Salamanders, Gerrymandering, and Ice Cream - July 17

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Sunday, July 17, 2022

Today is Anne Hutchinson Memorial Day, Lake Superior Day, National Ice Cream Day, and World Emoji Day.

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

National Natural Wonder: North Carolina - Cape Hatteras National Seashore

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Salamanders, Gerrymandering, and Ice Cream

ON THIS DATE

  • 1821 - Spain cedes Florida to the United States.
  • 1917 -  The British royal family changes its name from Saxe-Coburg Gotha to Windsor.
  • '1945 - Harry S. Truman, Josef Stalin, and  Minister Winston Churchill began meeting at Potsdam.
  • 1955 - Disneyland opens in Anaheim, California.
  • 1981 - 114 people and injuring more than 200 injured when a walkway collapses at the Hyatt Regency in Kansas City, Missouri.

BIRTHDAYS

SONGS OF THE DAY 

  • James Cagney - Yankee Doodle Dandy - LISTEN
  • Phoebe Snow - Poetry Man - LISTEN

THEME: SALAMANDERS

  • Grades K-3 - NHPBS Video - Up Close and Natural - Frogs, Toads, and Salamanders (13:09) - VIEW
  • Grades K-4 - Wild Kratts  - Fire Salamander (2:59) -  VIEW
  • Grades 3-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Small Creatures/Large Lessons (7:13)- VIEW, READ, DO
  • Grades 4-12 - NHPBS Wildlife Journal Junior - Caudata - Salamanders, Newts, Mudpuppies - READ
  • Grades 6-9 - NHPBS LearningMedia - SciTech Now - Saving the Endangered Hellbender Salamander (5:26) - VIEW and DO
  • Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video -  It's Okay to Be Smart - The Deadpool Salamander That Can Regrow Limbs (7:16) - VIEW

THEME: GERRYMANDERING

  • Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - PBS NewsHour - Gerrymandering and Partisan Politics in the U.S. (10:33)- VIEW, READ, and DO
  • Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Above the Noise - Gerrymandering: Is Geometry Silencing Your Vote? (5:17) - VIEW, READ and DO
  • Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Crash Course Government and Politics - Gerrymandering (7:54) - VIEW
  • Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Socal Connected - Divide and Conquer (25:30) -VIEW
  • Grades 10-12 -NH PBS LearningMedia - GerryRIGGED: Turning Democracy on Its Head (57:24)- VIEW, READ and DO

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