Elephants and Mushrooms - April 16
Really Big and Somewhat Little Learning
Saturday, April 16, 2022
Today is the First Day of Passover, Emancipation Day, National Orchid Day, National Librarian Day, Save The Elephant Day, National Eggs Benedict Day, and Day of the Mushroom.
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Poem of the Day - April is National Poetry Month
Today's Theme: Elephants and Mushrooms
ON THIS DATE
- 1945 - More than 7,000 die when the German refugee ship Goya is sunk by a Soviet submarine
- 1947 - An explosion on board a freighter in port causes the city of Texas City, Texas, to catch fire, killing almost 600.
- 1962 - Bob Dylan debuts his song "Blowin' in the Wind"
- 1963 - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. pens his Letter from Birmingham Jail
- 1755 - French painter Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun
- 1867 - Inventor Wilbur Wright
- 1889 - English actor, director, and producer Charlie Chaplin
- 1919 - Dancer and choreographer Merce Cunningham
- 1924 - Composer Henry Mancini
- 1939 - English singer Dusty Springfield
- 1947 - Basketball player Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
- 1952 - Football coach Bill Belichick
- 1971 - Singer-songwriter Selena
- 1993 - Rapper Chance the Rapper
- Henry Mancini - Baby Elephant Walk - LISTEN
- Dusty Springfield - Son of a Preacher Man - LISTEN
- Selena - I Could Fall in Love - LISTEN
- Bob Dylan - Blowin' in the Wind - LISTEN
POEM OF THE DAY
Gerard Malanga - Elephant Armageddon
- Grades PreK-12 - San Diego Zoo and Safari Park - Elephant Cam - VIEW
- Grades PreK-12 - National Zoo - Elephant Cam -VIEW
- Grades PreK-12 - Elephant Sanctuary - EleCam - VIEW
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Snuffy is Not an Elephant (2:46) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Elephant Elevator Operator Song (2:18) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Grover and the Elephant (2:46) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Homer the Pet Elephant (2:44) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame street - Natalie Portman And Elmo Are Princess & Elephant (4:24) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-2 - Pinkalicious and Peterrific - Elephant Fun at the Zoo (2:12) - VIEW
- Grades K-4 - PBS LearningMedia - Wild Kratts - Baby Elephant Power (1:47) - VIEW and DO
- Grades K-4 - Wild Kratts - Nosing Around (1:54) - VIEW
- Grades 1-5 - PBS LearningMedia - Kratts' Creatures - Thr Baby Elephant's Trunk (1:51) -VIEW
- Grades 3-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - Unforgettable Elephants (4:36) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 3-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - Grasslands Elephants (1:57) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 4-12 - NHPBS Video - How Elephants Listen ... With Their Feet (3:38) -VIEW
- Grades 5-10 - PBS LearningMedia - Earth: A New Wild -Living with Sumatran Elephants (5:10) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - Forest Elephants (3:50) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - Desert Elephants (4:11) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - Studying Elephants (7:48) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - When Whales Walked: Journeys in Deep Time - Age of Elephants (4:46) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia -Elephant Whisperer - Gorongosa Park: Rebirth of Paradise (55:11) - VIEW
- Grades 7-12 - PBS LearningMedia - PBS NewsHour - Elephants Offer Clues To Cancer's Secrets (8:05) - VIEW, READ, DO
THEME: MUSHROOMS (AND OTHER FUNGI)
- Grades PreK-2 - Nature Cat - Ronald's Mushroom MUSEUM! (3:56) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-2 - Nature Cat - Mushroom Tour (3:34) - VIEW
- Grades 1-5 - Time for Kids - Mighty Mushrooms (Available in Spanish)- READ
- Grades 4-12 - NHPBS - Wildlife Journal Junior - Decomposers - READ
- Grades 4-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Mycoremediation (Available in Spanish) (1:05) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - EcoSense for Living -The Secret Life of Mushrooms (9:44) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - This American Land - Fabulous Filtering Fungi (7:36) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Rewire - What Mysteries Do Mushrooms Hold? (2:51) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - SciTech Now - Can Mushrooms Help to Save the Honeybees? (5:28) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Crash Course Biology - Fungi: Death Becomes Them (11:50) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Eons - When Giant Fungi Ruled (6:37) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - Gross Science - An Internet Made of Fungus (4:03) - VIEW and DO
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