Worms and Rembrandt - July 15

Saturday, July 15, 2023

Today is Be A Dork Day, I Love Horses Day, Gummi Worm Day, National Give Something Away Day, Tapioca Day, and Saint Swithin's Day.

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
National Park Month Resource of the Day
Ice Cream Month Resource of the Day
Today's Theme: Worms and Rembrandt
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ON THIS DATE

• 1799 - The Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta
• 1815 - Napoleon Bonaparte surrenders to the British.
• 1834 - The Spanish Inquisition officially ends after close to 356 years.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1606 - Dutch artist Rembrandt Van Rijn
• 1779 - Poet Clement Clarke Moore
• 1796 - Mythologist Thomas Bulfinch
• 1946 - Musician Linda Ronstadt

SONG OF THE DAY 

• Linda Ronstadt - Tracks of My Tears - LISTEN
• ABBA - Waterloo - LISTEN

NATIONAL PARK MONTH RESOURCE OF THE DAY

Black Canyon of the Gunnison, Colorado - GO

ICE CREAM MONTH RESOURCE OF THE DAY

PBS Food - Mexican No-Churn Ice Cream - DO

THEME: WORMS

• Grades PreK-K - NHPBS LearningMedia - Between the Lions - Wonderful Worms (6:06) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1- Sesame Street - Worm Reggae (2:20) -  VIEW
• Grades PreK-1- Sesame Street - Wiggldy Worm Song! (0:43)- VIEW
• Grades PreK-3 - Crafts for Kids - Build a Worm Hotel (1:32) - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-1 -  Sesame Street -The Worm Winter Games (57:07) - VIEW
  
• Grades K-1 - NHPBS Video - Read, Write, Roar - Worms, Worms, Worms! (26:45) -VIEW and DO
• Grades K-2 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Wild Kratts - Worm Alert (2:12) - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-2 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Wild Kratts - Worm Slime (1:11) - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-2 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Wild Kratts - Earthworms (26:25) - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-3 - NHPBS Video - Up Close and Natural - Animals Without Backbones (13:02) - VIEW
  Grades K-3 - NHPBS Video - Hodgepodge Lodge - Animals without Backbones (28:56) - VIEW
• Grades K-3 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nature Cat - Ze Worm Whisperer (11:05) - VIEW
• Grades 3-5 - NHPBS LearningMedia - DragonflyTV - Worm Farm (4:10) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 3-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia -  Wonderful Worms (3:41) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 3-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Compost Worms (8:24) - VIEW
  
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS Wildlife Journal Junior - Annelida - Segmented Worms - READ
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - The Shape of Life - Annelid Animation: Body Plan (1:05) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Lens of Time: Velvet Worms - Secret of the Slime (7:40) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Gross Science - Death of Dragon Worms (2:47) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - I Contain Multiutdes - How Giant Tube Worms Survive at Hydrothermal Vents (10:20) - VIEW

THEME: REMBRANDT

• Grades 8-12 - NPR - An Intersection Of Science And Art In Rembrandt's 'Anatomy Lesson' - VIEW and READ
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS NewsHour - For the First Time, 'All the Rembrandts' Are on Display (8:28) - VIEW
• Grades Adults - National Endowment for the Humanities - Teaching Rembrandt - READ
• Grades 9-12 - The Met - Rembrandt (1606–1669): Paintings - READ and VIEW

WATCH

NHPBS - 11.1 Comcast (802) Live Stream More Options

GRANITE STATE CHALLENGE QUARTERFINALS - Merrimack vs. Souhegan
Saturday, 7/15 from 5:30-6 pm NHPBS
GRANITE STATE CHALLENGE Streaming Video

NHPBS EXPLORE - 11.2 Comcast (801) More Options

THE GREEN PLANET - Human Worlds
Saturday, 7/15 from 11 am-12 pm NHPBS EXPLORE
Sir David Attenborough reveals how humans are helping plants, many of which face extinction. From projects in Africa to re-seeding the landscape to rebuilding a Brazilian rainforest tree by tree, everyone can work to make our world a little wilder. THE GREEN PLANET Streaming Video

PIONEERS OF TELEVISION - Primetime Soaps
Saturday, 7/15 from 8-9 pm NHPBS EXPLORE
A nighttime soap frenzy kicks off in the 1980s with Dallas, Dynasty, and the long-running Knots Landing. Sometimes forgotten is the genre's antecedent: 1964's Peyton Place, starring Mia Farrow and Ryan O'Neal. Featured interviews: Larry Hagman, Joan Collins, Patrick Duffy, Linda Evans, Diahann Carroll, Linda Gray, Charlene Tilton, Michelle Lee, Joan Van Ark, and Donna Mills. PIONEERS OF TELEVISION Streaming Video

NH WORLD - 11.3 Comcast (965) More Options

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE - Plague at the Golden Gate
Saturday, 7/15 from 8-10 pm NH WORLD
Over 100 years before the COVID-19 pandemic set off a nationwide wave of fear and anti-Asian sentiment, an outbreak of bubonic plague in San Francisco's Chinatown unleashed a similar crisis.  AMERICAN EXPERIENCE Streaming Video

Pressroom Contact

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