Dolphins and Gardening

Ocean Learning and Growing Learning

Wednesday, April 14, 2021

Today is National Dolphin Day, National Gardening Day, National Pecan Day, and National Glazed Ham Day.

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Poem of the Day - April is National Poetry Month
Today's Theme: Dolphins and Gardening
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ON THIS DATE

• 1856 -  President Lincoln is shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth.
• 1912 - The British passenger liner RMS Titanic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic.
• 2003 - The Human Genome Project is completed with 99% of the human genome sequenced.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1629 - Dutch mathematician, physicist, and astronomer Christiaan Huygens
• 1866 - Educator Anne Sullivan
• 1904 - English actor John Gielgud
• 1932 - Singer-songwriter Loretta Lynn
• 1941 - Baseball player Pete Rose
• 1977 - Actor Sarah Michelle Gellar

SONGS OF THE DAY 

Loretta Lynn - Coal Miner's Daughter - LISTEN
The Beatles - Octopus’s Garden - LISTEN
The Byrds - Dolphins' Smile - LISTEN
Tim Buckley - The Dolphins - LISTEN

POEM OF THE DAY 
The Amazon River Dolphin by Linda Rodriguez

THEME:  Dolphins

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street: Brushing a Whales Teeth - VIEW
• Grades K-4 - PBS KIDS - Wild Kratts - Talking to Dolphins - VIEW
• Grades 2-5 - PBS KIDS - SciGirls - Dolphin Dive - VIEW
• Grades: 4-6 - PBS LearningMedia - Dolphins - VIEW
• Grades: 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Pink Dolphins of the Amazon - VIEW, READ and DO
• Grades: 6-12 - PBS Learning Media - How Dolphins Echolocate and Imitate - VIEW, READ and DO
• Grades: 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Nova Science Now - How Smart Are Dolphins? - VIEW
• Grades: 3-12 - NOAA Fisheries - Dolphins and Porpoises - VIEW and READ

THEME:  Gardening

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street: Garden - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Gardening School - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Mrs. Obama Plants a Garden - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sid the Science Kid - Vegetable Planting Game -PLAY
• Grades PreK-2 - Nature Cat - The Urban Gardening Club - VIEW
• Grades PreK-2 - Nature Cat - Time to Build a City Garden - VIEW
• Grades PreK-2 - Curious George - Flower Garden Game - PLAY
• Grades K-3 - PBS LearningMedia - Count on It - Blossom and Snappy Go Gardening - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-6 - PBS LearningMedia - Think Garden Collection (18 videos with 14 Available in Spanish) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Poet W.S. Merwin Explores Passion for Gardening - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Healing Gardens - VIEW

Watch 

• 8-9:30 am NH WORLD  - America ReFramed - Circle Up
• 10-11 am NH WORLD - Love Wins Over Hate
• 11 am-12 pm NH WORLD - Independent Lens - Decade Of Fire
• 12-1 pm NH WORLD - Nova - Nature's Fear Factor
• 1-2 pm NH WORLD - Nova Wonders - What's Living In You?
• 2-3 pm NH WORLD - Prehistoric Road Trip - We Dig Dinosaurs
• 3-5 pm NH WORLD - Chasing The Moon: American Experience
• 7-8:30 pm NH WORLD - Independent Lens - Down A Dark Stairwell
• 8-9 pm NHPBS - Nature - The Leopard Legacy
• 8:30-10 pm NH WORLD - Frontline - American Insurrection
• 9-11 pm NHPBS - Nova - Picture A Scientist
  

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