Elephants - August 12

Monday, August 12, 2024

Today is Baseball Fans Day, International Youth Day, World Elephant Day, Vinyl Record Day, Bowling Day, Julienne Fries Day, and Middle Child Day.

• Health and Wellness Month Resource of the Day: Simplifying and Strengthening Emotional Wellness for Children
• Sandwich Month Sandwich of the Day: Grilled Monterey Jack and Marmalade Sandwich

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Elephants
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ON THIS DATE

• 1851 - Isaac Singer is granted a patent for his sewing machine.
• 1898 - The Republic of Hawaii is annexed as part of the U.S.
• 1960  - NASA's first successful communications satellite, ECHO 1A, is launched.
• 1994 - MLB players go on strike, leading to the cancellation of the 1994 World Series.
• 2017 - Heather Heyer is killed when James Alex Fields Jr. drives his car into a crowd of counter-protesters during a white supremacist Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1833 - Suffragist and author Lillie Devereux Blake
• 1881 - Director and producer Cecil B. DeMille
• 1954 - Jazz musician Pat Metheny
• 1963 - Rap musician Sir Mix-a-Lot
• 1971 - Tennis player Pete Sampras
• 1975 -  Actor Casey Affleck

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Henry Mancini - Baby  Elephant Walk - LISTEN
• Pat Metheny - And I Love Her - LISTEN

THEME: ELEPHANTS

• Grades PreK-12 - San Diego Zoo Safari Park - Elephant Cam - VIEW
• Grades PreK-12 - Smithsonian's National Zoo - Elephant Cam - VIEW
• Grades PreK-12 - EleCam - The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennesee - VIEW
• Grades PreK-12 - Tembe Elephant Park, South Africa - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Snuffy is Not an Elephant (2:46) - VIEW
  
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Elephant Elevator Operator Song (2:18) - VIEW
  
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Grover and the Elephant (2:46) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Homer the Pet Elephant (2:44) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame street - Natalie Portman And Elmo Are Princess & Elephant (4:24) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-2 - Pinkalicious and Peterrific - Elephant Fun at the Zoo (2:12) - VIEW
• Grades K-4 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Wild Kratts - Baby Elephant Power (1:47) - VIEW and DO
  
• Grades K-4  - Wild Kratts - Nosing Around (1:54) - VIEW 
• Grades 1-5 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Kratts' Creatures - Thr Baby Elephant's Trunk (1:51) - VIEW
• Grades 3-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nature - Unforgettable Elephants (4:36) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 3-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nature - Grasslands Elephants (1:57) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS Video - How Elephants Listen ... With Their Feet (3:38) -VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nature - Forest Elephants (3:50) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nature - Desert Elephants (4:11) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nature - Studying Elephants (7:48) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - When Whales Walked: Journeys in Deep Time - Age of Elephants (4:46) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Elephant Whisperer - Gorongosa Park: Rebirth of Paradise (55:11) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Changing Planet - Elephant Orphanage (4:11) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - PBS NewsHour - Elephants Offer Clues To Cancer's Secrets (8:05) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS VIdeo - Animal IQ - Elephants: Do Giant Brains Mean More Smarts? (11:38) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Nature -The Elephant and the Termite (53:13) - VIEW

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Pressroom Contact

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