Mosquitoes and Radio - August 20

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Tuesday, August 20, 2024

Today is Lemonade Day, National Bacon Lover's Day, National Radio Day, Chocolate Pecan Pie Day, and World Mosquito Day.

• Health and Wellness Resource of the Day: Youth Mental Health
• Sandwich of the Day: Open-Faced Grilled Cheese Sandwich with Apple and Bacon
• Lemonade of the Day: Strawberry Lemonade

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme:  Mosquitoes and Radio
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ON THIS DATE

• 1882 - Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture debuts in Moscow.
• 1920 - The first commercial radio station, 8MK, goes on the air in Detroit.
• 1920 - The precursor to the NFL, the American Professional Football Conference, forms in Canton, Ohio.
• 1940 - British Prime Minister Winston Churchill gives his "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few" speech to honor the  Royal Air Force.
• 1968 - The Soviet Union invades Czechoslovakia to stop the ''Prague Spring" movement.
• 1975 - NASA launches planetary probe Viking 1 toward Mars.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1833 - 23rd President Benjamin Harrison
• 1890 - Science fiction and fantasy author H. P. Lovecraft
• 1942 - Singer-songwriter Isaac Hayes
• 1948 - Led Zeppelin singer-songwriter Robert Plant
• 1965 - Producer and musician KRS-One
• 1974 - Actor Amy Adams

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Joni Mitchell - You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio - LISTEN
• Queen - Radio GaGa - LISTEN
• REM - Radio Song - LISTEN
• Rush - The Spirit of Radio - LISTEN
• Steely Dan - FM (No Static At All) - LISTEN
• Wall of Voodoo - Mexican Radio - LISTEN
• Tom Petty - Honey Bee - LISTEN
• Isaac Hayes - Theme From Shaft - LISTEN
• Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven - LISTEN

THEME: MOSQUITOES

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Covering Up From Mosquitoes (0:35) - VIEW
• Grades K-2 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Wild Kratts - Ouch! (2:02) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Seasonal Science - Asian Tiger Mosquito (2:14) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Gross Science - Could We Rid the World of Mosquitoes? (5:27) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Deep Look - This Dangerous Mosquito Lays Her Armored Eggs in Your House (3:50) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Frontline - Mosquito Hunter (11:55) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Above the Noise - Can Genetically Engineered Mosquitoes Help Fight Disease? (5:29) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - I Contain Multitudes - Mosquitoes Might SAVE Lives, Thanks To Bacteria (9:04) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Reinventors - Fighting Mosquitoes with Frickin' Laser Beams (4:19) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Spillover - Genetically Modified Mosquitoes (8:24) - VIEW

Theme: RADIO

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Martians Radio (2:24) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-3 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Radio Station Field Trip (8:19) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Library of Congress - Teaching with Primary Sources - The Golden Age of Radio - READ, LISTEN, VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Youth Radio Collection - VIEW, LISTEN, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Country Music - The Impact of Radio (3:17) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Career Connections: Radio Host (6:08) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - NASA -Tour of the Electromagnetic Spectrum: Radio Waves (3:38) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Theater of the Mind Radio Dramas  - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - The Roosevelts - Radio During World War II: Pacific Front (4:02) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio (1:51:56) - VIEW

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