The Grand Canyon
Deep and Layered Learning
Friday, February 26, 2021
Today is Levi Strauss Day and National Pistachio Day.
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Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: The Grand Canyon
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ON THIS DATE
- 1815 - Napoleon Bonaparte escapes from Elba.
- 1919 - President Woodrow Wilson signs an act of Congress establishing the Grand Canyon National Park.
- 1970 - National Public Radio is incorporated.
- 1993 - A bomb explodes in the garage of the World Trade Center in New York, killing six and injuring over 1,000.
- 2012 - Trayon Martin, 17, is shot to death in Sanford, Florida., by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman.
- 1564 - English playwright and poet Christopher Marlowe
- 1802 - French writer Victor Hugo
- 1829 - Businessman and jean designer Levi Strauss
- 1846 - Showman Buffalo Bill
- 1908 - Animator Tex Avery
- 1928 - Singer-songwriter Fats Domino *
- 1932 - Singer-songwriter Johnny Cash
- 1950 - New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark
- 1953 - Singer-songwriter Michael Bolton
- 1971 - Singer-songwriter Erykah Badu *
- 1973 - Swimmer and Dover, NH former resident Jenny Thompson
Johnny Cash - I Walk the Line - LISTEN
- Grades PreK-2 - Nature Cat - Behold the Grand Canyon -VIEW
- Grades 3-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - The Grand Canyon: How It Formed (Available in Spanish) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 3-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - The Grand Canyon: Conservation and Development (Available in Spanish) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 3-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova -The Top Two Rock Layers - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 4-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - Uncovering Layers of the Grand Canyon (Available in Spanish) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - The Grand Canyon: Ancient Mountains (Available in Spanish) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - The Grand Canyon: Evidence of Earth's Past - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - The Grand Canyon: Its Youngest Rocks (Available in Spanish) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 8-12 - NHPBS Video - Beyond-the-Rim-100-Years-Grand-Canyon - VIEW
- Grades 8-12 - NHPBS Video - Its Okay to Be Smart - How Does A Canyon Become Grand? - VIEW
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- 8-9 am NH WORLD - Nova - Looking For Life On Mars
- 9-10 am NH WORLD - Europe's New Wild - Europe's Amazon
- 10-11 am NH WORLD - Forces of Nature - Motion
- 12-12:30 pm NH WORLD - Illustrative Math- Gr. 6 - The Distributive Property, Part 1
- 12:30 -1:pm - Illustrative Math - Gr. 7 - Expressions With Rational Numbers And Solving Problems With Rational Numbers
- 1-1:30 pm NH WORLD - Illustrative Math - Gr. 8 - The Slope of a Fitted Line
- 1:30-2 pm NH WORLD - Illustrative Math - Algebra I - Rewriting Quadratic Expressions In Factored Form (Part 1)
- 2-4 pm NH WORLD - American Masters - How It Feels To Be Free *
- 4-5 pm NH WORLD - American Creed
- 7-8 pm NH WORLD - Queen of Swing *
- 8-9 pm NH WORLD - Dream Land: Little Rock's West 9th Street *
- 9-10 pm NH WORLD - AfroPop: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange *
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Seacoast Science Center in Odiorne Point State Park
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Squam Lakes Natural Science Center
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