Skateboarding and Limericks - May 12

Grinding Out Some Learning

Monday, May 12, 2025

Today is International Nurses Day, Limerick Day, and National Nutty Fudge Day.

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month Resource of the Day
Today's Theme: Skateboarding and Limericks

ON THIS DATE

BIRTHDAYS

SONG OF THE DAY 

  • Steve Winwood - Back in the High Life Again - LISTEN

ASIAN AMERICAN & PACIFIC ISLANDER HERITAGE MONTH RESOURCE OF THE DAY

X is for Intersectionality | ABC's of AAPIs

THEME:  Skateboarding

  • Grades PreK-2 - PBS LearningMedia - Young Explorers - Get Up & Go Play!: Skate Park (2:54) - VIEW
  • Grades PreK-3 - PBS LearningMedia - Sid the Science Kid - Inertia! (1:53) - VIEW
  • Grades 4-8 - PBS LearningMedia - DragonflyTV - Skateboards (5:22) - VIEW and DO
  • Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Under a Minute - Learning To Skateboard in a War Zone (If You're A Girl) (0:59) - VIEW
  • Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS NewsHour (2018) - Tony Hawk Turns 50 -- and He Has a Trick for Every Year (9:12) - VIEW
  • Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Skate SD: Tony Hawk and the Del Mar Skate Ranch (4:18) - VIEW
  • Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - The Big Tell - Professional (Teacher) AND Skater (5:00) - VIEW
  • Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Physics Girl - How an IMPOSSIBLE Skateboarding Trick Works ft Rodney Mullen (9:00) - VIEW
  • Grades 8-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Physics in Motion - Kinetic Energy and Gravitational Potential Energy (5:14) - VIEW
  • Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Apache Skateboarders: Straddling the Past and Present (3:36) - VIEW and DO

Limericks

  • Grades PreK-2 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Between the Lions - A Fellow Named Sig (0:32) - VIEW and DO
  • Grades K-2 - NHPBS Video - Read Write Roar - Going Green (26:45) - VIEW
  • Grades K-3 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Electric Company - Limerick-Off (21:43) - VIEW
  • Grades 3-5 - Read WriteThink - Limericks - READ and DO
  • Grades 3-12 - Project Gutenberg - A Book of Nonsense by Edward Lear - READ
  • Grades 4-12 - NHPBS Video - The Slice - Limerick Off (1:17) - VIEW
  • Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Chicago Tonight - Children's Author Bindy Bitterman on Writing Limericks (3:26) - VIEW

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