Bridges, Bob Dylan, and Brothers - May 24

Tuesday, May 24, 2022

Today is  Asparagus Day, International Tiara Day, National Escargot Day, and Brother's Day.

May is Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Bridges, Bob Dylan, and Brothers

ON THIS DATE

• 1626 - Peter Minuit buys Manhattan
• 1844 - Samuel Morse sends the telegraph message "What hath God wrought" from the US Capitol to his assistant, Alfred Vail, in Baltimore. 
• 1883 - The Brooklyn Bridge opens to traffic.
• 1935 - The first night game in Major League Baseball is played in Cincinnati at Crosley Field. The Reds beat the Phillies by a score of 2-1.
• 1962 -  Astronaut Scott Carpenter orbits the Earth three times in the Aurora 7 space capsule.
• 2019 - British Prime Minister Theresa May announces her resignation as Leader of the Conservative Party

BIRTHDAYS

• 1686 - Polish physicist Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit
• 1819 - Queen Victoria 
• 1941 - Singer-songwriter Bob Dylan
• 1944 - Singer-songwriter Patti LaBelle
• 1955 - Singer-songwriter Rosanne Cash

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water - LISTEN
• The Hollies - He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother - LISTEN
• Patti LaBelle - New Attitude - LISTEN
• Bob Dylan - Like a Rolling Stone - LISTEN
• Rosanne Cash -Tennessee Flat Top Box - LISTEN

THEME:  Bridges

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Building Bridges - Murray's Science Experiments (2:19) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Dinosaur on a Bridge (1:33) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-3 - Dinosaur Train - Bridge Builder Game  - DO
• Grades PreK-3 - The Cat in the Hat - Bridge-a-rama Game - DO
• Grades K-5 - NHPBS Video - Crafts for Kids - Build and Test Paper Bridges (1:07) -VIEW and DO
• Grades 3-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Investigating a Suspension Bridge (2:55) - VIEW, READ and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Nova - Why Bridges Collapse (53:09) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Design Squad - Truss Bridge (5:55) - VIEW, READ and DO
  
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Design Squad - Suspension Bridge (5:11) - VIEW, READ and DO
• Grades 6-12- NHPBS LearningMedia - Picturing America - The Brooklyn Bridge (5:38) - VIEW and DO
  
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Ken Burns Brooklyn Bridge Full Show and Clips - VIEW

THEME: Bob Dylan 

• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS Video - In Performance at the White House - Bob Dylan (3:30) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - Rock and Roll Hall of Fame - Bob Dylan -VIEW and READ
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - History Detectives - Dylan Plugs in and Sells Out Lesson Plan (2:58) - VIEW, READ and Do
• Grades 7-12 - Teach Rock - Bob Dylan as Poet - VIEW, READ and DO
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Blank on Blank - Bob Dylan at 20 on Freak Shows (4:37) -VIEW

THEME: Brothers

• Grades PreK-K - NHPBS LearningMedia - Dinosaur Train -Dinosaur Train (12:45) - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-K - NHPBS LearningMedia - Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood - We're Going to Have a New Baby in Our Family (2:14) - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-2 - NHPBS LearningMedia - PBS KIDS Rocks - Los Lobos: Brothers and Sisters (1:00) - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-2 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Let's Learn - Let's Share a Story: "My Brother Charlie" (13:52) - VIEW
• Grades 3-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia -  Know Ohio - The Wright Brothers Take Flight  (3:29) - VIEW and DO
  
• Grades 4-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia - PBS World Explorers - The Pizarro Brothers (Available in Spanish) (5:57) -  VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? and The Forgotten Man (5:17) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - PBS Idea Channel - Super Mario Brothers as Surrealist Art? (2:19) - VIEW

Pressroom Contact

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