Lions and Skyscrapers - August 10

Wednesday, August 10, 2022

• Today is National Duran Duran Appreciation Day, National Lazy Day, Skyscraper Appreciation Day, National S'mores Day, and World Lion 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: Sleep
  
  
• Sandwich of the Day: Fig and Feta Grilled Toast

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Lions and Skyscrapers
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ON THIS DATE

• 1793 - The Musée du Louvre opens in Paris.
• 1846 - The Smithsonian Institution is chartered by Congress.
• 1990 - The Magellan space probe reaches Venus.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1874 - President Herbert Hoover
• 1894 - Labor Leader Dorothy Jacobs Bellanca
• 1943 - Singer Ronnie Spector
• 1960 - Actor Antonio Banderas

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• The Ronettes - Be My Baby - LISTEN
• The Tokens - The Lion Sleeps Tonight - LISTEN

THEME: LIONS

• Grades K-12 - Smithsonian National Zoo - Lion Cam - VIEW
• Grades 1-5 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Kratts Creatures - Lion Families  (1:11) - VIEW
  
• Grades 2-12 - San Diego Zoo - Lions - READ
• Grades 4-12 - Africa Wildlife Foundation - Lions - READ
• Grades 4-9 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nature - Human and Asiatic Lion Interactions in India (10:01) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Inside Nature's Giants - The Big Cats (1:07) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Gorongosa Park: Rebirth of Paradise Lion Mystery (55:11) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Gorongosa Park: Rebirth of Paradise Battle Lines (55:11) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nature - Competition between African Wild Dogs and Lions (4:42) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Gorongosa Park: Rebirth of Paradise Lion Genetics (2:11) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Tracking Lion Recovery in Gorongosa (8:55) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Nova - Lions Return to Mozambique's Gorongosa National Park (6:00) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Nature - Are Lions the Most Intelligent Cat? (2:50) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Nature - Dogs in the Land of Lions (53:29) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nature - Ethical Considerations in Wildlife Conservation: Asiatic Lions in India (4:59) - VIEW, READ, DO

THEME: SKYSCRAPERS

• Grades 6-12 -NHPBS LearningMedia - Poetry in America - Skyscraper (7:46) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Building Big - Skyscraper Basics -  READ
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Super Skyscrapers - Digital Engineering: Planning the Leadenhall Building (7:41) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Super Skyscrapers - Overcoming Design Problems: The Leadenhall Building (4:55) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Super Skyscrapers - Maintaining Buildings: The One57 Window Washing Rig (6:29) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Super Skyscrapers - Building Safe: Pouring Concrete at the World Trade Center (8:09 - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 -  NHPBS LearningMedia - Nova - Making North America - Geology of the Manhattan Skyline (4:49) -  VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS NewsHour American Skyscrapers Face Uncertain Future Amid Coronavirus (7:31) -VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Physics Girl - Impossible Zero-G Skyscraper (6:33) - VIEW

Watch 

LIFE FROM ABOVE - Moving Planet
Wednesday, 8/11 from 2-3 pm NH WORLD
See new footage of the greatest, most beautiful and powerful movements on our planet. Cameras in space capture events like an elephant family's struggle through drought, and thousands of Shaolin Kung-Fu students performing in perfect synchronicity. LIFE FROM ABOVE Streaming Video

LIFE FROM ABOVE - Colorful Planet
Wednesday, 8/11 from 3-4 pm NH WORLD
View Earth's kaleidoscope of colors as seen from space. Swirls of turquoise phytoplankton trigger an oceanic feeding frenzy, China turns yellow as millions of flowers bloom, and at night the waters near Argentina are spotted with green lights. LIFE FROM ABOVE Streaming Video

IRELAND'S WILD COAST Episode One
Wednesday, 8/10 from 4-5 pm NH WORLD
Emmy award-winning wildlife cameraman Colin Stafford-Johnson takes viewers on an authored odyssey along Ireland's rugged Atlantic coast. IRELND'S WILD COAST Streaming Video

NATURE: Dogs in the Land of Lions
Wednesday, 8/10 from 8-9 pm NHPBS
When lions kill her mate, a wild dog mother called Puzzles suddenly must raise two generations of pups all on her own without the help of a pack. But in this unforgiving Zimbabwe wilderness, it turns out the top dogs are the big cats - lions are the wild dogs' ultimate enemies. NATURE Streaming Video

NOVA - Universe Revealed: Big Bang
Wednesday, 8/10 from 9-10 pm NHPBS
New research and theories offer clues about the Big Bang and what may have existed before the universe's birth. NOVA Streaming Video

EXPEDITION WITH STEVE BACKSHALL - Expedition Unseen
Wednesday, 8/10 from 10-11 pm NHPBS
Embark with Steve to the remotest parts of the planet in search of precious natural wonders. From Saudi Arabia to Kamchatka, Steve and his team unearth the secrets of an ancient civilization and discovers wildlife more at risk than ever before. EXPEDITION WITH STEVE BACKSHALL Streaming Video

Pressroom Contact

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