Secret Codes and the Navajo Code Talkers
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Saturday, August 14, 2021
Today is Free Comic Book Day,National Bowling Day, National Garage Sale Day, National Navajo Code Talkers Day, and National Creamsicle 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: Secret Codes and the Navajo Code Talkers
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ON THIS DATE
- 1935 - Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act into law.
- 1945 - Japan surrenders to the Allies in World War II.
- 1975 - The stage musical The Rocky Horror Picture Show opens in London.
- 1945 - Actor and musician Steve Martin
- 1950 - Far Side cartoonist Gary Larson
- 1959 - Basketball player Magic Johnson
- 1965 - Football player and coach Mike Vrabel
- Grades 3-5 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Cyberchase - Creating a Code (2:47)- VIEW and DO
- Grades 5-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nova - Deciphering the Maya Code (2:17) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 5-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Spy Techniques of the Revolutionary War: Culper Code Book - READ and DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nova - Cyber Codes (3:25) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Crash Course: Computer Science - Cryptography (12:16) - VIEW
THEME: NAVAJO CODE TALKERS
- Grades 2-5 - NHPBS LearningMedia - The Warrior Tradition - Secrets of the Code Talkers (18:29) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 2-5 - NHPBS LearningMedia - The Warrior Tradition - Secrets of the Code Talkers Lesson Plan - DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - The Warrior Tradition - Reporting on Navajo Code Talkers (18:29) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - The Warrior Tradition - Reporting on Navajo Code Talkers Lesson Plan - DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - History of the Navajo Code Talkers (1:32) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - National Museum of the American Indian - Navajo Code Talkers - READ
- Grades 6-12 - CIA -Navajo Code Talkers and the Unbreakable Code - READ
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- 8-10 pm NH WORLD - Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
- 10-11:30 pm NH WORLD - America ReFramed - Pyne Poynt
- 10-11:30 pm NH WORLD - America ReFramed - Pyne Poynt
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