Dams - September 30

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Saturday, September 30, 2024

Today is Podcast Day, Chewing Gum Day, Mulled Cider Day, and Ask a Stupid Question Day.

On This Date
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme:  Dams 

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

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