Forests, The Big Bang, and Quilts - March 21

Saturday, March 21, 2026

Today is Big Bang Day, International Day of Forests, Maple Syrup Saturday, National Flower Day, National French Bread Day, National Rosie The Riveter Day, National Quilting Day, Teenager Day, Play the Recorder Day, Slytherin Pride Day, World Poetry Day, and World Puppetry Day.

Women's History Month Resource of the Day: She Is An Astronomer

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Forests, the Big Bang, and Quilts

ON THIS DATE

• 1925 - The Butler Act prohibits the teaching of human evolution in Tennessee.
• 1952 - Alan Freed presents the Moondog Coronation Ball, the first rock and roll concert, in Cleveland, Ohio.
• 1965 - Martin Luther King Jr. leads a civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.
• 1980 - President Jimmy Carter announces a United States boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow to protest the Soviet–Afghan War.
• 2006 - Twitter is launched.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1685 - German composer Johann Sebastian Bach
• 1752 - Inventor Mary Dixon Kies
• 1839 - Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky
• 1866 - Astronomer Antonia Maury
• 1867 - Producer  Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr.

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Johann Sebastian Bach - Adagio - LISTEN
• Johann Sebastian Bach - Toccata and Fugue in D Minor BWV 565 - LISTEN
• Modest Mussorgsky - Night On Bald Mountain - LISTEN
• Bare Naked Ladies - The Big Bang Theory - LISTEN

THEME:  Forests

• Grades 1-4 - PBS LearningMedia - Plum Landing - Finding Forests (3:23) - VIEW
• Grades 3-4 - PBS LearningMedia - Wild Kratts - Who Replants the Forest? (2:28) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 3-6 - PBS LearningMedia - Science Trek - Forests Collection - VIEW
• Grades 4-6 - PBS LearningMedia - DragonflyTV - Temperate Rain Forest (Available in Spanish) (7:05) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-6 - PBS LearningMedia - DragonflyTV - Scientist Profile: Forest Canopy Researcher (2:10) - VIEW
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS - Wildlife Journal Junior - NH Forests - READ
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS - Wildlife Journal Junior -Temperate Deciduous Forest - READ
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS - Wildlife Journal Junior - Rain Forests - READ
• Grades 5-8 - PBS Learning Media - The Forest Files (27:30) - VIEW
• Grades 5-8 - PBS Learning Media - The Forest Files - The Forest and The Air Cycle (1:35) - VIEW
• Grades 5-8 - PBS Learning Media - The Forest Files - The Forest and The People (6:17) - VIEW
• Grades 5-8 - PBS LearningMedia - The Forest & The Soil Cycle (5:30) - VIEW

Theme: Big Bang

• Grades 5-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Science Around Cincy - Expansion of the Universe (5:14) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Genius by Stephen Hawking - Where Did the Universe Come From? (9:45) -VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - Evidence for the Big Bang Theory (4:58) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - Universe Revealed Collection - VIEW and DO
• Grades 7-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - Looking Back in Time: The Big Bang (6:15) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - How Do We Know the Universe is Expanding: The Big Bang (5:06) - VIEW
  
• Grades 7-12 - PBS LearningMedia - PBS Space Time - Big Bang Collection - VIEW
• Grade 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Nova - Scientists Capture the First Light from the Big Bang (2:57) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Nova - Was the Big Bang an Explosion or Something Else? (3:01) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS Space Time - What Happened Before the Big Bang? (10:23) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS Space Time - What Caused the Big Bang? (13:12) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS Space Time - Will the Big Bang Happen Again and Again (16:35) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS Space Time - What if the Universe Did Not Begin With the Big Bang: (16:35) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS Space Time - Did Time Start at the Big Bang? (12:30) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS Space Time - What's Wrong with the Big Bang Theory? (9:56) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS Space Time - Why the Big Bang Definitely Happened (8:54) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Crash Course Astronomy - The Big Bang (13:09) - VIEW

THEME:  Quilts

• Grades K-4 - Reading Rainbow - The Patchwork Quilt (9:31) - VIEW
• Grades K-10 - PBS LearningMedia - Geometric Quilts in the Style of Martha Osborn (2:41) - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Arts After School - Quilt Squares (4:03) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades K-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Anna Von Mertens: Visual Arts - Quilting (10:32) - VIEW and DO 
• Grades 1-2 - Mattatuck Museum - Faith Ringgold and Story Quilts Lesson Plan - DO
  Grades 2-8 - Southwest Educational Development Laboratory - Visual Arts Quilting Lesson Plan - DO
• Grades 4-12 - PBS Learning Media - Quilts: Juanita Yeager (5:10) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - New England Quilt Museum - VIEW and READ
• Grades 6-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Craft in America - Painting with Fabric: How Two Artists Make Quilts (8:24) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Craft in America - Quilts (55:06) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Picturing America - Quilts (6:13) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia -The Quilts of Ken Burns in 360° (4:50) - VIEW and DO

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