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Tuesday, February 23, 2021

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Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Vaccines
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ON THIS DATE

• 1455 -  Gutenberg Bible was first printed.
• 1836 - The siege of the Alamo begins in San Antonio, Texas.
• 1903 - Cuba leases Guantánamo Bay to the United States "in perpetuity"
• 1954 - The first mass inoculation of children against polio with the Salk vaccine begins at an elementary school in Pittsburgh.
• 1997 - Scientists in Scotland announce they have cloned an adult mammal,  a lamb named Dolly.
• 2000 - Carlos Santana wins eight Grammy Awards for his album "Supernatural." 

BIRTHDAYS

• 1633 -  English diarist Samuel Pepys
• 1685 - Composer George Frideric Handel
• 1868 - Sociologist  W. E. B. Du Bois *
• 1889 - Director and producer Victor Fleming
• 1923 - Fighter pilot Clarence D. Lester*
• 1983 - Actor ad comedian Aziz Ansari
• 1983 - English actor Emily Blunt
• 1994 - Actor Dakota Fanning

 SONGS OF THE DAY

Santana - Smooth - LISTEN
George Frideric Handel - Sarabande - LISTEN

THEME:  Vaccines

• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Science Trek - Viruses: SmallPox - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Videos - Nova - Vaccines - Calling the Shots (Full Episode)  - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - NOVA - Vaccines:  Calling the Shots: Autism & Vaccines - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - Nova - U.S. Polio Vaccines: Then and Now - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - NOVA - Vaccines:  Calling the Shots: The Smallpox Vaccine - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - NOVA - Vaccines:  Calling the Shots: Immunity & Vaccines - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - NOVA - Vaccines:  Calling the Shots: Herd Immunity - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - American Experience - The Polio Crusade - VIEW (Full series Passport Members)
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - American Experience - The Polio Crusade Chapter One - VIEW 
• Grades 7-12 - PBS LearningMedia - American Experience - The Polio Crusade Picture Gallery - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Frontline -The Vaccine War - The Growing Debate Over Vaccine Safety - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Reactions - Could the Polio Vaccine Save the World (...Again) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - The Future of America's Past - Polio on Trial -VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video -A Very Short History of Vaccines in America - VIEW
• Grades 8-12 - NHPBS Video - Jonas Salk: Personally Speaking - VIEW
• Grades 8-12 - NHPBS Video - The Importance of Vaccines Throughout History - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Quest - Building Vaccines - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 9-12 -NH PBS Video  - Vaccine Ingredient Misconceptions, Debunked - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Vaccines: What’s Inside Them and Are They Safe? - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - It's Okay to Be Smart - Inside the Lab That Invented the COVID-19 Vaccine - VIEW

Watch 

• 8-9 am NH WORLD - Ghosts of Amistad: In the Footsteps of the Rebels *
• 8:30-9 am NHPBS- Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum - I Am Wilma Rudolph/I Am Jonas Salk *
• 9-10 am NH WORLD - AfroPop: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange *
• 11-12 pm  NH WORLD - Forces of Nature - Color
• 12 -12:30 pm  - Illustrative Math - Gr. 6 - Equal & Equivalent
• 12:30-1 pm NH WORLD - Illustrative Math - Gr. 7 - Dividing Rational Numbers
• 1-1:30 pm NH WORLD - Illustrative Math - Gr. 8 - Describing Trends In Scatter Plots
• 1:30-2 pm NH WORLD - Illustrative Math - Algebra One - How Many Solutions?
• 2-2:30 pm NH WORLD - SciGirls - High Tech Tide
• 2:30-3 pm NH WORLD - SciGirls - Super Sleuths
• 3-4 pm NH WORLD - The Vote: American Experience - Hour Three
• 4-5 pm NH WORLD - The Vote: American Experience - Hour Four
• 7-8 pm NH WORLD - The Long Shadow *
• 8-9:30  pm NH WORLD - America ReFramed - Where The Pavement Ends *
• 9-11 pm NHPBS - The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song *

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