Elephants and Lakes - August 12
A Trunkful of Learning
Friday, August 12, 2022
Today is Celebrate Your Lakes Day, Baseball Fans Day, International Youth Day, World Elephant Day, Vinyl Record Day, National Sewing Machine Day, Julienne Fries Day, and Middle Child Day.
- Health and Wellness Resource of the Day: Simplifying and Strengthening Emotional Wellness for Children
- Sandwich of the Day: Grilled Monterey Jack and Marmalade Sandwich
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Elephants and Lakes
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ON THIS DATE
- 1851 - Isaac Singer is granted a patent for his sewing machine.
- 1898 - The Republic of Hawaii is annexed as part of the U.S.
- 1960 - NASA's first successful communications satellite, ECHO 1A, is launched.
- 1994 - MLB players go on strike, leading to the cancellation of the 1994 World Series.
- 2017 - Heather Heyer is killed when James Alex Fields Jr. drives his car into a crowd of counter-protesters during a white supremacist Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
- 1833 - Suffragist and author Lillie Devereux Blake
- 1881 - Director and producer Cecil B. DeMille
- 1954 - Jazz musician Pat Metheny
- 1963 - Rap musician Sir Mix-a-Lot
- 1971 - Tennis player Pete Sampras
- 1975 - Actor Casey Affleck
- Grades PreK-12 - San Diego Zoo Safari Park - Elephant Cam - VIEW
- Grades PreK-12 - Smithsonian's National Zoo - Elephant Cam - VIEW
- Grades PreK-12 - EleCam - The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennesee - VIEW
- Grades PreK-12 - Tembe Elephant Park, South Africa -VIEW
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Snuffy is Not an Elephant (2:46) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Elephant Elevator Operator Song (2:18) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Grover and the Elephant (2:46) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Homer the Pet Elephant (2:44) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame street - Natalie Portman And Elmo Are Princess & Elephant (4:24) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-2 - Pinkalicious and Peterrific - Elephant Fun at the Zoo (2:12) - VIEW
- Grades K-4 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Wild Kratts - Baby Elephant Power (1:47) - VIEW and DO
- Grades K-4 - Wild Kratts - Nosing Around (1:54) - VIEW
- Grades 1-5 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Kratts' Creatures - Thr Baby Elephant's Trunk (1:51) -VIEW
- Grades 3-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nature - Unforgettable Elephants (4:36) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 3-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - EARTH A New Wild -Living with Sumatran Elephants - VIEW
- Grades 3-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nature - Grasslands Elephants (1:57) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 4-12 - NHPBS Video - How Elephants Listen ... With Their Feet (3:38) -VIEW
- Grades 5-10 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Earth: A New Wild -Living with Sumatran Elephants (5:10) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nature - Forest Elephants (3:50) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nature - Desert Elephants (4:11) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nature - Studying Elephants (7:48) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - When Whales Walked: Journeys in Deep Time - Age of Elephants (4:46) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Elephant Whisperer - Gorongosa Park: Rebirth of Paradise (55:11) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Changing Planet - Elephant Orphanage (4:11) - VIEW
- Grades 7-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - PBS NewsHour - Elephants Offer Clues To Cancer's Secrets (8:05) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 7-12 - NHPBS VIdeo - Animal IQ - Elephants: Do Giant Brains Mean More Smarts? (11:38) - VIEW
- Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Nature - The Elephant and the Termite (53:13) - VIEW
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