Maple Syrup and Flight

Learning That Sticks to You

Thursday, December 17, 2020

Today is Wright Brothers Day and  National Maple Syrup Day.

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Maple Syrup and Flight
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ON THIS DATE

• 1862 - General Ulysses S. Grant issues General Order No. 11, expelling Jews from parts of Tennessee, Mississippi, and Kentucky.
• The Wilbur and Orville Wright make the first man-powered, heavier-than-air flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
• The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882  is repealed. 
• 1933 - The Chicago Bears beat the New York Giants 23-21 at Wrigley Field in the first NFL championship game.
• 1989 - The Simpsons premieres on television.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1706 - French mathematician, philosopher, and physicist Émilie du Châtelet
• 1807 - Poet and abolitionist John Greenleaf Whittier
• 1894 - Conductor Arthur Fiedler
• 1936 - Pope Francis

SONGS OF THE DAY 

Foo Fighters - Learn to Fly - LISTEN
Lenny Kravitz - Fly Away- LISTEN
Steve Miller Band - Fly Like an Eagle - LISTEN
REO Speedwagon -Time for Me to Fly - LISTEN

THEME:  Maple Syrup

• Grades K-3 - Nature Cat - Tree Sap Becomes Syrup - VIEW
• Grades K-3 - Nature Cat - Making Maple Syrup from Tree Sap! - VIEW
• Grade 3-6 - PBS LearningMedia - Maple Syrup - VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Prairie Mosaic Shorts - Jerry Jacobson: Maple Syrup Maker  - VIEW 
• Grades 6-12- PBS LearningMedia - Climate Wisconsin - Sugaring - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Autumn Watch New England - Maple Syrup Tapping - VIEW
• Grades 6-12- NHPBS Video - Made Here -Gathering Time - VIEW

THEME:  Flight

• Grades K-4 - Ready Jet Go! - Flight Research Center -VIEW
• Grades 3-5 - Cyberchase - Bunny Copter Flight Test - VIEW
• Grades 3-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Know Ohio - The Wright Brothers - VIEW
• Grades 3-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Know Ohio - Female Pioneers of the Sky
  - VIEW
• Grades 3-8 - PBS LearningMedia - STEM in 30 - The Wright Stuff: Flying the Wright Flyer - VIEW and DO 
• Grades 3-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Transforming the Future of Flight (Available in Spanish) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grade 4-6 - PBS LearningMedia - Science Trek - Flight - VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-8 - PBS LearningMedia - STEM in 30 -The Airplane's Family Tree: From the Wright Brothers to Today - VIEW and DO 
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS Video - Curious Crew - Paper Airplane Science -VIEW
• Grades 5-8 - PBS LearningMedia - STEM in 30 - Kites to Flight: Inventing with the Wright Brothers - VIEW and DO 
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Alphonse Pénaud - The Forgotten Pioneer -VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - It's Okay t Be Smart - How Did Giant Pterosaurs Fly? - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Breakthrough: The Ideas that Changed the World - The Airplane (Full Episode) - VIEW (Passport Members)

Watch 

• 12-12:30 pm NH WORLD - Illustrative Math - Gr. 6 - Positive And Negative Numbers
• 12:30-1 pm NH WORLD - Illustrative Math - Gr. 7 - Subtraction In Equivalent Expressions
• 1-1:30 pm NH WORLD - Illustrative Math - Gr. 8 - Dividing Powers Of Ten
• 1:30-2 pm NHPBS - Illustrative Math - Algebra 1 - Solving Quadratic Expressions In Factored Form
• 2-3 pm NH WORLD - Himalaya: Kingdoms of the Sky
• 2:30-3:30 pm NHPBS - Let's Go Luna!: Luna's Christmas Around The World
• 3-5 pm NH WORLD - National Parks: America's Best Idea - Going Home (1920-1933)
• 7-8 pm NH WORLD - Nova - Einstein's Quantum Riddle
• 8-9 pm NH WORLD - Nova - Apollo's Daring Mission
  

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