Antarctica and Ernest Hemingway

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Tuesday, July 21, 2020

Today is No Pet Store Puppies Day, National Creme Brûlée Day, and National Junk Food Day

ON THIS DATE.

• 1861 - The  Confederate Army wins the first Battle of Bull Run.
• 1925 - High school biology teacher John Scopes is found guilty of teaching evolution in class and is fined $100.
• 1949 - The U.S. Senate ratifies the North Atlantic Treaty.
• 1893 - The world's lowest temperature, -128.6 °F, is recorded in an  Antarctica.
• 2011 - The Space Shuttle Program ends when the Space Shuttle Atlantis lands at the Kennedy Space Center.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1820 - French astronomer Jean Picard
• 1899 - Poet Hart Crane
• 1899 - Ernest Hemingway
• 19i1 -  Media theorist  Marshall McLuhan
• 1920 - Violinist Isaac Stern
• 1924 - Actor Don Knotts
• 1948 - Musician Cat Stevens (Yusuf Islam)
• 1951 - Actor Robin Williams

THEME: ANTARCTICA

• Grades K-4 - Wild Kratts - Penguin Power -  VIEW
• Grades 5-8 - Jonathan Bird's Blue World - Antarctica -VIEW
• Grades 6-8 - PBS LearningMedai - Antarctica Today - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-8 - PBS LearningMedai - Antarctica's Climate Secrets Media Collection - VIEW and DO
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Antarctic Extremes Series -VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - When Antarctica Was Green -VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Reactions - Why Don’t Antarctic Fish Freeze to Death? -VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS NewsHour - Can Antarctica Remain a Refuge for Science and Peace? -VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedai - Antarctica's Dry Valleys - VIEW, READ, and DO
• Grades 6-8 - PBS LearningMedai - Antarctica's Ice on the Move - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-8 - PBS LearningMedai - Nova - Antarctica: Sea Ice - VIEW, READ, and DO

THEME: ERNEST HEMINGWAY

• Grades 8-12 - Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure - READ
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Hemingway: The Man versus The Image - VIEW
• Grades 8-12 -ReadWriteThink - Ernest Hemingway - READ and DO
• Grades 9-12 - American Master - Hemingway Classroom Resources - READ

Watch 

• 12-1 pm NHPBS - CAMP TV - Heroes Day
• 12-2 pm NH WORLD -  Nov - Decoding The Weather Machine
• 2-5 pm NH WORLD - Chasing The Moon: American Experience - Part Two
•  8-9:30 pm NH WORLD - America ReFramed - Intelligent Lives
• 8-10 pm NHPBS - Clinton: American Experience
• 10-11 pm NHPBS - Frontlinec= Covid's Hidden Toll
  

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