National Parks - April 21

Thursday, April 21, 2022

Today is Big Word Day, Kindergarten Day, and National Tea Day.

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Poem of the Day - April is National Poetry Month
Today's Theme: National Parks

ON THIS DATE

• 753 BC - Romulus founds Rome.
• 1836 - Texans led by Sam Houston defeated the Mexicans at San Jacinto.
• 1977 - Annie opens on Broadway.
• 2014 - Flint, Michigan switches its water source to the Flint River, beginning the Flint water crisis

BIRTHDAYS

• 1816 - English novelist Charlotte Brontë
• 1838 - Environmentalist John Muir
• 1926 - UK Queen Elizabeth II
• 1939 - Nun and activist Sister Helen Prejean
• 1947 - Singer-songwriter Iggy Pop

SONG OF THE DAY 

• Iggy Pop - Real Wild Child (Wild One) - LISTEN
• Annie - Tomorrow - LISTEN

POEM OF THE DAY 
Academy of American Poets - Imagine Our Parks with Poems

THEME:  National Parks

• Grades PreK-3 - PBS LearningMedia - Kid Vision - Biscayne National Park Field Trip (8:15) - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-12 - National Park Service - VIEW, DO, READ, EXPLORE
• Grades 2-12 - PBS LearningMedia - The National Parks of Texas Collection - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Ken Burns in the Classroom - National Parks Collection - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - The National Parks - A Film by Ken Burns - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - National Archives - Teaching with Primary Sources - Conservationism and the Creation of Our National Parks - DO

Pressroom Contact

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