Rachel Carson and Wolves - May 27

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Monday, May 27, 2024

Today is National Grape Popsicle Day and Cellophane Tape Day.

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Rachel Carson and Wolves
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ON THIS DATE

• 1647 - In Hartford Connecticut,  Alse Young becomes the first person executed as a witch in the colonies.
• 1703 -  Tsar Peter the Great founds the city of Saint Petersburg.
• 1896 - The F4-strength St. Louis–East St. Louis tornado hits St. Louis, Missouri, and East St. Louis, Illinois, killing at least 255 people.
• 1930 - The 1,046 feet Chrysler Building in New York City opens, at the time it was the tallest building in the world.
• 1933 - Walt Disney releases the cartoon Three Little Pigs, with its hit song "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?"
• 1937 - The Golden Gate Bridge opens.
• 1941 - The German battleship Bismarck is sunk by the British navy in the North Atlantic killing 2,100.
• 2006 - The Yogyakarta earthquake in central Java leaves 5,700 dead and 37,000 injured.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1794 - Businessman and philanthropist Cornelius Vanderbilt
• 1818- Woman's rights activist Amelia Bloomer
• 1819 - Poet and activist Julia Ward Howe
• 1907 - Environmentalist and author Rachel Carson
• 1911 - Actor Vincent Price
• 1912 - Author John Cheever
• 1923 - Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger
• 1971 - Rapper Lisa Lopes
• 1975 - Rapper André 3000

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Duran Duran - Hungry Like the Wolf - LISTEN
• TLC - Waterfalls - LISTEN
• Outcast - Hey Ya - LISTEN

THEME:  Rachel Carson

• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Rachel Carson: Voice of Nature (56:46) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - American Experience - Rachel Carson - Chapter One (8:59) - VIEW
  
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - American Experience - Rachel Carson's Silent Spring (4:48) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - American Experience: Rachel Carson - Lessons from Silent Spring for Controlling Disease (12:30) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - American Experience: Rachel Carson - Pesticide Early Warnings (5:16) - VIEW and DO

THEME:  Wolves

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Catching the Big Bad Wolf (3:51) - VIEW 
  
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Big Sad Wolf (4:38) - VIEW 
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Kermit Casts the Big Bad Wolf (2:31) - VIEW 
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street -The New Three Little Pigs Story (3:35) - VIEW 
  
• Grades K-5 - Wild Kratts - Running Like Wolves Collection - VIEW
• Grades K-5 - Wild Kratts - Howl Like a Wolf (1:23) - VIEW
  
• Grades K-5 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nature - Arctic Wolf Cubs Learn Pack Behavior (2:34) - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-5 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Wild Kratts - Wolfpack in the Woods (1:06) - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-5 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Science Trek - Wolves (5:10) - VIEW and DO
  
• Grades 3-5 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Wild Kratts - Keeping Up With the Wolfpack (2:10) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 3-5 - NHPBS LearningMedia - DragonflyTV - Wolves (7:07) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 3-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Earth: A New Wild - Wolves of Yellowstone (Available in Spanish) (5:19) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Saving a Species - Wolves (27:44) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Wolves: The Ecology of Fear (7:02) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Eons - Life, Sex & Death Among the Dire Wolves (9:15) - VIEW

WATCH

NHPBS EXPLORE - 11.2 Comcast (801) More Options

SCIGIRLS - Super Sensors
Saturday, 5/27 from 7:30-8 am NHPBS EXPLORE
Inspired by high-tech NASA sensor technology, SciGirls in Los Angeles design and code wildlife cameras to capture animals in their neighborhood. SCIGIRLS Streaming Video in English and Spanish

NH WORLD - 11.3 Comcast (965) More Options

INDEPENDENT LENS: Writing With Fire
Saturday, 5/27 from 6:30-8 pm NH WORLD
Meet the women journalists of India's only all-female news network, who risk everything in a male-dominated world to uncover their country's political inequities. INDEPENDENT LENS Streaming Video

AMERICAN MASTERS - Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir
Saturday, 5/27 from 8-10 pm NH WORLD
Explore the life of the groundbreaking author of "The Joy Luck Club" in this intimate portrait. Archival imagery, home movies, photographs, animation, and original interviews create a vivid, colorful journey through Tan's inspiring life and career. AMERICAN MASTERS Streaming Video

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