Frogs and Hip Hop - August 11

Thursday, August 11, 2022

• Today is National Hip Hop Day, Presidential Joke Day, Play in the Sand Day, and Raspberry Tart 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: PBS NewsHour - Songs for Biology: Students Write Hip-Hop to Learn Science
  
• Sandwich of the Day: Tempeh Sandwich with Swiss Cheese and Raspberry Jam

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Frogs and Hip Hop
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ON THIS DATE

• 1929 - Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 500 home runs.
• 1942 - Actor Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil receive a patent for a Frequency-hopping spread spectrum communication system that is the basis for today's wireless communication.
• 1965 - Rioting breaks out in the Watts section of Los Angeles initially in response to a confrontation between police and citizens.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1897 - Poet Louise Bogan
• 1921 - Author Alex Haley
• 1949 - Singer-songwriter  Eric Carmen
• 1950 - Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak
• 1953 - Wrestler Hulk Hogan
  
• 1965 - Actor Viola Davis
• 1983 - Actor Chris Hemsworth

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Sugar Hill Gang - Rapper's Delight - LISTEN
• Three Dog Night - Joy to the World - LISTEN
• Eric Carmen - All By Myself - LISTEN
• Prince - Raspberry Beret - LISTEN

THEME: FROGS

• Grades PreK-K - NHPBS LearningMedia - Mister Chris and Friends - Frogs (3:42) - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - This Frog (3:28) - VIEW
  
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Kermit Sings Disco Frog (3:18) - VIEW
  
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Frogs of the Glen (2:31) - VIEW
  
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Caribbean Amphibian (1:54) - VIEW
  
• Grades PreK-1 - Curious George - Ribbit Game - DO
• PreK-3 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Everyday Learning - How a Frog Becomes a Frog (1:52) - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-5 - NHPBS Video - Poison Dart Frogs at Little Rock Zoo (4:24) - VIEW
• Grades K-4 - NHPBS Video - Up Close & Natural - Frogs, Toads, and Salamanders (13:09) - VIEW
• Grades 3-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia- SciGirls - Frog Whisperers 01: Research (Available in Spanish) (1:49) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 3-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia- SciGirls - Frog Whisperers 02: Mentor Moment (Available in Spanish) (1:49) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 3-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia- SciGirls - Frog Whisperers 03: Data Collection: Country (Available in Spanish) (3:29) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 3-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia- SciGirls - Frog Whisperers 04: Data Collection: City (Available in Spanish) (2:16) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 3-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia- SciGirls - Frog Whisperers 05: Share Data with Scientists (Available in Spanish) (2:32) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 3-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia- SciGirls - Frog Whisperers 06: Brainstorm and Share (Available in Spanish) (5:10) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 3-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Wild TV - Everglades: Pig Frog (6:25) -  VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-6 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Dragonfly TV - Malformed Frogs (4:45) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-6 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Dragonfly TV - Frog Scientist (Available in Spanish) (2:37) - VIEW
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS Wildlife Journal Junior - Anura - Frogs and Toads - READ
• Grades 3-6 - NHPBS Video - Origami Jumping Frog (5:50) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Northern Leopard Frogs Being Reintroduced Into The Wild (3:32) - VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Gross Science - Why Does This Frog Have So Many Legs? (2:42) - VIEW 
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Gross Science - Meet the Frog that Barfs Up its Babies (4:45) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nova - Frozen Frogs (Available in Spanish) (3:32) - VIEW, READ, DO

THEME: HIP HOP

• Grades PreK-K - NHPBS LearningMedia - Kid Vision - Hip Hop Dance Studio (8:52) - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - ABC Hip Hop with Miles (1:30) - VIEW
  
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Rappin' Alphabet (2:06) - VIEW
• Grades K-5 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Camp TV - Party Hip Hop Dance Moves (4:42) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-7 - NHPBS Learningmedia - Dragonfly TV - Hip Hop Mix (5:48) - VIEW
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS Video - Hip Hop Nutcracker (1:23:23) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia -  Independent Lens - Hip-Hop Sampling - Copyright Criminals (5:33) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - If Cities Could Dance - Native American Hip-Hop and Freestyle in Albuquerque (6:03) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Above the Noise - Why Isn't Hip Hop Having Its Own #MeToo Moment (5:44) - VIEW 
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Finding Your Roots - Coming Outta Queensbridge: Nas and Hip Hop (3 clips) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - The Open Mind - Educating Hip Hop (27:35) - VIEW

Watch 

LIFE FROM ABOVE - Patterned Planet
Thursday, 8/11 from 2-3 pm NH WORLD
Discover the weird and wonderful shapes that cover Earth's surface as seen from space. The Australian outback is covered in pale spots thanks to digging wombats, and hundreds of elephants tear into the endless green of the Congo forest canopy. LIFE FROM ABOVE Streaming Video

LIFE FROM ABOVE - Changing Planet
Thursday, 8/11 from 3-4 pm NH WORLD
Take a fresh look at our fragile planet and see just how much it's changing. Cameras in space show growing cities, disappearing forests, and melting glaciers, but one country regenerated a landscape and helped save a chimpanzee family. LIFE FROM ABOVE Streaming Video

IRELAND'S WILD COAST - Episode Two
Thursday, 8/11 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. IRELAND'S WILD COAST Streaming Video

HIMALAYA: KINGDOM OF THE SKY
Thursday, 8/11 from 7-8 pm NH WORLD
Witness the extraordinary wildlife and remarkable people of Earth's highest mountain range, where Tibetan monks perform ancient rituals, snow leopards prowl the mountainsides and bizarre snub-nosed monkeys survive in frozen forests. KINGDOMS OF THE SKY Streaming Video

AMERICA REFRAMED - The Falconer
Thursday, 8/11 from 8-9 pm NH WORLD
One of only a handful of African American falconers in the country, Rodney Stotts is on a mission to build a bird sanctuary and provide access to nature for his stressed community. This is a story of second chances: for injured birds of prey, for an abandoned plot of land, for a group of teenagers who have dropped out of high school, and for Rodney himself. AMERICA REFRAMED Streaming Video

MAGNIFICENT BEAST
Thursday, 8/11 from 8-9 pm NHPBS
Explore the unique relationship of pigs as food, friend, and foe to humans. Interviews with archaeologists, farmers, chefs, hunters, and pet owners reveal the complicated bond between people and pigs, including the "pork taboo." MAGNIFICENT BEAST Streaming Video

GRETA THUNBERG: A YEAR TO CHANGE THE WORLD - Episode One
Thursday, 8/11 from 9-10 pm NH WORLD
Follow Greta as she sees the impacts of climate change at three locations: melting glaciers and dying trees in Canada, and fire devastation in California. When a UN conference moves to Madrid, she sails across the ocean during life-threatening storms. GRETA THUNBERG Streaming Video

THE LAST PIG
Thursday, 8/11 from 9-10 pm NHPBS
In the rolling hills of Upstate New York, a farmer is in crisis: after years of raising pigs, he can no longer bear the ultimate act of betrayal. This award-winning film chronicles his final year on the farm, capturing in intimate detail the farmer’s personal upheaval as he questions his beliefs and the value of life.

HOG HAVEN
Thursday, 8/11 from 10-11 pm NHPBS
Meet Erin, a woman whose life's mission is to rescue and rehabilitate pigs who would otherwise be farmed for food. The story of Erin's physical and mental recovery from a tragic event forms the emotional core of her transformation into the co-founder of one of the largest and most respected pig sanctuaries in the country.

Pressroom Contact

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