Frogs and Hip Hop

Wednesday, August 11, 2021

Today is National Hip Hop Day, Presidential Joke Day, and World Calligraphy Day

August is National Wellness Month, National Sandwich Month, National Golf Month, National Water Quality Month, Black Business Month, International Pirate Month, and National Crayon Collection Month.

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Frogs and Hip Hop
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ON THIS DATE

• 1929 - Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 500 home runs.
• 1942 - Actor Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil receive a patent for a Frequency-hopping spread spectrum communication system that is the basis for today's wireless communication.
• 1965 - Rioting breaks out in the Watts section of Los Angeles initially in response to a confrontation between police and citizens.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1897 - Poet Louise Bogan
• 1921 - Author Alex Haley
• 1949 - Singer-songwriter  Eric Carmen
• 1950 - Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak
• 1953 - Wrestler Hulk Hogan
  
• 1965 - Actor Viola Davis
• 1983 - Actor Chris Hemsworth

SONGS OF THE DAY 

Sugar Hill Gang - Rapper's Delight - LISTEN
Three Dog Night - Joy to the World - LISTEN
Eric Carmen - All By Myself - LISTEN

THEME: FROGS

• Grades PreK-K - NHPBS LearningMedia - Mister Chris and Friends - Frogs - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - This Frog (3:28) - VIEW
  
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Kermit Sings Disco Frog (3:18) - VIEW
  
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Frogs of the Glen (2:31) - VIEW
  
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Caribbean Amphibian (1:54) - VIEW
  
• Grades PreK-1 - Curious George - Ribbit Game - DO
• PreK-3 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Everyday Learning - How a Frog Becomes a Frog (1:52) - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-5 - NHPBS Video - Poison Dart Frogs at Little Rock Zoo (4:24) - VIEW
• Grades K-4 - NHPBS Video - Up Close & Natural - Frogs, Toads, and Salamanders (13:09) - VIEW
• Grades 3-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia- SciGirls - Frog Whisperers 01: Research (Available in Spanish) (1:49) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 3-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia- SciGirls - Frog Whisperers 02: Mentor Moment (Available in Spanish) (1:49) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 3-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia- SciGirls - Frog Whisperers 03: Data Collection: Country (Available in Spanish) (3:29) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 3-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia- SciGirls - Frog Whisperers 04: Data Collection: City (Available in Spanish) (2:16) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 3-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia- SciGirls - Frog Whisperers 05: Share Data with Scientists (Available in Spanish) (2:32) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 3-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia- SciGirls - Frog Whisperers 06: Brainstorm and Share (Available in Spanish) (5:10) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 3-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Wild TV - Everglades: Pig Frog (6:25) -  VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-6 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Dragonfly TV - Malformed Frogs (4:45) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-6 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Dragonfly TV - Frog Scientist (Available in Spanish) (2:37) - VIEW
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS Wildlife journal Junior - Anura - Frogs and Toads - READ
• Grades 3-6 - NHPBS Video - Origami Jumping Frog (5:50) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Northern Leopard Frogs Being Reintroduced Into The Wild (3:32)- VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Gross Science - Why Does This Frog Have So Many Legs? (2:42) - VIEW 
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Gross Science - Meet the Frog that Barfs Up its Babies (4:45) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nova - Frozen Frogs (Available in Spanish) (3:32) - VIEW, READ, DO

THEME: HIP HOP

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - ABC Hip Hop with Miles (1:30) - VIEW
  
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Rappin' Alphabet (2:06) - VIEW
• Grades 4-7 - NHPBS Learningmedia - Dragonfly TV - Hip Hop Mix (5:48) - VIEW
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS Video - Hip Hop Nutcracker (1:23:23) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia -  Independent Lens - Hip-Hop Sampling - Copyright Criminals (5:33) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 8-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia -  Hamilton's Americ: Lin-Manuel Miranda, Shakespeare, and Hip Hop (3:48) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Finding Your Roots - Coming Outta Queensbridge: Nas and Hip Hop (3 clips) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Educating Hip Hop (27:35) - VIEW

Watch 

NHPBS

• 7:30-8 am NHPBS - Wild Kratts - Elephant In The Room
• 8-8:30 am NHPBS - Hero Elementary - Heroes In Space
• 8:30-9 am NHPBS - Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum - I Am Confucius/I Am Sacagawea
• 8-9 pm NHPBS - Nature - Super Cats: Science And Secrets
• 9-10 pm NHPBS - Nova - Operation Lighthouse Rescue
• 10-11 pm NHPBS - Secrets of the Dead - Cleopatra's Lost Tomb
  

NH WORLD

• 8-9:30 am NH WORLD - America ReFramed - Pyne Poynt
•  9:30-10 am NH WORLD - POV Shorts - There's No Place Like Home
• 10-11 am NH WORLD - Extinction: The Facts
• 11 am-12 pm NH WORLD - Animals with Cameras, A Nature Miniseries - Episode Two
• 12-2 pm NH WORLD - Chasing The Moon: American Experience
• 2-3 pm NH WORLD - Nova - Look Who's Driving
• 3-4 pm NH WORLD - Nova - Pluto And Beyond
• 4-5 pm NH WORLD - Asian Americans - Good Americans
  
• 8-10 pm NH WORLD - Frontline - In The Shadow Of 9/11
  

Pressroom Contact

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