Dogs - August 26

Monday, August 26, 2024

Today is National Dog Day, National Toilet Paper Day, Women's Equality Day, and National Cherry Popsicle Day.

• Health and Wellness Month Resource of the Day: Parenting Minutes: Healthy Snacks: Mandarin
• Sandwich Month Sandwich of the Day: LA Hot Dogs

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

• 1920 - The 19th Amendment to United States Constitution goes into effect, giving women the right to vote.
• 1961- The Hockey Hall of Fame opens in Toronto

BIRTHDAYS

• 1743 - French chemist Antoine Lavoisier
• 1906 - Microbiologist and oral polio vaccine creator Albert Sabin
• 1910 - Macedonian missionary and Catholic saint Mother Teresa
• 1918 - NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson
• 1935 - Politician and Democratic candidate for vice president Geraldine Ferraro
• 1935 - English computer scientist Karen Spärck Jones (groundbreaking work that laid the foundation for how search engines work! Google it.)
• 1952 - Journalist and puzzle creator and editor Will Shortz
• 1960 - Saxophonist and composer Branford Marsalis
• 1980 - Actor Macaulay Culkin

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Baha Men - Who Let the Dogs Out? - LISTEN
• The Monkees - Gonna Buy Me a Dog - LISTEN
• The Beatles - Martha My Dear - LISTEN
• Neil Young and Emmylou Harris - Old King - LISTEN
• Harry Nilsson - The Puppy Song - LISTEN

THEME: DOGS

• Grades PreK-K - NHPBS LearningMedia - Clifford the Big Red Dog Collection - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-K - NHPBS LearningMedia - KidVision -  Dog with a Dog Trainer (10:01) - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street  - It's a Doggy World (3:13) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street  - Walking the Dog Song (1:27)  - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Has Anybody Seen My Dog? (3:16) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Gina Explains Service Dogs (3:01) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Meet Digby the Dog (1:15) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Between the Lions - How to Be a Good Dog (2:54) - VIEW
• Grades K-2 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Molly of Denali -Tooey’s Hero (25:25)  - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades K-5 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Martha Speaks - Dog Fight (12:29) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 3-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nature - Social and Cultural Perspectives of Dogs (8:53) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 3-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nature - The Historic Relationships Between Dogs and Humans (7:34) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 3-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nature -The Herding Dogs of the United Kingdom (7:44) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 3-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nature -The Sled Dogs of the Arctic Circle (7:17)- VIEW and DO
• Grades 3-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nature -The Hunting Dogs of Papua New Guinea (3:58) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-6 - NHPBS LearningMedia - DragonflyTV - Sled Dogs (9:40) - VIEW
  
• Grades 4-6 - NHPBS LearningMedia - DragonflyTV - Colorblind Dogs (4:54)  - VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-6 - NHPBS LearningMedia - DragonflyTV - Scientist Profile: Dog Handler (Available in Spanish) (2:13) - VIEW 
• Grades 6-12- NHPBS LearningMedia - Nature - Driftwood the Dog (5:36) - VIEW, READ, DO
  
• Grades 6-12- NHPBS LearningMedia - Nova Science Now - Do Dogs Understand Fairness? (2:26) (Available in Spanish) - VIEW and DO 
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nova - Five Dogs with Crazy Resumes (2:56) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Deep Look - How Your Dog's Nose Knows So Much (3:34) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Animal IQ - How Intelligent Are Dogs Really? (9:17) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Windows to the Wild - Forest Therapy with Dogs (26:46) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Your Fantastic Mind - Dogs (25:28) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - A Dog's Service (26:43) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Nova - Dog Tales (54:11) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - PBS NewsHour - Can Dogs Smell Cancer? (9:41) -  VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia -  Eons -The Rise and Fall of the Bone-Crushing Dogs (8:29) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Eons - How Dogs (Eventually) Became Our Best Friends (9:21) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Reactions - Why Dog Food STINKS! (5:37) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Reactions - Why Do Dogs Smell Each Other's Butts? (2:27) - VIEW

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Pressroom Contact

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