Seeds, Booker T. Washington, and Libraries - April 5
Learning That Grows On You
Tuesday, April 5, 2022
Today is National Library Day, Bell Bottoms Day, National Deep Dish Pizza Day, National Caramel Day, and Read A Road Map Day.
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Poem of the Day - April is National Poetry Month
Today's Theme: SEEDS, BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, and LIBRARIES
ON THIS DATE
- 1710 - The Statute of Anne establishes copyright law in the U.K.
- 1792 - George Washington casts the first presidential veto.
- 1933 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs an executive order establishing the Civilian Conservation Corps. (CCC in New Hampshire)
- 1951 - Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are sentenced to death for spying for the Soviet Union.
- 1984 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar becomes the highest-scoring player in NBA history with 31,421 career points. He still holds the record with 38,387 points.
- 1588 - English philosopher Thomas Hobbes
- 1692 - French actress Adrienne Lecouvreur
- 1732 - French rococo painter Jean-Honoré Fragonard
- 1856 - Educator Booker T. Washington
- 1858 - Canadian businessman Washington Atlee Burpee
- 1900 - Actor Spencer Tracy
- 1908 - Actor Bette Davis
- 1916 - Actor Gregory Peck
- 1925 - Geneticist Janet Rowley
- 1935 - English astrophysicist Donald Lynden-Bell
- 1937 - General and former Secretary of State Colin Powell
- 1949 - Astronaut and engineer Judith Resnik
- 1951 Inventor and NH resident Dean Kamen
- 1973 - Singer-songwriter Pharrell Williams
- 1980 - Basketball player and Concord, NH native Matt Bonner
Pharrell Williams - Happy - LISTEN- Pharrell Williams - Sesame Street B is for Book - LISTEN
- Kim Carnes - Bette Davis Eyes - LISTEN
Jimmy Buffet - Love in the Library -LISTEN- Green Day - At the Library - LISTEN
- Robert Frost - Putting in the Seed
- Kathleen Driskell - Seed
- Charles Simic - In the Library
- Nikki Giovanni - My First Memory (Of Librarians)
- Grades 3-7 - PBS LearningMedia - American Icons - Booker T. Washington: Orator, Teacher, and Advisor ( Available in Spanish) (3:51) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 5-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Booker T. Washington (2:00) - LISTEN
- Grades 5-12 - PBS LeearningMedia - Booker T. Washington Invites Carver to Tuskegee (4:33)- VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - National Park Service - Measure of a Man (13:00) - VIEW
- GRades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - The Roosevelts - Booker T. Washington at the White House (3:18) - VIEW
- Grades: 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - American Masters - Dr. Bledsoe: A Fictional Booker T. Washington (2:33) - VIEW and DO
- Grades: 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow - Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois: The Conflict (3:31) - VIEW and DO
- Grades: 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia- The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow - Booker T. Washington: An Education (7:21) - VIEW and DO
- Grades: 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Biography of America - You Decide: Washington or Du Bois? (28:40) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Divergent Educational Philosophies: Washington, Dubois, and Garvey (2:33) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 9-12 - PBS LearingMedia - Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges & Universities Collection - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Basic Black - Booker T. Washington vs. W.E.B. DuBois (26:46) - VIEW
THEME: SEEDS
- Grades PreK - PBS LearningMedia - Peep and the Big Wide World - Experimenting with Seeds (1:27) - VIEW
- Grades PreK - PBS LearningMedia - Peep Plants a Seed (8:50) - VIEW
- Grades PreK - PBS LearningMedia - Between the Lions - The Carrot Seed (3:47) -VIEW
- Grades PreK-1 - PBS LearningMedia - Everyday Learning - From Seed to Fruit (2:01) - VIEW and DO
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Mrs. Obama Plants Garden (2:39) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Elmo's World: Growing Beans (1:47) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-1 - Sid the Science Kid - Growing Plants (1:49) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-2 - PBS LearningMedia - Mister Chris and Friends - Seeds (13:46) - VIEW and DO
- Grades PreK-2 - Plum Landing - Seed Racer Game - DO
- Grades PreK-2 - Plum Landing - Make a Seed Blaster - DO
- Grades PreK-2 - Plum Landing - Seed Travels - DO
- Grades K-4 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature Cat - Seed Soaring Game - DO
- Grades K-4 - PBS Learning Media - Nature Cat - Travelin' Seeds (11:50) - VIEW
- Grades K-5 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - From Seed to Flower (1:07) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades K-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Zoom - Sock Seeds (3:00) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - America's Heartland - Organic Seeds and Grain (3:36) - VIEW and DO
THEME: LIBRARIES
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - The Library Song (3:06) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Cookie Monster in the Library (2:54) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-1 - Daniel Tiger - Olivia Visits the Library (1:56) - VIEW
- Grades Prek-1 - Oh! Noah - Cowboys and Librarians (3:00) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-1 - PBS LearningMedia - Between the Lions - At the Library (A-Z) (2:13) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-1 - PBS LearningMedia - Between the Lions - Busterfield Library A-Z (1:50) - VIEW and DO
- Grades PreK-2 - Let's Learn - The Dinosaur vs. the Library (12:05) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-3 - PBS LearningMedia - Library Field Trip (7:02) - VIEW and DO
- Grades PreK-4 - PBS LearningMedia - Arthur - Library Visit - DO
- Grades 3-5 - ReadWriteThink - Exploring the Library - READ and DO
- Grades 6-8 - ReadWriteThink - A World of Readers: Libraries Around the World Lesson Plan - READ and DO
- Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS NewsHour - Appreciating the ‘Powerful Good’ of the Public Library (2:58) - VIEW
- Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS NewsHour - How a Group of Syrian Residents Assembled a Secret Library (5:49) - VIEW
- Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - The Origin of Everything - Do We Still Need Libraries? (13:12) - VIEW
- Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - P.O.V. - StoryCorps Shorts: The Treasures of Mrs. Grady's Library (2:46) - VIEW
- Grades 8-12 - NHPBS Video - To the Contrary - Woman Thought Leader: Dr. Carla Hayden (25:48) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - The Role of Libraries in the 21 st Century (28:33) - VIEW
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