Independence Day - July 4
Fourth of July Learning
Monday, July 4, 2022
Today is the Fourth of July, Lou Gehrig Day, Alice in Wonderland Day, National BBQ Ribs Day, National Country Music Day, and Sidewalk Egg Frying Day.
July is National Parks & Recreation Month and National Ice Cream Month.
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Independence Day
ON THIS DATE
- 1776 - The Declaration of Independence is adopted by the Second Continental Congress.
- 1826 - John Adams and Thomas Jefferson die within hours of each other. on the 50th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence.
- 1827 - Slavery is abolished in New York.
- 1831 - James Monroe, the 7th U.S. President, dies.
- 1845 - Henry David Thoreau decamps to Walden Pond.
- 1855- Walt Whitman's 'Leaves of Grass" is published.
- 1939 - Lou Gehrig tells the crowd at Yankee Stadium that he considers himself "The luckiest man on the face of the earth" and retires from baseball.
- 1997 - Pathfinder space probe lands on Mars.
- 1804- Author Nathaniel Hawthorne
- 1826- Songwriter Stephen Foster
- 1872 - President Calvin Coolidge
- 1883 - Engineer, cartoonist, and sculptor Rube Goldberg
- 1927 - Playwright Neil Simon
Ray Charles - America the Beautiful - LISTEN- John Mellencamp - R.O.C.K. in the USA - LISTEN
- James Brown - Living in America - LISTEN
"The Egg" from the musical 1776 - LISTEN Woody Guthrie - This Land is Your Land - LISTEN
- Grades PreK-1- Sesame Street -Thomas Jefferson Needs a Quill (4:19) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-1- Sesame Street - Fourth of July Song (Bye Bye Bye Parody) (2:13)- VIEW
- Grades K-3 - NHPBS LearningMedia - All About the Holidays - Independence Day (Available in Spanish) (1:05) - VIEW
- Grades K-6 - Liberty's Kids - The First Fourth of July (23:17) - VIEW
- Grades 3-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Civics 101 - Independence Day (1:29) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - National Archives - Declaration of Independence (1776) and Resource Materials - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 6-8 - EDSITEment - The Argument of the Declaration of Independence - READ and DO
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