Rocks - July 13
Learning is Sedimentary - and Igneous and Metamorphic
Wednesday, July 13, 2022
Today is Embrace Your Geekness Day, barbershop Music Appreciation Day, International Rock Day (stone not Stones), and National French Fries Day
July is National Parks & Recreation Month and National Ice Cream Month.
National Natural Wonder: Montana: Glacier National Park
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Rocks
ON THIS DATE
- 1793 - French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat is assassinated in his bathtub by Charlotte Corday
- 1863 - The New York City draft riots begin.
- 1956 - 'The Dartmouth workshop, the first conference on artificial intelligence, begins.
- 1973 - Presidential assistant Alexander Butterfield reveals to the Senate Watergate Commission that there is a secret taping system in the Oval Office.
- 1985 - The Live Aid benefit concert takes place in London and other venues around the world.
- 1940 - English actor Sir Patrick Stewart
- 1942 - Actor Harrison Ford
- 1944 - Hungarian game designer Erno Rubik
Queen - We Will Rock You - LISTEN- Bill Haley - Rock Around the Clock - LISTEN
- The Temptations - Papa Was a Rolling Stone - LISTEN
- Grades PreK-1- Sesame Street - A Rocking Rock Party (0:53) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-1- Sesame Street - Rocks - Number 12 (2:05) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-3 - NHPBS LearningMedia - 60 Second Science - Weathering Rocks (0:59) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 3-5 - NHPBS LearningMedia - DragonflyTV - Rock Climbing (6:10)- VIEW
- Grades 3-5 - NHPBS LearningMedia - DragonflyTV - Scientist Profile: Rock Scientist (Available in Spanish) (2:35) - VIEW
- Grades 3-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia - STEM in 30 - Moon Rocks (31:09) - VIEW
- Grades 4-12 - National Park Service - Rocks - READ, VIEW, DO
- Grades 4-12 - American Museum of Natural History - Three Types of Rocks - READ and VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nova Labs - Fossils: Rocking the Earth (2:08) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS learning Media - The Rock Cycle - Interactive VIEW, READ, DO
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