Frogs and Hip Hop

Hopping Into Summer Learning

Tuesday, August 11, 2020

Today is National Hip Hop Day, National Raspberry Tart Day, and NationalPannini Day.

ON THIS DATE.

• 1929 - Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 500 home runs.
• 1942 - Actor Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil receive a patent for a Frequency-hopping spread spectrum communication system that is the basis for today's wireless communication.
• 1965 - Rioting breaks out in the Watts section of Los Angeles initially in response to a confrontation between police and citizens..

BIRTHDAYS

• 1921 - Author Alex Haley

Song of the Day - Sugar Hill Gang - Rapper's Delight - LISTEN

THEME: FROGS

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - This Frog - VIEW
  
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Kermit Sings Disco Frog - VIEW
  
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Frogs of the Glen - VIEW
  
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Caribbean Amphibian- VIEW
  
• Grades PreK-1 - Curious George Ribbit Game - DO
• PreK-3 - PBS LearningMedia - Everyday Learning - How a Frog Becomes a Frog - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-4 - NHPBS Video - Up Close & Natural - Frogs, Toads, and Salamanders - VIEW
• Grades 4-6 - PBS LearningMedia - Dragonfly TV - Malformed Frogs - VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-6 - PBS LearningMedia - Dragonfly TV - Frog Scientist- VIEW
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS Wildlife journal Junior - Anura - Frogs and Toads - READ
• Grades PreK-5 - NHPBS Video - Poison Dart Frogs at Little Rock Zoo - VIEW
• Grades 3-6 - NHPBS Video - Origami Jumping Frog - VIEW and DO
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Northern Leopard Frogs Being Reintroduced Into The Wild - VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Gross Science - Why Does This Frog Have So Many Legs? - VIEW 
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Gross Science - Meet the Frog the Barfs Up its Babies - VIEW 

THEME: HIP HOP

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - ABC Hip Hop with Miles  - VIEW
  
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Rappin' Alphabet - VIEW
• Grades 4-7 - PBS Learningmedia - Dragonfly TV - Hip Hop Mix - VIEW
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS Video - Hip Hop Nutcracker - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Issue Brief: Hip Hop - READ
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia -  Independent Lens - Hip-Hop Sampling - Copyright Criminals - VIEW and DO
• Grades 8-12 - PBS LearningMedia -  Hamilton's America | Lin-Manuel Miranda, Shakespeare, and Hip Hop - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Coming Outta Queensbridge: Nas and Hip Hop - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Educating Hip Hop - VIEW

Watch 

• 12-1 pm NH WORLD - Nova - Cat Tales
• 1- 1:30 pm NH WORLD - Changing Seas - Maug's Caldera
• 1:30-2 pm NH WORLD - Changing Seas- Seagrasses And Mangroves
• 2-3 pm NH WORLD - John Lewis - Get in the Way
• 3-5 pm NH WORLD - Roosevelts: An Intimate History - The Fire Of Life (1910-1919)
• 8-10 pm NHPBS -  Reagan: American Experience
• 10-11 pm NHPBS - Frontline - Love, Life and the Virus

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