Turtles - May 23

Monday, May 23, 2022

Today is National Taffy Day, Lucky Penny Day, and World Turtle Day.

May is Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Turtles

ON THIS DATE

• 1788 - South Carolina becomes the eighth state to ratify the  Constitution.
• 1829 -  Cyrill Demian receives a patent for the accordion in Vienna, Austria.
• 1934 - Bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde are killed by police in Bienville Parish, Louisiana.
• 1939 - The U.S. Navy submarine USS Squalus sinks off the coast of New Hampshire during a test dive. 24 sailors and two civilian technicians died, 32 sailors and one civilian naval architect are rescued the next day. 
• 1969 - The Who's rock-opera album "Tommy" is released.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1707 - Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus
• 1810 - Journalist Margaret Fuller
• 1824 - General and politician Ambrose Burnside
• 1898 - Author Scott O'Dell
• 1910 - Children's author Margaret Wise Brown
• 1928 - Singer Rosemary Clooney
• 1934 - Engineer and inventor Robert Moog
• 1947 - Poet Jane Kenyon
• 1974 - Singer-songwriter Jewel

SONGS OF THE DAY 

Rosemary Clooney - I Ain't Got Nobody - LISTEN
Jewel - Who Will Save Your Soul - LISTEN
The Turtles - You Showed Me - LISTEN
Elton John - Pinball Wizard - LISTEN
Merle Haggard - The Legend of Bonnie and Clyde - LISTEN
George Fame - The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde - LISTEN
Weird Al Faces Off with Jon Batiste - LISTEN

THEME: Turtles

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - T is for Turtle (1:46) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - I Get There (2:02) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-3 - Nature Cat - Baby Sea Turtles (3:46) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-3 - Nature Cat - Celia the Sea Turtle (3:43) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-3 - Splash and Bubbles - Get Your Feet Wet - Baby Sea Turtles (1:29) - VIEW
• Grades K-3 - NHPBS - Up Close and Natural Instructional Video - Turtles (4:25)  - VIEW
• Grades K-4 - Wild Kratts - Seeing Sea Turtles (2:40) - VIEW
• Grades K-4 - Wild Kratts - Boxed In (2:55) - VIEW
• Grades 4-12 - Saving a SPecies: Sea Turtles (30:08) - VIEW
• Grades 4-6 - NHPBS LearningMedia - DragonflyTV - Turtle Research (5:04) - VIEW
• Grades 4-6 - NHPBS Learningmedia - DragonflyTV - Sea Turtles (7:32) - VIEW
• Grades 4-10 - NHPBS LearningMedia - The Kemps Ridley Sea Turtle (5:25) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Untamed - Turtles (26:46) - VIEW, READ , DO
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Eons - How the Turtle Got Its Shell (8:29) - VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Troubled Waters: A Turtle's Tale (53:13) - VIEW

Pressroom Contact

Carla Gordon Russell
Director of Communications
crussell@nhpbs.org
(603) 868-4339