Turtles - May 23
Learning on a Half Shell - Learning Power!
Monday, May 23, 2022
Today is National Taffy Day, Lucky Penny Day, and World Turtle Day.
May is Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Turtles
ON THIS DATE
- 1788 - South Carolina becomes the eighth state to ratify the Constitution.
- 1829 - Cyrill Demian receives a patent for the accordion in Vienna, Austria.
- 1934 - Bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde are killed by police in Bienville Parish, Louisiana.
- 1939 - The U.S. Navy submarine USS Squalus sinks off the coast of New Hampshire during a test dive. 24 sailors and two civilian technicians died, 32 sailors and one civilian naval architect are rescued the next day.
- 1969 - The Who's rock-opera album "Tommy" is released.
- 1707 - Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus
- 1810 - Journalist Margaret Fuller
- 1824 - General and politician Ambrose Burnside
- 1898 - Author Scott O'Dell
- 1910 - Children's author Margaret Wise Brown
- 1928 - Singer Rosemary Clooney
- 1934 - Engineer and inventor Robert Moog
- 1947 - Poet Jane Kenyon
- 1974 - Singer-songwriter Jewel
Rosemary Clooney - I Ain't Got Nobody - LISTEN
Jewel - Who Will Save Your Soul - LISTEN
Elton John - Pinball Wizard -
Merle Haggard - The Legend of Bonnie and Clyde -
George Fame - The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde -
Weird Al Faces Off with Jon Batiste - LISTEN
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - T is for Turtle (1:46) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - I Get There (2:02) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-3 - Nature Cat - Baby Sea Turtles (3:46) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-3 - Nature Cat - Celia the Sea Turtle (3:43) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-3 - Splash and Bubbles - Get Your Feet Wet - Baby Sea Turtles (1:29) - VIEW
- Grades K-3 - NHPBS - Up Close and Natural Instructional Video - Turtles (4:25) - VIEW
- Grades K-4 - Wild Kratts - Seeing Sea Turtles (2:40) - VIEW
- Grades K-4 - Wild Kratts - Boxed In (2:55) - VIEW
- Grades 4-12 - Saving a SPecies: Sea Turtles (30:08) - VIEW
- Grades 4-6 - NHPBS LearningMedia - DragonflyTV - Turtle Research (5:04) - VIEW
- Grades 4-6 - NHPBS Learningmedia - DragonflyTV - Sea Turtles (7:32) - VIEW
- Grades 4-10 - NHPBS LearningMedia - The Kemps Ridley Sea Turtle (5:25) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 5-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Untamed - Turtles (26:46) - VIEW, READ , DO
- Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Eons - How the Turtle Got Its Shell (8:29) - VIEW
- Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Troubled Waters: A Turtle's Tale (53:13) - VIEW
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