Elephants and Mushrooms
Really Big and Somewhat Little Learning
Friday, April 16, 2021
Today is National Wear Your Pajamas To Work Day, National Orchid Day, Save The Elephant Day, National Eggs Benedict Day, and Day of the Mushroom.
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Poem of the Day - April is National Poetry Month
Today's Theme: Elephants and Mushrooms
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ON THIS DATE
- 1945 - More than 7,000 die when the German refugee ship Goya is sunk by a Soviet submarine
- 1947 - An explosion on board a freighter in port causes the city of Texas City, Texas, to catch fire, killing almost 600.
- 1962 - Bob Dylan debuts his song "Blowin' in the Wind"
- 1963 - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. pens his Letter from Birmingham Jail
- 1755 - French painter Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun
- 1867 - Inventor Wilbur Wright
- 1889 - English actor, director, and producer Charlie Chaplin
- 1919 - Dancer and choreographer Merce Cunningham
- 1924 - Composer Henry Mancini
- 1939 - English singer Dusty Springfield
- 1947 - Basketball player Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
- 1952 - Football coach Bill Belichick
- 1971 - Singer-songwriter Selena
- 1993 - Rapper Chance the Rapper
Henry Mancini - Baby Elephant Walk - LISTEN
Dusty Springfield - Son of a Preacher Man - LISTEN
Selena - I Could Fall in Love - LISTEN
Bob Dylan - Blowin' in the Wind - LISTEN
POEM OF THE DAY
Gerard Malanga - Elephant Armageddon
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Snuffy is Not an Elephant - VIEW
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Elephant Elevator Operator Song - VIEW
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Grover and the Elephant - VIEW
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Homer the Pet Elephant - VIEW
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame street - Natalie Portman And Elmo Are Princess & Elephant - VIEW
- Grades PreK-2 - Pinkalicious and Peterrific - Elephant Fun at the Zoo - VIEW
- Grades K-4 - PBS LearningMedia - Wild Kratts - Baby Elephant Power - VIEW and DO
- Grades K-4 - Wild Kratts - Nosing Around - VIEW
- Grades 1-5 - PBS LearningMedia - Kratts' Creatures - Thr Baby Elephant's Trunk -VIEW
- Grades 3-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - Unforgettable Elephants - VIEW and DO
- Grades 3-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - Grasslands Elephants - VIEW and DO
- Grades 4-12 - NHPBS Video - How Elephants Listen ... With Their Feet -VIEW
- Grades 5-10 - PBS LearningMedia - Earth: A New Wild -Living with Sumatran Elephants - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - Forest Elephants - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - Desert Elephants - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - Studying Elephants - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - When Whales Walked: Journeys in Deep Time - Age of Elephants - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - Elephant Stranger Danger- VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedai - Operation Wild - An Elephant Needs an X-Ray - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia -Elephant Whisperer - Gorongosa Park: Rebirth of Paradise - VIEW
- Grades 7-12 - PBS LearningMedia - PBS NewsHour - Elephants Offer Clues To Cancer's Secrets - VIEW, READ, DO
THEME: MUSHROOMS (AND OTHER FUNGI)
- Grades PreK-2 - Nature Cat - Ronald's Mushroom MUSEUM! - VIEW
- Grades PreK-2 - Nature Cat - Mushroom Tour- VIEW
- Grades 1-5 - Time for Kids - Mighty Mushrooms - READ
- Grades 4-12 - NHPBS - Wildlife Journal Junior - Decomposers - READ
- Grades 4-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Mycoremediation (Available in Spanish) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - EcoSense for Living -The Secret Life of Mushrooms - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Science Friday - How Can You “Program” a Mushroom to c=Create Leather-like Materials? - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - This American Land - Fabulous Filtering Fungi - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Rewire - What Mysteries Do Mushrooms Hold? - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - SciTech Now - Can Mushrooms Help to Save the Honeybees? - VIEW and DO
- Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Crash Course Biology - Fungi: Death Becomes Them - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Eons - When Giant Fungi Ruled - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - Gross Science - An Internet Made of Fungus - VIEW and DO
Watch
- 8-10 am NH WORLD - Nova - Picture A Scientist
- 12-12:30 pm NH WORLD - Illustrative Math - Gr. 6 - Finding This Percent Of That
- 12:30-1 pm NH WORLD - Illustrative Math - Gr. 7 - Interpreting Negative Numbers
- 1-1:28 pm NH WORLD - Illustrative Math - Gr. 8 - Tables, Equations
- 1:28-2:30 pm NH WORLD - Les Miserables On Masterpiece
- 2:30-3:33 pm NH WORLD - Les Miserables On Masterpiece
- 3:33-5 pm NH WORLD - Les Miserables On Masterpiece
- 7-8 pm NH WORLD - W.S. Merwin: to Plant A Tree
- 8-10 pm NH WORLD - Hemingway - The Avatar (1929-1944)
- 9-10:30 pm NHPBS - Great Performances - Beethoven In Beijing
- 10:30-11 pm NHPBS - Beyond The Canvas -Women of Wonder
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New Hampshire Public Radio:
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- Ask Sam - Ask Sam features Outside/In host Sam Evans-Brown answering listener questions about the mysteries and quirks of the natural world.
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Seacoast Science Center in Odiorne Point State Park
- Learning Connection - Even though their doors are closed, we’re still here to connect you to the inspirational powers of nature and engage you in learning.
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Squam Lakes Natural Science Center
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Strawbery Banke Museum
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Tiger Takes On
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