Kinetic Sculpture and Sacco and Vanzetti
Well-balanced Learning
Sunday, August 23, 2020
Today is Day For The Remembrance of The Slave Trade & Its Abolition, National Spongecake Day, and National Cuban Sandwich Day.
ON THIS DATE.
- 1775 - King George III declares the American colonies in a state of open rebellion.
- 1927 - Anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti are executed in Boston.
- 1991 - The World Wide Web is open to the public.
- 1994 - Eugene Bullard, the only African American pilot in World War I, is posthumously commissioned in the Air Force as a Second Lieutenant.
- 2008 - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama names Joe Biden as his running mate.
BIRTHDAYS
- 1754 - French King King Louis XVI
- 1846 - Sculptor Alexander Calder
- 1868 - Writer Edgar Lee Masters
- 1905 - English composer Constant Lambert
- 1912 - Dancer and actor Gene Kelly
- 1946 - Drummer Keith Moon
- 1970 - Actor River Phoenix
- 1978 - Basketball player Kobe Bryant
Song of the Day -
THEME: KINETIC SCULPTURE
- Grades 3-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Design Squad - Kinetic Sculpture - DO
- Grades 4-6 - PBS LearningMedia - DragonflyTV - Kinetic Sculpture Challenge - VIEW and DO
- Grades 5-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Minnesota Legacy Short - Jeffrey Zachmann: Kinetic Sculptor - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Chicago Tonight - Alexander Calder -VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Arts Plus - Kinetic Sculptor Terry Welker - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Antiques Roadshow - Appraisal: Alexander Calder Mobile, ca. 1950 -VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Antiques Roadshow - Appraisal: George Rickey Kinetic Sculpture, ca. 1958 -VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Antiques Roadshow - Appraisal: 1958 Alexander Calder Maquette - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Antiques Roadshow - Appraisal: Jerome Kirk Kinetic Sculptures, ca. 1970 - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Alexander Calder's Sculpture Continues to Captivate - VIEW
- GRades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Alexander Calder: Works Photographed by Pedro E. Guerrero -VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - American Masters - Alexander Calder -READ
THEME: SACCO AND VANZETTI
- GRades 6-10 - The National First Ladies' Library -Safety or Civil Liberty? The Trial of Sacco and Vanzetti Lesson Plan - DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - The Italian Americans - Sacco and Vanzetti - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - Mass.gov - Sacco & Vanzetti: Justice on TrialExhibit - READ
- GRades 8-12 - CSI Boston "The Case of Sacco and Vanzetti" -DO
Watch
- 9-9:30 am NHPBS - SciGirls - Aquabots
- 9:30-10 am NHPBS - Cyberchase - The Guilty Party
- 10-10:30 am NHPBS - Odd Squad - Trials And Tubulations
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