Movies - June 6
Lights, Camera, Action Learning
Monday, June 6, 2022
Today is D-Day, National Drive-In Movie Day, National Yoyo Day, National Hunger Awareness Day, YMCA Day, and Russian Language 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: Movies
ON THIS DATE
- 1844 - The YMCA is founded in London.
- 1889 - The Great Seattle Fire destroys downtown Seattle.
- 1933 - The first drive-in theater opens in Camden, New Jersey.
- 1944 - The D-Day invasion of Normandy begins when Allied forces storm the beaches of Normandy, France.
- 1755 - Revolutionary War soldier and spy Nathan Hale
- 1756 - Painter and architect John Trumbull
- 1799 - Russian author and poet Alexander Pushkin
- 1925 - Poet Maxine Kumin
- 1944 - Sprinter Tommie Smith
- 1956 - Swedish tennis player Björn Borg
- The Village People - YMCA - LISTEN
- The Drifters - Saturday Night at the Movies - LISTEN
- The Kinks - Groovy Movies - LISTEN
OCEAN/RIVER RESOURCE OF THE DAY
Kratts Creatures - The Tiger Shark - VIEW
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Grover at the Movies (1:43) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Movie and TV Show Parodies - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Learning Media - Frontline - Generation Like - Promoting Movies (5:59) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Physics Girl - Is This Really 3D? (5:02) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Crash Course: Artificial Intelligence - Make a Movie Recommendation System (14:33) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Origins of Everything - How a Spy Changed Horror Movies (10:52) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Origins of Everything - Why Do We Eat Popcorn at the Movies? (6:46) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - It's Lit - When the Book is Better than the Movie (5:28) - VIEW
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