Crisis Learning
Saturday, October 14, 2023
Today is National Dessert Day, National Pickle Day, I Love Yarn Day, African Penguin Awareness Day, National Chess Day, Family Bowling Day, Chocolate Covered Insects Day, and lowercase day.
Wild Animal Month Animal Cam of the Day: Georgia Aquarium African Penguin Cam
Dessert Month Dessert of the Day: Chocolate Cheesecake Squares
LGBT History Month Resource of the Day: L.A. A Queer History: Episode One - Culture and Criminalization
On This Date
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: The Cuban Missile Crisis and Chess
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ON THIS DATE
BIRTHDAYS
SONGS OF THE DAY
- Winnie the Pooh Theme Song - LISTEN
THEME: CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS
- Grades 7-12 - JFK Library - The Cuban Missile Crisis - READ and LISTEN
- Grades 7-12 - National Archives - One Step from Nuclear War - READ
- Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - The Bomb -The Cuban Missile Crisis (5:21) - VIEW
- Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - American Experience - JFK and Crisis: The Cuban Missile Crisis (2:56) - VIEW
- Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - History Detectives - 3D Cuban Missile Crisis (7:17) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - EDSITEment -The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962: The Missiles of October Lesson Plan - READ and DO
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Cuban Missile Crisis: Three Men Go to War (55:24) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Cuban Missile Crisis: Three Men Go to War - Potential Outcomes of a Nuclear Strike (8:18) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Cuban Missile Crisis: Three Men Go to War - Kennedy's Speech (3:02) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Cuban Missile Crisis: Three Men Go to War - Communications among Khrushchev, Castro, and Kennedy (9:59) - VIEW, READ, DO
THEME: CHESS (AND CHECKERS)
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Cookie Monster Plays (Eats) Checkers - VIEW
- Grades K-3 - Arthur - Brain's Chess Club - VIEW
- Grades 3-6 - PBS LearningMedia - Cyberchase - Chess Wager - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Infinite Chess - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Can a Chess Piece Explain Markov Chains? - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Are Robots Really Taking Over? - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS Newshour - Fabiano Caruana helps usher in a new era for American chess - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - CheckMate: Growing a Community of Girls Who Play Chess - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Hip Hop Chess Club - VIEW
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ANCIENT SKIES - Finding the Center
Saturday, 10/14 from 8-9 pm NHPBS EXPLORE
Follow the efforts to give the Earth a shape and a place. From flat Earth legends to Galileo's telescope, track major changes in scientific understanding. Ideas rise and fall as we continue to explore our ancient skies. ANCIENT SKIES Streaming Video
AUSTIN CITY LIMITS - Jenny Lewis/Muno
Saturday, 10/14 from 11 pm-12 am NHPBS EXPLORE
Singer/songwriter, musician, and actress Jenny Lewis (appearing once before on ACL fronting indie band Rilo Kiley) returns to the Austin City Limits stage to perform songs from her release The Voyager. AUSTIN CITY LIMITS Streaming Video
More Learning Resources
Looking for some super cool crafts to do with your kids? Or maybe you need some expert parenting resources to help raise your child? You can find it all right here:
NHPBS and PBS have curated FREE, standards-aligned videos, interactives, lesson plans, and more for educators. You can also create your own lessons and assignments to meet the needs of your students.
Searchable online video courses and interactives across the curriculum and grade levels in areas like chemistry, literature, music, the visual arts, social studies, world languages storytelling, spelling and lots more.
Everyday Scholastic will feature four learning experiences, built around a story or video.
A series of imaginatively produced videos featuring celebrated actors reading children's books.
Local Learning Resources
The best of NH learning resources from around the state.
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Cheshire County Historical Society
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New Hampshire Public Radio:
- Civics 101 - Tons of great (and free!) audio, activities, resources, and lessons to help you stay engaged with civics.
- Ask Sam - Ask Sam features Outside/In host Sam Evans-Brown answering listener questions about the mysteries and quirks of the natural world.
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Seacoast Science Center in Odiorne Point State Park
- Learning Connection - Even though their doors are closed, we’re still here to connect you to the inspirational powers of nature and engage you in learning.
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Squam Lakes Natural Science Center
- A resource to keep you connected to nature - Enjoy nature at home with these online learning experiences brought to you by the Science Center’s Naturalists.
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Strawbery Banke Museum
- Online Learning - Virtual Tours, the Virtual Classroom, artifacts of the week, featured items from the Collections, Horticulture Learning Center materials, and more.
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Tiger Takes On
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PBS Kids for Teachers/Caregivers/Parents
- PBS for Parents
A guide of PBS resources targeted for parents teaching kids, features a great activity finder
- PBS Education
The greatest teachers ignite a love of learning and a sense of possibility that motivates students to reach their full potential.
- PBS Teachers' Lounge
This site has great teaching tips, ideas, resources and support for teachers.
- PBS KIDS Games app
Offers nearly 200 educational games, which can be downloaded for offline play anytime, anywhere.