Pigeons - September 1
Flocking to Learning
Friday, September 1, 2023
Today is Emma M. Nutt Day, Ginger Cat Appreciation Day, Gyro Day, College Colors Day, Food Bank Day, Lazy Mom's Day, Pink Cadillac Day, and World Letter Writing Day.
- Hispanic Heritage Month Resource of the Day: Hispanic Exploration in America
- Classical Music Month Resource of the Day: Why Don't Classical Musicians Improvise?
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Pigeons
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ON THIS DATE
- 1878 - Emma Nutt begins to work at the Boston Telephone Dispatch Company and becomes the world's first female telephone operator.
- 1914 - Martha, the world's last known passenger pigeon, dies at the Cincinnati Zoo.
- 1939 - Nazi Germany invades Poland, starting World War II.
- 1952 - The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway is published.
- 1972 - American Bobby Fischer beats Russian Boris Spassky in Reykjavik, Iceland, and becomes the world chess champion.
- 1979 - Pioneer 11 becomes the first spacecraft to fly by Saturn.
- 1982 - The U.S. Air Force Space Command is founded.
- 1983 - Korean Air Lines Flight 007 is shot down in Soviet airspace by a Soviet jet fighter killing 269 individuals including US Congressman Lawrence McDonald of Georgia.
- 1985 - An American-French expedition locates the wreckage of the Titanic.
- 2009 - A law allowing gay marriage goes into effect in Vermont.
- 1875 - Tarzan author Edgar Rice Burroughs
- 1946 - Musician Barry Gibb
- 1957 - Musician Gloria Estefan
Gloria Estefan - Rhythm Is Gonna Get You - LISTEN- Sesame Street - Hola Gloria! - LISTEN
- Bee Gees - Stayin' Alive - LISTEN
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street -
Bert Dances To Doin' The Pigeon (1:57) - VIEW - Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street: Calling All Pigeons with Bert (3:25) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street -
Elmo Scares the Pigeons with Bert (2:35) - VIEW - Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street: Pigeons and Cookies and Trash (2:14) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-3 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Curious George - Pigeon Perch (2:05) - VIEW and DO
- Grades K-3 - Odd Squad - Agent Ohlm's Pigeon Song (2:13) - VIEW
- Grades 3-6 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Wild TV - Domesticated Pigeons (3:18) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 3-6 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Wild TV - City Pigeons (1:27) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 4-12 - NHPBS - Wildlife Journal Junior - Columbiformes - Doves, Pigeons - READ
- Grades 4-12 - NHPBS - Wildlife Journal Junior - Rock Pigeon - READ
- Grades 4-12 - NHPBS - Wildlife Journal Junior - Mourning Dove - READ
- Grade 6-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Smithsonian Science How - Bird Extinctions: Time Travel through Lava Tubes (29:14) - VIEW
- Grade 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Be Smart - Pigeon Story: How the Rock Dove Became the Sky Rat (5:50) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nature - Extraordinary Birds: The Pigeon Express (2:34) (Available in Spanish) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Quest - Reawakening Extinct Species - Passenger Pigeon, Woolly Mammoth (26:46) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Kentucky Afield - Passenger Pigeons (26:32) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Chicago Tonight - From Billions to None (8:55) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - Audubon Magazine - Why the Passenger Pigeon Went Extinct - READ
- Grades 6-12 - Smithsonian - The Passenger Pigeon - VIEW and READ
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