Rice, Donald Hall, and Red Pandas - September 20
Grains of Learning and Poetry
Saturday, September 20, 2025
Today is Batman Day, Coastal Cleanup Day, Eat an Apple Day, Red Panda Day, Dance Day, Fried Rice Day, Gymnastics Day, String Cheese Day, Pepperoni Pizza Day, Rum Punch Day, and National Gibberish Day.
- Hispanic/Latino Resource of the Day: Simple Civics - Hispanic Leaders
- Classical Music Resource of the Day: Sesame Street - People in Your Neighborhood - Conductor
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: RICE and DONALD HALL
ON THIS DATE
- 1946 - The first Cannes Film Festival is held.
- 1962 - The University of Mississippi bars James Meredith from entering because he is Black.
- 1973 - Billie Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in the Battle of the Sexes tennis match.
- 1973 - Singer Jim Croce and five others die when their plane crashes on takeoff at Natchitoches Regional Airport in Louisiana.
- 2001 - President George W. Bush declares a "War on Terror" in an address to a joint session of Congress.
- 2011 - The United States military ends its "Don't ask, don't tell" policy.
- 2017 - Hurricane Maria makes landfall in Puerto Rico, leading to nearly 3,000 deaths and over 90 billion dollars in damages.
- 1898 - Writer Upton Sinclair
- 1917 - Basketball coach Red Auerbach
- 1928 - Poet and NH resident Donald Hall
- 1934 - Actor Sophia Loren
- 1948 - Writer George R. R. Martin
- 1951 - Hockey player Guy Lafleur
- Grades K-5 - PBS Parents - Let's Go Luna - Make Three Kid-Friendly Rice Dishes: Rice and Beans from Mexico (2:00) - VIEW and DO
- Grades K-5 - PBS Parents - Let's Go Luna - Make Three Kid-Friendly Rice Dishes: Jambalaya from New Orleans, USA (2:00) - VIEW and DO
- Grades K-5 - PBS Parents - Let's Go Luna - Make Three Kid-Friendly Rice Dishes: Onigiri Rice Balls from Japan (2:00)- VIEW and DO
- Grades 2-4 - Crayola - Rice is All Around Us - DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Reactions - Fact or Fiction: Uncooked Rice is Bad for Birds (4:29) - VIEW
- Grades 7-12 - PBS LearningMedia - PBS NewsHour - Can New Rice Improve Health in the Philippines? (8:24) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 7-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Earth and Sky Podcast - Pamela Ronald Has Developed a More Flood-Tolerant Rice (1:30) - LISTEN
- Grades 7-12 - Nova - Miracle of Rice - READ
- Grades 7-12 - EDSITEment - BackStory: What’s Cooking? A History of Food in America Podcast - LISTEN (Rice:16:30-25:20 mark)
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Learning Media - America's Heartland - Harvesting Rice (2:57) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - A Chef's Life - Amber Waves of Grain - VIEW (24:40)
- Grades K-12 - Donald Hall Reads Ox-Cart Man (1:34) - VIEW
- Grades K-4 - Lorne Green Reads Ox-Cart Man (6:56) - VIEW
- Grades 2-3 - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - Ox-Cart Man Lesson - DO
- Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS NewsHour - Donald Hall Saw Poetry As a School For Learning (3:14) - VIEW
- Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Media Meet - Poet Laureate Donald Hall (29:05) - VIEW
- Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - NH Authors - Donald Hall (26:45) - VIEW
- Grades 7-12 - Poetry Foundation - Donald Hall - READ
- Grades 7-12 - Academy of American Poets - READ
- Grades 7-12 - Library of Congress - Donald Hall - READ
THEME: RED PANDAS
- Grades PreK-2 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Paws For a Minute - Red Panda (1:00) - VIEW and DO
- Grades PreK-12 - Beardsley Zoo - Red Panda Cam - VIEW
- Grades PreK-12 - Smithsonian National Zoo - Red Panda - VIEW and READ
- Grades K-4 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Camp TV - Red Pandas (5:16) - VIEW
- Grades K-4 - Wild Kratts - Red Panda Origins (2:30) - VIEW
- Grades K-4 - Wild Kratts - Red Panda Rescue Mission (3:21) - VIEW
- Grades K-4 - Wild Kratts - Discover Pandas and More Bears! (9:59) - VIEW
- Grades 4-12 - NHPBS WildLife Journal Junior - Ailuridae - Red Panda - READ
- Grades 8-12 - Animal Diversity Web - Red Panda - READ
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