Sloths, Hagfish, and Statistics - October 20

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Wednesday, October 20, 2021

Today is International Sloth Day, Hagfish Day, International Chefs Day, and World Statistics Day.

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:  Sloths, Hagfish, and Statistics
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ON THIS DATE

• 1803 - The U.S. Senate ratifies the Louisiana Purchase.
• 1818 - The Convention of 1818 between the U.S. and the U.K. establishes the 49th parallel as the border between Canada and the U.S.
• 1947 - House Un-American Activities Committee begins an investigation into Communist infiltration of Hollywood.
• 1973 - In what is known as the Saturday Night Massacre,  U.S. Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus resign after refusing to fire special Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox. Cox is later fired by  US Solicitor General Robert Bork.
• 1977 - Lynyrd Skynyrd's lead singer Ronnie Van Zant, guitarist Steve Gaines, and backup singer Cassie Gaines are killed in a plane crash near McComb, Mississippi. 

BIRTHDAYS

• 1620 - Dutch painter Aelbert Cuyp
• 1632 - English architect Christopher Wren
• 1859 - Philosopher and psychologist John Dewey
• 1874 - Composer Charles Ives
• 1882 - Actor Bela Lugosi
• 1885 - Pianist, bandleader, and composer Jelly Roll Morton
• 1931 - Baseball player Mickey Mantle
• 1940 - Poet Robert Pinsky
• 1950 - Musician Tom Petty
• 1964 - Vice President Kamala Harris
• 1971 - Rapper Snoop Dogg

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Tom Petty - I Won't Back Down - LISTEN
• Jelly Roll Morton - Hesitation Blues - LISTEN
• Charles Ives - Central Park in the Dark - LISTEN
• Migos, KAROL G, Snoop Dogg & Rock Mafia – My Family  - LISTEN

THEME: SLOTHS

• PreK-K - PBS LearningMedia - Camp TV - Be Like a SLoth (6:36) - VIEW and DO
• PreK-2 - PBS LearningMedia - Paws for a Minute - Linne’s Two-Toed Sloth (1:00) - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-12 - Philadelphia Zoo - Live Sloth Cam - VIEW
  
• Grades K-3 - Wild Kratts - Sloth Creature Power (1:43) - VIEW
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS Wildlife Journal Junior - Pilosa - Anteaters, Sloths - READ
• Grades 3-5 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - Sloths in their Ecosystem (3:05) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - The Scientific Method: Sloth Sleep Study (8:12) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 3-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature -The Pygmy Sloth: A Specialized Species(2:24)  - VIEW and DO
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Eons - How Sloths Went From the Seas to the Trees (11:44) - VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Nature - Baby Sloth Nursed Back to Health (2:05) - VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Nature - Citizen Sloth Patrol to the Rescue (2:45) - VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Nature - Baby Pygmy Sloth Clings to Mom (2:51) - VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Nature - Three-toed Sloth: The Slowest Mammal On Earth (1:55)  - VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Nature - 'Spy Sloth' Meets Real Sloths (1:30) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Gross Science - Poop-Eating Sloth Moths (2:15) - VIEW 

THEME:  HAGFISH

• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS - Wildlife Journal Junior - Agnatha - Lamprey, Hagfish - READ
• Grades 6-12- PBS LearningMedia - Nova - Fabric from Hagfish Slime (Available in Spanish) (5:04) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12- PBS LearningMedia - Nova: Gross Science - Would You Wear Clothes Made of Slime? (1:48) - VIEW, READ, DO

THEME:  STATISTICS

• Grades K-8 Professional Development - Learner.org - Learning Math: Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability Series - VIEW
• Grades 5-7 Professional Development - PBS LearningMedia - Statistics: Whirlybirds (19:33) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 9-12 - Learner.org - Against All Odd: Inside Statistics - 36-part series - 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 Confucius/I Am Sacagawea
• 6:30-7 am NHPBS - Arthur - Prunella Sees The Light/Return Of The Snowball
• 7-7:30 am NHPBS -  Molly of Denali - The Worm Turns/Little Dog Lost
• 7:30-8 am NHPBS -  Wild Kratts - Parrot Power
• 8-8:30 am NHPBS - Hero Elementary - When Fur Flies / Pumpkin Palooza
• 8:30-9 am NHPBS -  Alma's Way - Beatbox Big Time/Super Sisters
• 9-10 am NHPBS - Cat in the Hat Knows A Lot About Halloween!
• 2:30-3 pm NHPBS - Let's Go Luna! - Monster Park!/Meet The Strongs
• 3-3:30 pm NHPBS - Nature Cat - Stop That Squirrel/Onward And Pondward
• 8-9 pm NHPBS - Nature - My Garden Of A Thousand Bees
• 9-10 pm NHPBS - Nova - Edible Insects
• 10-11 pm NHPBS - Secrets of the Dead - Magellan's Crossing
  

NHPBS EXPLORE  - 11.2   Comcast (801)   More Options

• 12-1:30 pm NHPBS EXPLORE - American Masters - Becoming Helen Keller
• 2:30-3 pm NHPBS EXPLORE - Elinor Wonders Why - Zig Zag Plant/Butterfly Drinks
• 3-3:30 pm NHPBS EXPLORE -  Hero Elementary - When Fur Flies / Pumpkin Palooza
• 3:30-4 pm NHPBS EXPLORE - Pinkalicious & Peterrific - Robotta's Singing Delivery Service/The Rhyme Off
• 4-4:30 pm NHPBS EXPLORE - Let's Go Luna! - Totally Totem/Glacier Or Bust
• 4:30-5 pm NHPBS EXPLORE - Odd Squad - Other Olympia/Total Zeros
• 5-6 pm NHPBS EXPLORE -  Wild Kratts: Creepy Creatures
• 6-7 pm NHPBS EXPLORE -  Curious George: A Halloween Boo Fest

NH WORLD - 11.3   Comcast (965)  More Options

• 8-9 am NH WOLD - America ReFramed - Deej
• 9-10 am NH WORLD - Hearts of Glass
• 10-11 am NH WORLD - Generation A: Portraits of Autism and the Arts
• 2-4:30 pm NH WORLD - Baseball - The Capital Of Baseball
• 8:30-10 pm NH WORLD - P.O.V. - La Casa De Mama Icha

NH KIDS - 11.5  Schedule   Live Stream   More Options

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