Penguins and Telephones - April 25
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Thursday, April 25, 2024
Today is Celebrate Teen Literature Day, DNA Day, Crayola Day, Telephone Day, Zucchini Bread Day, Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day, and Penguin Day.
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Poem of the Day - April is National Poetry Month
Today's Theme: Penguins and Phones
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ON THIS DATE
- 1898 - The United States declares war on Spain.
- 1983 - Pioneer 10 travels beyond Pluto's orbit.
- 1599 - English Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell
- 1874 - Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi
- 1908 - Journalist Edward R. Murrow
- 1917 - Singer Ella Fitzgerald
- 1921 - Dutch artist Karel Appel
- 1940 - Actor Al Pacino
- 1969 - Actor Renée Zellweger
- Ella Fitzgerald - Summertime - LISTEN
- Electric Light Orchestra - Telephone Line - LISTEN
- Tommy Tutone - 867-5309 (Jenny) - LISTEN
- Adele - Hello - LISTEN
- Steely Dan - Rikki Don’t Lose That Number - LISTEN
- Glen Campbell - Witchita Lineman - LISTEN
- Emily Dickinson - I'm Nobody! Who are You?
- Langston Hughes - Madame and the Phone Bill
- Robert Frost - The Telephone
- Florence Ripley Mastin - From the Telephone
THEME: Penguins
- Grades PreK-1- Sesame Street - Elmo's World - Penguins (17:16) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Penguins 1-20 (1:02) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Penguins at the Movies (1:14) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - The Penguin Party (6:16) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-1 - PBS LearningMedia - Everyday Learning - Do the Penguin Shuffle (1:31) - VIEW and DO
- Grades PreK-12 - San Diego Zoo - Penguin Cam - VIEW
- Grades PreK-12 - Georgia Aquarium - African Penguin Cam - VIEW
- Grades K-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Saving a Species - Penguins (23:45) - VIEW
- Grades 4-12 - NHPBS Wildlife Journal Junior - Sphenisciformes - Penguins - READ
- Grades 4-6- PBS LearningMedia - DragonflyTV - African Penguins (7:47) - VIEW
- Grades 5-12 - PBS LearningMedia - The Spy Penguin (5:55) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Big Pacific: Passionate - Yellow-Eyed Penguins (4:14) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Nature - King Penguins Tiptoe Around Elephant Seals (3:21) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS NewsHour - What These Antarctic Penguins Tell Us About Climate Change (9:25) - VIEW
- Grades 8-12 - NHPBS Video - Antarctica’s Penguins Taught Us Surprising Life Lessons (14:03) - VIEW
- Grades 8-12 - NHPBS Video - Eons - When Penguins Went From The Sky To The Sea (10:33) - VIEW
- Grades 8-12 - NHPBS Video - Changing Seas - Peru’s Desert Penguins (26:42) - VIEW
THEME: Phones
- Grades PreK-1- Sesame Street - The Martians Discover a Telephone (2:51) - VIEW
- Grades K-5 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Camp TV - Telephone Cups (0:52) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 1-5 - PBS LearningMedia - Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum - Alexander Graham Bell (2:13) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 2-5 - PBS Kids - Search It Up: Phone Fun (2:18) - VIEW
- Grades 3-6 - NHPBS LearningMedia - American Icons - Alexander Graham Bell (3:51) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 3-6 - BBC BiteSize - Alexander Graham Bell - Read
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Physics Girl - How Does Your Phone Send Emojis? (6:03) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Physics Girl - Can You Call a Cell Phone in the Microwave? (7:05) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - American Experience - The Telephone - READ
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GRANITE STATE CHALLENGE - Hopkinton Meets Laconia
Thursday, 4/25 from 7-7:30 pm NHPBS
It's the final game of the GRANITE STATE CHALLENGE quarterfinals and Hopkinton High and Laconia High, two teams hungry for a championship, go head-to-head.. GRANITE STATE CHALLENGE Streaming Video
PBS ARTS TALK - Henry Winkler with Seal
Thursday, 4/25 from 10:30-11 pm NHPBS
Enjoy conversations with arts and culture icons including Seal, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Min Jin Lee, Nathaniel Mary Quinn, Elvis Costello, Jimmy Kimmel, and Twyla Tharp as they break down their craft and careers and share personal memories in intimate, thought-provoking discussions with interviewers Misty Copeland, Henry Winkler, Ann Curry, and Rhiannon Giddens. PBS ARTS TALK Streaming Video
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POV - Winter's Yearning
Thursday, 4/25 from 2-3 pm NH WORLD
US aluminum giant Alcoa Corporation has been planning to build a smelting plant Maniitsoq, Greenland, for years. With the promise of economic renewal, Winter's Yearning follows the lives of the area's loyal aging population and its stymied youth. Pictured against immense, isolating landscapes, the people await their plant and with it, the nation's possible first step towards sovereignty. POV Winter's Yearning Streaming Video
AMERICA REFRAMED - A Decent Home
Thursday, 4/25 from 8-9:30 pm NH WORLD
When housing on the lowest rung of the American dream is being devoured by the wealthiest of the wealthy, whose dream are we serving? A DECENT HOME addresses urgent issues of class and economic mobility through the lives of mobile home park residents who can't afford housing anywhere else. AMERICA REFRAMED Streaming Video
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