Woodstock and Helium - August 18
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Thursday, August 18, 2022
- Today is Bad Poetry Day, Helium Discovery Day, National Ice Cream Pie Day, and National Fajita Day.
- August is National Wellness Month, National Sandwich Month, National Golf Month, National Water Quality Month, Black Business Month, International Pirate Month, and National Crayon Collection Month.
- Health and Wellness Resource: Arthur Family Health: Resilience
- Sandwich of the Day: BLT Sandwich with Homemade Mayonaise
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Woodstock and Helium
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ON THIS DATE
- 1590 - John White returns to the Roanoke Colony after making a trip back to Englan for supplies and finds it deserted.
- 1868 - French astronomer Pierre Janssen discovers helium.
- 1914 - President Wilson issues a Proclamation of Neutrality to keep the U.S. out of WWI.
- 1920 - The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, giving women the right to vote.
- 1963 - James Meredith becomes the first African American to graduate from the University of Mississippi.
- 1969 - Woodstock Music and Arts Festival ends with a set by Jim Hendrix.
- 1997 - Virginia Military Institute admits its first female student, Beth Ann Hogan.
- 1750 - Italian composer Antonio Salieri
- 1774 - Explorer and soldier Meriwether Lewis
1934 - Baseball great Roberto Clemente - 1936 - Actor Robert Redford
- 1952 - Actor Patrick Swayze
- 1969 - Actor Edward Norton
- 1978 - Actor and comedian Andy Samberg
- Grades PreK-3 - Nature Cat - Woodstock-Chella-Palooza! (2:23) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Digital Public Library - Primary Source Set: Rock 'n' Roll: Beginnings to Woodstock - VIEW and READ
- Grades 8-12 - NHPBS Video - American Experience - Woodstock Chapter One (9:59) - VIEW
- Grades 8-12 - NHPBS Video - American Experience - The Sound of Woodstock (6:27) - VIEW
- Grades 8-12 - NHPBS Video - American Experience - Max Yasgur: Woodstock’s Unexpected Champion (1:06) - VIEW
- Grades 8-12 - NHPBS Video - Northwest Now - Woodstock at 50 (25:44) - VIEW
- Grades 8-12 - TeachRock - Protest As Event Lesson Plan - DO
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS NewsHour - Santana on Woodstock at 50 (10:35) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS NewsHour - What Woodstock Meant for America's Culture of Rebellion (7:11) - VIEW
Theme: HELIUM
- Grades K-3 - NHPBS Video - Blueberry's Clubhouse - Exploring Helium, Hydrogen, and Nitrogen (3:13) - VIEW
- Grades 3-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Helium is Boring (2:17) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 4-12 - JLab - Helium - READ
- Grade 5-12 - Chem4Kids - Helium - READ
- Grades 6-12 - TedED - Helium - Periodic Table of Videos (4:45) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 7-12 - PBS Space Time - Challenge: What Happens to a Helium Balloon in Freefall? - VIEW
- Grades 7-12 - Nova - Hunting Elements (1:53:49) - VIEW
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- BIG PACIFIC- Voracious
Thursday, 8/18 from 2-3 pm NH WORLD
See how the challenge of finding food drives all life in the Pacific. Meet a destructive army of mouths, a killer with a hundred mouths and the biggest mouth in the ocean. For creatures large and small, every mouthful counts. BIG PACIFIC Streaming Video - BIG PACIFIC- Passionate
Thursday, 8/18 from 3-4 pm NH WORLD
See how the quest to multiply has spawned a stunning array of unusual behaviors and adaptations. View forest penguins with a tenuous marriage and the secret rendezvous of great white sharks, and hear the tale of male pregnancy. BIG PACIFIC Streaming Video - COLOMBIA: WILD AND FREE - From the Pacific to the Andes
Thursday, 8/18 from 4-5 pm NH WORLD
Journey to the largely uninhabited Pacific coast of Colombia, where humpback whales give birth and fish hunt crabs in the mangrove forests. Then ascend to snow-capped Andean volcanoes, home to stunning spectacled bears, condors, and hummingbirds. COLOMBIA: WILD AND FREE Streaming Video - ROCKIES: KINGDOMS OF THE SKY
Thursday, 8/18 from 7-8 pm NH WORLD
Experience the amazing wildlife and remarkable people who inhabit this 3,000-mile mountain range, home to cougars, wolverines, wolves and grizzlies. Daredevil wingsuit fliers jump from high peaks and Native Americans compete in breakneck horse races. KINGDOMS OF THE SKY Streaming Video - AMERICA REFRAMED - Perfectly Normal For Me
Thursday, 8/18 from 8-9 pm NH WORLD
Alexandria, Jake, Caitlin, and Veronica, ages 5 to 15, reveal what it's like to live with physical disabilities. Their parents search out opportunities where they are accepted and feel valued, such as an after-school dance program in Queens, New York. With the help of a loving community, including dedicated teenage volunteers, the students prepare for a spring recital. Throughout all, they become eloquent advocates for the powers of inclusion, respect, and empathy. AMERICA REFRAMED Streaming Video - GRETA THUNBERG: A YEAR TO CHANGE THE WORLD - Episode Two
Thursday, 8/18 from 9-10 pm NH WORLD
Follow Greta's journey from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, to Poland, where she speaks with miners who have lost their jobs. She also visits the UK, where she meets with one of her inspirations -- Sir David Attenborough. GRETA THUNBERG Streaming Video
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