Pangolins and Whales

Wild Learning

Saturday, February 20, 2021

Today is World Pangolin Day, World Whale Day, National Cherry Pie Day, and National Muffin Day.

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Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Pangolins and Whales
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ON THIS DATE

• 1792 - President George Washington signs an act creating the U.S. Post Office.
• 1816 -  Rossini's opera The Barber of Seville premieres in Rome.
• 1872 - The Metropolitan Museum of Art opens in New York City
• 1877 - Tchaikovsky's ballet Swan Lake  premiere at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow
• 1962 - John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the earth.
• 2003 -  A fire breaks out at a Great White concert in West Warwick, Rhode Island, killing 100 and injuring over 200.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1902 - Photographer Ansel Adams
• 1927 - Actor Sidney Poitier
• 1967 - Singer-songwriter Kurt Cobain
• 1984 - Comedian and TV host Trevor Noah
• 1988 - Singer-songwriter Rihanna

SONGS OF THE DAY 

Bug Bunny at the Symphony - Rabbit of Seville - LISTEN
Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit - LISTEN
Rihanna - Umbrella - LISTEN

THEME:  Pangolins

• Grades K-4 - Wild Kratts - Pangolin Rescue Mission - VIEW
• Grades 4-12 - San Diego Zoo - Tree Pangolin - READ
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Nature - Rescued Pangolins Treated for Injuries - VIEW 
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Nature - Abused Baby Pangolin Gets a New Home - VIEW 
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Nature - Baby Pangolin and Her Best Friend - VIEW 
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Metrofocus - PLIGHT OF THE PANGOLIN” - VIEW 
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Brookfield Zoo Fights to Save World’s Most Trafficked Animal - VIEW 

THEME:  Whales

• Grades PreK-2 - Splash and Bubbles - The Way Whales Talk - VIEW
• Grades K-4 - Wild Kratts - Whale Watching - VIEW
• Grades K-5 - PBS LearningMedia - Guess How Whales Hear - VIEW
• Grade 1-3 - PBS LearningMedia - Wild Kratts - Whale of a Squid - VIEW
• Grades 1-3 - PBS LearningMedia-  Wild Kratts - Adventures with Whales - VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-6 - PBS LearningMedia - DragonflyTV - Whale Scientist (available in Spanish) -VIEW
• Grades 4-12 - PBS LearningMedia -  Ocean Today -  Gray Whale Migration - VIEW
• Grades 6-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Jonathan Bird's Blue World - Wilma the (beluga) Whale - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Jonathan Bird's Blue World -The Shark and the Whale - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Life on the Reef -Minke Whales - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - When Whale Walked - Pakicetus: Walking Whale Ancestor - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia- Quest - Whale Sharks -VIEW
• Grades 8-10 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - Killer Whales and the Changing Arctic - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Eons - When Whales Walked - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Eons - How the Andes Mountains Might Have Killed a Bunch of Whales - VIew

Watch 

• 8-9 am NH WORLD  - Black Ballerina *
• 9-11 am  NH WORLD - American Experience - Voice Of Freedom *
• 12-1:30 pm NH WORLD - AfroPop: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange *
• 3-5 pm NH WORLD - Jazz - Dedicated To Chaos (1940-1945)
• 7-8  pm NH WORLD - Fat Boy: The Billy Stewart Story *
• 8-10 pm NH WORLD- The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song*
• 10 pm 12 am pm NH WORLD-America ReFramed - Pahokee
  

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