Mosquitoes and Radio

Friday, August 20, 2021

Today is National Radio Day and World Mosquito 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:  Mosquitoes and Radio
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ON THIS DATE

• 1882 - Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture debuts in Moscow.
• 1920 - The first commercial radio station, 8MK, goes on the air in Detroit.
• 1920 - The precursor to the NFL, the American Professional Football Conference, forms in Canton, Ohio.
• 1940 - British Prime Minister Winston Churchill gives his "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few" speech to honor the  Royal Air Force.
• 1968 - The Soviet Union invades Czechoslovakia to stop the ''Prague Spring" movement.
• 1975 - NASA launches planetary probe Viking 1 towards Mars.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1833 - 23rd President Benjamin Harrison
• 1890 - Science fiction and fantasy author H. P. Lovecraft
• 1942 - Singer-songwriter Isaac Hayes
• 1948 - Led Zeppelin singer-songwriter Robert Plant
• 1965 - Producer and musician KRS-One
• 1974 - Actor Amy Adams

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Joni Mitchell - You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio - LISTEN
• Queen - Radio GaGa - LISTEN
• REM - Radio Song - LISTEN
• Rush - The Spirit of Radio - LISTEN
• Steely Dan - FM (No Static At All) - LISTEN
• Wall of Voodoo - Mexican Radio - LISTEN
• Isaac Hayes - Theme from Shaft - LISTEN
• Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven - LISTEN

THEME: MOSQUITOES

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Covering Up From Mosquitoes (0:35) - VIEW
• Grades K-2 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Wild Kratts - Ouch! (2:02) -VIEW and DO
• Grades K-3 - Molly of Denali -Tooey Finds the Mosquito Repellent Recipe (3:55) - VIEW
• Grades 6-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Seasonal Science - Asian Tiger Mosquito (2:14) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Gross Science - Could We Rid the World of Mosquitoes? (5:27) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Deep Look - This Dangerous Mosquito Lays Her Armored Eggs in Your House (3:50) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Frontline - Mosquito Hunter (11:55) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Gross Science - Could We Rid The World Of Mosquitoes? (5:35) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Above the Noise - Can Genetically Engineered Mosquitoes Help Fight Disease? (5:29) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - I Contain Multitudes - Mosquitoes Might SAVE Lives, Thanks To Bacteria (9:04) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Reinventors - Fighting Mosquitoes with Frickin' Laser Beams (4:19) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Spillover - Genetically Modified Mosquitoes (8:24) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Frontline - Mosquito Hunter (11:55) - VIEW

Theme: RADIO

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Martians Radio (2:24) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-3 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Radio Station Field Trip (8:19) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Library of Congress - Teaching with Primary Sources - The Golden Age of Radio - READ, LISTEN, VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Youth Radio Collection - VIEW, LISTEN, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Country Music - The Impact of Radio (3:17) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Career Connections: Radio Host (6:08) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - NASA -Tour of the Electromagnetic Spectrum: Radio Waves (3:38) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Theater of the Mind Radio Dramas  - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - The Roosevelts - Radio During World War II: Pacific Front (4:02) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia -  Soundbreaking - AM Radio and the Hit Single (1:26) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia -  Soundbreaking - Bob Dylan and  the Transition to FM Radio (2:23) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio 1:51:56) - VIEW

Watch 

NHPBS  - 11.1   Comcast (802)   Live Stream   More Options

• 7:30-8 am NHPBS - Wild Kratts - Snow Runners - Snowshoe Hare, lynx
• 8-8:30 am NHPBS - Hero Elementary - Going To Pieces/Forces Of Nature
• 8:30-9 am NHPBS - Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum - I Am Leonardo Da Vinci/I Am Amelia Earhart
• 2:30-3 pm NHPBS - Let's Go Luna! - More Than All That Jazz/Swamp Pals - New Orleans
• 3-3:30 pm NPBSS - Nature Cat - Croak And Swagger/Puddle Pool Party

NHPBS EXPLORE  - 11.2   Comcast (801)   More Options

• 4-4:30 pm NHPBS EXPLORE - Let's Go Luna! - Blue Orleans/Bonjour, Au Revoir, Adios
•  4:30-5 pm NHPBS EXPLORE - Odd Squad - Odds And Ends (charts, line graphs, data analysis and collection)
• 5-5:30 pm NHPBS EXPLORE - Wild Kratts - Let The Rhinos Roll!
• 9:30-11 pm NHPBS EXPLORE - Rick Steves Fascism In Europe

NH WORLD - 11.3   Comcast (965)  More Options

• 8-9 am NH WORLD - Nova - Operation Bridge Rescue
• 9-10 am NH WORLD - Secrets of the Dead - Egypt's Darkest Hour
• 10-11 am NH WORLD - Prehistoric Road Trip - Tiny Teeth, Fearsome Beasts
• 11-11:30 am NH WORLD - The Good Road - Nairobi, Kenya: The Power Of Story
• 11:30 am-12 pm NH WORLD - Stories from the Stage - Next Stop
• 12-1 pm NH WORLD - Civilizations - Paradise On Earth
• 1-1:30 pm NH WORLD - Changing Seas - The Cordell Bank: A National Treasure
• 1:30-2 pm NH WORLD - Poetry In America - One Art - Elizabeth Bishop
• 2-2:30 pm NH WORLD - Poetry In America - I Cannot Dance Upon My Toes - Emily Dickinson
• 2:30-5 pm NH WORLD - Great Performances - Much Ado About Nothing
• 7-8 pm NH WORLD - Madagascar: Islands of Wonder
  
• 8-9 pm NH WORLD - Borneo: Islands of Wonder
• 9-10 pm NH WORLD - Hawaii: Islands of Wonder

NH KIDS - 11.5  Schedule   Live Stream   More Options

Pressroom Contact

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