Skateboarding - May 12
Grinding Out Some Learning
Thursday, May 12, 2022
Today is International Nurses Day, Limerick Day, and National Nutty Fudge Day.
May is Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Skateboarding
ON THIS DATE
- 1780 - Charleston, South Carolina is taken by British forces during the Revolutionary War.
- 1942 - The U.S. oil tanker SS Virginia is torpedoed at the mouth of the Mississippi River by a German submarine U-507, killing 2 crew members.
- 1949- The Soviet Union lifts its blockade of Berlin
- 1812 - English poet Edward Lear
- 1820 - English nurse Florence Nightingale
- 1907 - Actor Katharine Hepburn
- 1925 - Baseball player and coach Yogi Berra
- 1937 - Comedian and actor George Carlin
- 1948 - English musician Steve Winwood
- 1968 - Skateboarder Tony Hawk
- Grades PreK-2 - PBS LearningMedia - Young Explorers - Get Up & Go Play!: Skate Park (2:54) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-3 - PBS LearningMedia - Sid the Science Kid - Inertia! (1:53) - VIEW
- Grades 4-8 - PBS LearningMedia - DragonflyTV - Skateboards (5:22) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Under a Minute - Learning To Skateboard in a War Zone (If You're A Girl) (0:59) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS NewsHour (2018) - Tony Hawk Turns 50 -- and He Has a Trick for Every Year (9:12) - VIEW
- Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Skate SD: Tony Hawk and the Del Mar Skate Ranch (4:18) - VIEW
- Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - The Big Tell - Professional (Teacher) AND Skater (5:00) - VIEW
- Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Physics Girl - How an IMPOSSIBLE Skateboarding Trick Works ft Rodney Mullen (9:00) - VIEW
- Grades 8-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Physics in Motion - Kinetic Energy and Gravitational Potential Energy (5:14) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Apache Skateboarders: Straddling the Past and Present (3:36) - VIEW and DO
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