Earthquakes - August 31

Wednesday, August 31, 2022

• Today is the Hindu Holiday Ganesh Chaturthi, National Bacon Day, Tug of War Day, Matchmaker Day, National Trail Mix Day, and National Eat Outside 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: Youth Mental Health Collection
  
  
• Sandwich of the Day: Peanut Butter and Pickles Sandwich

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme:  Earthquakes
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ON THIS DATE

• 1886 - A 7.0 magnitude earthquake strikes the Charleston, South Carolina area.
• 1888 - Jack the Ripper's first victim, Mary Ann Nichols, is murdered.
• 1997 - Diana, Princess of Wales, is killed in a car crash in Paris.

BIRTHDAYS

• 12 - Roman emperor Caligula
• 1852 - Engish economist John Neville Keynes
• 1870 - Italian physician and educator Maria Montessori
• 1908 - Writer William Saroyan
• 1918 - Songwriter and composer Alan Jay Lerner
• 1945 - Irish musician Van Morrison
• 1945 - Violinist Itzhak Perlman  - Sesame Street - Easy and Hard
• 1949 - Actor Richard Gere

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Van Morrison - Brown-eyed Girl - LISTEN
• Carole King - I Feel the Earth Move - LISTEN
• Bill Hailey and the Comets - Shake Rattle and Roll - LISTEN
• The Cars - Shake It Up - LISTEN
• Elvis Presley - All Shook Up - LISTEN
• Jerry Lee Lewis - Whole Lot of Shakin' Going On - LISTEN
• The Beatles - Twist and Shout - LISTEN

THEME: EARTHQUAKES

• Grades K-4 - Ready Jet Go!  - Learning About Earthquakes (2:14) - VIEW
• Grades 3-5 - PBS LearningMedia - DragonflyTV - Earthquakes (Available in Spanish) (7:16)  - VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-12 - USGS - Latest Earthquakes - TRACK
• Grades 4-6 - PBS LearningMedia - DragnflyTV - Scientist Profile: Earthquake Scientist (Available in Spanish) (1:40) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - Forecasting Earthquakes (3:39) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - Predicting Earthquakes (2:56)  - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Quest - Explaining Earthquakes (4:26)  - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Quest - Megathrust Earthquakes (10:49) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - Earthquakes: San Francisco (3:28) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - Earthquakes: Los Angeles (5:13) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - Earthquakes: The Prehistoric Records (3:19) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - Deadliest Earthquakes (53:05) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - Earthquakes: The Seismograph (3:39) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - Earthquakes: When Plates Collide (Available in Spanish) (3:02) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Quest - Predicting Earthquakes (4:20) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 9-12 - USGS - The 1886 Charleston, South Carolina, Earthquake: A 1986 Perspective - READ

Watch 

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XAVIER RIDDLE AND THE SECRET MUSEUM M-F 6 am and 4:30 pm NHPBS
8/31 - I Am Fred Rogers
XAVIER RIDDLE Streaming Video, Games, and Activities

WILD KRATTS M-F 7:30 am and 3:30 pm NHPBS
8/31 - Snowy Owl Invasion - VIEW
WILD KRATTS Streaming Video, Games, and Activities

HERO ELEMENTARY M-F 8 am and 3 pm NHPBS
8/31 - Heroes In Space - VIEW
HERO ELEMENTARY Streaming Video, Games, and Activities

LET"S GO LUNA M-F 2:30 pm NHPBS
8/31 - Blue Orleans/Bonjour, Au Revoir, Adios (New Orleans, Louisiana) - VIEW
LET"S GO LUNA Streaming Video, Games, and Activities

WHEN WHALES WALKED: JOURNEYS IN DEEP TIME
Wednesday, 8/31 from 2-4 pm NH WORLD
Meet the ancient ancestors of four iconic creatures: crocodiles, birds, whales, and elephants. Join top scientists on a global adventure as they follow clues from the fossil record and use 21st-century technology to make exciting new discoveries. WHEN WHALES WALKED Streaming Video

TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH: THE BIRDS OF EAST AFRICA
Wednesday, 8/31 from 4-5 pm NH WORLD
Professional wildlife photographer Todd Gustafson captures stories of competition, courtship, family, hunting and flight to illustrate the hidden life of East African birds. TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH Streaming Video

NATURE:- Cuba's Wild Revolution
Wednesday, 8/31 from 8-9 pm NHPBS
In the crystal-clear waters of the Caribbean, Cuba is an island teeming with exotic biodiversity: from coral reefs pulsating with life to five-foot-long Cuban rock iguanas. As international relations thaw, what will become of this wildlife sanctuary? NATURE Streaming Video

NOVA - A to Z: The First Alphabet
Wednesday, 8/31 from 9-10 pm NHPBS
Writing shaped civilization itself, from the trading of goods to tales of ancient goddesses and kings. Follow the evolution of the written word, from millennia-old carvings in an Egyptian turquoise mine to our modern-day alphabets. NOVA Streaming Video

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE - Surviving the Dust Bowl
Wednesday, 8/31 from 10-11 pm NHPBS
They were called "Black Blizzards," dark clouds reaching miles into the sky, churning millions of tons of dirt into torrents of destruction. For ten years beginning in 1930, dust storms ravaged the parched and overplowed southern plains, turning bountiful wheat fields into deserts. Disease, hardship, and death followed, yet the majority of people stayed on, steadfastly refusing to give up on the land and a way of life. AMERICAN EXPERIENCE Streaming Video

Pressroom Contact

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