Bees, Amelia Earhart, and Endangered Species - May 20
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Friday, May 20, 2022
Today is Eliza Doolittle Day, Endangered Species Day, Flower Day, Josephine Baker Day, National Pizza Party Day, National Rescue Dog Day, Weights & Measures Day, World Bee Day, and National Quiche Lorraine Day.
May is Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Bees and Amelia Earhart
ON THIS DATE
- 325 - The First Council of Nicaea is opened. (Frontline - From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians (Pt. 1) (1:51:05) - VIEW)
- 1570 - Cartographer Abraham Ortelius issues the first modern atlas, the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum.
- 1609- Shakespeare's sonnets are published in London.
- 1861 - North Carolina votes to secede from the Union.
- 1862 - President Lincoln signs the Homestead Act into law, opening 84 million acres of public land to settlers.
- 1873 - Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive a patent for blue jeans with copper rivets.
- 1902 - Cuba gains independence from the United States.
- 1927 - Charles Lindbergh takes off for Paris from Roosevelt Field in Long Island, N.Y., aboard the Spirit of St. Louis on the first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
- 1932 - Amelia Earhart begins the first solo nonstop flight by a female pilot across the Atlantic Ocean, taking off from Newfoundland and landing in Ireland.
- 1960 - A white mob attacks a busload of "Freedom Riders" in Montgomery, Alabama. (American Experience Freedom Riders (1:52:28) - VIEW)
- 1971 - The album "What's Going On" by Marvin Gaye is released.
- 1993 - The final episode of "Cheers" airs on NBC.
- 1768 - First Lady Dolley Madison
- 1799 - French author Honoré de Balzac
- 1825 - 1st ordained mainstream protestant female minister Antoinette Brown Blackwell.
- 1908 - Actor Jimmy Stewart
- 1944 - English singer-songwriter Joe Cocker
- 1946 - Singer-songwriter and actor Cher
- 1972 - Rapper and actor Busta Rhymes
- Joni Mitchell - Amelia- LISTEN
- Marvin Gaye - What's Going On - LISTEN
- Joe Cocker - You Are So Beautiful - LISTEN
- Cher - Believe - LISTEN
THEME: Bees
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - B is for Bees (1:39) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Elmo's World - Bees (5:21) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Baby Bear and Bees (1:47) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-4 - Wild Kratts - Follow That Bee (2:48) - VIEW
- Grades K-6 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Science Trek - What's the Buzz about Bees? Collection - VIEW
- Grades 3-8 - NHPBS Learning Media - Wild TV - Bees (5:08) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 4-12 - Reactions - Did You Know That Honey is Really Bee Puke? (2:25) - VIEW
- Grades 5-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - Disappearance of the Bees - What's the Impact? (5:31) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia - The Bounty of Bees (3:51) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Lens of Time - Bumper Bees (5:52) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Learning Media - It's OK to Be Smart - Why Are the Bees Dying? (4:01) - VIEW
- Grades 8-12 - NHPBS Video - Nature -My Garden of a Thousand Bees (53:13) - VIEW
THEME: Amelia Earhart
- Grades PreK-3 - Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum - Amelia Earhart Coloring Sheet - DO
Grades PreK-3 - Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum - Amelia Earhart Biosheet - READ - Grades 3-7 - PBS Learning Media - Amelia Earhart- Aviator, Record-breaker, and Activist Video (Available in Spanish) (4:00) - VIEW
- Grades 3-8 - PBS Learning Media - Amelia Earhart- Aviator, Record-breaker, and Activist Lesson Plan - DO
- Grades 3-8 - PBS LearningMedia - STEM in 30 - Fly Girls: Women in Aerospace (29:59) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - American Experience - Amelia Earhart (8:39) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - American Experience - I Think I'd Like to Fly - Amelia Earhart (0:48) -VIEW
- Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Images of the Past - Finding Amelia (27:19) - VIEW
- Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - WLRN History - Amelia Earhart's Last Flight (3:13) - VIEW
- Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Blue Sky Metropolis - Hollywood and the Making of Aviation Celebrities (4:45) - VIEW
- Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - History Detectives - Amelia Earhart Plane (17:30) - VIEW
- Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - History Detectives - Extended Interview: All About Amelia Earhart (3:43) - VIEW
THEME: Endangered and Threatened Species
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Elmo's World - Wild Animals (17:51) - VIEW
- Grades K-5 - PBS LearningMedia - Wild Kratts - Extinction Collection - VIEW
- Grades K-5 - Wild Kratts - Endangered Breakfast (1:43) - VIEW
- Grades 3-4 - PBS LearningMedia - Wild Kratts - Jump Back in Time (2:22) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 3-5 - PBS Learning Media - Ferret Town (27:23) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 3-8 - NHPBS Instructional Video - NatureWorks - Life at Risk (14:49) - VIEW
- Grades 4-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Science Trek - Endangered Species Collection - VIEW and DO
- Grades 4-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Science Trek - Endangered Species Q&A Collection - VIEW and DO
- Grades 4-12 - U.S. Fish and Wildlife - Endangered and Threatened Species - READ
- Grades 4-12 - World Wildlife Fund - Endangered Species - READ
- Grades 4-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Ocean Today - Endangered Sea Turtles (2:41) - VIEW
- Grades 6-9 - PBS LearningMedia - Saving the Endangered Hellbender Salamander (5:26) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Plight of the Grassland Birds (56:45) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Plants: The Endangered Species (26:45) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Endangered Species: Worth Saving from Extinction? () - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Above the Noise - Endangered Species: Worth Saving from Extinction? (7:00) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearingMedia - Ocean Today - Endangered Sharks (2:15) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Quest - Salt Creek Tiger Beetles (6:34) - VIEW and DO
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