Basketball and Jessie Owens - August 3

Saturday, August 3, 2024

Today is National Watermelon Day, Grab Some Nuts Day, Clean Your Floors Day, Clown Day, Mead Day, Mustard Day, and IPA Day.

• Health and Wellness Month Resource of the Day:  KidVision: Doctor's Office
• Sandwich Month Sandwich of the Day: Rueben Sandwich

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: BASKETBALL AND JESSE OWENS
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ON THIS DATE

• 1852 - Harvard University wins a boat race with Yale University in the first American intercollegiate athletic event. the race was held on Lake Winnipesaukee.
• 1936 - Jesse Owens wins the 100-meter dash at the Berlin Olympics.
• 1949 - The Basketball Association of America and the National Basketball League merge and become the National Basketball Association.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1900 - Soldier and journalist Ernie Pyle
• 1900- Teacher John T. Scopes
• 1920 - Author P. D. James
• 1926 - Singer Tony Bennett
• 1940 - Actor Martin Sheen
• 1941 - Lifestyle guru Martha Stewart
• 1977 - Football player Tom Brady

SONG OF THE DAY 

• Louis Armstrong - Sweet Georgia Brown - LISTEN
• Tony Bennet - I Left My Heart in San Francisco - LISTEN

THEME: BASKETBALL

• Grades PreK-K - NHPBS LearningMedia - KidVision - Basketball (8:57) - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Elmo Will Make His Shot (2:41) - VIEW
  
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - What If? The Greatest Basketball Shot Ever (1:25) - VIEW
  
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Practicing Basketball (1:51) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Rebecca Lobo and the Letter O (1:52) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-2 - Let's Go Luna - A Game of Basketball (1:26) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-2 - Molly of Denali - Playing Basketball on Snow (2:32)  - VIEW
• Grades 4-6  - NHPBS LearningMedia - Dragonfly TV - Basketball Physics (5:38) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 4-8 - NHPBS LearningMedai - STEM in 30 - Basketball in Space (2:00) - VIEW

THEME: JESSE OWENS

• Grades K-3 - PBS Kids - Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum - I Am Jesse Owens/I Am Ella Fitzgerald (24:49) - VIEW
• Grades 3-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Know Ohio - Olympic Runner Jesse Owens "the Buckeye Bullet" (1:53) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - American Experience -Jesse Owens: A Hero's Welcome? (1:35) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - American Experience - Jesse Owens: The Track as a Great Equalizer (2:20) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - American Experience - Jesse Owens, Chapter One (10:28) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - American Experience - Jesse Owens in Hitler's Germany (2:07) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - American Experience - Jesse Owens (52:02) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - Philadelphia Holocaust Remembrance Museum -  Lesson Plan: 1936 Berlin Olympics- Protest Through Participation and Boycott - VIEW and DO
• Grades 7-12 - U.S. Holocaust Museum - Lesson Plan: Black Americans and the Nazi Olympics - DO

Watch 

NH EXPLORE - 11.2 Comcast (11/801) More Options

HUMAN FOOTPRINT - The Replacements 
Saturday, 7/27 from 11 am-12 pm NH EXPLORE
Shane explores the surprising science and unexpected histories of “The Replacements”: five animal and plant species that made allies of humans grew to dominate the planet alongside us, and changed their destinies (and our own) forever. HUMAN FOOTPRINT Streaming Video

NH WORLD - 11.3 More Options

INDEPENDENT LENS - Storming Caesar's Palace 
Saturday, 8/03 from 8-9:30 pm NH EXPLORE
After losing her job as a hotel worker in Las Vegas, Ruby Duncan joined a welfare rights group of mothers who defied notions of the “welfare queen.” In a fight for guaranteed income, Ruby and other equality activists took on the Nevada mob in organizing a massive protest that shut down Caesars Palace. INDEPENDENT LENS Streaming Video

Pressroom Contact

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