Elephants

A Trunkful of Summer Learning You'll Never Forget

Wednesday, August 12, 2020

Today is Vinyl Record Day, National Julienne Fries Day, and World Elephant Day.

ON THIS DATE.

• 1851 - Isaac Singer is granted a patent for his sewing machine.
• 1898 - The Republic of Hawaii is annexed as part of the U.S.
• 1960  - NASA's first successful communications satellite, ECHO 1A, is launched.
• 1994 - MLB players go on strike, leading to the cancellation of the 1994 World Series.
• 2017 - Heather Heyer is killed when James Alex Fields Jr. drives his car into a crowd of counter-protesters during a white supremacist Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1833 - Suffragist and author Lillie Devereux Blake
• 1881 - Director and producer Cecil B. DeMille
• 1954 - Jazz musician Pat Metheny
• 1963 - Rap musician Sir Mix-a-Lot
• 1971 - Tennis player Pete Sampras
• 1975 -  Actor Casey Affleck

Song of the Day - Henry Mancini - Baby  Elephant Walk - LISTEN

THEME: ELEPHANTS

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Snuffy is Not an Elephant - VIEW
  
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Elephant Elevator Operator Song - VIEW
  
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Grover and the Elephant - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Homer the Pet Elephant - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame street - Natalie Portman And Elmo Are Princess & Elephant - VIEW
• Grades PreK-2 - Pinkalicious and Peterrific - Elephant Fun at the Zoo - VIEW
• Grades K-4 -  PBS LearningMedia - Wild Kratts - Baby Elephant Power  - VIEW and DO
  
• Grades K-4  - Wild Kratts - Nosing Around - VIEW 
• Grades 1-5 - PBS LearningMedia - Kratts' Creatures - Thr Baby Elephant's Trunk -VIEW
• Grades 3-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - Unforgettable Elephants - VIEW and DO
• Grades 3-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - Grasslands Elephants - VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS Video - How Elephants Listen ... With Their Feet -VIEW
• Grades 5-10 - PBS  LearningMedia - Earth: A New Wild -Living with Sumatran Elephants - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - Forest Elephants - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - Desert Elephants - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - Studying Elephants - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12  - PBS LearningMedia - When Whales Walked: Journeys in Deep Time - Age of Elephants - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - Elephant Stranger Danger-  VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedai - Operation Wild - An Elephant Needs an X-Ray - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia -Elephant Whisperer - Gorongosa Park: Rebirth of Paradise - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - PBS LearningMedia - PBS NewsHour - Elephants Offer Clues  To Cancer's Secrets - VIEW, READ, DO

Watch 

• 12-1 pm NH WORLD - Genius By Stephen Hawking - Can We Time Travel?
•  1-2 pm NH WORLD - History Detectives - WB Cartoons, Galvez Papers, Mussolini Dagger
• 2-3 pm NH WORLD - Fight: American Experience
• 3-5 pm NH WORLD - Roosevelts: An Intimate History - The Storm (1920-1933)
• 8-9 pm NHPBS -  Nature - Undercover In The Jungle
• 9-10 pm NHPBS - Nova - Decoding The Great Pyramid
• 10-11 pm NHPBS - Forces of Nature - Motion

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