Country Music and Manatees - March 27
Learning with a Twang
Thursday, March 27, 2025
Today is Little Red Wagon Day, Manatee Appreciation Day, Joe Day, Scribble Day, World Theatre Day, and Quirky Country Music Song Titles Day
Women's History Month Resource of the Day: Country Music: A Nashville Story - The Carter Family
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Country Music and Manatees
ON THIS DATE
- 1794 - The United States establishes a permanent navy.
- 1866 - President of the United States of America Andrew Johnson vetoes the Civil Rights Act of 1866. His veto is overridden by Congress and the bill passes into law on April 9.
- 1915 - Typhoid Mary, the first healthy carrier of the disease ever identified in the United States is put in quarantine for the second time, where she would remain for the rest of her life.
- 1964 - The Good Friday Earthquake, with a magnitude of 9.2 strikes Southcentral Alaska, killing 125.
- 1724 - Botanist Jane Colden
- 1824 - Suffragist Virginia Minor
- 1845 - German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen
- 1899 - Actor Gloria Swanson
- 1905 - Canadian engineer Elsie MacGill
- 1924 - Jazz singer Sarah Vaughan
- 1963 - Director Quentin Tarantino
- 1969 - Singer Mariah Carey
- Grades: PreK-1 - Sesame Street- Oscar and Johnny Cash - Nasty Dan (2:13) - MUST VIEW
- Grades: PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Garth Brooks (3:06) - VIEW
- Grades: PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Sugarland and Elmo (2:46) - VIEW
- Grades K-12 - Southern Living - 11 Classic Country Songs Every Kid Should Know - READ AND VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - EDSITEment- Thomas Hart Benton: Sources of Country Music Lesson Plan - READ and DO
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Ken Burns In the Classroom - Country Music Collection - READ, VIEW, DO
- Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Country Music: A Nashville Story - Unapologetically Black Country: The Black Opry (5:54) - VIEW
- Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - KWTO - Legendary Live Country Radio (54:00) - VIEW
- Grades: 9-12 - NHPBS Video- Ken Burns - Country Music Series - VIEW
THEME: MANATEES
- Grades PreK-12 - Save the Manatee Live Web Cams - VIEW
- Grades K-2 - PBS LearningMedia - Manatees! Interactive Lesson - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades K-5 - PBS LearningMedia - Wild Kratts - Manatee Rescue (1:52) - VIEW
- Grades K-5 - PBS LearningMedia - Wild Kratts - Divergent Evolution (1:54) - VIEW
- Grades 3-5 - PBS LearningMedia - Dragonfly TV (5:44) - VIEW
- Grades 3-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - Manatees (4:38) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 3-12 - NHPBS - Wildlife Journal Jr. - West Indian Manatee - READ
- Grades 3-12 - NHPBS - Wildlife Journal Junior - Sirenia - dugongs, manatees - READ
- Grades 5-7 - PBS LearningMedia - Facts or Opinion: Manatees - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Nature - Meet the Manatees (3:20) - VIEW
- Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS NewsHour - Biologists Try to Save Florida Manatees from Starvation (8:26) - VIEW
- Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Changing Seas - Manatees: Conserving a Marine Mammal (26:43) - VIEW
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