Hawaii - August 21
Aloha Learning
Wednesday, August 21, 2024
Today is National Spumoni Day, Poets Day, World Goat Day, and Senior Citizen's Day.
- Health and Wellness Month Resource of the Day: Sesame Street - Managing Asthma
- Sandwich Month Sandwich of the Day: Kimchi Rice Sandwich
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Hawaii
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ON THIS DATE
- 1831 - Nat Turner launches a slave rebellion in Virginia.
- 1858 - Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln meet in the first of seven debates for a U.S. Senate seat in Illinois.
- 1959 - President Eisenhower signs an executive order making Hawaii the 50th state.
- 1992 - An 11-day siege begins in Ruby Ridge, Idaho at the cabin of white separatist Randy Weaver.
- 1904 - Musician Count Basie
- 1936 - Basketball player Wilt Chamberlain
- 1938 - Singer-songwriter Kenny Rogers
- 1973 - Google co-founder Sergey Brin
- 1986 - Sprinter Usain Bolt
- Grades PreK-12 - Smithsonian Education - Creating Hawaii Lesson Plans - DO
- Grades PreK-1 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Hawaiian Dance Field Trip (8:18) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 2-6 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nature - Volcanic Views (2:24) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 4-6 - NHPBS LearningMedia - DragonflyTV - GPS: Lava Flow (7:11) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Volcanic Island Life Cycle - Kilauea: Hawaii on Fire (2:44) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - National Park Service - Teaching with Historic Places - Iolani Palace: A Hawaiian Place of History, Power, and Prestige - DO
- Grades 6-12 - PBS NewsHour Extra - Hawaii Lessons and Video Collection - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nature - Hawaiian Coastal Cliffs (Available in Spanish) (1:54) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nova - Lava Sampling on Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii (5:47) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nova - Dating Lava Flows on Mauna Loa Volcano, Hawaii (4:33) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nova - Plate Tectonics: The Hawaiian Archipelago (Available in Spanish) (4:36) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Teaching with Primary Sources - Liliuokalani, the last Queen of Hawaii - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - National Archives - Joint Resolution to Provide for the Annexation of Hawaiin Islands - VIEW
- Grades 8-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - American Experience - The Overthrow of Queen Lili‘uokalani (5:59) - VIEW and READ
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - The Hawaiin Language (56:45) - VIEW
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