Beavers - April 7

Learning You Can Gnaw On

Sunday, April 7, 2024

Today is Coffee Cake Day, Geologists Day, International Beaver Day, Metric System Day, Beer Day, Handmade Day, No Housework Day, Public Television Day, World Health Day, and World Health Organization Day.

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

ON THIS DATE

• 1862 - Union forces led by Gen. Ulysses S. Grant defeat the Confederates at the Battle of Shiloh in Tennessee.
• 1927 - An image and the voice of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover are transmitted from Washington to New York in the first inter-city demonstration of television.
• 1940 - Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to be depicted on a United States postage stamp.
• 1948 - The World Health Organization is established by the United Nations.
• 1949 - The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific opens on Broadway.
• 2009 - Vermont becomes the fourth state to legalize same-sex marriage.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1770 - English poet William Wordsworth
• 1915 - Singer Billie Holiday
• 1918 - Baseball player Bobby Doerr
• 1920 - Sitar player Ravi Shankar
• 1938 - Politician Jerry Brown
• 1939 - Producer and director Francis Ford Coppola

SONGS OF THE DAY 

Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit- LISTEN
Billie Holiday - They Can't Take That Away From Me - LISTEN
Ravi Shankar - Morning Raga - LISTEN

POEM OF THE DAY 
William Wordsworth - I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

THEME:  Beavers

• Grades K-2 - PBS LearningMedia - Building a Dam Like a Beaver (1:29) - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-5 - PBS LearningMedia - Beaver Dams (4:42) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 1-3 - PBS LearningMedia - Wild Kratts - Building a Beaver Pond (1:49) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 1-5- PBS LearningMedia - Kratts Creatures - Beavers Have Lumberjack Teeth (2:32) - VIEW
• Grades 3-4 - PBS LearningMedia - Wild Kratts - Beavers Have Refrigerators? (1:45) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 3-5 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - Beavers: Nature’s Architects (4:05) - VIEW
• Grades 3-8 - NHPBS - NatureWorks - Beavers - READ and VIEW
• Grades 3-8 - NHPBS - NatureWorks - Adaptation - Upclose look at the Beaver (14:45) -  VIEW
• Grades 4-7 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - Hardworking Builders (2:48) - VIEW and READ
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - Rescuing and Relocating Beavers (6:05) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - Benefits of Beaver Ponds and Lodges (3:53) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - American Experience - The Pilgrims: The Beaver Trade and Colonial New England (4:34) - VIEW, READ, DO

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