Venus and Lyndon B. Johnson - August 27

End of Summer Learning!

Thursday, August 27, 2026

Today is Banana Lover's Day, National Hamburger Day, National Just Because Day, Tarzan Day, and World Rock Paper Scissors Day.

• Health and Wellness Month Daily Resource: Exercise for Kids
• Sandwich Month Sandwich of the Day: Charlotte's Fried Chicken with Banana Sandwiches

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Poem of the Day
Art of the Day
Today's Theme:  Venus and Lyndon B. Johnson

AMERICAN REVOLUTION HISTORY ON THIS DATE

1776 – Members of the 1st Maryland Regiment repeatedly charged the British during the Battle of Long Island.

ON THIS DATE

• 1776 - General George Washington and his troops are defeated by General William Howe at the Battle of Long Island (also known as the Battle of Brooklyn).
• 1859 - The first successful U.S. oil well is drilled in Titusville, Pennsylvania.
• 1881 - The Georgia Hurricane makes landfall near Savannah, killing an estimated 700 people.
• 1883 - Krakatoa erupts, leading to tidal waves that killed 36,000 on the islands of Java and Sumatra.
• 1893 - The Sea Islands Hurricane lands near Savannah, Georgia, killing between 1,000–2,000 people.
• 1962 - NASA launches Mariner 2 space probe on a mission to Venus.
• 2008 - Senator Barack Obama is nominated for president at the Democratic National Convention.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1861 - Novelist Theodore Dreiser
• 1890 - Photographer and artist Man Ray
• 1908 - President Lyndon B. Johnson

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Shocking Blue - Venus - LISTEN
• Gustav Holst  - Venus - LISTEN
• The Banana Splits Opening and Closing Songs - LISTEN
• Harry Belafonte - Day O (Banana Boat Song) - LISTEN

POEM OF THE DAY 

• Emma Lazarus - Venus of the Louvre

ART OF THE DAY 

• Sandro Botticelli - The Birth of Venus (ca.1485)
• Man Ray - Le Violon d'Ingres (Ingres's Violin) 1924

THEME: VENUS

• Grades PreK-3 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Ready Jet Go! -The Sun and the Four Inner Planets (2:32) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-3 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Ready Jet Go! -  Goldilock or Not (3:42)  - VIEW
• Grades K-5 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Ask MIT - How Hot is the Core of Venus? (1:01) - VIEW
• Grades 3-6 - NASA Space Place - Venus - READ
• Grades 3-12 - NASA - Venus - READ
• Grades 5-12- NHPBS Video - The Sky Guy - Venus (1:00) - VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Nova - Five Facts About Hot, Volcanic Venus (0:57) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - NASA Planetary Sciences - The 2012 Transit of Venus (3:37)  - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS Space Time - Venus May Have Life (13:01) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Crash Course Astronomy - Venus (10:46)  - VIEW
• Grades 11-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - PBS Space Time - Will Mars or Venus Kill You First? (8:44)  - VIEW

THEME: LYNDON B. JOHNSON

• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - 60-Second Presidents - Lyndon B. Johnson (1:19) (Available in Spanish)  - VIEW, READ, DO 
• Grades 6-12 - LBJ Presidential Library - Educational Resources - READ, VIEW, DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia -1964: "The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution" (3:08) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - "Passage of the Civil Rights Act" (3:22) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Chasing the Dream - War on Poverty Legacy (25:59) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - American Experience - Lyndon B. Johnson - READ and VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Learning Media - American Experience - LBJ - A Young Leader (1:27) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Bombs Away: LBJ, Goldwater and the 1964 Campaign (56:06) - VIEW

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