Bicycles, Eggs, Prairies, and Black Bears - June 3

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Saturday, June 3, 2023

Today is National Egg Day, National Gun Violence Awareness Day, National Donut Day, and World Bicycle Day.

June is Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Pride Month; National Oceans Month; National Rivers Month; and National Caribbean-American Heritage Month

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Ocean/River Resource of the Day
Today's Theme:  Bicycles, Eggs, Prairies and Black Bears
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ON THIS DATE

• 1943 - In Los Angeles, white Navy sailors and Marines attack Latino youths in the five-day Zoot Suit Riots. American Experience: Zoot Suit Riots - VIEW
• 1965 - Edward White becomes the first American to "walk" in space. 
• 2009 - New Hampshire becomes the sixth state to legalize same-sex marriage.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1897 - Singer-songwriter Memphis Minnie
• 1906 - Singer and dancer Josephine Baker 
• 1926 - Beat poet Allen Ginsberg
• 1936 - Novelist and screenwriter Larry McMurtry
• 1950 - Screenwriter Melissa Mathison
• 1967 - Journalist Anderson Cooper

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Queen - Bicycle Race - LISTEN
• Josephine Baker - Bye Bye Blackbird - LISTEN
• Memphis Minnie - When the Levee Breaks - LISTEN
  

OCEAN/RIVER RESOURCE OF THE DAY

Dragonfly TV - Rivers  - VIEW

THEME: Bicycles

• Grades PreK-1- Sesame Street - Murray Learns to Ride a Bike (4:13) -  VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Learning to Ride a Bike (1:18) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Making Music with Bike Instruments (1:35) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1  - Sesame Street - Cookie and Herry Share a Bike (1:24) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-2 - Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood - Daniel's New Bike (3:53) - VIEW
  
• Grades 3-8 - Design Squad - How Do Bike Gears Work? () - VIEW
• Grades 4-6 - PBS LearningMedia - Dragonfly TV - Mountain Bikes () - VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-6 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Dragonfly TV - Ice Bike - () VIEW and DO
  
• Grades 3-8 - NHPB Video - SCiGirls - Pedal Power () - VIEW
• Grades 6-12  - NHBS Video -  Winter Fat Tire Biking ()  - VIEW

THEME: Eggs

• Grades K-5 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Zoom - Making Eggs Float (3:03) - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-4 - Wild Kratts - Egg Rescue (3:37) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Eons - The Case of the Dinosaur Egg Thief (7:28) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Eons - How the Egg Came First (8:44)  - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - It's OK to Be Smart-  Why Don't Birds Lay Square Eggs? (7:22) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Nature - The Egg: Life's Perfect Invention (53:29) - VIEW

THEME: Black Bears

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Do the Bear (2:37) - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-1 - PBS LearningMedia - Super Why - Goldilocks and The Three Bears (25:25) - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-6 - PBS LearningMedia - Science Trek - Bears (5:25)  - VIEW and DO
• Grades 1-5 - PBS LearingMedia - Kratts Creatures - Bear Camping (1:20) - VIEW
• Grades 1-5 - PBS LearingMedia - Kratts Creatures - Bear-ly Swimming  (1:41) - VIEW
• Grades 3-12 -  NHPBS - Wildlife Journal Jr. - Black Bear - READ
• Grades 5-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Untamed - Black Bears (26:45) - VIEW, READ and DO

THEME: PRAIRIES

• Grades PreK-1- Sesame Street  - Monsterpiece Theater - Little Prairie on the Prairie (2:31) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-2 - Nature Cat  - The Prairie is Awesome  (2:34) - VIEW 
• Grades PreK-2 - Nature Cat - Speaking Prairie Chicken  (2:38) - VIEW
• Grades K-4 - Wild Kratts - Bison Roadblock (1:44) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 2-6 - EEK! - What is a Prairie? - READ
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Vegetation on the Prairie (3:54) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Wetlands: A Prairie Slough (1:31) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Biodiversity on the Prairie (3:21) - VIEW

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NHPBS - 11.1 Comcast (802) Live Stream More Options

GRANITE STATE CHALLENGE - Fall Mountain Regional v. St. Thomas Aquinas
Friday, 6/2 from 5:30-6 pm NHPBS
GRANITE STATE CHALLENGE Streaming Video

NHPBS EXPLORE - 11.2 Comcast (801) More Options

SCIGIRLS - Cartoon Coders
Saturday, 6/3 from 7:30-8 am NHPBS EXPLORE
Three girls act on their passion for technology and social justice by creating a computer animation urging children to take action in their own communities. SCIGIRLS Streaming Video in English and Spanish

NH WORLD - 11.3 Comcast (965) More Options

WE'LL MEET AGAIN - Coming Out
Saturday, 6/3 from 7-8 pm NH WORLD
Join Ann Curry as those whose lives were changed by the early days of the gay rights movement reunite. Tom wants to find the childhood friend who urged him to come out, while Paul Tosi recounts how fellow University of New Hampshire student, Wayne April, set up the first Gay Student Organization on campus. The newly formed organization received backlash from the local Governor Meldrim Thomson. WE'LL MEET AGAIN Streaming Video

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