Glaciers - May 11
Icy Learning
Wednesday, May 11, 2022
Today is Eat What You Want Day, National School Nurse Day, and, National Twilight Zone Day.
May is Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Glaciers
ON THIS DATE
- 1858 - Minnesota is admitted as the 32nd state
- 1894 - Four thousand Pullman Palace Car Company workers go on strike.
- 1910 - Glacier National Park in Montana is established
- 1960 - Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann is captured in Argentina.
- 1997 - The Deep Blue IBM computer defeats Garry Kasparov and wins a six-game chess match.
- 1874 - Pilot Harriet Quimby
- 1888 - Composer Irving Berlin
- 1894 - Choreographer Martha Graham
- 1904 - Spanish artist Salvador Dalí
- 1905 - Architect and public housing advocate Catherine Bauer Wurster
Patsy Cline - Always (by Irving Berlin) - LISTEN
- Grades PreK-2 - Let's Go Luna - Glacier or Bust (3:15) - VIEW
- Grades 3-8 - NHPBS Video - Dragonfly TV - Glaciers (7:38) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Nova - What’s Causing Greenland’s Biggest Glacier to Melt? (2:04) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - It's Okay to Be Smart - How Do Glaciers Move? (6:30) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Wild Alaska - Glaciers - READ and DO
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - Fastest Glacier (5:15) - VIEW and READ
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - Glacier Up Close (2:46) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Frontline - Observing Melting Glaciers In Greenland (5:30) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Frontline - High Altitude GLaciers in the Tropics (4:40) - VIEW, READ, DO
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