Mammals - August 5
Fur-Covered Learning
Wednesday, August 5, 2026
Today is Green Peppers Day, International Traffic Light Day, National Oyster Day, and National Underwear Day.
- Health and Wellness Month Resource of the Day: PBS Parents: Healthy Me
- Sandwich Month Sandwich of the Day: Open-Faced Grilled Cheese with Apple and Bacon Sandwich
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Poem of the Day
Art of the Day
Today's Theme: MAMMALS
ON THIS DATE
- 1620 - The Mayflower sets sail from Southampton, England.
- 1733 - New York Weekly Journal writer John Peter Zenger is acquitted of seditious libel.
- 1861 - The U.S. levies the first national income tax to help pay for the Civil War.
- 1914 - The first electric traffic light is installed in Cleveland, Ohio.
- 1962 - Apartheid leader Nelson Mandela is jailed.
- 1981 - President Reagan fires 11,359 striking air traffic controllers.
- 1850 - French author Guy de Maupassant
- 1906 - Director John Huston
- 1930 - Astronaut Neil Armstrong
- They Might Be Giants - Mammal - LISTEN
- Allison Adelle Hedge Coke - When the Animals Leave This Place
- Édouard Manet - Oysters (1862)
- Grades K-4 - NHPBS - Up Close and Natural - Mammals (12:39) - VIEW
- Grade 4-12 - NHPBS NatureWorks - Mammalia - READ
- Grades 5-12- NHPBS LearningMedia - Nova - Mammals Get Their Chance (1:46) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Nova - Rise of the Mammals (53:27) - VIEW
- Grades 6-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Smithsonian Science Now - How to Discover a New Mammal Species (29:14) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Are Mammals Adapting to Humans? (4:22) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - NOVA scienceNOW: Smart Marine Mammals - Smart Sea Lions (4:42) - VIEW, READ, DO
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