Rock and Rocks - July 13
Rock and Roll Learning and Rock Learning
Monday, July 13, 2026
Today is World Cup Soccer Day, International Rock (music) Day, International Town Criers Day, French Fries Day, Barbershop Music Appreciation Day, Embrace Your Geekness Day, and Beans 'n Franks Day.
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Poem of the Day
National Park Month Resource of the Day
Ice Cream Month Resource of the Day
Today's Theme: Rock and Rocks
AMERICAN REVOLUTION HISTORY ON THIS DATE
1787 – Congress of the Confederation enacts the Northwest Ordinance, establishing rules for the Northwest Territory and procedures for admitting new states.
ON THIS DATE
- 1793 - French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat is assassinated in his bathtub by Charlotte Corday
- 1863 - The New York City draft riots begin.
- 1956 - The Dartmouth workshop, the first conference on artificial intelligence, begins.
- 1973 - Presidential assistant Alexander Butterfield reveals to the Senate Watergate Commission that there is a secret taping system in the Oval Office.
- 1985 - The Live Aid benefit concert takes place in London and other venues around the world.
- 1940 - English actor Sir Patrick Stewart
- 1942 - Actor Harrison Ford
- 1944 - Hungarian game designer Erno Rubik
Queen - We Will Rock You - LISTEN- Bill Haley - Rock Around the Clock - LISTEN
- The Temptations - Papa Was a Rolling Stone - LISTEN
Mary Eastwood Knevels - Rocks
NATIONAL PARK MONTH RESOURCE OF THE DAY
Glacier National Park, Montana - GO
ICE CREAM MONTH RESOURCE OF THE DAY
PBS Food - Green Chile Sundae - MAKE
- Grades K-12 - Teach Rock - Lesson Plans - DO
- Grades 5-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Rock-n-Roll Shop Class (4:55) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 5-12 - Rock and Roll Hall of Fame - Education - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 7-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Austin City Limits - Lessons from the Show - VIEW and DO
- Grades 7-12 - The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History - The Big Bang! The Birth of Rock and Roll Lesson Plan - DO
- Grades 7-12 - American Masters Collection - VIEW
THEME: ROCKS
- Grades PreK-1- Sesame Street - A Rocking Rock Party (0:53) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Elmo's Playdate with a Pet Rock (9:58) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-1- Sesame Street - Rocks - Number 12 (2:05) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-3 - NHPBS LearningMedia - 60 Second Science - Weathering Rocks (0:59) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 3-5 - NHPBS LearningMedia - DragonflyTV - Rock Climbing (6:10) - VIEW
- Grades 3-5 - NHPBS LearningMedia - DragonflyTV - Scientist Profile: Rock Scientist (Available in Spanish) (2:35) - VIEW
- Grades 3-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia - STEM in 30 - Moon Rocks (31:09) - VIEW
- Grades 4-12 - National Park Service - Rocks - READ, VIEW, DO
- Grades 4-12 - American Museum of Natural History - Three Types of Rocks - READ and VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nova Labs - Fossils: Rocking the Earth (2:08) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - The Rock Cycle - Interactive VIEW, READ, DO
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