China and Earthquakes

Monday, August 31, 2020

Today is National Trail Mix Day.

ON THIS DATE.

• 1886 - A 7.0 magnitude earthquake strikes the Charleston, South Carolina area.
• 1888 - Jack the Ripper's first victim, Mary Ann Nichols, is murdered.
• 1997 - Diana, Princess of Wales, is killed in a car crash in Paris.

BIRTHDAYS

• 12 - Roman emperor Caligula
• 1852 - Engish economist John Neville Keynes
• 1870 - Italian physician and educator Maria Montessori
• 1908 - Writer William Saroyan
• 1918 - Songwriter and composer Alan Jay Lerner
• 1945 - Irish musician Van Morrison
• 1945 - Violinist Itzhak Perlman  - Sesame Street - Easy and Hard
• 1949 - Actor Richard Gere

SONG OF THE DAY 
Van Morrison - Brown-eyed Girl - LISTEN

THEME:   EARTHQUAKES

• Grades K-4 - Ready Jet Go!  - Learning About Earthquakes - VIEW
• Grades 4-6 - PBS LearningMedia - DragonflyTV - Earthquakes (Available in Spanish)  - VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-12 - USGS - Latest Earthquakes -  TRACK
• Grades 4-6 - PBS LearningMedia - DragnflyTV -Scientist Profile: Earthquake Scientist (Available in Spanish) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - Forecasting Earthquakes - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - Predicting Earthquakes - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Quest - Explaining Earthquakes - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Quest - Megathrust Earthquakes - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - Earthquakes: San Francisco - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - Earthquakes: Los Angeles - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - Earthquakes: The Prehistoric Records - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - Earthquakes: The Seismograph - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - Earthquakes: When Plates Collide (Available in Spanish)  - VIEW and DO
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Quest - Predicting Earthquakes - VIEW, READ, DO
• Gtgrade 9-12 - USGS - The 1886 Charleston, South Carolina, Earthquake: A 1986 Perspective - READ

THEME: CHINA

• Grades K-4 - Wild Kratts  - The Bamboo Forests of China -  VIEW
• Grades PreK-3 - Let's Go Luna - She is the Moon of Moons - Beats of Beijing -VIEW
• Grades PreK-3 - Let's Go Luna - China Loves You -VIEW
• Grades PreK-3 - Let's Go Luna - Learn About Beijing, China - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Samantha Brown's Places to Love - Xi'an, China -VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Silk Roads and China Ships -VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - China, Zaju, and Beijing Opera - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - FRontline - China Undercover (Full Episode)  - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - The Story of China - Series - VIEW
• GRades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Passport to China - Series -VIEW

Watch 

• 12-1 pm NH WORLD - Nova - Emperor's Ghost Army
• 1-3 pm NH WORLD - Story of China - Ancestors/Silk Roads And China Ships
• 3-5 pm NH WORLD - Story of China - The Last Empire/The Age Of Revolution
• 8-10:30 pm NHPBS - Independent Lens - Won't You Be My Neighbor?
  

Pressroom Contact

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