Brown v. Board of Education nd Endangered Species - May 17

Learning About Our History

Friday, May 17, 2024

Today is Endangered Species Day, Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia & Biphobia, NASCAR Day, Cherry Cobbler Day, Pack Rat Day, Pizza Party Day, Walnut Day, O. Henry Pun-Off Day, Pinot Grigio Day, and Telecommunication Day.

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month Resource of the Day
Today's Theme: Brown v. Board of Education
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ON THIS DATE

• 1792 - The New York Stock Exchange is formed
• 1875 - Aristides wins the first Kentucky Derby.
• 1900 - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum, is published.
• 1954 - The Supreme Court hands down a 9-0 decision in Brown v. Board of Education outlawing racial segregation in public schools.
• 1973 - The U.S. Senate begins the Watergate hearings.
• 2004 - Massachusetts becomes the first state to allow same-sex marriage.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1749 - English physician Edward Jenner
• 1794 - British author Anna Brownell Jameson
• 1903 - Baseball player Cool Papa Bell
• 1912 - Inventor Mary Beatrice Davidson Kenner
• 1936 - Actor Dennis Hopper
• 1939 - Author Gary Paulsen
• 1965 - Sing-songwriter and producer Trent Reznor

SONG OF THE DAY 

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Teach Your Children - LISTEN

ASIAN AMERICAN & PACIFIC ISLANDER HERITAGE MONTH RESOURCE OF THE DAY
Anti-Filipino Sentiment of the Early 1900s

THEME:  Brown v. Board of Education

• Grades 3-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Segregated Schooling in South Carolina (2:47) - VIEW and READ
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - A More or Less Perfect Union - Brown vs. Board of Education (4:11) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Civil Rights Movement: Educational Equality (6:47) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 5-12 - The Kennedy Center - Norman Rockwell + The Problem We All Live With - READ
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - American Experience - Simple Justice 1: A Handful of Lawyers (6:57) - VIEW and READ
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - American Experience - Simple Justice 2: Social Science Evidence (5:44) - VIEW and READ
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - American Experience - Simple Justice 3: The Trial Begins (6:44)- VIEW and READ
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - American Experience - Simple Justice 4: Arguing the Fourteenth Amendment (5:50) - VIEW and READ
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - American Experience - Simple Justice 5: Marshall's Closing Statement (5:26) - VIEW and READ
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Brown v. Board of Education and Jackie Robinson's Push for Equality (4:19) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - National Archives - Brown v. Board of Education (1954) and Resource Materials - READ
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS NewsHour - In Southern Schools, Segregation & Inequality Aren’t History (6:46) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - 60 Years On, School Segregation Isn’t Yet American History (19:22) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Basic Black - Brown v. Board and the Return of Segregation? (26:46) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - The Future of America's Past - School Interrupted (27:02) - View
• Grades 7-12 - U.S. Courts - History - Brown v. Board of Education Re-enactment - DO
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Frontline - Separate and Unequal (53:41) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow - Charles Hamilton Houston: Laying the Groundwork for Integration (2:19) - 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 - NHPBS Video - Endangered Species: Worth Saving from Extinction? () - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Above the Noise -  Endangered Species: Worth Saving from Extinction? (7:00) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearingMedia - Ocean Today - Endangered Sharks (2:15) - VIEW 
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Quest - Salt Creek Tiger Beetles (6:34) - VIEW and DO

WATCH

NHPBS - 11.1 Comcast (2/802) More Options

GREAT PERFORMANCES - Audra McDonald at the London Palladium 
Friday, 5/17 from 9 -10:30 NHPBS
Enjoy Broadway hits and more performed by the six-time Tony Award winner including "I Am What I Am," "Climb Every Mountain," "Summertime," "Everything's Coming Up Roses" and many more. GREAT PERFORMANCES Streaming Video

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THE STORY OF CHINA WITH MICHAEL WOOD - The Last Empire/The Age of Revolution  
Friday, 5/17 from 9-11 pm NH EXPLORE
Journey back in time to see the splendor of the last Chinese dynasty, the Qing. Witness the fateful First Opium War, which sparked the fall of the empire, and, after the 20th-century revolutions, the birth of today's China. THE STORY OF CHINA Streaming Video

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