Coral and Dinosaurs - June 1
Big and Small Learning
Monday, June 1, 2026
Today is the Start of Hurricane Season, Dinosaur Day, Flip a Coin Day, Global Day of Parents, heimlich Maneuver Day, International Children's Day, National Hazelnut Cake Day, National Olive Day, National Pen Pal Day, Nail Polish Day, Oscar the Grouch Day, Say Something Nice Day, Wear a Dress Day, World Milk Day, and World Reef Awareness Day.
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Poem of the Day
Ocean/River Resource of the Day
Today's Theme: Coral Reefs and Dinosaurs
AMERICAN REVOLUTION HISTORY ON THIS DATE
1779 – Court-martial for malfeasance of Benedict Arnold begins.
ON THIS DATE
- 1792 - Kentucky becomes the 15th state.
- 1796 - Tennessee becomes the 16th state.
- 1812 - President James Madison asks Congress to declare war on the United Kingdom.
- 1813 - The USS Chesapeake is captured by British forces in Boston Harbor.
- 1916 - Louis Brandeis becomes the first Jew appointed to the United States Supreme Court.
- 1980 - CNN, the world's first 24-hour television news network, debuts its first newscast.
- 1990 - Presidents George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev signed a bilateral treaty to end chemical weapon production.
- 2009 - General Motors files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
- 2011 - A series of tornadoes strikes New England, and Springfield, Massachusetts, is especially hard-hit.
- 1801 - Religious leader Brigham Young
- 1926 - Actor Marilyn Monroe
- 1926 - Actor Andy Griffith
- 1937 - Actor Morgan Freeman
- 1940 - Physicist and astronomer Kip Thorne
- 1947 - English guitarist Ronnie Wood
- 1974 - Canadian singer-songwriter Alanis Morissette
- 1981 - Actor Amy Schumer
- 1996 - English actor Tom Holland
- Elton John - Candle in the Wind - LISTEN
Marilyn Monroe - Diamonds Are a Girl's B est Friend - LISTEN Alanis Morissette - Ironic - LISTEN - Faces (Ronnie Wood on Guitar) - Stay with Me - LISTEN
POEM OF THE DAY
James Scruton - The Age of Dinosaurs
OCEAN/RIVER RESOURCE OF THE DAY
Ocean Today - The Deep Ocean (2:12) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-K - NHPBS LearningMedia - The Cat in the Hat Knows A Lot About That! - Coral Reef Camouflage (1:45) - VIEW and DO
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street -
Rosita Explores the Great Barrier Reef (3:21) - VIEW - Grades K-12 - Coral City Live Cam - VIEW
- Grades K-8 - NHPBS Learning Media - Zoom - Coral Kid (2:21) - View
- Grade 2 - NHPBS Video - Read, Write, Roar - The Coral Reef and Ghost Letters (26:45) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 3-8 - NHPBS Learning Media - The Coral Reef Ecosystem Lesson Plan - VIEW and DO
- Grades 3-5 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Wild Kratts - Coral Reef Creature Count! (1:53) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 3-5 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Dragonfly TV - ROVs (6:10) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 3-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nature Conservancy - What Animals Live in a Coral Reef? (2:56) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 3-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nature Conservancy - Nature Works Everywhere - Coral Reefs: Feeding and Protecting Us (4:03) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nova - A Night in the Coral Reef (Available in Spanish) (2:49) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 6-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Jonathan Bird's Blue World - Coral Reefs (8:50) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - How Coral Grows (6:24) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Life on the Reef - Coral Spawning (7:02) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Flipside Science - Coral Reefs and Climate Change (6:04) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nature - Cuba: The Accidental Eden - Coral Reefs (Available in Spanish) (4:41) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nova - Energy Flow in the Coral Reef System (Available in Spanish) (3:48) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Life on the Rocks (5:11) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Above the Noise - Is Your Sunscreen Hurting Coral Reefs? - (6:42) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Coral Reefs Are Dying. But They Don’t Have To (5:42) - VIEW
- Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - American Samoa's Resilient Coral Reefs (26:53) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Nova - Reef Rescue (53:21) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Nova - Scientists Breed a New Generation of "Super Corals" (4:45) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Learning Media - Coral Reef Symbiosis (5:07) - VIEW, READ, DO
THEME: Dinosaurs
- Grades PreK-2 - Dinosaur Train Website - VIEW and DO
- Grades PreK-5 - PBS LearningMedia - Dinosaur Train Collection - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades K-6 - PBS LearningMedia - ScienceTrek - Dinosaur Basics (5:51) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 4-6 - PBS LearningMedia - DragonflyTV - GPS: Dinosaurs (8:04) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 5-12 - PBS LearningMedia - SciTech Now - Discussing Dinosaurs with a Paleontologist (5:42) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Birds Are Living Dinosaurs (5:24) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 9-12- PBS LearningMedia - Eons - Inside the Dinosaur Library (7:18) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Eons - The Case of the Dinosaur Egg Thief (7:28) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Eons - The Raptor That Made Us Rethink Dinosaurs (8:36) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Eons - The Giant Dinosaur That Was Missing a Body (12:01) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Eons - Was This Dinosaur a Cannibal? (10:37) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Eons - When Dinosaurs Chilled in the Arctic (9:20) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Eons - An Illustrated History of Dinosaurs (12:20) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Eons - The Facts About Dinosaurs & Feathers (10:01) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Eons - What Colors Were Dinosaurs? (5:02) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Eons - What a Dinosaur Looks Like Under a Microscope (8:09) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Be Smart - The Dinosaur On Your Thanksgiving Table (10:16) - VIEW
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