Kangaroos and Endangered Species - May 15

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Friday, May 15, 2026

Today is International Kangaroo Care Awareness Day, Bring Flowers to Someone Day, Dinosaur Day, Endangered Species Day, International Day of Families, National Chocolate Chip Day, NASCAR Day, National Pizza Party Day, and Straw Hat Day.

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Poem of the Day
Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month Resource of the Day
Today's Theme: Kangaroos and Endangered Species

ON THIS DATE

• 1911 - The Supreme Court rules that Standard Oil is a monopoly under the Sherman Antitrust Act and orders that it be broken up.
• 1941 - Joe DiMaggio begins a 56-game hitting streak.
• 1970 - President Richard Nixon appointed Anna Mae Hays and Elizabeth P. Hoisington as the first female Army generals.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1567 - Italian composer and priest Claudio Monteverdi
• 1689 - English writer Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
• 1856 - Wizard of Oz writer L. Frank Baum
• 1857 - Astronomer Williamina Fleming
• 1859 - French physicist Pierre Curie
• 1890 - Writer Katherine Anne Porter
• 1909 - English actor James Mason
• 1923 - Photographer Richard Avedon
• 1930 - Artist Jasper Johns
• 1936 - Playwright and novelist Paul Zindel
• 1937 - Politician and diplomat Madeleine Albright

SONG OF THE DAY 

Men At Work - I Come From a Land Down Under - LISTEN

POEM OF THE DAY 

Edward Lear - The Duck and the Kangaroo

ASIAN AMERICAN & PACIFIC ISLANDER HERITAGE MONTH RESOURCE OF THE DAY

Pacific Heartbeat

THEME:  Kangaroos

• Grades PreK-K - PBS LearningMedia - Paws for a Minute - Tree Kangaroo (1:00) - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Five Kangaroos with Jessica Mauboy! (1:53) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Kangaroo Blues (1:52) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-12 - Sydney Zoo - Australian Wildlife Videos - VIEW
• Grades K-2 - PBS LearningMedia - Wild Kratts - Kicking It With the Roos (26:26) - VIEW
• Grades K-4 - PBS LearningMedia - Camp TV - Kangaroos (4:27) - VIEW
• Grades K-4 - PBS LearningMedia - Wild Kratts - Kickboxing Kangaroos (2:14) - VIEW
• Grades K-4 - PBS LearningMedia - Wild Kratts - Macropod Mania (2:14) - VIEW
• Grades K-6 - PBS LearningMedia - Cartoon Academy - Kangaroo and Joey Too (6:12) - VIEW And DO
• Grades 3-12 - NHPBS NatureWorks - Kangaroos and Wallabies - READ
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - Kangaroo Island: Australian Bushfire Rescue (9:34) - VIEW, READ, DO

THEME: Endangered and Threatened Species

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Elmo's World - Wild Animals (17:51) - VIEW
• Grades K-5 - PBS LearningMedia - Wild Kratts - Extinction Collection - VIEW
• Grades K-5 - Wild Kratts - Endangered Breakfast (1:43) - VIEW
• Grades 3-4 - PBS LearningMedia - Wild Kratts - Jump Back in Time (2:22) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 3-5 - PBS Learning Media - Ferret Town (27:23) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 3-8 - NHPBS Instructional Video - NatureWorks - Life at Risk (14:49) - VIEW
• Grades 4-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Science Trek - Endangered Species Collection - VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Science Trek - Endangered Species Q&A Collection - VIEW and DO
  
• Grades 4-12 - U.S. Fish and Wildlife - Endangered and Threatened Species - READ
• Grades 4-12 - World Wildlife Fund - Endangered Species - READ
• Grades 4-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Ocean Today - Endangered Sea Turtles (2:41) - VIEW
• Grades 6-9 - PBS LearningMedia - Saving the Endangered Hellbender Salamander (5:26) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Plight of the Grassland Birds (56:45) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Plants: The Endangered Species (26:45) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Above the Noise -  Endangered Species: Worth Saving from Extinction? (7:00) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Ocean Today - Endangered Sharks (2:15) - VIEW 
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Quest - Salt Creek Tiger Beetles (6:34) - VIEW and DO

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