Hippos, Sea Turtles, and the New Deal - June 16

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Sunday, June 16, 2024

Today is Fathers' Day, World Sea Turtle Day, Fresh Veggies Day, and National Fudge Day.

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Ocean/River Month Resource of the Day
Today's Theme:  Hippos, Sea Turtles, and the New Deal
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ON THIS DATE

• 1858 - Abraham Lincoln delivers his House Divided speech in Springfield, Illinois.
• 1933 - FDR initiates the New Deal recovery program. 
• 1960 - Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" premieres.
• 1967 - The three-day Monterey International Pop Music Festival, featuring Jimi Hendrix, the Who, and Janis Joplin, opens in northern California
• 1963 - Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1713 - First governor of New Hampshire, Meshech Weare
• 1723 - Scottish economist Adam Smith
• 1738 - Publisher and printer Mary Katherine Goddard
• 1829 - Apache leader Geronimo
• 1890 - English actor and comedian Stan Laurel
• 1902 - Geneticist Barbara McClintock
• 1917 - Newspaper publisher Katharine Graham
• 1938 - Author Joyce Carol Oates
• 1955 - Actor Laurie Metcalf
• 1970 - Golfer Phil Mickelson
• 1971 - Rapper Tupac Shakur

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Gayla Peevey -  I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas - LISTEN
• Janis Joplin - Monterey Pop Festival - Ball and Chain - LISTEN
• Ravi Shankar at Monterey Pop Festival - LISTEN
• The Who - My Generation - LISTEN

OCEAN/RIVER RESOURCE OF THE DAY

Nature - Ocean Food Web: The Ocean's Greatest Feast - VIEW

THEME: Hippos

• Grades PreK-2 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Between the Lions - If You Were: Hippopotamus (1:14) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-adult - San Diego Zoo - Hippo Cam - VIEW
• Grades PreK-adult - Memphis Zoo - Hippo Cam - VIEW
• Grades K-4 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Wild Kratts  - Water Walking With a Hippo (2:11) - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-4 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Kratts Creatures -  Beware of Hippo (2:09) - VIEW
• Grades K-4 - PBS LearningMedia - Wild Kratts - Hippo's Home Turf (1:57) -  VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS Video - Wild Metropolis - Hippos Travel Into Town for an Easy Meal (1:31) - VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Nature - Hippos: Africa's River Giants - Hippos Battle Lions and Hyenas Over Carcass (2:59) - VIEW
  
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Nature - Hippos: Africa's River Giants -  Hippos Fight Over Territory (2:17) - VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Nature - Hippos: Africa's River Giants - Hippos Fight Off Hungry Birds (3:01) - VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Nature - Inside NATURE – Hippos: Africa's River Giants (7:27) - VIEW

THEME: Sea Turtles

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - T is for Turtle (1:46) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - 12 Tiny Turtles Song (1:18) - VIEW
• Grades K-5 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Wild Kratts - Seeing Sea Turtles (2:40) - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-5 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Wild Kratts - The Sea Turtle Hatch (1:25) - VIEW
• Grades K-5 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Kratts Creatures - The Arribada Experience (2:55) - VIEW
• Grades K-5 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Kratts Creatures - Baby Sea Turtle Journey to the Ocean (2:52) - VIEW
• Grades 3-5 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Dragonfly TV - Sea Turtles (7:32) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Padre Island National Seashore: Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtles (3:15) - VIEW
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - NOAA - Oceans Today - Saving Sea Turtles (1:24) - VIEW
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - NOAA - Oceans Today - Endangered Sea Turtles (2:41) - VIEW
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Saving a Species: Sea Turtles (30:08) - VIEW
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Kemps Ridley Sea Turtle (Available in Spanish) (5:25) - READ, VIEW, DO
• Grades 5-12 - NOAA Fisheries - Sea Turtles - READ
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nature - Cuba: The Accidental Eden: Sea Turtles (Available in Spanish) (5:20) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Georgia Sea Turtle Center (6:20) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Big  Pacific: Mysterious - Sea Turtle Arribada (4:39) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Eons - The Return of the Giant Skin-Shell Sea Turtles - (6:53) - VIEW

THEME: New Deal

• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - The Dust Bowl - Analyzing New Deal Policies: Relief (6:43) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - The Roosevelts - New Deal: FDR's First 100 Days (10:08) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - The Roosevelts - The Second New Deal: Programs for the People (2:46) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - Library of Congress - New Deal Classroom Primary Source Materials - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - American Experience:  FDR - New Deal Programs (5:38) - VIEW, READ, DO

WATCH

NHPBS - 11.1 Comcast (2/802) More Options

POETRY IN AMERICA - Phillis Wheatley: To the University
Sunday, 6/16 from 6;30-7 pm NHPBS
In 1770s Boston, Phillis Wheatley was at the same time enslaved and an international celebrity: a writer who mastered the most persuasive rhetoric of the day to publish enduring arguments about freedom. Inaugural poets Amanda Gorman and Richard Blanco, writer Clint Smith, and scholars Glenda Carpio and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. join host Elisa New to read two of Wheatley’s poems for public occasions. POETRY IN AMERICA Streaming Video

NH WORLD - 11.3 More Options

THE AMERICAN BUFFALO - Into the Storm
Sunday, 6/16 from 10 pm-12 am NH WORLD
By the late 1880s, the buffalo that once numbered in the tens of millions is teetering on the brink of extinction. But a diverse and unlikely collection of Americans start a movement that rescues the national mammal from disappearing forever. THE AMERICAN BUFFALO Streaming Video

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