Basketball and Jessie Owens - August 3

Wednesday, August 3, 2022

• Today is National Watermelon Day, Grab Some nuts Day, and Clean Your Floors Day.
  
  
• August is National Wellness Month, National Sandwich Month, National Golf Month, National Water Quality Month, Black Business Month, International Pirate Month, and National Crayon Collection Month
  
  
• Health and Wellness Resource of the Day:  KidVision: Doctor's Visit
  
  
• Sandwich of the Day: Rueben Sandwich

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: BASKETBALL AND JESSE OWENS
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ON THIS DATE

• 1852 - Harvard University wins a boat race with Yale University in the first American intercollegiate athletic event. the race was held on Lake Winnipesaukee.
• 1936 - Jesse Owens wins the 100-meter dash at the Berlin Olympics.
• 1949 - The Basketball Association of America and the National Basketball League merge and become the National Basketball Association.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1900 - Solder and journalist Ernie Pyle
• 1900- Teacher John T. Scopes
• 1920 - Author P. D. James
• 1926 - Singer Tony Bennett
• 1940 - Actor Martin Sheen
• 1941 - Lifestyle guru Martha Stewart
• 1977 - Football player Tom Brady

SONG OF THE DAY 

• Louis Armstrong - Sweet Georgia Brown - LISTEN
• Tony Bennet - I Left My Heart in San Francisco - LISTEN

THEME: BASKETBALL

• Grades PreK-K - NHPBS LearningMedia - KidVision - Basketball (8:57) - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Elmo Will Make His Shot (2:41) - VIEW
  
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - What If? The Greatest Basketball Shot Ever (1:25) - VIEW
  
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Practicing Basketball (1:51) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Rebecca Lobo and the Letter O (1:52) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-2 - Let's Go Luna - A Game of Basketball (1:26) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-2 - Molly of Denali - Playing Basketball on Snow (2:32)  - VIEW
• Grades 4-6  - NHPBS LearningMedia - Dragonfly TV - Basketball Physics (5:38) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 4-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Cyberchase - Percentages in Basketball (4:16) -  VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-8 - NHPBS LearningMedai - STEM in 30 - Basketball in Space (2:00) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 -  NHPBS LearningMedia - Science Friday - Physics of Basketball (2:48) -  VIEW

THEME: JESSE OWENS

• Grades K-3 - PBS Kids - Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum - I Am Jesse Owens/I Am Ella Fitzgerald (24:49) - VIEW
• Grades 3-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Know Ohio - Olympic Runner Jesse Owens "the Buckeye Bullet" (1:53) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - American Experience -Jesse Owens: A Hero's Welcome? (1:35) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - American Experience - Jesse Owens: The Track as a Great Equalizer (2:20) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - American Experience - Jesse Owens, Chapter One (10:28) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - American Experience - Jesse Owens in Hitler's Germany (2:07) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - American Experience - Jesse Owens (52:02) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - Philadelphia Holocaust Remembrance Museum -  Lesson Plan: 1936 Berlin Olympics- Protest Through Participation and Boycott - VIEW and DO
• Grades 7-12 - U.S. Holocaust Museum - Lesson Plan: Black Americans and the Nazi Olympics - DO

Watch 

SPY IN THE WILD- A NATURE MINISERIES - The Tropics
Wednesday, 8/3 from 2-3 pm NH WORLD
The spy creatures investigate the wildlife that thrives in the tropics. They infiltrate a hippo pod, a nursery of red flying foxes, a gorilla sanctuary, and the secret world of pygmy forest elephants. NATURE Streaming Video

SPY IN THE WILD- A NATURE MINISERIES - The North
Wednesday, 8/3 from 3-4 pm NH WORLD
Travel to the Northern Hemisphere, where the spy creatures learn how animals move, feed, and fight. A spy hummingbird films millions of butterflies, and a spy squirrel finds itself in a battle. A spy beaver watches other beavers building dams. NATURE Streaming Video

INDIA - NATURE'S WONDERLAND - Episode One
Wednesday, 8/3 from 4-5 pm NH WORLD
Join a journey through India to discover its rich culture and rare wildlife. Experience a ritual tiger dance and see lions, elephants, and India's only ape -- the hoolock gibbon. Then climb to the Himalayas where the Ganges River begins. INDIA - NATURE'S WONDERLAND Streaming Video

THE GREEN PLANET - Human Worlds
Wednesday, 8/3 from 8-9 pm NHPBS
Sir David Attenborough reveals how humans are helping plants, many of which face extinction. From projects in Africa to re-seeding the landscape to rebuilding a Brazilian rainforest tree by tree, everyone can work to make our world a little wilder. THE GREEN PLANET Streaming Video

NOVA - Universe Revealed: Black Holes
Wednesday, 8/3 from 9-10 pm NHPBS
Black holes can reshape entire galaxies, warp the fabric of space and time, and may even be the key to unlocking the ultimate nature of reality. A new generation of high-energy telescopes is bringing these invisible voids to light, showing that “supermassives” millions or billions of times larger than our sun lurk at the center of nearly every galaxy, including our own. NOVA Streaming Video

EXPEDITION WITH STEVE BACKSHALL - Socorro: Expedition Shark Island
Wednesday, 8/3 from 10-11 pm NHPBS
Dive with Steve on an expedition to the remote volcanic island of Clarion in the Revillagigedo National Park. Steve and his team are looking to discover where shark mothers give birth and help protect a new generation of these ocean giants. EXPEDITION WITH STEVE BACKSHALL Streaming Video

Pressroom Contact

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