Under the Microscope and Buffalo Soldiers - July 28
Learning in Focus
Thursday, July 28, 2022
Today is Buffalo Soldiers Day, Chili Dog Day, Milk Chocolate Day, National Waterpark Day, World Nature Conservation Day, National Intern Day, and World Hepatitis Day.
July is National Parks & Recreation Month and National Ice Cream Month.
National Natural Wonder of the Day: Kansas: Tall Grass Prairie Preserve
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Under the Microscope and Buffalo Soldiers
ON THIS DATE
- 1794 - French revolutionary leader Maximilien Robespierre is guillotined.
- 1914 - Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia, in a lead up to the beginning of WWI.
- 1932 - President Herbert Hoover orders the United States Army to evict the "Bonus Army" of World War I veterans from encampments in Washington, D.C.
- 1635 - English scientist Robert Hooke
- `879 - Activist and suffragist Lucy Burns
- 1932 - Children's author and illustrator Natalie Babbitt
- 1929 - Former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
- Bob Marley - Buffalo Soldier - LISTEN
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Quest - Microscopes for the Masses (3:13) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS learning Media - X-ray Microscope: Seeing Cells in 3D (10:22) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Gross Science - See Microbes with This DIY Phone Microscope (2:41) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Our Hungry Planet - What's up with Your Gut Microbiome? (3:17) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Eons - What a Dinosaur Looks like under a Microscope (8:09) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Eons - How Two Microbes Changed History (7:39) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - SciTech Now - The Half-Mile Long Microscope (7:27) - VIEW and DO
THEME: BUFFALO SOLDIERS
- Grades 5-12 - National Museum of African America History and Culture - Buffalo Soldiers - READ and VIEW
- Grades 5-12 - National Park Service - Charles Youg Buffalo Soldier Monument - READ
- GRades 5-12 - Yosemite National Park - Buffalo Soldiers - READ
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Moments in Time - Buffalo Soldiers in New Mexico (9:11) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - American Experience - Buffalo Soldiers Fight Fires and Stereotypes (4:26) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Untold Stories: Yosemite's Buffalo Soldiers (11:27) - VIEW
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