Soil - December 5

Down and Dirty Learning

Thursday, December 5, 2024

Today is Day of the Ninja, International Volunteer Day, National Blue Jean Day, AFL-CIO Day, Communicate With Your Kids Day, and World Soil Day.

Winter Resource of the Day: Sesame Street Worm Winter Games

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

ON THIS DATE

• 1933 - Prohibition ends when Utah becomes the 36th state to ratify the 21st Amendment.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1782 - President Martin Van Buren
• 1822 - Naturalist Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz
• 1830 - Poet Christina Rossetti
• 1839 - Calvary officer George Armstrong Custer
• 1890 - Austrian film producer and director Fritz Lang
• 1901 - Movie producer Walt Disney

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Peter Gabriel - Digging in the Dirt - LISTEN
  

THEME: SOIL

• Grades PreK-1 - PBS LearningMedia - Sid the Science Kid -The Dirt on Dirt (3:11) - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-4 with Adult - Make Edible Dirt Cups (1:06) - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-8 - PBS LearningMedia - 60 Second Science - Soil Makers  (1:06) - VIEW and  DO
• Grades K-2 - PBS LearningMedia -What is Soil? (Available in Spanish) (2:19) - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-3 - PBS LearningMedia - Cyberchase - Soil Investigation (4:18) - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-4 - PBS LearningMedia - Wild Kratts - Saving Worms and Making Dirt (2:28)  - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-4 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature Cat - Mud Love (12:05) - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-6 - PBS LearningMedia - Science Trek - Soil Collection (3:29)  - VIEW 
• Grades 2-5 - NHPBS Video - Steve Trash Science - The Dirty Truth About Dirt (26:46)  - VIEW
• Grades 3-6 - PBS LearningMedia - Think Garden - Soil Composition (Available in Spanish) (2:26) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 3-12 - PBS LearningMedia - The Nature Conservancy - How Dirt Works (4:27) - VIEW
• Grades 4-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Quest - Why Soil Matters (1:41) - VIEW
• Grades 5-8 - PBS LearningMedia - The Forest & The Soil Cycle (Available in Spanish) (5:30) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Soil Microbes and Climate Change (3:55) - VIEW, READ, DO 
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - Making North America: The Ingredients for Soil (2:46) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Healthy Soil Systems (1:10) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Habitat Earth - The Living Soil Beneath Our Feet (2:49) - VIEW and DO

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