Sloths and Statistics

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Tuesday, October 20, 2020

Today is International Chefs Day, World Statistics Day, and International Sloth Day.

ON THIS DATE

• 1803 - The U.S. Senate ratifies the Louisiana Purchase.
• 1818 - The Convention of 1818 between the U.S. and the U.K. establishes the 49th parallel as the border between Canada and the U.S.
• 1947 - House Un-American Activities Committee begins an investigation into Communist infiltration of Hollywood.
• 1973 - In what is known as the Saturday Night Massacre,  U.S. Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus resign after refusing to fire special Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox. Cox is later fired by  US Solicitor General Robert Bork.
• 1977 - Lynyrd Skynyrd's lead singer Ronnie Van Zant, guitarist Steve Gaines, and backup singer Cassie Gaines are killed in a plane crash near McComb, Mississippi. 

BIRTHDAYS

• 1620 - Dutch painter Aelbert Cuyp
• 1632 - English architect Christopher Wren
• 1859 - Philosopher and psychologist John Dewey
• 1874 - Composer Charles Ives
• 1882 - Actor Bela Lugosi
• 1885 - Pianist, bandleader, and composer Jelly Roll Morton
• 1931 - Baseball player Mickey Mantle
• 1940 - Poet Robert Pinsky
• 1950 - Musician Tom Petty
• 1964 - Politian Kamala Harris
• 1971 - Rapper Snoop Dogg

SONGS OF THE DAY 
Tom Petty - I Won't Back Down - LISTEN
Jelly Roll Morton - Hesitation Blues - LISTEN
Charles Ives - Central Park in the Dark - LISTEN

THEME:  Sloths

• PreK-2 - PBS LearningMedia - Paws for a Minute - Linne’s Two-Toed Sloth - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-12 - Hattiesburg Zoo - Live Sloth Cam - VIEW
• Grades K-3 - PBS LearningMedia - Camp TV -Be Like a Sloth - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-3 - Wild Kratts - Sloth Creature Power -VIEW
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS Wildlife Journal Junior - Pilosa - Anteaters, Sloths - READ
• Grades 4-6 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - Sloths in their Ecosystem - VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - The Scientific Method: Sloth Sleep Study - VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-9 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature -The Pygmy Sloth: A Specialized Species - VIEW and DO
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Eons - How Sloths Went From the Seas to the Trees - VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Nature - Baby Sloth Nursed Back to Health -VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Nature - Citizen Sloth Patrol to the Rescue -VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Nature - Baby Pygmy Sloth Clings to Mom -VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Nature - Three-toed Sloth: The Slowest Mammal On Earth - VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Nature - 'Spy Sloth' Meets Real Sloths - VIEW

• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Gross Science - Poop-Eating Sloth Moths - VIEW 

THEME:  Statistics

• Grades K-8 Professional Development - Learner.org - Learning Math: Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability - VIEW
• Grades 5-7 Professional Development - PBS LearningMedia - Statistics: Whirlybirds - VIEW and DO
• Grades 9-12 - Learner.org - Against All Odd: Inside Statistics - 36-part series - VIEW

Watch 

• 12-12:30 pm NH WORLD - Illustrative Math - Grade 6, Unit 2, Lessons 3 & 5: Recipes And Defining Equivalent Ratios
• 12:30-1 pm NH WORLD - Illustrative Math - Grade 7, Unit 2, Lesson 4: Proportional Relationships And Equations
• 1-1:30 pm NH WORLD - Illustrative Math - Grade 8, Unit 4, Lesson 3: Balanced Moves
• 1:30-2 pm NH WORLD - Illustrative Math - Algebra 1, Unit 6, Lesson 1: A Different Kind Of Change
• 1:30-2:30 pm NHPBS - Cat in the Hat Knows A Lot About Halloween!
• 2-4 pm NHPBS WORLD - The Gilded Age: American Experience
• 4-5 pm NHPBS  WORLD -  Emma Goldman: American Experience
• 9-10 pm NHPBS - American Masters - Walter Winchell: The Power Of Gossip
  
• 10-11 pm NHPBS - Frontline - Whose Vote Counts
  

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