Amelia Earhart

Friday, July 24, 2020

Today is Lumberjack Day and Tell An Old Joke Day

ON THIS DATE 

• 1959 - U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev have a "Kitchen Debate" at the American National Exhibition in Moscow,
• The Supreme Court unanimously ruled that President Richard Nixon had no authority to withhold subpoenaed White House tapes.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1783 - Military commander and politician Simón Bolívar
• 1802 - french author Alexandre Dumas
• 1897 - Pilot Amelia Earhart
• 1900 - Writer Zelda Fitzgerald
• 1920 -Politician Bella Abzug

THEME: AMELIA EARHART 
Song of the Day - Amelia by Joni Mitchell - LISTEN

• Grades K-3 - Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum- I Am Leonardo DaVinci/ I am Amelia Earhart  -  VIEW
• Grades K-3 - Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum - Amelia Earhart  Brochure -  READ
• Grades K-3  - Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum - Amelia Earhart  Coloring Sheet -  DO
• Grades K-3 - Xavier Riddle READ ALONG! With Author Brad Meltzer -  I Am Amelia Earhart -VIEW
• Grades 3-7 - PBS Learningmedia -Amelia Earhart - Aviator, Record-breaker, and Activist - VIEW,  READ, and DO
• Grades 3-12 - ReadWriteThing - Amelia Earhart Resources - READ and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - American Experience- Amelia Earhart Chapter One - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video  - American Experience- Amelia Earhart Full Episode (Passport Members) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video  - Meet the Past - Amelia Earhart - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 -NHPBS Video -  Images of the Past - Finding Amelia -  VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video -  PBS NewsHour - Newly Discovered Footage of Amelia Earhart Unearthed  - VIEW

Watch 

• 12-1 pm NH WORLD - Nature- Attenborough And The Sea Dragon
• 1-1:28 pm NH WORLD - Changing Seas - Coastal Carnivores
• 1:28-5 pm NH WORLD - Les Miserables On Masterpiece
• 9-11:30 pm NHPBS - Great Performances - She loves me

Pressroom Contact

Carla Gordon Russell
Director of Communications
crussell@nhpbs.org
(603) 868-4339