Bird Migration - May 14
Gotta Move
Saturday, May 14, 2022
Today is International Migratory Bird Day, National Chicken Dance Day, National Buttermilk Biscuit Day, National Archery Day, and National Brioche Day.
May is Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Migratory Birds
ON THIS DATE
- 1607 - Jamestown, Virginia is settled as an English colony.
- 1796 - Edward Jenner administers his first smallpox inoculation.
- 1948 - Israel is declared an independent state.
- 1955 - Eight Communist bloc countries, sign the Warsaw Pact, a mutual defense treaty.
- 1961 - A white mob attacks a Freedom Riders bus near Anniston, Alabama, attacking the riders and fire-bombing the bus
- 1973 - The space station Skylab is launched.
- 1998 - The final episode of Seinfeld airs.
- 1727 - English painter Thomas Gainsborough
- 1952 - Singer-songwriter David Byrne
- 1969 - Actor Cate Blanchett
- 1971 - Director and producer Sofia Coppola
- 1984 - Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg
- 1989 - Football player Rob Gronkowski
- Talking Heads - Once in a Lifetime - LISTEN
- Lynyrd Skynyrd - Freebird - LISTEN
- Julie London - Bye Bye Blackbird - LISTEN
- Jackson 5 - Rockin' Robin -LISTEN
- Madonna - Holiday - LISTEN
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - It's a Habitat Song with Lin-Manuel Miranda (1:10) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-3 - PBS Kids - Hibernate - Migrate Song (1:02) - VIEW
- Grades K-12 - Mississippi River Flyway Cam -VIEW
- Grades K-4 - Plum Landing - Migration Challenge - DO
- Grades K-3 - Ready Jet Go! - Bird Migration (2:52) - VIEW
- Grades K-6 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Science Trek - Bird Migration (5:04) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 4-8 - NHPBS - NatureWorks - Migration - READ and DO
- Grades 4-8 - NHPBS - NatureWorks - Migration (14:46) - VIEW
- Grades 6-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia -Nature - Earth Navigators: Arctic Summer (Available in Spanish) (2:52) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nature- Extraordinary Birds: Little Brain, Big Journey (Available in Spanish) (2:41) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Habitat Earth - Why Do Birds Migrate? (1:00) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Science Now - The Great Migration (8:59) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Quest - The Great Migration (10:17) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Untamed - Bird Migration (25:58) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Flight Path: The World of Migratory Birds (56:45) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Journey of the Broad-Winged Hawk (59:00) - VIEW
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