Oceans - June 8

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Wednesday, June 8, 2022

Today is Best Friends Day, National Jelly-Filled Doughnut Day, Ghostbusters Day, and World Oceans Day,

June is Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Pride Month; National Oceans Month; National Rivers Month; and National Caribbean-American Heritage Month

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

ON THIS DATE

• 1789 - James Madison introduces twelve proposed amendments to the United States Constitution.
• 1861 - Tennessee secedes from the Union.
• 1906 - Theodore Roosevelt signs the Antiquities Act into law.
• 1949 - George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is published.
• 1953 - The Supreme Court rules in District of Columbia v. John R. Thompson Co. that restaurants in Washington, D.C., cannot refuse to serve black patrons.
• 1992 - The first World Oceans Day is celebrated.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1625 - Italian mathematician and astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini
• 1810 - German composer Robert Schumann
• 1858 - English mathematician Charlotte Scott
• 1867 - Architect Frank Lloyd Wright
• 1868 - Architect Robert Robinson Taylor
• 1925 - First lady Barbara Bush
• 1927 - Actor Jerry Stiller
• 1933 - Comedian Joan Rivers
• 1947 - Author Sara Paretsky
• 1955 - English computer scientist and inventor of the World Wide Web Tim Berners-Lee
• 1977 - Rapper Kanye West

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Robert Shumann - Traumerei - LISTEN
• Billie Eilish - Ocean Eyes - LISTEN
• Diana Krall - How Deep is the Ocean - LISTEN
• The Beatles - Yellow Submarine - LISTEN
• David Bowie - 1984 - LISTEN
• Billy Ocean - Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run) - LISTEN
• Ray Parker Jr. - Ghostbusters - LISTEN

THEME: Oceans

• Grades PreK-1- Sesame Street - All Around the Ocen Song (1:35) -  VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Love the Ocean Song (3:21)  - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Ocean Emotion (1:59) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-3  - Splash and Bubble Series Web Site  - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-6 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Science Trek - Ocean Collection - VIEW and DO
• Grades 1-3 - NHPBS Learning Media - Wild Kratts - Ocean Clips - VIEW
• Grades 5-8 - NHPBS Learning Media - Johnathan Bird's Blue World Collection -VIEW
• Grades 3-8 - NHPBS Video - NatureWorks - Marine Communities (14:46) -VIEW
• Grades 4-6 - PBS LearningMedia - Dragonfly TV - Ocean Engineer (2:42) - VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Saving the Ocean Series - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Reactions - Is It OK to Pee in the Ocean? (2:19) -VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - EONS - How Ancient Whales May Have Changed the Deep Ocean (10:05) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Be Smart - How Ocean Currents Work and How We Are Breaking Them (12:38) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Nova - Reef Rescue (53:21) - VIEW

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