Lobsters and Wind - June 15
Under the Sea and Up in the Air Learning
Wednesday, June 15, 2022
Today is Lobster Day, Global Wind Day, Fly a Kite Day, Magna Carta Day, National Electricity Day, Kiss a Wookie Day, Native American Citizenship Day, Nature Photography Day, World Elder Abuse Awareness Day, and Worldwide Day of Giving.
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
Today's Theme: Lobsters and Wind
ON THIS DATE
- 1215 - England's King John puts his seal on the Magna Carta.
- 1648 - Midwife Margaret Jones becomes the first person executed for witchcraft in the Massachusetts Bay Colony when she is hanged in Boston.
- 1775 - George Washington is appointed head of the Continental Army.
- 1864 - Arlington National Cemetery is established on 200 acres of what once was Confederate General Robert E. Lee's estate.
- 1901 - 1,000 people die in a fire on the steamboat General Slocum on the East River in New York City.
- 1921 - Bessie Colman becomes the first licensed female African American pilot.
- 1479 - Italian model for the Mona Lisa Lisa del Giocondo
- 1843 - Nowegian composer Edvard Grieg
- 1878 - Golfer Margaret Abbott
- 1937 - Musician Waylon Jennings
- 1953 - Chinese President Xi Jinping
- 1969 - Rapper and actor Ice Cube
- 1973 - Actor Neil Patrick Harris
- B52s - Rock Lobster - LISTEN
- Jimi Hendrix The Wind Cries Mary - LISTEN
- Kansas - Dust in the Wind - LISTEN
- Bob Dylan - Blowin' In the Wind - LISTEN
- Nate King Cole - Mona Lisa - LISTEN
- Edvard Grieg - Morning Mood from Peer Gynt - LISTEN
- Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson - Mamma Don't Let Your Sons Grow Up to Be Cowboys - LISTEN
- Grades PreK-1- Sesame Street - Abby and Emmy Rossum Stay Focused! (2:01) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-3 - Nature Cat - Little Lost Lobster (3:42) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-3 - Nature Cat - Little Lost Lobster - The Mangrove Forest (3:32) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-4 - Wild Kratts - How to Activate Your Lobster Creature Powers (8:07) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-4 - Wild Kratts - Swiming with the Lobster (2:05) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - It's Okay. to Be Smart - You Are an Upside-Down Lobster (4:01) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS NewsHour - How Rising Water Temperatures Could End Maine's Lobster Boom (8:34) - VIEW
- Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Wildlife Journal Junior - The Secret Life of Lobsters (7:20) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Listen to the Wind Blow (2:52) - VIEW
- Grades K-2 - Sid the Science Kid - What is Wind? (1:35) - VIEW
- Grades 1-4 - PBS LearningMedia - Cyberchase - Wind Power Experiment (3:16) - VIEW
- Grades 4-8 - NHPBS Video - SciGirls - Blowin' in the Wind (28:05) - VIEW
- Grades 4-8 - NHPBS Video - SciGirls - Blowin' in the Wind (Spanish) (28:05) - VIEW
- Grades 3-12 - National Weather Service - Beaufort Wind Scale - READ
- Grades 3-5 - PBS LearningMedia - Cyberchase - Measuring Wind Speed (1:13) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - Wind Power (2:33) - VIEW and DO
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