Bees and Amelia Earhart

Thursday, May 20, 2021

Today is Eliza Doolittle Day, National Rescue Dog Day, Weights & Measures Day, World Bee Day, and National Quiche Lorraine Day.

May is Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Bees and Amelia Earhart
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ON THIS DATE

• 325 - The First Council of Nicaea is opened. (Frontline - From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians (Pt. 1) - VIEW)
• 1570 - Cartographer Abraham Ortelius issues the first modern atlas, the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum.
• 1609- Shakespeare's sonnets are published in London.
• 1861 - North Carolina votes to secede from the Union.
• 1862 - President Lincoln signs the Homestead Act into law, opening 84 million acres of public land to settlers.
• 1873 - Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive a patent for blue jeans with copper rivets.
• 1902 - Cuba gains independence from the United States. 
• 1927 - Charles Lindbergh takes off for Paris from Roosevelt Field in Long Island, N.Y., aboard the Spirit of St. Louis on the first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
• 1932 -  Amelia Earhart begins the first solo nonstop flight by a female pilot across the Atlantic Ocean, taking off from Newfoundland and landing in Ireland. 
• 1960 - A white mob attacks a busload of "Freedom Riders" in Montgomery, Alabama. (American Experience Freedom Riders - VIEW)
• 1971 - The album "What's Going On" by Marvin Gaye is released.
• 1993 - The final episode of "Cheers" airs on NBC.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1768 - First Lady Dolley Madison
• 1799 - French author Honoré de Balzac
• 1825 - 1st ordained mainstream protestant female minister Antoinette Brown Blackwell.
• 1908 - Actor Jimmy Stewart
• 1944 - English singer-songwriter Joe Cocker
• 1946 - Singer-songwriter and actor Cher
• 1972 - Rapper and actor Busta Rhymes

SONGS OF THE DAY 

Joni Mitchell - Amelia- LISTEN
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On - LISTEN
Joe Cocker - You Are So Beautiful - LISTEN
Cher - Believe - LISTEN

THEME:  Bees

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - B is for Bees - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Elmo' s World - Bees - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Baby Bear and Bees - VIEW
• PreK-2 - NHPBS Video - Let's Learn - Bees and Pollination | Let's Learn
• Grades PreK-4 - Wild Kratts - Follow That Bee - VIEW
  
• Grades K-6 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Science Trek - What's the Buzz about Bees? - VIEW
• Grades 3-8 - NHPBS Learning Media - Wild TV - Bees - VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-12 - Reactions - Did You Know That Honey is Really Bee Puke? - VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - Disappearance of the Bees - What's the Impact? - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia - The Bounty of Bees - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Lens of Time - Bumper Bees -VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Learning Media - It's OK to Be Smart - Why Are the Bees Dying? - VIEW

THEME:  Amelia Earhart

• Grades PreK-3 - Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum - Leonardo Da Vinci and Amelia Earhart - VIEW
• Grades PreK-3 - Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum - Amelia Earhart Coloring Sheet - DO
  Grades PreK-3 - Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum - Amelia Earhart Biosheet - READ
• Grades 3-7 - PBS Learning Media - Amelia Earhart- Aviator, Record-breaker, and Activist Lesson Plan -  VIEW. READ and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - American Experience - Amelia Earhart - VIEW

Watch 

• 9-10 am NH WORLD - Eyes on the Prize - The Keys To The Kingdom 1974-1980
• 10-11 am NH WORLD - Eyes on the Prize - Back To The Movement 1979-Mid 80s
• 11 am-12 pm NH WORLD - Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer
• 12-1 pm NH WORLD - Nova - Building Wonders: Hagia Sophia - Istanbul's Ancient Mystery
• 1-1:30 pm NH WORLD - SciGirls - Terrific Pacific
• 1:30-2 pm NH WORLD - Changing Seas - Alien Invaders
• 2-3 pm NH WORLD - Nova Wonders - Can We Make Life?
• 3-4 pm NH WORLD - Eyes on the Prize - The Keys To The Kingdom 1974-1980
• 4-5 pm NH WORLD - Eyes on the Prize - Back To The Movement 1979-Mid 80s
• 7-8 pm NH WORLD - Independent Lens - Eating Up Easter
• 8-9 pm NH WORLD - Pacific Heartbeat - For My Father's Kingdom
• 9-9:30 pm NH WORLD - FILMS BYKIDS
• 9-11 pm NHPBS - American Experience - Billy Graham

Pressroom Contact

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