Japan and Hiroshima

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Thursday, August 6, 2020

Today is Hiroshima Day and National Root Beer Float Day.

ON THIS DATE.

• 1945 - The Enola Gay drops the atomic bomb "Little Boy" on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, instantly killing over 70,000 people and causing the death of an additional 10,000 from radiation poisoning.
• 1965 - President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act

BIRTHDAYS

• 1809 - Poet Alfred Lord Tennyson
• 1881 - Scientist Sir Alexander Fleming 
• 1911 - Actor Lucille Ball
• 1928 - Artist Andy Warhol

THEME: JAPAN

• Grades PreK-2 - Let's Go Luna! - Luna the Sumo - VIEW
• Grades K-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Around the GLobe: Japan Collection - VIEW, READ, and DO
• Grades 3-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Zoom - Hana's Japanese Drums - VIEW, READ and DO
• Grades 8-12 - PBS LearningMedia - The Evolution of Buddhism in Japan - VIEW, READ, and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Japanese Culture - Bunraku - VIEW, READ, and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Japanese Culture - What is Kabuki?- VIEW, READ and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Japanese Culture - Kabuki Actor's Technique - VIEW, READ and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Japanese Culture - Koto - VIEW, READ and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Japanese Culture - Scene from McBeth: Kabuki Style - VIEW, READ and DO

THEME: HIROSHIMA

• Grades 3-12 - NEA - Hiroshima Collection - VIEW, READ, and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS NewsHour Extra - Hiroshima -VIEW, READ, and DO
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - American Experience - Truman - Primary Resources: Announcing the Bombing of Hiroshima - READ
• Grade 9-12 - PBS Learning Media - American Experience -  Victory in the Pacific - Image: Propaganda Leaflet Dropped on Japan - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - American Experience - Truman on Ending a War: Atomic Bombs - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - Truman Library -Analyzing the Decision to Drop the Bomb Lesson - DO

Watch 

• NHPBS 12-1 pm - CAMP TV - Favorite Color Day
• NH WORLD 12-2 pm -  Nova - Polar Extremes
• NH WORLD 2-2:30 pm -  Changing Seas - Galapagos: Windows Into The Future
• NH WORLD 2:30-3 pm - Changing Seas - The Fate Of Carbon
• NH WORLD 3-4 pm - Frontline - Fire In Paradise
• NH WORLD 4-5 pm - Nature - /Yosemite
• NHPBS 8-10 pm - The Central Park Five
• NHPBS 10-11:30 pm - P.O.V. - Whose Streets

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