Extraterrestrial Life

E.T. Phone Home Learning

Tuesday, February 9, 2021

Today is Extraterrestrial Culture Day, National Pizza Day,  and National Bagels and Lox Day.

* indicates a resource or program highlighting Black history, culture, or an individual.

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Extraterrestrial Life
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ON THIS DATE

• 1775 - The British Parliament declares Massachusetts in rebellion.
• 1825 - After no candidate receives a majority of electoral votes in the US presidential election of 1824, the United States House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams as President of the United States.
• 1861 - Jefferson Davis is elected the Provisional President of the Confederate States of America 
• 1964 - The Beatles make their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show,
• 1971 - Satchel Paige becomes the first Negro League player to be voted into the USA's Baseball Hall of Fame.*

BIRTHDAYS

• 1737 - Common Sense author Thomas Paine
• 1773 - 9th President William Henry Harrison
• 1874 - Poet Amy Lowell
• 1914 - Singer-songwriter Ernest Tubb
• 1942 - Singer-songwriter Carole King
• 1944 - Poet and writer Alice Walker *
• 1945 - Actor Mia Farrow

SONGS OF THE DAY 

Ernest Tubb - I'm Walking the Floor Over You - LISTEN
Carol King - So Far Away - LISTEN
David Bowie - Starman - LISTEN

THEME:  Extraterrestrial Life

• Grades 3-8 - PBS LearningMedia - What Is Astrobiology? - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova -Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence: Are We Alone? - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia -  Genius by Stephen Hawking - Are We Alone? - Ch. 1:  Listening for extraterrestrial Life - VIEW 
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia -  Genius by Stephen Hawking - Are We Alone? - Ch. 2:  Listening for extraterrestrial Life - VIEW 
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia -  Genius by Stephen Hawking - Are We Alone? - Ch. 3:  Listening for extraterrestrial Life - VIEW 
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia -  Genius by Stephen Hawking - Are We Alone? - Ch. 4:  Listening for extraterrestrial Life - VIEW 
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia -  Genius by Stephen Hawking - Are We Alone? - Ch. 5:  Listening for extraterrestrial Life - VIEW 
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - PBS NewsHour - Life on Mars? NASA Discovers Evidence of Water - VIEW and DO

Watch 

• 8-9:30 am NH WORLD - Independent Lens - Hale County This Morning, This Evening *
• 11 am-12 pm NH WORLD - Forces of Nature - Shape
• 12-12:30 pm  NH WORLD - Illustrative Math - Gr. 6 - Tape Diagrams And Equations
• 12:30 - 1 pm  - Illustrative Math - Gr. 7 - Representing Subtraction
• 1-5 pm NH WORLD - Second Trump Impeachment Trial, A PBS NewsHour Special
• 7-8  pm NH WORLD - Talking Black In America *
• 8-10 pm NH WORLD - America ReFramed - Baddddd Sonia Sanchez *
• 9-10 pm NHPBS - Al Capone: Icon
• 10-11 pm NHPBS - Frontline - Iraq's Assassins/COVID In Yemen
  

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