Ada Lovelace and Computers- October 12

Learning that Computes

Tuesday, October 12, 2021

Today is Ada Lovelace Day, National Farmer's Day, World Arthritis Day, and Pumpkin Pie Day.

This is National Metric Week, Earth Science Week, and Teen Read Week.

October is Apple Month, Chili Month, Down Syndrome Awareness Month, Dyslexia Awareness Month, Bullying Prevention Month, Country Music Month, National Arts & Humanities Month, Bat Appreciation Month, and Raptor Month.

On This Date
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme:  Ada Lovelace and Computers
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ON THIS DATE

• 539 - The army of Cyrus the Great of Persia takes Babylon, and ends the Babylonian empire.
• 1492 - Christopher Columbus' first expedition makes landfall in the Caribbean.
• 1692 - The Salem witch trials end.
• 1810- The citizens of Munich hold the first Oktoberfest.
• 1901 - President Theodore Roosevelt officially changes the name of the Executive Mansion to the White House.
• 1918 - The Cloquet fire in northern Minnesota kills 453 people.
  1960 - Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe on a desk at a session of the  U.N. General Assembly.
• 2000 - An al-Qaeda suicide bombing kills 17 sailors on the Navy destroyer Cole in Aden, Yemen.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1908 - Writer Ann Petry. Her debut novel, The Street, was the 1st novel by a Black woman to sell more than a million copies.
• 1916 - Writer and actor Alice Childress
• 1932 - Comedian and civil rights activist Dick Gregory
• 1935 - Italian opera singer Luciano Pavarotti

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Luciano Pavarotti - Nessun Dorma from Turandot - LISTEN
  

THEME:  ADA LOVELACE

• Grades 4-12 - BBC  - Newsround - Who Was Ada Lovelace? - READ
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Visionaries: Ada Lovelace (1:21) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - Computer History Museum - Ada Lovelace - READ 
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia -  Victoria, Season 2 - A Woman Mathematician (1:10) - VIEW and DO

THEME: COMPUTERS 

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Where Are the Computers in Your Neighborhood? (2:46) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-3 - PBS LearningMedia - Ready Jet Go!- Programming Computers (1:31) - VIEW
• Grades 2-6 - PBS LearningMedia - Computer Programmer (4:08) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 2-10 - PBS LearningMedia - MIT Science Out Loud - How to Make a Video Game (4:29) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 3-6 - PBS LearningMedia - Science Trek - Computers Collection (3:41) - VIEW
• Grades 6-8 - PBS LearningMedia - NOVA Wonders -Teaching Machines to See - Can We Build a Brain? (3:43)  - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - NOVA scienceNOW - Luis von Ahn: Computer Scientist (5:08) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Physics Girl -How Does Your Phone Send Emojis? (6:03) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Crash Course - Computer Science Collection (40 videos) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia -False Dawn: The Babbage Engine (5:37) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Origin of Everything - Why Are There So Few Women in Computer Science? (6:15)  -  VIEW

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NHPBS  - 11.1   Comcast (802)   Live Stream   More Options

• 6-6:30 am NHPBS - Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum - I Am James Naismith/I Am Temple Grandin
• 6:30-7 am NHPBS - Arthur - D.W.'S Time Trouble/Buster's Amish Mismatch
• 7-7:30 am NHPBS - Molly of Denali - The Night Manager/Not So Permafrost
• 7:30-8 am NHPBS - Wild Kratts - Speaking Dolphinese
• 8-8:30 am NHPBS - Hero Elementary - The Lake Mistake/Plant Problem
• 8:30-9 am NHPBS - Alma's Way - Coqui Quest/Chalk The Block
• 2:30-3 pm NHPBS - Let's Go Luna! - You Can't Move The Moon/Lizardzilla!
• 3-3:30 pm NHPBS - Nature Cat - Let's Talk Turkey Vulture/Prescription: Nature
• 9-10 pm NHPBS - Frontline - Taliban Takeover
• 10-11 pm NHPBS - Raising The Future: The Child Care Crisis

NHPBS EXPLORE  - 11.2   Comcast (801)   More Options

• 2:30-3 pm NHPBS EXPLORE - Elinor Wonders Why - Speedy Swimming/Strawberry Jam
• 3-3:30 pm NHPBS EXPLORE - Hero Elementary - The Lake Mistake/Plant Problem
• 3:30-4 pm NHPBS EXPLORE - Pinkalicious & Peterrific - Paintbrush Boy And Pencil Girl/Save A Tree
• 4-4:30 pm NHPBS EXPLORE - Let's Go, Luna! - Sign Of The Artist/The One And Only Ghana Kid
• 4:30-5 pm NHPBS EXPLORE - Odd Squad - Deposit Slip Up/Villains Always Win
• 5-5:30 pm NHPBS EXPLORE -  Wild Kratts - A Bat In The Brownies
• 5:30-6 pm NHPBS EXPLORE -  Molly of Denali - Grandpa's Drum/Have Canoe, Will Paddle

NH WORLD - 11.3   Comcast (965)  More Options

• 2-4 pm NH WORLD -  Baseball - Something Like A War
• 8-9;30 pm NH WORLD -  America ReFramed - We Like It Like That

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