Seeds and Asteroids

Planting and Plummeting Learning

Wednesday, October 7, 2020

Today is National Chocolate Covered Pretzel Day, National Pumpkin Seed Day, National Forgiveness Day, and National Frappe Day.

ON THIS DATE

• 1954 - Marian Anderson became the first black singer hired by New York's Metropolitan Opera.
• 1968 - The Motion Picture Association of America adopts a film-rating system.
• 1982 - The musical "Cats" opens on Broadway.
• 1996 - Fox News Channel makes its debut.
• 1998 - Gay college student Matthew Shepard is beaten, robbed, and left tied to a wooden fence outside Laramie, Wyoming. He dies five days later.
• 2008 - Asteroid 2008 TC3 impacts the Earth over Sudan, the first time an asteroid impact is detected before its entry into the Earth's atmosphere.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1879  - Communist revolutionary leader Leon Trotsky
• 1885 - Physicist Niels Bohr
• 1897 - American leader of the Black Muslim movement Elijah Muhammad
• 1931 - South African archbishop Desmond Tutu
• 1951 - Singer-songwriter John Mellencamp
• 1952 - Russian president Vladimir Putin
• 1955 - Cellist Yo-Yo Ma
• 1967 - Singer-songwriter Toni Braxton
• 1968 - British musician Thom Yorke
• 1992 - Baseball player Mookie Betts

SONGS OF THE DAY 
John Mellencamp - Small Town - LISTEN
Toni Braxton - Un-break My Heart - LISTEN

THEME:  Seeds

• Grades PreK - PBS LearningMedia - Peep and the Big Wide World - Experimenting with Seeds -VIEW
• Grades PreK - PBS LearningMedia - Peep Plants a Seed - VIEW
• Grades PreK - PBS LearningMedia - Between the Lions - The Carrot Seed -VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - PBS LearningMedia - Everyday Learning - From Seed to Fruit - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Mrs. Obama Plants Garden - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Elmo's World: Growing Beans
  - VIEW
  
• Grades PreK-1 - Sid the Science Kid - Growing Plants - VIEW
• Grades PreK-2 - PBS LearningMedia - Mister Chris and Friends - Seeds - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-2 - Plum Landing - Seed Racer Game - DO
• Grades PreK-2 - Plum Landing - Make a Seed Blaster - DO
  
• Grades PreK-2 - Plum Landing - Seed Travels - DO
• Grades PreK-2 - PBS Kids - Read Along with Michelle Obama! - Miss Maple’s Seeds - VIEW
  
• Grades K-4 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature Cat - Seed Soaring Game - DO
• Grades K-4 - PBS Learning Media - Nature Cat - Travelin' Seeds (full episode) - VIEW
• Grades K-5 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - From Seed to Flower - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - America's Heartland - Organic Seeds and Grain - VIEW and  DO

THEME: ASTEROIDS

• Grades PreK-3 - PBS LearningMedia - Ready Jet Go! - Asteroids, Meteors, and Meteorites - VIEW
• Grades 3-6 - PBS LearningMedia - Science Trek - Asteroids and Comets Media Gallery - VIEW and DO
• Grades 5-8 - STEM in 30 - Asteroid Redirect Mission - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - NOVA: Asteroid; Doomsday or Payday? - Mining Asteroids - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - NOVA: Asteroid; Doomsday or Payday? - Protecting Earth from Asteroids - VIEW and DO
• Grades 5-12 - PBS LearningMedia - NASA - A Visit to Asteroid Vesta - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - NASA - Asteroid Closely Passes Earth (Available in Spanish) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - NASA - Swift and Hubble Probe an Asteroid Crash (Available in Spanish) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia -  Occupation STEM -Tiffany Lockett, Lead System Engineer for the Solar Sail Near Earth Asteroid (NEA) Scout  - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS Space Time - How Asteroid Mining Will Save Earth - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS Space Time - 5 Ways to Stop a Killer Asteroid - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Nova - Day the Dinosaurs Died (Full Episode) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Crash Course Astronomy - Asteroids - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS NewsHour - How to Sample an Asteroid's Rocks, Without Landing On It - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - It's Okay to Be Smart - Asteroid Mining: Our Ticket To Living Off Earth? - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - It's Okay to Be Smart - Asteroids, Meteors, and Comets… OH MY!!! - VIEW

Watch 

• 12-1 pm NH WORLD - Nova - Eagle Power
• 1-2 pm NH WORLD - Great Yellowstone Thaw - Episode 2
• 2-4:30 pm NH WORLD - The War - A Necessary War (December 1941 - December 1942)
• 4:30-5 pm NH WORLD - The Future of America's Past - A Grave Injustice
• 7:30-9 pm NH WORLD - P.O.V. - The Infiltrators
• 8-9 pm NHPBS - Nature - The Story Of Cats: Asia To Africa
• 9-10 pm NH WORLD - Frontline - America's Medical Supply Crisis
• 9-11 pm NHPBS - PBS NewsHour Vice Presidential Debate

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