Hawaii - August 21

Wednesday, August 21, 2024

Today is National Spumoni Day, Poets Day, World Goat Day, and Senior Citizen's Day.

• Health and Wellness Month Resource of the Day: Sesame Street - Managing Asthma
• Sandwich Month Sandwich of the Day: Kimchi Rice Sandwich

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

• 1831 - Nat Turner launches a slave rebellion in Virginia.
• 1858 - Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln meet in the first of seven debates for a U.S. Senate seat in Illinois.
• 1959 - President Eisenhower signs an executive order making Hawaii the 50th state.
• 1992 - An 11-day siege begins in Ruby Ridge, Idaho at the cabin of white separatist Randy Weaver.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1904 - Musician Count Basie
• 1936 - Basketball player Wilt Chamberlain
• 1938 - Singer-songwriter Kenny Rogers
• 1973 - Google co-founder Sergey Brin
• 1986 - Sprinter Usain Bolt

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Max Weinberg and the Ventures - Hawaii 5-0 Theme - LISTEN
  
• Kenny Rodgers - The Gambler - LISTEN

THEME: HAWAII

• Grades PreK-12 - Smithsonian Education - Creating Hawaii Lesson Plans - DO
• Grades PreK-1 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Hawaiian Dance Field Trip (8:18)  - VIEW and DO
  
• Grades 2-6 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nature - Volcanic Views (2:24) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-6 - NHPBS LearningMedia - DragonflyTV - GPS: Lava Flow (7:11) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Volcanic Island Life Cycle - Kilauea: Hawaii on Fire (2:44) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - National Park Service - Teaching with Historic Places - Iolani Palace: A Hawaiian Place of History, Power, and Prestige - DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS NewsHour Extra - Hawaii Lessons and Video Collection - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nature - Hawaiian Coastal Cliffs (Available in Spanish) (1:54) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nova - Lava Sampling on Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii (5:47) - VIEW, READ, DO
  
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nova - Dating Lava Flows on Mauna Loa Volcano, Hawaii (4:33) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nova - Plate Tectonics: The Hawaiian Archipelago  (Available in Spanish) (4:36) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Teaching with Primary Sources - Liliuokalani, the last Queen of Hawaii  - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - National Archives - Joint Resolution to Provide for the Annexation of Hawaiin Islands - VIEW
• Grades 8-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - American Experience - The Overthrow of Queen Lili‘uokalani (5:59) - VIEW and READ
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - The Hawaiin Language (56:45) -  VIEW

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Pressroom Contact

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