Friday the 13th and Sharks - May 13
Fintastic Friday Learning
Friday, May 13, 2022
Today is Friday the 13th, Fintastic Friday: Giving Sharks A Voice, Blame Someone Else Day, National Apple Pie Day, National Fruit Cocktail Day, and, National Leprechaun Day.
May is Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Friday the 13th and Sharks
ON THIS DATE
- 1846 - The US declares war on Mexico.
- 1862 - Robert Smalls and a crew of fellow slaves commandeer the cotton steamer the USS Planter and navigate it through Confederate lines to Union forces and freedom.
- 1954 - The Pajama Game opens on Broadway.
- 1985 - Police bomb MOVE headquarters in Philadelphia, killing six adults and five children, and destroying 250 homes.
- 1989 - Students stage a hunger strike and occupy Tiananmen Square in Beijing.
- 1882 - French artist Georges Braque
- 1883 - Pathologist and inventor of the Pap smear Georgios Papanikolaou
- 1907 - English author Daphne du Maurier
- 1914 - Boxer Joe Louis
- 1922 - Actor Bea Arthur
- 1941 - Singer-songwriter Ritchie Valens
- 1944 - Author Armistead Maupin
- 1950 - Singer-songwriter Stevie Wonder
- 1964 - Talk show host Stephen Colbert
- Ritchie Valens - La Bamba - LISTEN
- Stevie Wonder - My Cherie Amour - LISTEN
- Stevie Wonder - Superstition - LISTEN
- The Pajama Game - Steam Heat - LISTEN
- Grades PreK-1 - Peg + Cat - Friday the 13th (1:19) - VIEW
- Grades 5-12 - PBS NewsHour - It's Friday the 13th - READ
THEME: Sharks
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Cookie Shark (2:17) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Studios - Marvie Learns about Sharks (2:56) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-1 - Splash and Bubbles - Great White Shark (1:56) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-1 - Splash and Bubbles - Get Your Feet Wet: Whale Shark (1:30) - VIEW
- Grades K-4 - NHPBS LearningMedia- Camp TV - Sharks (7:55) - VIEW
- Grades K-12 - Monterey Bay Aquarium - Shark Cam - VIEW
- Grades 1-5 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Kratts Creatures - The Tiger Shark (3;03) - VIEW
- Grades 1-5 - Wild Kratts - Stuck on Sharks (26:48) - VIEW
- Grades 1-5 - Wild Kratts - Sharks - Predator and Prey (21:34) - VIEW
- Grades 1-5 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Wild Kratts - Stuck on Sharks Clips - VIEW
- Grades 4-6 - NHPBS LearningMedia- Dragonfly TV - Scientist Profile: Shark Scientist (Available in Spanish) (2:39) - VIEW
- Grades 4-12 - NHPBS Wildlife Journal Junior - Chondrichthyes - Rays, Sharks, Skates, Chimaeras - READ
- Grades 4-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - NOAA - Researching Great White Sharks (1:26) - VIEW
- Grades 5-10 - NHPBS LearningMedia - EARTH: A New Wild - Sharks & Shorelines (Available in Spanish) (3:56) - VIEW
- Grades 5-12 - NOAA - Shark Conservation - READ
- Grades 6-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Shark Biology (10:05) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia - The Mysterious Hammerhead (9:29) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia - The Shark and the Lamprey (11:01) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia - The Shark and the Whale (9:07) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Blue Shark Adventure (9:41) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia - The Shark with the Tall Tail (9:39) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-8 - NHPBS Video - Autumn Watch New England - Great White Sharks (4:19) - VIEW
- Grades 6-8 - NHPBS Video - Magical Land of Oz - Dusky Sharks Congregate to Feed (2:59) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Ocean Today - Endangered Sharks (2:15) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - QUEST- Whale Sharks (3:15) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - QUEST- The Great White Shark (1:26) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nature - The Secret World of Sharks and Rays: Shark and Turtle (2:41) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nature - The Secret World of Sharks and Rays: Shark in Our Future (1:41) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nature - Collapse of Sharks (3:05) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Shark Tagging (7:30) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Nature - Sharks of Hawaii (53:27) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Eons - Why Megalodon (Definitely) Went Extinct (10:45) - VIEW
- Grades 8-12 - NHPBS Video - Gross Science - Why Most Sand Tiger Sharks Die in the Womb (2:23) - VIEW
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