Tuesday, June 4, 2024
Today is Hug Your Cat Day, National Cheese Day, Cognac Day, and Shopping Cart Day.
June is Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Pride Month; National Oceans Month; National Rivers Month; and National Caribbean-American Heritage Month
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Ocean/River Resource of the Day
Today's Theme: Cheese and the 19th Amendment
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ON THIS DATE
- 1411 - France's King Charles VI grants the town of Roquefort-sur-Soulzon a monopoly for ripening Roquefort cheese.
- 1647 - The English army seizes King Charles I.
- 1789 - The Montgolfier brothers publicly demonstrate their hot air balloon.
- 1919 - The 19th Amendment is approved by Congress, giving women the right to vote.
- 1939 - The MS St. Louis, a ship carrying 963 Jewish refugees, is denied permission to land in Florida and is forced to return to Europe. More than 200 passengers later die in Nazi concentration camps.
- 1942 - The Battle of Midway between Japan and the U.S. begins.
- 1984 - Bruce Springsteen's album "Born in the U.S.A." is released.
- 1989 - Chinese army troops storm Tiananmen Square in Beijing to stop pro-democracy demonstrations, possibly killing thousands of protesters.
BIRTHDAYS
SONGS OF THE DAY
- Bruce Springsteen - Born in the U.S.A. - LISTEN
- Helen Reddy - I Am Woman - LISTEN
OCEAN/RIVER RESOURCE OF THE DAY
Ocean Today - Chimaera - VIEW
THEME: Cheese
- Grades PreK-3 - Let's Go: Luna - The Perfect Grilled Cheese (1:33) - VIEW
- Grades K-4 - Odd Squad - The Cheese Room (2:24) - VIEW
- Grades 6-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Cheese: Not the Same Mold Story (6:02) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - The Science and Art of Cheese (10:26) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Gross Science - What Lives in Cheese? (2:48) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - It's O.K. To Be Smart - What Lives in Cheese (5:46) - VIEW
- Grades 4-6 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Dragonfly TV - Scientist Profile: Dairy Scientist (2:37) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Serving Up Science - Making the Ultimate (Stinky) Cheese Board (5:45) -VIEW
- Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Reactions - How Milk Becomes Cheese (6:43) - VIEW
- Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Reactions - Why Does Stinky Cheese Stink? (4:57) - VIEW
THEME: 19th Amendment
- Grades 3-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Teaching Women's Suffrage Collection - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia -19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution - Women's Right to Vote Resource Materials - VIEW, READ, and DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Teaching Women's Suffrage Collection - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 6-12 - New York Times - 19 Ways to Teach the 19th Amendment - READ and DO
- Grades 6-12 - National Archives - 19th Amendment - READ
- Grades 6-12 - NEA - 19th Amendment Teaching Resources - READ and DO
- Grades 6-12 - U.S. Constitution Center - 19th Amendment - READ
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - The Origins of Everything - 6 Surprising Facts About the 19th Amendment (12:09) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - National Endowment for the Humanities - EDSITEment - Chronicling and Mapping the Women's Suffrage Movement Lesson Plan - READ and DO
- Grades 6-12 - National Endowment for the Humanities - EDSITEment - Women's Suffrage: Why the West First? Lesson Plan - READ and DO
WATCH
AMAZING HUMAN BODY - Grow
Tuesday, 6/04 from 11 am-12 pm NH WORLD
Learn how humans begin life as a single cell and, over the course of a lifetime, grow into beings of more than 37 trillion cells. Plus, explore new discoveries that can help humans live longer, healthier lives. AMAZING HUMAN BODY Streaming Video