National Parks - April 21

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Sunday, April 21, 2024

Today is Big Word Day, Go Fly a Kite Day, Kindergarten Day, and National Tea Day.

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Poem of the Day - April is National Poetry Month
Today's Theme: National Parks
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ON THIS DATE

• 753 BC - Romulus found Rome.
• 1836 - Texans led by Sam Houston defeated the Mexicans at San Jacinto.
• 1977 - Annie opens on Broadway.
• 2014 - Flint, Michigan switches its water source to the Flint River, beginning the Flint water crisis

BIRTHDAYS

• 1816 - English novelist Charlotte Brontë
• 1838 - Environmentalist John Muir
• 1926 - UK Queen Elizabeth II
• 1939 - Nun and activist Sister Helen Prejean
• 1947 - Singer-songwriter Iggy Pop

SONG OF THE DAY 

• Iggy Pop - Real Wild Child (Wild One) - LISTEN
• Annie - Tomorrow - LISTEN

POEM OF THE DAY 
Academy of American Poets - Imagine Our Parks with Poems

THEME:  National Parks

• Grades PreK-3 - PBS LearningMedia - Kid Vision - Biscayne National Park Field Trip (8:15) - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-12 - National Park Service - VIEW, DO, READ, EXPLORE
• Grades 2-12 - PBS LearningMedia - The National Parks of Texas Collection - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Ken Burns in the Classroom - National Parks Collection - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - The National Parks - A Film by Ken Burns - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - National Archives - Teaching with Primary Sources - Conservationism and the Creation of Our National Parks - DO

WATCH

NHPBS - 11.1 Comcast (2/802) More Options

POETRY IN AMERICA - Mushrooms, Weakness and Doubt
Sunday, 4/21 from 6:30-7 pm NHPBS
Poems by Sylvia Plath and Kay Ryan take the peripheral status of the fungal kingdom as an invitation to consider the scientific knowns and unknowns, and cultural significance, of mushrooms. POETRY IN AMERICA  Streaming Video

NH WORLD - 11.3 More Options

H2O: THE MOLECULE THAT MADE US - Pulse
Sunday, 4/21 from 7-8 pm NH WORLD
How did water arrive on Earth? How did it come to underpin every aspect of existence from dragonflies to deserts in bloom to human life? Dive in! H20: THE MOLECULE THAT MADE US Streaming Video

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