Microscopes - October 24

Learning Under the Lens

Sunday, October 24, 2021

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On This Date
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme:  Microscopes
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ON THIS DATE

• 1260 - The Chartres Cathedral is dedicated.
• 1648 - The Peace of Westphalia is signed ending the Thirty Years' War and bringing peace to and the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire.
• 1901 - Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
• 1945 - The United Nations charter takes effect.
• 1946 - A camera on V-2 No. 13 rocket takes the first photograph of earth from outer space.
• 1949 - The cornerstone of the United Nations Headquarters is laid.
• 1954 - President Eisenhower pledges U.S. support to South Vietnam.
• 1974 - 90% of the women in Iceland join a national strike protesting gender inequality.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1632 - Dutch microbiologist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
• 1788 - Author, editor, poet, and Newport, New Hampshire native Sarah Josepha Hale
• 1838 - Stuntwoman and schoolteacher Annie Edson Taylor
• 1947 - Actor Kevin Kline

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Peter Weatherall - Microorganisms Song - LISTEN

THEME: Microscopes

• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS Video - Wanko Microscopic Organisms (3:20) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Quest - Microscopes for the Masses (3:13) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Quest -  Diagnosing Diseases with Origami Microscopes (5:07)  - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Quest - X-ray Microscope: Seeing Cells in 3D (10:22) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Gross Science - See Microbes with This DIY Phone Microscope (10:41) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - How We Got to Now - Lens Making, the Microscope, and the Telescope (4:03) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia -Inside Science - Turn your Smartphone into a Science Lab (1:50) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - SciTech Now - The Half-Mile Long Microscope (7:27) -  VIEW and DO
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - SciTech Now - How a Microscope Has Revolutionized Our View of Cells (7:47) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Eons - What a Dinosaur Looks like under a Microscope (8:09) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - University Place - Visualizing Science (46:01) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Meet the indestructible Tardigrade (4:04) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS NewsHour - Every Kid Can Afford a Microscope. Here's How (3:30) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - A World Without Microbes: An Apocalyptic Thought Experiment (7:01) - VIEW

Watch 

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• 6-6:30 am NHPBS - Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Musical Games/Talking About Feelings
• 6:30-7 am NHPBS - Molly of Denali - Spring Carnival/Tooey's Hole-I-Day Sweater
• 7-7:30 am NHPBS - Let's Go Luna! - Monster Park!/Meet The Strongs
• 7:30-8:30 am NHPBS - Arthur and the Haunted Tree House
• 8:30-9 am NHPBS - Nature Cat - Stop That Squirrel/Onward And Pondward
• 9-9:30 am NHPBS - SciGirls - Terrific Trees
• 9:30-10 am NHPBS - Cyberchase - Soil Turmoil
• 10-10:30 am NHPBS - Odd Squad - Haunt Squad/Safe House In The Woods
• 4-6 pm NHPBS - Ken Burns: The National Parks
• 7:30-8 pm NHPBS - It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown

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• 9-10 am NH WORLD - America ReFramed - Deej
• 10-11 am NH WORLD - Hearts of Glass
• 8-9 pm NH WORLD - Nature - My Garden Of A Thousand Bees

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