Worms and Rembrandt - July 15

Digging Some Summer Learning

Friday, July 15, 2022

Today is Be A Dork Day, Gummi Worm Day, National Give Something Away Day, and Saint Swithin's Day.

July is National Parks & Recreation Month and National Ice Cream Month.

National Natural Wonder: Colorado - Black Canyon of the Gunnison

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Worms and Rembrandt

ON THIS DATE

• 1799 - The Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta
• 1815 - Napoleon Bonaparte surrenders to the British.
• 1834 - The Spanish Inquisition officially ends after close to 356 years.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1606 - Dutch artist Rembrandt Van Rijn
• 1779 - Poet Clement Clarke Moore
• 1796 - Mythologist Thomas Bulfinch
• 1946 - Musician Linda Ronstadt

SONG OF THE DAY 

• Linda Ronstadt - Tracks of My Tears - LISTEN
• ABBA - Waterloo - LISTEN

THEME: WORMS

• Grades PreK-K - NHPBS LearningMedia - Between the Lions - Wonderful Worms (6:06) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1- Sesame Street - Worm Reggae (2:20) -  VIEW
• Grades PreK-1- Sesame Street - Wiggldy Worm Song! (0:43)- VIEW
• Grades PreK-3 - Crafts for Kids - Build a Worm Hotel (1:32) - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-1 -  Sesame Street -The Worm Winter Games (57:07)- VIEW
  
• Grades K-1 - NHPBS Video - Read Write Roar - Worms, Worms, Worms! (26:45) -VIEW and DO
• Grades K-2 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Wild Kratts - Worm Alert (2:12) - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-2 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Wild Kratts - Worm Slime (1:11) - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-2 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Wild Kratts - Earthworms (26:25) - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-3 - NHPBS Video - Up Close and Natural - Animals Without Backbones (13:02) - VIEW
  Grades K-3 - NHPBS Video - Hodgepodge Lodge - Animals without Backbones (28:56) - VIEW
• Grades K-3 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nature Cat - Ze Worm Whisperer (11:05) - VIEW
• Grades 3-5 - NHPBS LearningMedia - DragonflyTV - Worm Farm (4:10) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 3-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia -  Wonderful Worms (3:41) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 3-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Compost Worms (8:24) - VIEW
  
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS Wildlife Journal Junior - Annelida - Segmented Worms - READ
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - The Shape of Life - Annelid Animation: Body Plan (1:05) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Lens of Time: Velvet Worms - Secret of the Slime (7:40) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Gross Science - Death of Dragon Worms (2:47) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - I Contain Multiutdes - How Giant Tube Worms Survive at Hydrothermal Vents (10:20) - VIEW

THEME: REMBRANDT

• Grades 8-12 - NPR - An Intersection Of Science And Art In Rembrandt's 'Anatomy Lesson' - VIEW and READ
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS NewsHour - For the First Time, 'All the Rembrandts' Are on Display (8:28) - VIEW
• Grades Adults - National Endowment for the Humanities - Teaching Rembrandt - READ
• Grades 9-12 - The Met - Rembrandt (1606–1669): Paintings - READ and VIEW

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