Dams - September 30
Dam Learning
Sunday, September 30, 2025
Today is Podcast Day, Chewing Gum Day, Mulled Cider Day, and Ask a Stupid Question Day.
On This Date
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Dams
AMERICAN REVOLUTION HISTORY ON THIS DATE
1791 – The first performance of Mozart's opera The Magic Flute takes place two months before his death.
- 1791 - Mozart's opera The Magic Flute premieres in Vienna, Austria.
- 1927 - Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a season.
- 1935 - The Hoover Dam is dedicated.
- 1946 - An international military tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany, finds 22 Nazi leaders guilty of war crimes.
- 1955 - 24-year-old actor James Dean is killed in a car crash.
- 1962 - César Chávez founded the National Farm Workers Association.
- 1962- After three unsuccessful tries, Black student James Meredith registers for classes at the University of Mississippi.
- 1982 - Cheers premieres on NBC.
- 1207 - Persian poet Rumi
- 1883 - Suffragist and civil engineer Nora Stanton Barney
- 1917 - Drummer Buddy Rich
- 1924 - Author Truman Capote
- 1928 - Activist Elie Wiesel
- Woody Guthrie -
Grand Coulee Dam - LISTEN - Buddy Rich - Drum Solo - LISTEN
- The Magic Flute - Queen of the Night Aria - LISTEN
- Grades PreK-1 - PBS LearningMedia - Peep and the Big Wide World - Building Dams (1:27) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-2 - PBS LearningMedia - Peep and the Big Wide World - Building a Dam Like a Beaver (1:29) - VIEW and DO
- Grades PreK-2 - PBS LearningMedia - Peep and the Big Wide World - Sharing Water Between Dams (1:30) - VIEW and DO
- Grades K-6 - PBS LearningMedia - Science Trek - Dams (3:41) - VIEW
- Grades 3-6 - PBS LearningMedia - Building Big - Dam Basics - READ
- Grades 3-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Building Big - The Hoover Dam and Hydroelectric Power (3:43) - READ, VIEW, DO
- Grades 3-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Building Big - The Hoover Dam (1:18) - READ, VIEW, DO
- Grades 3-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Building Big - The Dam Challenge - READ and DO
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - American Experience - Grand Coulee Dam (5:45) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - American Experience - Hoover Dam - READ and VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - American Experience - Hoover Dam: Moving the Concrete (2:59) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - American Experience - The High Scalers of Hoover Dam (2:33) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - American Experience - Hoover Dam: Building Diversion Tunnels (2:47) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Quest - How Hydropower Dams Work - READ and VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - The Iconic Hoover Dam (9:46) - VIEW
- Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Constitution USA with Peter Segal - We Can’t Go it Alone! (The Hoover Dam - Federal power during a crisis) (4:27) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Fort Peck Dam: Building the Dam (8:03) - VIEW and DO
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