Dams - September 30

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Thursday, September 30, 2021

Today is Podcast Day, Mulled Cider Day, and World Maritime Day.

This is National Ballroom Dance Week.

September is National Square Dancing Month, National Food Safety Education Month, Classical Music Month, Library Card Sign-up Month, National Hispanic Heritage Month, National Save A Tiger Month, College Savings Month, and Be Kind To Editors & Writers Month.

On This Date
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme:  Dams
Watch

ON THIS DATE

• 1791 - Mozart's opera The Magic Flute premieres in Vienna, Austria.
• 1927 - Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a season.
• 1935 - The Hoover Dam is dedicated.
• 1946 -  An international military tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany, finds 22 Nazi leaders guilty of war crimes.
• 1955 - 24-year-old actor James Dean is killed in a car crash.
• 1962 - César Chávez founds the National Farm Workers Association.
• 1962- After three unsuccessful tries, Black student James Meredith registers for classes at the University of Mississippi.
• 1982 - Cheers premieres on NBC.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1207 - Persian poet Rumi
• 1883 - Suffragist and civil engineer Nora Stanton Barney
• 1917 - Drummer Buddy Rich
• 1924 - Author Truman Capote
• 1928 - Activist Elie Wiesel

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Woody Guthrie - Grand Coulee Dam  - LISTEN
• Buddy Rich - Drum Solo - LISTEN
• The Magic Flute - Queen of the Night Aria - LISTEN

THEME: DAMS

• Grades PreK-1 - PBS LearningMedia - Peep and the Big Wide World - Building Dams (1:27)  - VIEW
• Grades PreK-2 - PBS LearningMedia - Peep and the Big Wide World - Building a Dam Like a Beaver (1:29) - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-2 - PBS LearningMedia - Peep and the Big Wide World - Sharing Water Between Dams (1:30) - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-6 - PBS LearningMedia - Science Trek - Dams (3:41) - VIEW
• Grades 3-6 - PBS LearningMedia - Building Big - Dam Basics - READ
• Grades 3-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Building Big - The Hoover Dam and Hydroelectric Power (3:43) - READ, VIEW, DO
• Grades 3-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Building Big - The Hoover Dam (1:18) - READ, VIEW, DO
• Grades 3-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Building Big - The Dam Challenge - READ and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - American Experience - Grand Coulee Dam (5:45) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - American Experience - Hoover Dam - READ and VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - American Experience - Hoover Dam: Moving the Concrete (2:59) - VIEW
  
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - American Experience - The High Scalers of Hoover Dam (2:33) - VIEW
  
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - American Experience - Hoover Dam: Building Diversion Tunnels (2:47) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Quest - How Hydropower Dams Work - READ and VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - The Iconic Hoover Dam (9:46) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video -  Constitution USA with Peter Segal - We Can’t Go it Alone! (The Hoover Dam - Federal power during a crisis) (4:27) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Fort Peck Dam: Building the Dam (8:03) - VIEW and DO

Watch 

NHPBS  - 11.1   Comcast (802)   Live Stream   More Options

• 7:30-8 am NHPBS - Wild Kratts - To Touch A Hummingbird
• 8-8:30 am NHPBS -  Hero Elementary - Search And Rescue / Secret Lives Of Teachers
• 8:30-9 am NHPBS - Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum - I Am Albert Einstein/I Am Carol Burnett
• 2:30-3 pm NHPBS - Let's Go Luna! - Old School/Yankee Doodle Andy
• 3-3:30 pm NPBSS -  Nature Cat - Bunyan Trouble/Foggy Feat
• 8-9 pm NHPBS - Marching Forward
• 9-10:30 pm NHPBS - American Masters - Raul Julia: The World's A Stage
• 10:30-11:30 pm NHPBS -  Great Performances - John Leguizamo's Road To Broadway

NHPBS EXPLORE  - 11.2   Comcast (801)   More Options

• 12-1 pm NHPBS EXPLORE - Nova - The Cannabis Question
• 12-2 pm NHPBS EXPLORE - Life from Above - Moving Planet
• 4-4:30 pm NHPBS EXPLORE - Let's Go Luna! - Blue Orleans/Bonjour, Au Revoir, Adios
• 4:30-5 pm NHPBS EXPLORE - Odd Squad - Mission O Possible/Nature Of The Sand Beast
• 5-5:30 pm NHPBS EXPLORE - Wild Kratts - Neck And Neck
• 5:30-6 pm NHPBS EXPLORE - Molly of Denali - By Sled Or Snowshoe/The Shortest Birthday
• 8-9 pm NHPBS EXPLORE - Pride & Prejudice - Episode 6

NH WORLD - 11.3   Comcast (965)  More Options

• 11 am-12 pm NH WORLD - The Latino Experience - Episode 3
• 2-3 pm NH WORLD -  Marching Forward
• 3-4:30 pm NH WORLD - River City Drumbeat
• 7-8 pm NH WORLD - Nova - The Cannabis Question
• 8-10 pm NH WORLD - Citizen Hearst: An American Experience Special - Part One

NH KIDS - 11.5  Schedule   Live Stream   More Options

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