Dams and Koalas - September 30

Friday, September 30, 2022

Today is Chewing Gum Day, Podcast Day, National Mulled Cider Day, Save the Koala Day, and World Maritime Day.

September is National Square Dancing Month, National Food Safety Education Month, Classical Music Month, Library Card Sign-up Month, National Hispanic Heritage Month, National Save A Tiger Month, College Savings Month, and Be Kind To Editors & Writers Month.

On This Date
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme:  Dams and Koalas
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ON THIS DATE

• 1791 - Mozart's opera The Magic Flute premieres in Vienna, Austria.
• 1927 - Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a season.
• 1935 - The Hoover Dam is dedicated.
• 1946 -  An international military tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany, finds 22 Nazi leaders guilty of war crimes.
• 1955 - 24-year-old actor James Dean is killed in a car crash.
• 1962 - César Chávez founds the National Farm Workers Association.
• 1962- After three unsuccessful tries, Black student James Meredith registers for classes at the University of Mississippi.
• 1982 - Cheers premieres on NBC.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1207 - Persian poet Rumi
• 1883 - Suffragist and civil engineer Nora Stanton Barney
• 1917 - Drummer Buddy Rich
• 1924 - Author Truman Capote
• 1928 - Activist Elie Wiesel

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Woody Guthrie - Grand Coulee Dam  - LISTEN
• Buddy Rich - Drum Solo - LISTEN
• The Magic Flute - Queen of the Night Aria - LISTEN

THEME: DAMS

• Grades PreK-1 - PBS LearningMedia - Peep and the Big Wide World - Building Dams (1:27)  - VIEW
• Grades PreK-2 - PBS LearningMedia - Peep and the Big Wide World - Building a Dam Like a Beaver (1:29) - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-2 - PBS LearningMedia - Peep and the Big Wide World - Sharing Water Between Dams (1:30) - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-6 - PBS LearningMedia - Science Trek - Dams (3:41) - VIEW
• Grades 3-6 - PBS LearningMedia - Building Big - Dam Basics - READ
• Grades 3-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Building Big - The Hoover Dam and Hydroelectric Power (3:43) - READ, VIEW, DO
• Grades 3-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Building Big - The Hoover Dam (1:18) - READ, VIEW, DO
• Grades 3-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Building Big - The Dam Challenge - READ and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - American Experience - Grand Coulee Dam (5:45) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - American Experience - Hoover Dam - READ and VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - American Experience - Hoover Dam: Moving the Concrete (2:59) - VIEW
  
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - American Experience - The High Scalers of Hoover Dam (2:33) - VIEW
  
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - American Experience - Hoover Dam: Building Diversion Tunnels (2:47) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Quest - How Hydropower Dams Work - READ and VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - The Iconic Hoover Dam (9:46) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video -  Constitution USA with Peter Segal - We Can’t Go it Alone! (The Hoover Dam - Federal power during a crisis) (4:27) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Fort Peck Dam: Building the Dam (8:03) - VIEW and DO

THEME:  KOALAS

• Grades PreK-2 - The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That - Koala Pouches (1:04) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-12 - San Diego Zoo - Koala Cam - VIEW
• Grades K-4 - PBS LearningMedia - Wild Kratts - Koala Ballon (26:26) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS Wildlife Journal Junior - Phascolarctidae - Koalas - READ
• Grades 5-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - The Wild Suburban Koala (8:53) -READ, VIEW, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - How to be an Alpha Male Koala (Available in Spanish)(6:05)- READ, VIEW, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - The Koala Diet (Available in Spanish) (2:33) - READ, VIEW, DO
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Nature -  Male Koalas Battle over a Female (2:53) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Gross Science - 5 Gross Facts About Koalas (3:20) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS NewsHour - Australia's Effort to Revert Koala Extinction (11:07) - VIEW

Watch 

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35th HISPANIC HERITAGE AWARDS
Friday, 9/30 from 9-10 pm NHPBS
Celebrate the recipients of the 35th annual Hispanic Heritage Awards. The evening commemorating Hispanic Heritage Month includes performances and appearances by some of the country's most celebrated Hispanic artists and visionaries. HISPANIC HERITAGE AWARDS Streaming Video

GREAT PERFORMANCE - Roots of Latin Jazz
Friday, 9/30 from 10-11 pm NHPBS
Celebrate the rhythms of Latin music with the Raices Jazz Orchestra and performances by GRAMMY-winning artists including Richard Bona and Anaadi. GREAT PERFORMANCES Streaming Video

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CUBA: A LIFETIME OF PASSION
Friday, 9/30 from 7-8 pm NH WORLD
A look at the present-day reality of the Cuban Revolution and its uncertain post-Castro future, and the conflicts that have engulfed Cuba for the past six decades.

CUBA: THE FORGOTTEN REVOLUTION
Friday, 9/30 from 8-9:30 pm NH WORLD
Working largely independently from each other, Frank Pais and Juan Antonio Echeverria, a school teacher and architecture student, played critical roles in the eventual overthrow of dictator Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar, although their names seldom appear alongside their more famous contemporaries, Fidel Castro and Che Guevara. 

RE-EVOLUTION: SALUD
Friday, 9/30 from 9:30-10 pm NH WORLD
Cuba's unique management of health and agricultural resources, and how development in these areas could highlight possible solutions to global challenges. The program follows a Cuban doctor and nurse on home visits to see how Cubans access healthcare, while a focus on biomedical technology in the country reveals how the ongoing U.S. embargo has impacted the distribution of medicines that have promise in helping with symptoms of diabetes. 

Pressroom Contact

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