Lobsters and Wind - June 15

Sunday, June 15, 2025

Today is Father's Day, Lobster Day, Bunker Hill Day, Global Wind Day, Magna Carta Day, World Elder Abuse Awareness Day, Worldwide Day of Giving, Electricity Day, Nature Photography Day, and Kiss a Wookie Day.

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Ocean/River Month Resource of the Day
Today's Theme:  Lobsters and Wind

ON THIS DATE

• 1215 - England's King John puts his seal on the Magna Carta.
• 1648 - Midwife Margaret Jones becomes the first person executed for witchcraft in the Massachusetts Bay Colony when she is hanged in Boston. 
• 1775 - George Washington is appointed head of the Continental Army.
• 1864 - Arlington National Cemetery is established on 200 acres of what once was Confederate General Robert E. Lee's estate.
• 1901 - 1,000 people die in a fire on the steamboat General Slocum on the East River in New York City. 
•  1921 - Bessie Coleman becomes the first licensed female African American pilot. 

BIRTHDAYS

• 1479 - Italian model for the Mona Lisa, Lisa del Giocondo
• 1843 - Nowegian composer Edvard Grieg
• 1878 - Golfer Margaret Abbott
• 1937 - Musician Waylon Jennings
• 1953 - Chinese President Xi Jinping
• 1969 - Rapper and actor Ice Cube
• 1973 - Actor Neil Patrick Harris

OCEAN/RIVER RESOURCE OF THE DAY

USGS - Water Science School - VIEW

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• B52s - Rock Lobster - LISTEN
• Jimi Hendrix - The Wind Cries Mary - LISTEN
• Kansas - Dust in the Wind - LISTEN
• Bob Dylan - Blowin' In the Wind - LISTEN
• Nate King Cole - Mona Lisa - LISTEN
• Edvard Grieg - Morning Mood from Peer Gynt - LISTEN
  
• Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson - Mamma Don't Let Your Sons Grow Up to Be Cowboys - LISTEN
  

THEME: Lobsters

• Grades PreK-1- Sesame Street - Abby and Emmy Rossum Stay Focused! (2:01) -  VIEW
• Grades PreK-3 - Nature Cat - Little Lost Lobster (3:42) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-3 - Nature Cat - Little Lost Lobster - The Mangrove Forest  (3:32) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-4 - Wild Kratts - How to Activate Your Lobster Creature Powers (8:07) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-4 - Wild Kratts - Swimming with the Lobster (2:05) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - It's Okay. to Be Smart - You Are an Upside-Down Lobster (4:01) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12  - NHPBS Video - PBS NewsHour - How Rising Water Temperatures Could End Maine's Lobster Boom (8:34)  - VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Wildlife Journal Junior - The Secret Life of Lobsters (7:20) - VIEW
  

THEME:  Wind

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Listen to the Wind Blow (2:52) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-2 - Sid the Science Kid - What is Wind? (1:35) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-2 - NHPBS Video - PBS Parents Crafts for Kids - Explore Wind With a Wind Sock (2:58) - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-2 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Wind! - Interactive Lesson - VIEW and DO
• Grades 1-4 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Cyberchase - Wind Power Experiment (3:16) - VIEW
  
• Grades 2-6 - NHPBS Video - Curious Crew - Wind Power (26:46) - VIEW
• Grades 3-12 - National Weather Service - Beaufort Wind Scale - READ
• Grades 3-5 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Cyberchase - Measuring Wind Speed (1:13) - VIEW
• Grades 4-8 - NHPBS Video - SciGirls - Blowin' in the Wind (28:05) - VIEW
• Grades 4-8 - NHPBS Video - SciGirls - Blowin' in the Wind (Spanish) (28:05) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nova - Wind Power (2:33) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - SciTech Now - Wind Turbines (4:54) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Riding With the Wind (Available in Spanish) (6:23) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Global Winds Animations  (Available in Spanish) - VIEW, READ, DO

Pressroom Contact

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