Antarctica and Ernest Hemingway - July 21
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Thursday, July 21, 2022
Today is No Pet Store Puppies Day and National Junk Food Day.
July is National Parks & Recreation Month and National Ice Cream Month.
National Natural Wonder: Florida: Dry Tortugas National Park
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Antarctica and Ernest Hemingway
ON THIS DATE
- 1861 - The Confederate Army wins the first Battle of Bull Run.
- 1925 - High school biology teacher John Scopes is found guilty of teaching evolution in class and is fined $100.
- 1949 - The U.S. Senate ratifies the North Atlantic Treaty.
- 1893 - The world's lowest temperature, -128.6 °F, is recorded in Antarctica.
- 2011 - The Space Shuttle Program ends when the Space Shuttle Atlantis lands at the Kennedy Space Center.
- 1820 - French astronomer Jean Picard
- 1899 - Poet Hart Crane
- 1899 - Writer Ernest Hemingway
- 19i1 - Media theorist Marshall McLuhan
- 1920 - Violinist Isaac Stern
- 1924 - Actor Don Knotts
- 1948 - Musician Cat Stevens (Yusuf Islam)
- 1951 - Actor Robin Williams
- Grades K-4 - Wild Kratts - Penguin Power (2:52) - VIEW
- Grades 5-8 - Jonathan Bird's Blue World - Antarctica (16:35) - VIEW
- Grades 6-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Antarctica Today (7:32) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia- Antarctica's Climate Secrets Media Collection - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia- Antarctica's Ice on the Move (7:34) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nova - Antarctica: Sea Ice (2:34) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Antarctic Extremes Series - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Earth's Cryosphere: Antarctica (Available in Spanish) (2:34) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nova - Microbial Life in Antarctica (Available in Spanish) (2:27) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nova - Thriving on the Arctic Seafloor (Available in Spanish) (1:10) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - When Antarctica Was Green (11:04) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Reactions - Why Don’t Antarctic Fish Freeze to Death? (4:11) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS NewsHour - Can Antarctica Remain a Refuge for Science and Peace? (9:37) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedai - Antarctica's Dry Valleys (4:33) - VIEW, READ, DO
THEME: ERNEST HEMINGWAY
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Ken Burns in the Classroom - Hemingway Collection - READ, VIEW, DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Hemingway (series and clips) - VIEW
- Grades 8-12 - Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure - READ
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Hemingway: The Man versus The Image (1:43) - VIEW
- Grades 8-12 - ReadWriteThink - Ernest Hemingway - READ and DO
- Grades 9-12 - American Masters - Hemingway Classroom Resources - READ
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