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Friday, May 7, 2021

Today is Child Care Provider Day.
May is Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month

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

• 1824 -  Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony premieres in Vienna.
• 1915 - German submarine U-20 sinks RMS Lusitania off the Irish coast. killing 1,198 people.
• 1945 - Germany signs unconditional surrender terms at Reims, France.
• 1952 - The concept of the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, is published by Geoffrey Dummer.
• 1992 - Michigan ratifies a 203-year-old proposed amendment to the Constitution making the 27th Amendment law.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1711 - Scottish economist and philosopher David Hume
• 1812 - English poet Robert Browning
• 1833 - German composer Johannes Brahms
• 1840 - Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
• 1845 - Nurse and activist Mary Eliza Mahoney
• 1901 - Actor Gary Cooper
• 1954 - Director Amy Heckerling

SONGS OF THE DAY 

Earth, Wind & Fire - Shining Star - LISTEN
Moby - We Are All Made of Stars - LISTEN
Ed Sheeran - All of the Stars  - LISTEN
The Beatles - Here Comes the Sun - LISTEN

THEME:  Stars

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Planets, Moon and Stars Song - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - PBS LearningMedia - Sesame Street - Twinkle Twinkle -VIEW
• Grades PreK-3 - PBS LearningMedia - Ready Jet Go! - Why Do Stars Twinkle? - VIEW
• Grades PreK-3 - PBS LearningMedia - Ready Jet Go! - The North Star and the Big Dipper - VIEW
• Grades PreK-3 - PBS LearningMedia - Ready Jet Go! - The Night of a Bazillion Stars Song - VIEW
• Grades K-2 - PBS LearningMedia - Peep and the Big Wide World -Sky Patterns: Sun, Moon, and Stars (Available in Spanish) - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-2 - PBS LearningMedia -The Sun, a Real Star - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-4- PBS LearningMedia - Nature Cat - Star Gazers -  VIEW and DO
• Grades K-5 - PBS LearningMedia - Ask MIT -Why Do Stars Twinkle and Move? -  VIEW
• Grades 4-8 - PBS LearningMedia - STEM in 30 -Stars and Exoplanets - VIEW
• Grades 5-8 - PBS LearningMedia - SciGirls - Star Power: Data Collection (Available in Spanish) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia -  Nova - The Elements: Forged in Stars (Available in Spanish) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Genius by Stephen Hawking: Chapter One - Number the Stars in the Milky Way - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Genius by Stephen Hawking: ChapterTwo - How Many Stars? - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Physics Girl - Five Amazing Stars - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - PBS Space Time - Strange Stars - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS Space Time - The Alchemy of Neutron Star Collisions - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video -  PBS Space Time - What Do Stars Sound Like? - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video -  PBS Space Time - Scientists Have Detected the First Stars - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia -It's Okay to Be Smart - How Many Stars Are There? - VIEW
• Grades 8-10 - PBS LearningMedia -  Spaced Out - Cooking With the Stars - VIEW
• Grades 8-10 - PBS LearningMedia -  Spaced Out - Stars and Galaxies and the Universe: Oh My! - VIEW
• Grades 8-10 - PBS LearningMedia -  Spaced Out - We Are All Made of Stars - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Crash Course Astronomy - Stars - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Crash Course Astronomy - Star Clusters - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Crash Course Astronomy - Neutron Stars - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Crash Course Astronomy - White Dwarfs & Planetary Nebulae - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Crash Course Astronomy - Low Mass Stars - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Crash Course Astronomy - High Mass Stars - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Crash Course Astronomy - Binary and Multiple Stars - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - NASA - The Formation of Stars (Available in Spanish) - VIEW and DO

Watch 

• 8-9 am NH WORLD - Human: The World Within - Birth
• 9-10 am NH WORLD - Human: The World Within - Pulse
• 10-11 am NH WORLD - Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change The World - Episode 2
• 12-12:30 pm NH WORLD - Illustrative Math - Gr. 6 - The Distributive Property, Part 1
• 12:30-1 pm NH WORLD - 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)
• 2-3 pm NH WORLD - Little Women On Masterpiece - Episode 1
• 3-4 pm NH WORLD - Little Women On Masterpiece - Episode 2
• 4-5 pm NH WORLD - Little Women On Masterpiece - Episode 3
• 8-10 pm NH WORLD - American Masters - Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir
• 9-11:30 pm NHPBS - Great Performances - Uncle Vanya

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