Forests - March 21

Learning in the Trees

Monday, March 21, 2022

Today is International Day of Forests, World Poetry Day, and World Down Syndrome Day.

*Indicates a resource about a woman or women in celebration of Women's History Month.

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Forests

ON THIS DATE

• 1925 - The Butler Act prohibits the teaching of human evolution in Tennessee.
• 1952 - Alan Freed presents the Moondog Coronation Ball, the first rock and roll concert, in Cleveland, Ohio.
• 1965 - Martin Luther King Jr. leads a civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.
• 1980 - President Jimmy Carter announces a United States boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow to protest the Soviet–Afghan War.
• 2006 - Twitter is launched.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1685 - German composer Johann Sebastian Bach
• 1752 - Inventor Mary Dixon Kies *
• 1839 - Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky
• 1866 - Astronomer Antonia Maury *
• 1867 - Producer  Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr.

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Johann Sebastian Bach - Adagio - LISTEN
• Johann Sebastian Bach - Toccata and Fugue in D Minor BWV 565 - LISTEN

THEME:  Forests

• Grades 1-4 - PBS LearningMedia - Plum Landing - Finding Forests (3:23) - VIEW
• Grades 3-4 - PBS LearningMedia - Wild Kratts - Who Replants the Forest? (2:28) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 3-6 - PBS LearningMedia - Science Trek - Forests Collection - VIEW
• Grades 4-6 - PBS LearningMedia - DragonflyTV - Temperate Rain Forest (Available in Spanish) (7:05) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-6 - PBS LearningMedia - DragonflyTV - Scientist Profile: Forest Canopy Researcher (2:10) - VIEW
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS - Wildlife Journal Junior - NH Forests - READ
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS - Wildlife Journal Junior -Temperate Deciduous Forest - READ
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS - Wildlife Journal Junior - Rain Forests - READ
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS - Wildlife Journal Junior - NH Forests - READ
• Grades 5-8 - PBS Learning Media - The Forest Files (27:30)  - VIEW
• Grades 5-8 - PBS Learning Media - The Forest Files - The Forest and The Air Cycle (1:35) - VIEW
• Grades 5-8 - PBS Learning Media - The Forest Files - The Forest and The People (6:17) - VIEW
• Grades 5-8 - PBS LearningMedia - The Forest & The Soil Cycle (5:30) - VIEW

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