Sharks

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Friday, May 14, 2021

Today is Fintastic Friday: Giving Sharks A Voice, National Chicken Dance Day, National Buttermilk Biscuit Day and National Brioche Day.

May is Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month

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

• 1607 - Jamestown, Virginia is settled as an English colony.
• 1796 -  Edward Jenner administers his first smallpox inoculation.
• 1948 - Israel is declared an independent state.
• 1955 - Eight Communist bloc countries, sign the Warsaw Pact, a mutual defense treaty.
• 1961 - A white mob attacks a Freedom Riders bus near Anniston, Alabama, attacking the riders and fire-bombing the bus 
• 1973 - The space station Skylab is launched.
• 1998 - The final episode of Seinfeld airs.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1727 - English painter Thomas Gainsborough
• 1952 - Singer-songwriter David Byrne
• 1969 - Australian Cate Blanchett
• 1971 - Director and producer Sofia Coppola
• 1984 - Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg
• 1989 - Football player Rob Gronkowski

SONG OF THE DAY 

Talking Heads - Once in a Lifetime - LISTEN

THEME:  Sharks

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Cookie Shark - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Studios - Marvie Learns about Sharks - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Splash and Bubbles - Great White Shark - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Splash and Bubbles - Get Your Feet Wet: Whale Shark - VIEW
• Grades K-12 - Monterey Bay Aquarium - Shark Cam - VIEW
• Grades 1-5 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Kratts Creatures - The Tiger Shark - VIEW
• Grades 1-5 - Wild Kratts - Stuck on Sharks (Full Episode) - VIEW
  
• Grades 1-5 - Wild Kratts - Sharks - Predator and Prey - VIEW
• Grades 1-5 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Wild Kratts - Stuck on Sharks (Clips) - VIEW
• Grades 4-6 - NHPBS LearningMedia- Dragonfly TV - Scientist Profile: Shark Scientist (Available in Spanish) - VIEW
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS Wildlife Journal Junior - Chondrichthyes - Rays, Sharks, Skates, Chimaeras - READ and VIEW
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - NOAA - Researching Great White Sharks - VIEW
• Grades 5-10 - NHPBS LearningMedia - EARTH: A New Wild - Sharks & Shorelines (Available in Spanish) - VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - NOAA - Shark Conservation - READ
• Grades 6-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Shark Biology - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia - The Mysterious Hammerhead - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia - The Shark and the Lamprey - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia - The Shark and the Whale - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Blue Shark Adventure - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia - The Shark with the Tall Tail - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-8 - NHPBS Video - Autumn Watch New England - Great White Sharks - VIEW
• Grades 6-8 - NHPBS Video - Magical Land of Oz - Dusky Sharks Congregate to Feed - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Ocean Today - Endangered Sharks - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - QUEST- Whale Sharks - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - QUEST- The Great White Shark - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nature - The Secret World of Sharks and Rays: Shark and Turtle - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nature - The Secret World of Sharks and Rays: Shark in Our Future - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nature - Collapse of Sharks - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Shark Tagging - VIEW and DO
  
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Nature - Sharks of Hawaii - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Eons - Why Megalodon (Definitely) Went Extinct - VIEW
• Grades 8-12 - NHPBS Video - Gross Science - Why Most Sand Tiger Sharks Die in the Womb - VIEW

Watch 

• 8-9 am NH WORLD - Nova - Fighting For Fertility
• 9-10 am NH WORLD - Human: The World Within - Fuel
• 10-11 am - NH WORLD - Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change The World - Episode 3
• 11 am-11:30 am NH WORLD - FILMS BYKIDS
• 12-12:30 pm NH WORLD - Illustrative Math - Two Related Quantities
• 12:30-1 pm NH WORLD - Illustrative Math - Using Equations To Solve Problems
• 1-1:30 pm NH WORLD - Illustrative Math - Powers Of Powers Of Ten
• 1:30-2 pm NH WORLD - Illustrative Math - Solving Quadratic Expressions In Factored Form (Part 3)
• 2-3 pm NH WORLD - Unladylike2020: American Masters
• 3-5 pm NH WORLD - Lorraine Hansberry: American Masters
• 8-10 pm NH WORLD - American Masters - Oliver Sacks: His Own Life
• 9-10 pm NHPBS - Great Performances - The Arts Interrupted
• 10-11 pm NHPBS - We Are Family: Songs of Hope and Unity

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