Grand Canyon - February 26

Saturday, February 26, 2022

Today is Levi Strauss Day and National Pistachio Day.

* indicates a resource or program highlighting Black history, culture, or an individual.

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: The Grand Canyon

ON THIS DATE

• 1815 - Napoleon Bonaparte escapes from Elba.
• 1919 - President Woodrow Wilson signs an act of Congress establishing the Grand Canyon National Park.
• 1970 - National Public Radio is incorporated.
• 1993 - A  bomb explodes in the garage of the World Trade Center in New York, killing six and injuring over 1,000.
• 2012 - Travon Martin, 17, is shot to death in Sanford, Florida by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1564 - English playwright and poet Christopher Marlowe
• 1802 - French writer Victor Hugo
• 1829 - Businessman and jean designer Levi Strauss
• 1846 - Showman Buffalo Bill
• 1908 - Animator Tex Avery
• 1928 - Singer-songwriter Fats Domino *
• 1932 - Singer-songwriter Johnny Cash
• 1950 - New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark
• 1953 - Singer-songwriter Michael Bolton
• 1971 - Singer-songwriter Erykah Badu *
• 1973 - Swimmer and Dover, NH former resident Jenny Thompson

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Fats Domino - Blueberry Hill - LISTEN
• Johnny Cash - I Walk the Line - LISTEN

THEME:  The Grand Canyon

• Grades PreK-12 - National Park Service - Grand Canyon Web Cams - VIEW
• Grades PreK-2 - Nature Cat - Behold the Grand Canyon (3:20) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-2 - Nature Cat - How Did the Grand Canyon Get so Grand (3:33) - VIEW
• Grades 3-12 - National Park Service - Grand Canyon Learning Resources - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 3-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - Impacts of the Glen Canyon Dam (Available in Spanish) (5:08) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 3-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - The Grand Canyon - How It Formed (Available in Spanish) (3:41) -VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 3-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova -The Top Two Rock Layers (1:28) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 4-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - Uncovering Layers of the Grand Canyon (4:51) (Available in Spanish) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 4-12 - National Park Service - Grand Canyon National Park - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - The Grand Canyon: Ancient Mountains (Available in Spanish) (1:46) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - The Grand Canyon: Evidence of Earth's Past (2:51) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - The Grand Canyon: Its Youngest Rocks (Available in Spanish) (2:01) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 8-12 - NHPBS Video -  Beyond-the-Rim-100-Years-Grand-Canyon (40:31)- VIEW
• Grades 8-12 - NHPBS Video - It's Okay to Be Smart - How Does A Canyon Become Grand? (4:03) - VIEW

Pressroom Contact

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