Cheese, Black Bears, Prairies, and the 19th Amendment - June 4
Learning Potpourri
Saturday, June 4, 2022
Today is Hug Your Cat Day, National Cheese Day, and National Black Bear Day., National Pineapple Day, and National Prairie Day.
June is Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Pride Month; National Oceans Month; National Rivers Month; and National Caribbean-American Heritage Month
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Ocean/River Resource of the Day
Today's Theme: Cheese and the 19th Amendment
ON THIS DATE
- 1411 - France's King Charles VI grants the town of Roquefort-sur-Soulzon a monopoly for ripening Roquefort cheese.
- 1647 - English army seizes King Charles I.
- 1789 - The Montgolfier brothers publicly demonstrate their hot air balloon.
- 1919 - The 19th Amendment is approved by congress, giving women the right to vote.
- 1939 - The MS St. Louis, a ship carrying 963 Jewish refugees, is denied permission to land in Florida and is forced to return to Europe. More than 200 passengers later die in Nazi concentration camps.
- 1942 - The Battle of Midway between Japan and the U.S. begins.
- 1984 - Bruce Springsteen's album "Born in the U.S.A." is released.
- 1989 - Chinese army troops stormTiananmen Square in Beijing to stop pro-democracy demonstrations, possibly killing thousands of protesters.
- 1738 - Great Britain's King George III
- 1975 - Actor Angelina Jolie
OCEAN/RIVER RESOURCE OF THE DAY
Ocean Today - Chimaera - VIEW
- Grades PreK-3 - Let's Go: Luna - The Perfect Grilled Cheese (1:33) - VIEW
- Grades K-4 - Odd Squad - The Cheese Room (2:24) - VIEW
- Grades 6-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Cheese: Not the Same Mold Story (6:02) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - The Science and Art of Cheese (10:26) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Gross Science - What Lives in Cheese? (2:48) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - It's O.K. To Be Smart - What Lives in Cheese (5:46) -VIEW
- Grades 4-6 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Dragonfly TV - Scientist Profile: Dairy Scientist (2:37) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Serving Up Science - Making the Ultimate (Stinky) Cheese Board (5:45) -VIEW
- Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Reactions - How Milk Becomes Cheese (6:43) - VIEW
- Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Reactions - Why Does Stinky Cheese Stink? (4:57) - VIEW
THEME: Black Bears
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Do the Bear (2:37) - VIEW and DO
- Grades PreK-1 - PBS LearningMedia - Super Why - Goldilocks and The Three Bears (25:25) - VIEW and DO
- Grades K-6 - PBS LearningMedia - Science Trek - Bears (5:25) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 1-5 - PBS LearingMedia - Kratts Creatures - Bear Camping (1:20) - VIEW
- Grades 1-5 - PBS LearingMedia - Kratts Creatures - Bear-ly Swimming (1:41) - VIEW
- Grades 3-12 - NHPBS - Wildlife Journal Jr. - Black Bear - READ
- Grades 5-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Untamed - Black Bears (26:45) - VIEW, READ and DO
THEME: PRAIRIES
- Grades PreK-1- Sesame Street - Monsterpiece Theater - Little Prairie on the Prairie (2:31) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-2 - Nature Cat - The Prairie is Awesome (2:34) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-2 - Nature Cat - Speaking Prairie Chicken (2:38) - VIEW
- Grades K-4 - Wild Kratts - Bison Roadblock (1:44) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 2-6 - EEK! - What is a Prairie? - READ
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Vegetation on the Prairie (3:54) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Wetlands: A Prairie Slough (1:31) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Biodiversity on the Prairie (3:21) - VIEW
- Grades 3-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Teaching Women's Suffrage Collection - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia -19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution - Women's Right to Vote Resource Materials - VIEW, READ, and DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - The Origins of Everything - 6 Surprising Facts About the 19th Amendment (12:09) - VIEW
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