Salamanders and Gerrymandering - July 17

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Thursday, July 17, 2025

Today is Peach Ice Cream Day, Tattoo Day, and World Emoji 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: Salamanders and  Gerrymandering

ON THIS DATE

  • 1821 - Spain cedes Florida to the United States.
  • 1917 -  The British royal family changes its name from Saxe-Coburg Gotha to Windsor.
  • '1945 - Harry S. Truman, Josef Stalin, and Winston Churchill began meeting at Potsdam.
  • 1955 - Disneyland opens in Anaheim, California.
  • 1981 - 114 people were killed and more than 200 were injured when a walkway collapses at the Hyatt Regency in Kansas City, Missouri.

BIRTHDAYS

SONGS OF THE DAY 

  • James Cagney - Yankee Doodle Dandy - LISTEN
  • Phoebe Snow - Poetry Man - LISTEN
  • Mary Osborne - I Surrender Dear - LISTEN

NATIONAL PARK MONTH RESOURCE OF THE DAY

Cape Hatteras National Seashore, North Carolina - GO

ICE CREAM MONTH RESOURCE OF THE DAY

PBS Food - Peach Melba - MAKE

THEME: SALAMANDERS

  • Grades K-3 - NHPBS Video - Up Close and Natural - Frogs, Toads, and Salamanders (13:09) - VIEW
  • Grades K-4 - Wild Kratts  - Fire Salamander (2:59) -  VIEW
  • Grades 3-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Small Creatures/Large Lessons (7:13)- VIEW, READ, DO
  • Grades 4-12 - NHPBS Wildlife Journal Junior - Caudata - Salamanders, Newts, Mudpuppies - READ
  • Grades 6-9 - NHPBS LearningMedia - SciTech Now - Saving the Endangered Hellbender Salamander (5:26) - VIEW and DO
  • Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Be Smart - The Deadpool Salamander That Can Regrow Limbs (7:16) - VIEW

THEME: GERRYMANDERING

  • Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - PBS NewsHour - Gerrymandering and Partisan Politics in the U.S. (10:33) - VIEW, READ, DO
  • Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Above the Noise - Gerrymandering: Is Geometry Silencing Your Vote? (5:17) - VIEW, READ, DO
  • Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Crash Course Government and Politics - Gerrymandering (7:54) - VIEW
  • Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Socal Connected - Divide and Conquer (25:30) - VIEW
  • Grades 10-12 -NH PBS LearningMedia - GerryRIGGED: Turning Democracy on Its Head (57:24)- VIEW, READ, DO

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