Basketball and Pangolins- February 17

Saturday, February 17, 2024

Today is Cabbage Day, Cafe Au Lait Day, Indian Pudding Day, Public Science Day, and World Pangolin Day.

Black History Month Resource of the Day: Alvin Ailey

• American Masters: Alvin Ailey
• PBS NewsHour - The Legacy of the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater

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

• 1801 - The House of Representatives chooses Thomas Jefferson as president after a 73-73  electoral tie between Jefferson and Aaron Burr.  
• 1863 - The International Red Cross is founded in Geneva
• 1904 - Madama Butterfly premières at La Scala in Milan.
• 1933 - Newsweek magazine is first published.
• 1968 -The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame opens in  In Springfield, Massachusetts.
• 1996 - World chess champion Garry Kasparov beats the Deep Blue supercomputer in a chess match.
• 2009 - President Barack Obama signs a $757 billion economic stimulus package into law.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1874 - IBM founder Thomas J. Watson
• 1879 - Education reformer and activist Dorothy Canfield Fisher
• 1942 - Activist and Black Panther co-founder Huey P. Newton
• 1963 - Basketball player Michael Jordan
• 1981 - Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt
• 1991 - English singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Mariia Callas - Madame Butterfly - Un Bel di Vedremo  - LISTEN

THEME:  Basketball

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street -  Basketball, "What If" (1:26) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Elmo Makes His Shot (2:51) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Practicing Basketball (1:51) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - The Harlem Globetrotters - The Number 3 (1"24) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Rebecca Lobo and the Letter O (1:52) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-2 - Let's Go Luna - A Game of Basketball (1:11) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-2  - Molly of Denali - Playing Basketball on Snow (2:32) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-3 - NHPBS LearningMedia -  Angles - What's Good (3:56) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-3 - PBS LearningMedia - KidVision - Basketball (8:57) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 3-6 - PBS LearningMedia - Cyberchase - WNBA Supermom (4:13) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Cyberchase - Percentages in Basketball (4:16) - VIEW and DO
  
• Grades 4-8 - NHPBS LearningMedai - STEM in 30 - Basketball in Space (2:00) - VIEW
• Grades 5-8 - PBS Learning Media - Dragonfly TV - Basketball Physics (5:38) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 5-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Aiming For the Basketball Hall of Fame - Using Ratios (4:38) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Poetry in America - Fast Break (6:06) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 7-10 - PBS LearningMedia - Science Friday - Physics of Basketball (2:48) - VIEW
• Grades 8 - Thinkport - Basketball and Functional Relationships Collection - VIEW and DO
• Grades 9-12 -  PBS LearningMedia - Class C: The Fort Shaw Women's Basketball Team (3:04) -  VIEW and DO
• Grades 9-12 -NHPBS Video - Something in the Water: A Kinston Basketball Story (26:46) - VIEW

THEME:  Pangolins

• Grades K-4 - Wild Kratts - Pangolin Rescue Mission (3:04) - VIEW
• Grades 4-12 - San Diego Zoo - Tree Pangolin - READ
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Nature - Rescued Pangolins Treated for Injuries (2:34) - VIEW 
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Nature - Abused Baby Pangolin Gets a New Home (2:19) - VIEW 
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Nature - Baby Pangolin and Her Best Friend (1:55) - VIEW 
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Metrofocus - PLIGHT OF THE PANGOLIN” (8:18) - VIEW 
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Brookfield Zoo Fights to Save World’s Most Trafficked Animal (7:02) - VIEW

WATCH

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JACKIE ROBINSON - Part One
Saturday, 2/17 from 3-5 pm NH WORLD
Robinson rises from humble origins to integrate Major League Baseball, performing brilliantly despite the threats and abuse he faces on and off the field and, in the process, challenges the prejudiced notions of what a black man can achieve. JACKIE ROBINSON Streaming Video

Pressroom Contact

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Director of Communications
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