Snakes and Mary Baker Eddy - July 16

Saturday, July 16, 2022

Today is National Guinea Pig Day, World Snake Day, and National Corn Fritters Day.

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

National Natural Wonder: Idaho - Craters of the Moon

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Snakes and Mary Baker Eddy

ON THIS DATE

• 1918 - Czar Nicholas II and his wife and five children are executed by the Bolsheviks.
• 1951 - J.D. Salinger's novel The Catcher in the Rye is published
• 1979 - Saddam Hussein becomes president of Iraq.
• 2004 - Martha Stewart is sentenced to five months in prison for lying about a stock transaction.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1723 - English artist Sir Joshua Reynolds 
• 1821 - Religious leader Mary Baker Eddy 
• 1911 - Dancer and actor Ginger Rogers

SONGS (and DANCE) OF THE DAY 

• Jim Stafford - Spiders and Snakes  - LISTEN
• Duran Duran - Union of the Snake - LISTEN
  
• Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers - Too Hot To Handle - VIEW
• Whitesnake - Here I Go Again - VIEW

THEME: SNAKES

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Ernie Sings "Do What I Do" with Sandy the Snake (4:14) - VIEW
• Gades PreK-2 - PBS Crafts for Kids - Paper Plate Snakes - DO
• Grades K-2 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Wild Kratts - Happy Birthday Baby Pythons (2:11) - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-2 - Nature Cat - Snakes?! Why Does it Have to be Snakes?! (3:46) - VIEW
• Grades K-4 - Wild Kratts - Snake Super Sense! (2:27) - VIEW
• Grades K-4 - Wild Kratts - King Cobra (1:10) - VIEW
• Grades K-4 - NHPBS Video - Up Close & Natural - Snakes (14:21) - VIEW
• Grades K-6 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Science Trek - Snakes Media Gallery - VIEW and DO
• Grades 1-3 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Snake Super Sense! (2:28) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 3-12 -  NHPBS learning Media - Untamed - Snakes (26:44) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 3-12 - NH Fish and Game - Snakes of New Hampshire - READ
• Grades 4-6 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Dragonfly TV - Snakes (5:20) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS VIdeo - Nature - Carer Risks Life to Save One of Australia's Deadliest Snakes (3:26) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Outdoor Nevada - Rattlesnakes (Available in Spanish) (4:19) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Eons - The Great Snake Debate (6:28) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Eons - How a Hot Planet Created the World's Biggest Snake (7:45) - VIEW

THEME: MARY BAKER EDDY

• Grades 7-12  - National Women's History Museum  - Mary Baker Eddy - READ
• Grades 7-12 - National Women's Hall of Fame - Mary Baker Eddy - READ
• Grades 7-12 - NHPR - Mary Baker Eddy: Founding a Faith Against the Odds (and the Haters) (50:26) - READ and LISTEN

Pressroom Contact

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