Puzzles - January 29

Putting the Pieces Together Learning

Wednesday, January 29, 2025

Today is National Puzzle Day, Seeing Eye Dog Day, and Curmudgeons Day.

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Puzzles

ON THIS DATE

• 1861 - Kansas is admitted as the 34th  state.
• 1907 - Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes the first Native American U.S. Senator. He later became the 31st vice president under Herbert Hoover.
• 1936 -Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Walter Johnson, and Christy Mathewson are revealed as the first inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
• 1963 - NH poet Robert Frost dies in Boston.
• 1980 - The Rubik's Cube makes its international debut in London.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1737 - Political activist Thomas Paine
• 1843 - 25th President of the U.S. William McKinley
• 1860 - Russian playwright Anton Chekhov
• 1861 - Civil rights activist, educator, and writer Florida Ruffin Ridley
• 1880 - Actor and screenwriter W. C. Fields
• 1881 - Microbiologist Alice Catherine Evans
• 1923 - Writer Paddy Chayefsky
• 1954 Talk show host and producer Oprah Winfrey

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Rolling Stones - Jigsaw Puzzle - LISTEN

THEME:  Puzzles

• Grade PreK-1 - Daniel Tiger - It's a Puzzle World (0:58) - VIEW
• Grades 5-7 - PBS LearningMedia - The Belly Buster Pizza Puzzle (1:11) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - Raising an Obelisk: An Engineering Puzzle (5:52) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - FoldIt: A Protein Puzzle Game (Available in Spanish) (3:07) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Physics Girl - Can You Solve This Pier Puzzle? (4:58) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Light Falls - What Puzzles You? (3:10) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video -  Infinite Series - The Assassin Puzzle (9:12) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video -  Infinite Series - Instant Insanity Puzzle (9:32) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Physics Girl - Can You Solve the Bowl Riddle? (6:11)  - VIEW 

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TV Schedule

• bedford high v profile high
  Granite State Challenge
  Monday, 8/11 at 4:30 P.M. on NHPBS
  
  

• tilton school v. trinity high
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  Thursday, 8/21 at 2:00 P.M. on EXPLORE
  
  

• bedford high v. merrimack high
  Granite State Challenge
  Monday, 8/25 at 4:30 P.M. on NHPBS
  
  

• championship - merrimack high v tilton
  Granite State Challenge
  Thursday, 9/4 at 2:00 P.M. on EXPLORE
  
  

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