Whale Sharks and the Pony Express

Have a Whale of a Goood Time Learning

Sunday, August 30, 2020

Today is International Whale Shark Day,, Pony Express Day, National Toasted Marshmallow Day, and National Grief Awareness Day

ON THIS DATE.

• 1963 - A hotline communication link is established between the White Houe and the Kremlin.
• 1965 - Bob Dylan's album Highway 61 Revisited is released.
• 1967 - The U.S.Senate confirms Thurgood Marshall as the first African-American Supreme Court Justice.
• 1983 - Guion S. Bluford Jr. becomes the first African-American astronaut to travel in space. 

BIRTHDAYS

• 1748 - French artist Jacques-Louis David
• 1797 -  Author Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
• 1871 - English Physicist Ernest Rutherford 
• 1893 - Politician Huey P. Long
• 1918 - Red Sox great Ted Williams

SONGS OF THE DAY 
Johnny Johnson - Blame It On The Pony Express - LISTEN
Pioneers - Pony Express - LISTEN
Alabama - Pony Express - LISTEN

THEME: WHALE SHARKS

• Grades K-3 - Splash and Bubbles -Get Your Feet Wet: Whale Sharks - VIEW
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS Wildlife Journal, Junior -Rhincodontidae - Whale Sharks - READ
• Grades 4-12 - NOAA & the Octonauts Podcast - Whale Sharks - LISTEN and READ
• Grades 5-12 - Florida Museum of Natural History - Whale Shark -READ
• Grades 5-12- PBS LearningMedia - Changing Seas - Biggest Fish in the Sea (Full Episode)  - VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - Nova - The Secret Lives of Whale Sharks - READ
• Grades 6-12- PBS LearningMedia - Kip Evans - Whale Sharks - VIEW

THEME: PONY EXPRESS

• Grades PreK-K - Scholastic - Pony Express Lesson Plan - DO
• Grades 3-5 - Portal to Texas History - The Pony Express Lesson Plan - DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - LOC Teaching With Primary Sources - The Pony Express - VIEW, READ, DO

Watch 

• 9-9:30 am NHPBS - SciGirls - Mother Nature's Shoes
  
• 9:30-10 am NHPBS - Cyberchase - A Garden Grows in Botland
• 10-10:30 am NHPBS -  Odd Squad - Oscar Of All Trades/Swamps 'N' Gators
• 5-7 pm NHPBS - Ken Burns: The National Parks
• 7:30-9:30 pm NH WORLD - Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - Uncovering America
  

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