)
		A Look at the Gender Factor in Education: Boys in the Classroom (K-8)
		Begin the Year with Money Activities (K-5)
		Enrico Fermi (8-12)
		Giant Pandas: An Endangered Species (6-12)
		Hurricane Hugo (6-12)
		Michael Faraday (8-12)
		Reading for the Fun of It: Whales and Dolphins (K-6)
		September Sums (K-3)
		Shamu's Birthday (K-6)
		The Science in the Science Fiction of H. G. Wells (5-8)
		Using Weather Maps -- Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow (7-12)

October
		Architecture, Mathematics, and Sir Christopher Wren (5-12)
		Bats (1-8)
		Chemistry Everywhere (K-12)
		Digging Dinosaurs (K-4)
		Exploring Careers: Paleontologists (5-12)
		Happy Birthday, Mae Jemison (3-8)
		Mole Day -- Celebrating 6.02 X 10²³ (7-12)
		Powers of 10 Day (K-12)
		Rainforest Week (9-12)
		Rainforest Week (5-8)
		Rainforest Week (PreK-4)
		Reading for the Fun of It: Time (K-10)
		Richard Feynman -- Compelled to Know Why (6-12)
		What Killed the Dinosaurs? Theories of Extinction (5-12)

November
		Benjamin Banneker (3-12)
		Children's Book Week in Your Math and Science Classroom (K-6)
		Credit Cards -- Playing the Percentages (7-12)
		Geography Awareness Week (K-12)
		Math Games (K-12)
		Math Puzzles (K-12)
		Reading for the Fun of It: Games and Brain Teasers (K-12)
		Reading for the Fun of It: Hearing (K-4)
		Reading for the Fun of It: Touch (K-4)
		Sense of Hearing (K-4)
		Sense of Taste (K-4)
		Sense of Touch (K-4)
		The Marvelous Mobius Strip (6-12+)

December
		Dozen Day: Celebrating the Number 12 (PreK-2)
		First Flight: The Work of the Wright Brothers (6-12)
		Let It Snow! (7-12)
		Neon Lights (7-12)
		Reading for the Fun of It: Snow, Snowflakes, and Weather Whimsy (PreK-8)
		Sir Isaac Newton (8-12)
		Slinky as Science and More (K-12)
		Winter Solstice (3-8)