Microscopes and Sarah Josepha Hale - October 24

Tuesday, October 24, 2023

Today is United Nations Day, 40 Hour Work Week Day, National Bologna Day, Black Tuesday, and World Polio Day.

Animal Cam of the Day: Oakland Zoo Sun Bear Cam
Dessert of the Day: Tres Leches Cake
LGBT History Resource of the Day: Origin of Everything - How Did Pride Become a Parade

On This Date
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme:  Microscopes and Sarah Josepha Hale
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ON THIS DATE

• 1260 - The Chartres Cathedral is dedicated.
• 1648 - The Peace of Westphalia is signed ending the Thirty Years' War and bringing peace to and the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire.
• 1901 - Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
• 1945 - The United Nations charter takes effect.
• 1946 - A camera on V-2 No. 13 rocket takes the first photograph of earth from outer space.
• 1949 - The cornerstone of the United Nations Headquarters is laid.
• 1954 - President Eisenhower pledges U.S. support to South Vietnam.
• 1974 - 90% of the women in Iceland join a national strike protesting gender inequality.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1632 - Dutch microbiologist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
• 1788 - Author, editor, poet, and Newport, New Hampshire native Sarah Josepha Hale
• 1838 - Stuntwoman and schoolteacher Annie Edson Taylor
• 1947 - Actor Kevin Kline

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Peter Weatherall - Microorganisms Song - LISTEN

THEME: Microscopes

• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS Video - Wanko Microscopic Organisms (3:20) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Quest - Microscopes for the Masses (3:13) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Quest -  Diagnosing Diseases with Origami Microscopes (5:07)  - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Quest - X-ray Microscope: Seeing Cells in 3D (10:22) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Gross Science - See Microbes with This DIY Phone Microscope (10:41) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - How We Got to Now - Lens Making, the Microscope, and the Telescope (4:03) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia -Inside Science - Turn your Smartphone Into a Science Lab (1:50) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - SciTech Now - The Half-Mile Long Microscope (7:27) -  VIEW and DO
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - SciTech Now - How a Microscope Has Revolutionized Our View of Cells (7:47) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Eons - What a Dinosaur Looks Like Under a Microscope (8:09) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - University Place - Visualizing Science (46:01) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Meet the Indestructible Tardigrade (4:04) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS NewsHour - Every Kid Can Afford a Microscope. Here's How (3:30) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - A World Without Microbes: An Apocalyptic Thought Experiment (7:01) - VIEW

THEME: Sarah Josepha Hale

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Kermit News - Mary Had a Little Lamb (4:53) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Murray Has a Little Lamb - Music School (4:15) -VIEW
  
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Murray Has a Little Lamb - Art School (6:48) -VIEW
• Grades 4-12 - Internet Archive - Sarah Josepha Hale Collection - VIEW and READ
• Grades 4-12 - PBS Food - Thanksgiving, Lincoln, and Pumpkin Pudding - READ
• Grades 4-12 - Town of Newport, NH - Sarah Josepha Hale - READ
• Grades 4-12 - Poetry Foundation - Sarah Josepha Hale -READ
• Grades 6-12 - WBUR -  New Hampshire's Sarah Josepha Hale: A Renaissance Woman Of Her Time (14:57) - LISTEN
• Grades 6-12 - National Park Service - Sarah Josepha Hale  - READ
• Grades 6-12 - Library of Congress - Letter from Sarah Josepha Hale to Abraham Lincoln About Thanksgiving - READ

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Tuesday, 10/24 from 9-10 pm NHPBS
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