Koalas and Lobsters

Cute, and Cuddly and Crustacean Learning

Friday, September 25, 2020

Today is Math Story Telling Day, National Doodle Day, National Lobster Day,  National One-Hit Wonder Day, Save The Koala Day,  National Quesadilla Day, and National Food Service Workers Day.

ON THIS DATE

• 1237 - The signing of the Treaty of York establishes the border between England and Scotland.
• 1775 - Ethan Allen is captured by the British after an attack on Montreal.
• 1789 - The U.S. Congress passes 12 amendments to the Constitution and sends them to the states for ratification. The 10 that were ratified by the states became the Bill of Rights.
• 1957 - With the support of federal troops, nine Black students are admitted to Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.
• 1974 - Dr. Frank Jobe performs the first ulnar collateral ligament replacement surgery,  more commonly known as Tommy John surgery, on - wait for it - pitcher Tommy John.
• 1981 - Sandra Day O'Connor is sworn in as the first female justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1897 - Author William Faulkner
• 1903 - Artist Mark Rothko
• 1906 - Russian composer Dmitry Shostakovich
• 1929 - Journalist Barbara Walters
• 1930 - Poet and illustrator Shel Silverstein
• 1944 - Actor Michael Douglas
• 1968 - Actor and rapper Will Smith (Sesame Street Fresh Prince Parody)
• 1969  - Actor Catherine Zeta-Jones
• 1983 - Actor and rapper Donald Glover

SONG OF THE DAY 
B-52's - Rock Lobster - LISTEN

THEME: KOALAS

• Grades PreK-2 - The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That - Koala Pouches - VIEW
• Grades PreK-12 - San Diego Zoo - Koala Cam - VIEW
• Grades K-4 - PBS LearningMedia - Wild Kratts - Koala Ballon (Full Episode and Clips) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS Wildlife Journal Junior - Phascolarctidae - Koalas - READ
• Grades 5-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - The Wild Suburban Koala -READ, VIEW, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - How to be an Alpha Male Koala (Available in Spanish) - READ, VIEW, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - The Koala Diet (Available in Spanish) - READ, VIEW, DO
  
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Nature - Cracking the Koala Code (Full Episode - Passport Members Only) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Nature -  Male Koalas Battle over a Female - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Gross Science - 5 Gross Facts About Koalas - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS NewsHour - Australia's Effort to Revert Koala Extinction - VIEW

THEME: LOBSTERS

• Grades K-4 - Wild Kratts - How to Activate Your Lobster Creature Powers - VIEW
• Grades K-4 - PBS LearningMedia - Wild Kratts - Swimming with the Lobster - VIEW
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS - Wildlife Journal Junior -The Secret Life of Lobsters - VIEW
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS - Wildlife Journal Junior -Northern Lobster - READ
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - It's Okay to Be Smart - You Are an Upside-Down Lobster - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia -The Shape of Life - Marine Arthropod Animation: Body Plan - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS NewsHour - How Rising Water Temperatures Could End Maine's Lobster Boom - VIEW

Watch 

• 12-1 pm NH WORLD - Spy in the Wild, A Nature Miniseries - The Tropics
• 1-2 pm NH WORLD - Genius By Stephen Hawking - Why Are We Here?
• 2-4:30 pm NH WORLD - Great Performances - Much Ado About Nothing
  
• 4:30-5 pm NH WORLD - Poetry In America - Urban Love Poem - Marilyn Chin
• 7-8 pm NH WORLD - The Vote: American Experience
• 8-9 pm NH WORLD - Forgotten Fame: The Marion Miley Story
• 9-10 pm NHPBS - Great Performances - Now Hear This: The Schubert Generation
• 9-10 pm NH WORLD - Rise and Fall of the Brown Buffalo
• 10-11 pm NHPBS - Art in the Twenty-First Century - Beijing
  

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