Rainbows and Engineering - April 3

Learning with a Pot of Gold at the End

Thursday, April 3, 2025

Today is Burrito Day, Don't Go to Work Unless it's Fun Day, Chocolate Mousse Day, Film Score Day, Pony Express Day, Tweed Day, World Party Day, and Find a Rainbow Day.

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Poem of the Day - April is National Poetry Month
Today's Theme: Rainbows and Engineering

ON THIS DATE

• 1865 -  Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia.
• 1948 - President Truman signs the Marshall Plan.
• 1968 - Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1783 - Short story writer Washington Irving
• 1924 - Actor Marlon Brando
• 1926 - Astronaut Gus Grissom
• 1934 - English primatologist Jane Goodall
• 1958 - Actor Alec Baldwin
• 1961 - Actor and comedian Eddie Murphy

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Reading Rainbow Remixed - LISTEN
• Judy Garland - Somewhere Over the Rainbow - LISTEN
• Kermit the Frog - Rainbow Connection - LISTEN

POEM OF THE DAY 

• William Wordsworth -  My Heart Leaps Up
• Emily Dickinson - The Rainbow Never Tells Me
• Richard Blanco (Poet and Civil Engineer) - One Today - Poem for Barack Obama's Presidential Inauguration

THEME:  Rainbows

• Grades PreK-K - PBS LearningMedia - Sesame Street - Paper Woven Rainbow Craft - DO
• Grades PreK-K - NHPBS Video - Daniel Tiger - A Make Believe Rainbow World (0:56) - VIEW
• Grade PreK-1 - NHPBS Video - Reading Explorers - The Rainbow Fish: Let's Make a Rainbow Fish (14:05) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-5 - PBS LearningMedia - Everyday Learning - L'Arc  en Ciel/The Rainbow (2:32) - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-2 - PBS LearningMedia -  Making Rainbows Collection - VIEW
  
• Grades K-2 - PBS LearningMedia - The Ruff Ruffman Show - Rainbow Popsicles - DO
• Grades K-4 - NHPBS Video - Let's Learn - Catch a Rainbow (9:35) - VIEW
• Grades K-4 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature Cat - Tally Ho! A Rainbow (12:05)  - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-5 - PBS LearningMedia - Camp TV - Scavenger Hunt Rainbow (2:41) - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-5 - PBS LearningMedia - Camp TV - Walking Water Rainbow (6:17) - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-5 - PBS LearningMedia - Rainbow Gel (1:05) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Best Music Lesson Ever: What Makes “Over the Rainbow” Work? (6:00) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Be Smart - The Science of Rainbows (5:36) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12- PBS Learning Media - It's Okay To Be Smart - This Is Not a Rainbow (3:17) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12- PBS Learning Media - Physics Girl - How Rainbows Form (3:38) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12- PBS Learning Media - Physics Girl - How Rainbows with NO COLOR Are Possible (8:20) - VIEW

THEME:  ENGINEERING

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - James Marsden and Elmo - Engineering Automatic Spaghetti Server - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - PBS LearningMedia - Sesame Street - Word on the Street - Engineering Collection - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Elmo and Abby Investigate: Engineering a Bridge - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - PBS LearningMedia - Sesame Street - Murray Experiment: Build a Bridge (2:01) - VIEW
• Grade PreK-1 - PBS LearningMedia - The Cat in the Hat Knows A Lot About That - Building Bridges (Available in Spanish (13:43) - VIEW and DO
• Grade PreK-1 - PBS LearningMedia - The Cat in the Hat Knows A Lot About That - Design Time (Available in Spanish) (11:00) - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-3 - PBS LearningMedia - Curious George  STEM Collection - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-5 - PBS Learning Media - Teaching NGSS Engineering Design Through Media Collection - VIEW and DO
• Grades 3-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Dragonfly TV Engineering Collection - VIEW and DO
• Grades 5-12 - PBS LeearningMedia - NOVA: Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers Collection (Available in Spanish) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LerningMedia - NASA Physics and Engineering Collection - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LeaarningMedia - Biomedical Engineering - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LeaarningMedia - Aerospace Engineering Collection - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Quest - Engineering Is... Collection - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Engineering Your Future Collection - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Engineering for the Future Collection - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Engineering Technology: Value Engineer - VIEW, READ, DO

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