Dams - September 30

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Saturday, September 30, 2023

Today is Podcast Day, National Ghost Hunting Day, Mulled Cider Day, Chewing Gum Day, Podcast Day, National Mulled Cider Day, Save the Koala Day, and World Maritime Day.

On This Date
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme:  Dams and Koalas
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ON THIS DATE

• 1791 - Mozart's opera The Magic Flute premieres in Vienna, Austria.
• 1927 - Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a season.
• 1935 - The Hoover Dam is dedicated.
• 1946 -  An international military tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany, finds 22 Nazi leaders guilty of war crimes.
• 1955 - 24-year-old actor James Dean is killed in a car crash.
• 1962 - César Chávez founds the National Farm Workers Association.
• 1962- After three unsuccessful tries, Black student James Meredith registers for classes at the University of Mississippi.
• 1982 - Cheers premieres on NBC.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1207 - Persian poet Rumi
• 1883 - Suffragist and civil engineer Nora Stanton Barney
• 1917 - Drummer Buddy Rich
• 1924 - Author Truman Capote
• 1928 - Activist Elie Wiesel

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Woody Guthrie - Grand Coulee Dam  - LISTEN
• Buddy Rich - Drum Solo - LISTEN
• The Magic Flute - Queen of the Night Aria - LISTEN

THEME: DAMS

• Grades PreK-1 - PBS LearningMedia - Peep and the Big Wide World - Building Dams (1:27)  - VIEW
• Grades PreK-2 - PBS LearningMedia - Peep and the Big Wide World - Building a Dam Like a Beaver (1:29) - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-2 - PBS LearningMedia - Peep and the Big Wide World - Sharing Water Between Dams (1:30) - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-6 - PBS LearningMedia - Science Trek - Dams (3:41) - VIEW
• Grades 3-6 - PBS LearningMedia - Building Big - Dam Basics - READ
• Grades 3-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Building Big - The Hoover Dam and Hydroelectric Power (3:43) - READ, VIEW, DO
• Grades 3-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Building Big - The Hoover Dam (1:18) - READ, VIEW, DO
• Grades 3-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Building Big - The Dam Challenge - READ and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - American Experience - Grand Coulee Dam (5:45) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - American Experience - Hoover Dam - READ and VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - American Experience - Hoover Dam: Moving the Concrete (2:59) - VIEW
  
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - American Experience - The High Scalers of Hoover Dam (2:33) - VIEW
  
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - American Experience - Hoover Dam: Building Diversion Tunnels (2:47) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Quest - How Hydropower Dams Work - READ and VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - The Iconic Hoover Dam (9:46) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video -  Constitution USA with Peter Segal - We Can’t Go it Alone! (The Hoover Dam - Federal power during a crisis) (4:27) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Fort Peck Dam: Building the Dam (8:03) - VIEW and DO

Watch 

NHPBS EXPLORE - 11.2 Comcast (801) More Options

COLOMBIA: WILD AND FREE - From the Pacific to the Andes
Saturday, 9/30 from 11 am-12 pm NHPBS EXPLORE
Journey to the largely uninhabited Pacific coast of Colombia, where humpback whales give birth and fish hunt crabs in the mangrove forests. Then ascend to snow-capped Andean volcanoes, home to stunning spectacled bears, condors, and hummingbirds. COLOMBIA: WILD AND FREE Streaming Video

SINGING OUR WAY TO FREEDOM
Saturday, 9/30 from 8-9 pm NHPBS EXPLORE
Explore the life and music of Ramon "Chunky" Sanchez, from his humble beginnings as a farmworker in Blythe, California to the dramatic moment when he received one of our nation's highest musical honors at the Library of Congress. SINGING OUR WAY TO FREEDOM Streaming Video

AUSTIN CITY LIMITS - Brandi Carlile
Saturday, 9/30 from 11 pm-12 am NHPBS EXPLORE
Celebrate six-time Grammy-winning Americana singer/songwriter Brandi Carlile raising the roof for a full hour of passionate and powerful songs from her acclaimed album In These Silent Days. AUSTIN CITY LIMITS - Brandi Carlile Streaming Video

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POV - The Last Out
Saturday, 9/30 from 6:30-8 pm NH WORLD
Three Cuban baseball players leave their families and risk exile to train in Central America and chase their dreams of playing in the United States. At the shadowy nexus of the migrant trail and pro sports, The Last Out chronicles their difficult journey, from multi-step immigration obstacles and learning English to the broken promises and dubious motives of agents. POV - The Last Out Preview Streaming Video

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