Coral and Dinosaurs - June 1

Sunday, June 1, 2025

National Olive Day, National Pen Pal Day, Say Something Nice Day, World Milk Day, Dinosaur Day, Flip a Coin Day, Go Barefoot Day, Nail Polish Day, Oscar the Grouch Day, Heimlich Maneuver Day, Wear a Dress Day, and World Reef Awareness Day.

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Ocean/River Resource of the Day
Today's Theme: Coral Reefs and Dinosaurs

• 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 sign a bilateral treaty to end chemical weapon production.
• 2009 - General Motors files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
• 2011 - A series of tornadoes strike New England, and Springfield, Massachusetts, is especially hard-hit. 

BIRTHDAYS

• 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

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Elton John - Candle in the Wind - LISTEN
• Marilyn Monroe - Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend - LISTEN
• Alanis Morissette - Ironic - LISTEN
  

OCEAN/RIVER RESOURCE OF THE DAY

Ocean Today - The Deep Ocean (2:12) - VIEW

THEME: Coral

• 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 PreK-2 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Splash and Bubbles - The Coral Reef Tour (2:18) - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-2 - Splash and Bubbles - The Coral Music (1:51) - VIEW
• Grades K-12 - Coral City Live Cam - VIEW
• Grades K-8 - NHPBS Learning Media - Zoom - Coral Kid (2:21) - View 
• Grades K-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Schoolyard Films - Coral Reef Rescue for K-8 (16:32) -  VIEW
• Grade 2 - NHPBS VIdeo - Read, Write, Roar - The Coral Reef and Ghost Letters (26:45) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 3-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Plan semanal y Video: Arrecifes de Isla Verde seg. 1 (Spanish) (7:24) - VIEW and DO 
• Grades 3-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Plan semanal y Video: Arrecifes de Isla Verde seg. 2 (Spanish) (9:09) - VIEW and DO 
• Grades 3-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Plan semanal y Video: Arrecifes de Isla Verde seg. 3 (Spanish) (7:04) - VIEW and DO 
• Grades 3-8 - NHPBS Learning Media - The Coral Reef Ecosystem Lesson Plan - VIEW and DO
• Grades 3-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Zoom - Coral Kid (2:21) - VIEW, READ, 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 - Corals: The Birds and the Bees (4:35) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Life on the Reef - Coral Spawning (7:02) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Coral: What Does it Eat? (4:14) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Where are Coral Reefs Found? (1:40) - VIEW and DO
• 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 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - What are Corals? (2:09) - VIEW and DO
• 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
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Schoolyard Films - Coral Reef Rescue for High School (16:33) -  VIEW

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 1-5 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - The Adaptations that Helped a Giant Dinosaur Eat (5:13) - VIEW and DO
• grades 3-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - Studying Adaptations for Walking in Dinosaurs (5:48) - 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 - It's Okay to Be Smart - The Dinosaur On Your Thanksgiving Table (10:16) - VIEW

Pressroom Contact

Carla Gordon Russell
Director of Communications
crussell@nhpbs.org
(603) 868-4339