Mirrors, Auks, and Gettysburg - July 3
Mirrors, Auks, and Gettysburg
Sunday, July 3, 2022
Today is International Plastic Bag Free Day, Eat Beans Day, National Fried Clam Day, and Compliment Your Mirror Day.
July is National Parks & Recreation Month and National Ice Cream Month.
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Mirrors, Auks, and Gettysburg
ON THIS DATE
- 1754 - George Washington surrenders Fort Necessity to the French in the French and Indian War.
- 1775 - George Washington takes command of the Continental Army.
- 1844 - The last pair of great auks are killed.
- 1863 - The Battle of Gettysburg ends with Pickett's Charge.
- 1985 - "Back to the Future" premieres.
- 1738 - Painter John Singleton Copley
- 1878 - Songwriter George M. Cohan
- 1883 - Author Franz Kafka
- 1937 - Writer Tom Stoppard
- 1962- Actor Tom Cruise
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Monster in the Mirror (3:00)- VIEW
- Grades K-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Mirror Messages (Available in Spanish) - READ and DO
- Grades 5-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Mirror Therapy: Tricking the Nervous System to Help People Heal (2:43) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nova - Treasures of the Earth - Golden Telescope Mirrors (1:54) - READ and VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Antiques Roadshow - Appraisal: Line Vautrin Talosel Mirror, ca. 1960 (4:26) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Antiques Roadshow - Appraisal: Cartier Chinoiserie Hand Mirror, ca. 1930 (1:13) -VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Antiques Roadshow - Appraisal: Georg Klimt Mirror, ca. 1910 ():53) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Physics Girl - Why Do Mirrors Flip Horizontally (But Not Vertically) (3:30) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Hot Mess - Could Space Mirrors Cool The Globe? (3:58) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Physics in Motion - Closer Look 6L: Mirrors (12:18) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Physics in Motion - Spherical Mirrors (7:21) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Lens and Mirror Lab - DO
AUKS
- Grades 4-12 - NHPBS Wildlife Journal Junior - Auks, Murres, and Puffins - READ
- Grades 4-12 - RSPB - Auks - READ
- Grades 6-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Bird Extinctions (29:14) - VIEW
GETTYSBURG
- Grades K-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia Ken Burns in the Classroom - The Address (2:48:22) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 4-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Looking for Lincoln - The Gettysburg Address (1:33) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 9-12- NHPBS Video - Gettysburg in Blood (26:45) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - The Civil War - The Battle of Gettysburg (8:21) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - The Civil War - The Gettysburg Address (5:50) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - The Civil War - The 75th Anniversary of Gettysburg: 1938 (3:09) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - The Battle of Gettysburg Media Library - VIEW
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