Wildlife - March 3

Sunday, March 3, 2024

Today is Canadian Bacon Day, Daughter's and Son's Day, Talk in Third Person Day, National Anthem Day, Cold Cuts Day, World Hearing Day, and World Wildlife Day.

Women's History Month Resource of the Day: You Oughta Know: Honoring Women's History Month

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

• 1820 - Congress passes the Missouri Compromise.
• 1945 - Florida is admitted as the 27th U.S. state.
• 1849 - The Territory of Minnesota is created
• 1875 - Georges Bizet's opera Carmen its premières in Paris.
• 1913 - Thousands of women march in the Woman Suffrage Procession in Washington, D.C.
• 1923 - TIME magazine is published for the first time.
• 1931 - The United States adopts The Star-Spangled Banner as the national anthem.
• 1991 -  An amateur video captures the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1847 - Engineer Alexander Graham Bell
• 1893 - Potter and artist Beatrice Wood
• 1913 - Pianist and composer Margaret Bonds
• 1917 - Egyptian physicist Sameera Moussa
• 1923 - Singer-songwriter Doc Watson
• 1959 - Radio host Ira Glass
• 1962 - Athlete Jackie Joyner-Kersee
• 1966 - Rapper Tone Loc

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Doc Watson - Deep River Blues - LISTEN
• Minnesota Orchestra - Margaret Bonds - Montgomery Variations - LISTEN
• Steppenwolf Born to Be Wild - LISTEN
• The Troggs - Wild Thing - LISTEN

THEME:  Wildlife

• Grades PreK-1 - Everyday Learning - Backyard Wildlife (Available in Spanish) (1:56)  - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-1 - KidVision - Wildlife Nature Center (8:53) - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-3 - Wild Kratts Series - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades K-3 - NHPBS Video - Up Close and Natural Series - VIEW
• Grades K-6 - PBS LearningMedia - Science Trek - Wildlife Management (4:04) - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-6 - PBS LearningMedia - Science Trek - Urban Wildlife (5:19)  - VIEW and DO
• Grades 1-5 - PBS LearningMedia - Kratts Creatures - Wildlife Rescue Centers to the Rescue! (2:36)  - VIEW 
• Grades 3-12 - U.S. Fish and Wildlife -  READ
• Grades 4-6 - PBS LearningMedia - Dragonfly TV - Scientist Profile: Wildlife Biologists (2:44) - VIEW
• Grades 4-8 - NHPBS Video - NatureWorks Series - VIEW
• Grades 5-8 - NHPBS Video - Wildlife Journal Junior Series  - VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Nature Series - VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Untamed Collection - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - Cuba's Wildlife (Available in Spanish) (3:38) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearingMedia - EcoSense for Living - Wildlife Corridors and Border Barriers (8:35) - VIEW and DO

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Carla Gordon Russell
Director of Communications
crussell@nhpbs.org
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