Water - September 18
Drippy Learning
Thursday, September 18, 2025
Today is National Cheeseburger Day, US Air Force Birthday, First Love Day, World Bamboo Day, National Respect Day, Read an eBook Day, Rice Krispies Treats Day, and World Water Monitoring Day.
- Classical Music Resource of the Day: George Frideric Handel - Water Music
AMERICAN REVOLUTION HISTORY ON THIS DATE
1793 – George Washington lays the first cornerstone of the United States Capitol.
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: WATER
ON THIS DATE
- 1783 - George Washington lays the cornerstone of the U.S. Capitol.
- 1850 - Congress passes the Fugitive Slave Act.
- 1851 - The first edition of The New York Times is published.
- 1948 - Margaret Chase Smith of Maine becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate without completing another senator's term.
- 1970 - Jimi Hendrix dies of a drug overdose at 27.
- 1975 - Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst is captured by the FBI in San Francisco.
- 2014 - Scotland votes against independence from the U.K.
- 1709 - English writer Samuel Johnson
- 1819 - French physicist Leon Foucault
- 1905 - Choreographer Agnes de Mille
- 1905 - Actor Greta Garbo
- The Standells - Dirty Water - LISTEN
- Deep Purple - Smoke on the Water - LISTEN
- Jimmy Buffett - Cheeseburger in Paradise - LISTEN
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Water Song (1:27) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Fun in the Sun - Water Water Song (2:12) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Wasting Water (1:14) - VIEW
- Grades K-3 - Plum Landing - Follow the Water (3:13) - VIEW and DO
- Grades K-3 - Plum Landing - Earth to Blorb - Water (2:42) - VIEW
- Grades K-3 - Plum Landing - Water Carries Everything (4:04) - VIEW and DO
- Grades K-3 - Ready Jet GO! - What Can We Do With Water? (2:22) - VIEW
- Grades K-3 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Ready Jet GO! Water, Water Everywhere (11:00) - VIEW
- Grades 3-6 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Zoom - Water Treatment Plant (2:22) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 4-6 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Science Trek - Water (5:31) - VIEW
- Grades 5-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Water Quality - Watershed (3:25) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Frontline - Flint's Deadly Water (54:47) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Be Smart - Where Did Earth's Water Come From? (4:13) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Water Works (26:44) - VIEW
- Grades 8-12 - NHPBS Video - Follow the Water (55:10) - VIEW
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