Dams

Dam Learning

Wednesday, September 30, 2020

Today is Ask A Stupid Question Day, National Mulled Cider Day, and International Podcast Day.

ON THIS DATE

• 1791 - Mozart's opera The Magic Flute premieres in Vienna, Austria.
• 1927 - Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a season.
• 1935 - The Hoover Dam is dedicated.
• 1946 -  An international military tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany, finds 22 Nazi leaders guilty of war crimes.
• 1955 - 24-year-old actor James Dean is killed in a car crash.
• 1962 - César Chávez founds the National Farm Workers Association.
• 1962- After three unsuccessful tries, Black student James Meredith registers for classes at the University of Mississippi.
• 1982 - Cheers premieres on NBC.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1207 - Persian poet Rumi
• 1832 - Activist Ann Jarvis
• 1883 - Suffragist and civil engineer Nora Stanton Barney
• 1917 - Drummer Buddy Rich
• 1924 - Author Truman Capote
• 1928 - Activist Elie Wiesel

SONGS OF THE DAY 
Woody Guthrie - Grand Coulee Dam  - LISTEN

THEME:  Dams

• Grades PreK-1 - PBS LearningMedia - Peep - Building Dams - VIEW
• Grades PreK-2 - PBS LearningMedia - Peep - Building a Dam Like a Beaver - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-2 - PBS LearningMedia - Peep - Sharing Water Between Dams - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-6 - PBS LearningMedia - Science Trek - Dams - VIEW
• Grades 3-6 - PBS LearningMedia - Building Big - Dam Basics - READ
• Grades 3-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Building Big - The Hoover Dam and Hydroelectric Power - READ, VIEW, DO
• Grades 3-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Building Big - The Hoover Dam - READ, VIEW, DO
• Grades 3-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Building Big - The Dam Challenge - READ and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - American Experience - Grand Coulee Dam - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - American Experience - Hoover Dam - READ and VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - American Experience - Hoover Dam: Moving the Concrete - VIEW
  
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - American Experience - The High Scalers of Hoover Dam - VIEW
  
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - American Experience - Hoover Dam: Building Diversion Tunnels - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Quest - How Hydropower Dams Work -READ and VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - The Iconic Hoover Dam -VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video -  Constitution USA with Peter Segal - We Can’t Go it Alone! (The Hoover Dam - Federal power during a crisis) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Fort Peck Dam: Building the Dam
  - VIEW and DO

Watch 

• 12-1 pm NH WORLD - Ozone Hole: How We Saved The Planet
• 1-2 pm NH WORLD - Big Pacific - Voracious
• 2-4 pm NH WORLD - Roosevelts: An Intimate History - The Rising Road (1933-1939)
• 4-5 pm NH WORLD -  African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross - Into The Fire (1861-1896)
• 8:30-10 pm NH WORLD - P.O.V. - Our Time Machine
• 8-9 pm NHPBS - Hawaii: Islands of Wonder
• 9-10 pm NHPBS - Nova - A to Z: How Writing Changed the World
• 10-11 pm NHPBS - Hacking Your Mind - The Wings of Angels

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