Sharks - July 14
We're Going to Need a Bigger Boat Learning
Sunday, July 14, 2024
Today is Bastille Day, National Macaroni and Cheese Day, National Tape Measure Day, Shark Awareness Day, Barn Day, and Pandemonium Day.
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
National Park Month Resource of the Day
Ice Cream Month Resource of the Day
Today's Theme: Sharks
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ON THIS DATE
- 1789 - Citizens of Paris storm the Bastille.
- 1798 - The Sedition Act becomes law in the U.S.
- 1965 - Mariner 4 takes the first close-up picture of another planet on a flyby of Mars
- 1834 - Artist James McNeill Whistler
- 1858 - English suffragist Emmeline Parkhurst
- 1862 - Artist Gustav Klimt
- 1912 - Musician Woody Guthrie
- 1913 - President Gerald Ford
- 1918 - Swedish producer and director Ingmar Bergman
NATIONAL PARK MONTH RESOURCE OF THE DAY
Dry Tortugas National Park, Florida - GO
ICE CREAM MONTH RESOURCE OF THE DAY
The Science of Ice Cream - VIEW
- Grades PreK-12 - Monterey Bay Aquarium - Shark Cam - VIEW
- Grades PreK-1- Sesame Street - Cookie Shark (2:18) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-2 - Splash and Bubbles - Shark Experts (1:52) - VIEW
- Grades K-4 - Wild Kratts - Stuck on Sharks (26:46) - VIEW
- Grades K-4 - Wild Kratts - Sharks: Predator and Prey (21:34) - VIEW
- Grades 3-12 - Ocearch - Shark Tracker - TRACK
- Grades 3-5 - NHPBS LearningMedia - DragonflyTV - California Fish (Available in Spanish) (7:27) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 3-6 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Dragonfly TV - Shark Scientist (Available in Spanish) (2:39) - VIEW
- GRades 3-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Quest - The Great White Shark (1:26) - VIEW
- Grades 3-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Earth: A New Wild (Available in Spanish) (3:56) - Sharks & Shorelines - VIEW
- Grades 4-12 - NHPBS Wildlife Journal Junior - Chondrichthyes - Rays, Sharks, Skates, Chimaeras - READ
- GRades 6-8 - NHPBS LearmingMedia - Jonathan Bird's Blue World - The Shark and the Lamprey (11:01) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-8 -NHPBS LearningMedia - Shark Biology (10:05) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nature - Collapse of Sharks (Available in Spanish) (3:05) - VIEW, READ, and DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nature - Secret World of Sharks and Rays: Shark and Turtle (Available in Spanish) (2:41) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nature - Secret World of Sharks and Rays: Sharks in Our Future (Available in Spanish) (1:41) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nature - Secret World of Sharks and Rays: Unlikely Travel Companions (Available in Spanish) (2:04) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Gross Science - Why Most Sand Tiger Sharks Die in the Womb (2:23) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Great White Shark: New Perspectives On An Ancient Predator (56:16) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - EONS - Why Megalodon (Definitely) Went Extinct (10:46) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - AutumnWatch New England - Great White Sharks (4:19) - VIEW
- Grades 8-12 - NHPBS Video - Be Smart - What If There Were No Sharks? (4:33) - VIEW
NHPBS - 11.1 Comcast (2/802) More Options
POETRY IN AMERICA - Hill Country
Sunday, 7/14 from 6:30-7 pm NHPBS
God drives down from the mountains behind the wheel of a Jeep, in this poem by Tracy K. Smith, former U.S. poet laureate. Smith illuminates the ambrosial bounty of Texas Hill Country, where she’s joined by country music singer-songwriter Jimmie Dale Gilmore, members of both Christian and Jewish communities, and host Elisa New. POETRY IN AMERICA Streaming Video
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AMERICAN EXPERIENCE - The War on Disco 
Sunday, 7/14 from 10-11 pm NH WORLD
The War on Disco explores the culture war that erupted over the rise of Disco music. The hostility came to a head on July 12, 1979, when a riot led by rock fans broke out at “Disco Demolition Night” during a baseball game in Chicago. AMERICAN EXPERIENCE Streaming Video
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