Chocolate and Bread - July 7

Thursday, July 7, 2022

Today is Tell the Truth Day, International Chocolate Day, National  Macaroni Day, National Strawberry Sundae Day, and Global Forgiveness Day

July is National Parks & Recreation Month and National Ice Cream Month.

National Natural Wonder: Utah - Bryce Canyon

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Chocolate and Bread

ON THIS DATE

• 1863 - The U.S. begins its first military draft.
• 1898 - President William McKinley signs the Newlands Resolution annexing Hawaii as a territory.
• 1928 - The  Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri sells the first sliced bread. 
• 1958 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Alaska Statehood Act into law.
• 1981 - President Ronald Reagan appoints Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female member of the U.S. Supreme Court.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1860 - Composer Gustav Mahler
• 1899 - Director and producer George Cukor
• 1906 - Baseball player Satchel Paige
• 1907 - Science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein
• 1933 - Historian and author David McCullough
• 1940 - English musician Ringo Starr

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Ringo Starr - It Don't Come Easy - LISTEN
• Gustav Mahler - Piano Quartet in A minor - LISTEN
• Bread - It Don't Matter To Me - LISTEN
  

THEME: CHOCOLATE

• Grades PreK-1- Sesame Street - Sesame Street: Professor Cookie Subtracts (3:46) -  VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - PBS LearningMedia - KidVision - Chocolate Factory (8:58) - VIEW and DO
• Grade 3 - PBS Learningmedia - Melty Chocolate - READ, VIEW, and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Reactions - Gum + Chocolate = ??? (1:49) - VIEW and READ
• GRades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Earth and Sky Podcast - Lyndel Meinhardt Is Searching for Heartier Chocolate in the Rainforest (7:59) - LISTEN
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - PBS NewsHour - Is Fear of Ebola Driving Up the Price of Chocolate? (7:14) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Serving Up Science - 100% Dark Chocolate: Bitter or Best Ever? (7:30) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Reactions - Is White Chocolate Actually Chocolate? (2:56) - VIEW

THEME: BREAD

• Grades PreK-K - NHPBS LearningMedia -Let's Share a Story: "Fry Bread" (12:24) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-K - NHPBS LearningMedia - Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood - Imagination Moment: Baking Banana Bread (2:21) - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-2 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Snack Hacks - Bunny Bread (1:00)- VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-2 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Between the Lions - Making Bread (4:00)- VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Quest - Secrets of Sourdough (8:04) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Sourdough Bread is a Microbial Mystery (6:23) - VIEW

Pressroom Contact

Carla Gordon Russell
Director of Communications
crussell@nhpbs.org
(603) 868-4339