Dinosaurs and Quilts - March 18

Dinosaurs and Quilts - March 18

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Saturday, March 18, 2023

Today is Worldwide Quilting Day, National Sloppy Joe Day, Oatmeal Cookie Day, Play the Recorder Day, and World Sleep Day

Women's History Month Resource of the Day: BBC Idea: The True Story of Mary Anning the Girl Who Helped Discover Dinosaurs 

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Dinosaurs and Quilts
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ON THIS DATE

  • 1766 - The British Parliament repeals the Stamp Act.
  • 1937 - The New London School explosion in New London, Texas, kills 300 people, mostly children.
  • 1944 - Mount Vesuvius in Italy erupts, killing 26 people.
  • 1965 - Soviet cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov makes the first spacewalk.
  • 1990 - 12 paintings worth around $500 million, are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.

BIRTHDAYS

SONGS OF THE DAY 

  • Charley Pride - Kiss an Angel Goodmorning - LISTEN
  • Vanessa Williams - Save the Best for Last - LISTEN
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov- Flight of the Bumblebee - LISTEN
  • Queen Latifah - I Know Where I've Been - LISTEN

THEME:  Dinosaurs

  • Grades PreK-2 - Dinosaur Train  Web Site - VIEW and DO
  • Grades PreK-5 - PBS LearningMedia - Dinosaur Train Collection - VIEW, READ, DO
  • Grades K-6 - PBS LearningMedia - ScienceTrek - Dinosaur Basics - (5:51) VIEW and DO
  • Grades 1-5 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - The Adaptations that Helped a Giant Dinosaur Eat (5:13) - VIEW and DO
  • grades 3-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - Studying Adaptations for Walking in Dinosaurs (5:48) - VIEW and DO
  • Grades 4-6 - PBS LearningMedia - DragonflyTV - GPS: Dinosaurs (8:04) - VIEW and DO
  • Grades 5-12 - PBS LearningMedia - SciTech Now - Discussing Dinosaurs with a Paleontologist (5:42) - VIEW and DO
  • Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Birds Are Living Dinosaurs (5:24) - VIEW and DO
  • Grades 9-12- PBS LearningMedia - Eons - Inside the Dinosaur Library (7:18) - VIEW
  • Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Eons - The Case of the Dinosaur Egg Thief (7:28) - VIEW
  • Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Eons - The Raptor That Made Us Rethink Dinosaurs (8:36) - VIEW
  • Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Eons - The Giant Dinosaur That Was Missing a Body (12:01) - VIEW
  • Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Eons - Was This Dinosaur a Cannibal? (10:37) - VIEW
  • Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Eons - When Dinosaurs Chilled in the Arctic (9:20) - VIEW
  • Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Eons - An Illustrated History of Dinosaurs (12:20) - VIEW
  • Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Eons - The Facts About Dinosaurs & Feathers (10:01) - VIEW
  • Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Eons - What Colors Were Dinosaurs? (5:02) - VIEW
  • Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Eons - What a Dinosaur Looks Like Under a Microscope (8:09) - VIEW
  • Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Be Smart - The Dinosaur On Your Thanksgiving Table (10:16) - VIEW

THEME:  Quilts

  • Grades K-5 - EDSITEment - History in Quilts Lesson Plan - DO
  • Grades K-10 - PBS LearningMedia - Geometric Quilts in the Style of Martha Osborn (2:41) - VIEW and DO
  • Grades K-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Arts After School - Quilt Squares (4:03) - VIEW, READ, DO
  • Grades K-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Anna Von Mertens: Visual Arts - Quilting (10:32) - VIEW and DO 
  • Grades 1-2 - Mattatuck Museum - Faith Ringgold and Story Quilts Lesson Plan - DO
    Grades 2-8     - Southwest Educational Development Laboratory - Visual Arts Quilting Lesson Plan - DO
  • Grades 4-12 - PBS Learning Media - Quilts: Juanita Yeager (5:10) - VIEW, READ, DO
  • Grades 6-12 - New England Quilt Museum - VIEW and READ
  • Grades 6-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Craft in America - Painting with Fabric: How Two Artists Make Quilts (8:24) - VIEW and DO
  • Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Craft in America - Quilts (55:06) - VIEW
  • Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Picturing America - Quilts (6:13) - VIEW and DO
  • Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia -The Quilts of Ken Burns in 360° (4:50) - VIEW and DO

WATCH

NHPBS EXPLORE - 11.2 Comcast (801) More Options

SCIGIRLS - Feathered Friends
Saturday, 3/18 from 7:30-8 am NHPBS EXPLORE
Regina, Schuyler, and Anayia hit the streets of Denver to investigate what makes a good urban bird habitat, and transform a city school garden into a welcoming home for any flock of feathered friends. SCIGIRLS Streaming Video in English and Spanish

NH WORLD - 11.3 Comcast (965) More Options

P.O.V. - American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs
Saturday, 3/18 from 1:30-3 pm NH WORLD
Grace Lee Boggs was a Chinese American philosopher, writer, and activist in Detroit with a thick FBI file and a surprising vision of what an American revolution can be. Rooted in 75 years of the labor, civil rights, and Black Power movements, she challenged a new generation to throw off old assumptions, think creatively and redefine revolution for our times. P.O.V.Streaming Video

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