Attack on Pearl Harbor - December 7
Learning About Our History
Tuesday, December 7, 2021
Today is National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, Letter Writing Day, and National Cotton Candy Day
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Today's Theme: Attack on Pearl Harbor
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ON THIS DATE
- 1787 - Delaware becomes the first state to ratify the Constitution.
- 1796 - Electors choose John Adams over Thomas Jefferson as the second president of the U.S.
- 1836 - Martin Van Buren is elected the eighth president of the U.S.
- 1941 - Japan attacks the United States Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
- 1946 - A fire at the Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia kills 119 people, making it the deadliest hotel fire in American history.
- 1963 - Instant replay makes its debut during the Army-Navy football game in Philadelphia.
- 1972 - The last Apollo moon mission, Apollo 17, is launched.
- 1995 - The Galileo spacecraft, launched on October 18, 1989, arrives at Jupiter.
- 1873 - Author Willa Cather
- 1878 - Japanese poet Akiko Yosano
- 1928 - Linguist and philosopher Noam Chomsky
- 1942 - Singer-songwriter Harry Chapin
- 1949 - Singer-songwriter Tom Waits
- 1952 - Maine politician Susan Collins
- 1956 - Basketball player and Celtics Legend Larry Bird
- Grades K-5 - PBS Learning Media - Wyoming Voices - Pearl Harbor Day (7:24) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 4-12 - National Parks - Pearl Harbor National Memorial - READ and VIEW
- Grades 5-10 - PBS LearningMedia - The Attack on Pearl Harbor (1:58) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 6-12 - PBS NewsHour - Pearl Harbor Lessons - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 6-12 - National World War II Museum Educational Resources -VIEW, READ, DO, LISTEN
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Pearl Harbor First-Person Stories (Available in Spanish) (4:03) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearingMedia - Pearl Harbor USS Oklahoma: The Final Story (55:40) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearingMedia - Chapter 1- Pearl Harbor USS Oklahoma: The Final Story (8:54) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearingMedia - Chapter 2 - Pearl Harbor USS Oklahoma: The Final Story (8:08) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearingMedia - Chapter 3 - Pearl Harbor USS Oklahoma: The Final Story (8:06) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearingMedia - Chapter 4 - Pearl Harbor USS Oklahoma: The Final Story (10:14) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearingMedia - Chapter 5 - Pearl Harbor USS Oklahoma: The Final Story (8:40) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Pearl Harbor USS Oklahoma: The Final Story - Pearl Harbor Attack (7:11) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Pearl Harbor USS Oklahoma: USS Oklahoma Capsized (4:25) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Pearl Harbor USS Oklahoma: Missing Sailor (5:22) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Library of Congress - Pearl Harbor: Teaching with Primary Sources - VIEW, LISTEN, AND DO
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - The Roosevelts - FDR and Eleanor Roosevelt Respond to Pearl Harbor 96:49) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 7-9 - PBS LearningMedia - And Then They Came for Us -Pearl Harbor & Executive Order 9066 (2:42) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 7-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Into the Arizona - Chapter 1: Introduction (15:02) - VIEW
- Grades 7-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Into the Arizona - Chapter 2: World War: Pearl Harbor (10:04) - VIEW
- Grades 7-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Into the Arizona - Chapter 3: Battleship Row is Destroyed (11:15) - VIEW
- Grades 7-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Into the Arizona - Chapter 4: The Deeper Decks (8:22) - VIEW
- Grades 7-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Into the Arizona - Chapter 5: The Final Dive (10:49) - VIEW
- Grades 7-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Into the Arizona - History of the Arizona (1:30) - VIEW
- Grades 7-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Into the Arizona - Road to War and the Morning of the Attack (7:36) - VIEW
- Grades 7-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Into the Arizona - Arizona's Destruction (3:49) - VIEW
- Grades 7-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Into the Arizona - Aftermath of the Attack 97:09) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - The War - Pearl Harbor: The Attack (2:47) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Pearl Harbor Attack - Pearl Harbor USS Oklahoma: The Final Story (7:11) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - EDSITEment -The Road to Pearl Harbor Lesson Plan - READ and DO
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