Stars - November 9

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Tuesday, November 9, 2021

Today is Carl Sagan Day and World Freedom Day.

November is National Peanut Butter Lovers Month, National Family Literacy Month, National Novel Writing Month, Picture Book Month, Native American Heritage Month, Manatee Awareness Month, and Historic Bridge Awareness Month.

Native American Heritage Month Resource - Navajo Bow and Arrow Dance

On This Date
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme:  Stars
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ON THIS DATE

• 1872 - The Great Boston Fire of 1872.
• 1938 - Nazis loot and burn synagogues and Jewish-owned homes and businesses and houses in Germany and Austria on what is known as Kristallnacht, or the "night of broken glass."
• 1965 - More than 30 million people are left in the dark when the Northeast blackout of 1965 hits New York, New Jersey, most of New England, and parts of Canada.
• 1989 - Communist East Germany opens its borders.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1731 - Former slave, almanac author, mathematician, farmer, and surveyor Benjamin Banneker
• 1818- Russian author and playwright Ivan Turgenev
• 1871 - Medical scientist and anatomist Florence R. Sabin
• 1914 - Actor and inventor Hedy Lamarr
• 1918 - 39th vice president Spiro Agnew
• 1922 - Actor and singer Dorothy Dandridge
• 1928 - Poet Anne Sexton
• 1934 - Astronomer Carl Sagan

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Earth, Wind & Fire - Shining Star - LISTEN
• Moby - We Are All Made of Stars - LISTEN
• Ed Sheeran - All of the Stars  - LISTEN
• The Beatles - Here Comes the Sun - LISTEN
• Carl Sagan - 'A Glorious Dawn' ft Stephen Hawking (Symphony of Science) - LISTEN
  

THEME: STARS

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Planets, Moon and Stars Song (1:39) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - PBS LearningMedia - Sesame Street - Twinkle Twinkle  1:13) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-3 - PBS LearningMedia - Ready Jet Go! - Why Do Stars Twinkle? )1:10) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-3 - PBS LearningMedia - Ready Jet Go! - The North Star and the Big Dipper (1:28)- VIEW
• Grades PreK-3 - PBS LearningMedia - Ready Jet Go! - The Night of a Bazillion Stars Song (2:04) - VIEW
• Grades K-2 - PBS LearningMedia - Peep and the Big Wide World -Sky Patterns: Sun, Moon, and Stars (Available in Spanish) (1:00) - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-2 - PBS LearningMedia -The Sun, a Real Star (5:25) - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-4- PBS LearningMedia - Nature Cat - Star Gazers (12:05) -  VIEW and DO
• Grades K-5 - PBS LearningMedia - Ask MIT -Why Do Stars Twinkle and Move? (3:01) -  VIEW
• Grades 4-8 - PBS LearningMedia - STEM in 30 -Stars and Exoplanets (28:53) - VIEW
• Grades 5-8 - PBS LearningMedia - SciGirls - Star Power: Data Collection (Available in Spanish) (3:43) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia -  Nova - The Elements: Forged in Stars (Available in Spanish) (3:43) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Genius by Stephen Hawking: Chapter One - Number the Stars in the Milky Way (8:43) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Genius by Stephen Hawking: ChapterTwo - How Many Stars? (8:37) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Physics Girl - Five Amazing Stars (6:25) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - PBS Space Time - Strange Stars (9:58)  - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS Space Time - The Alchemy of Neutron Star Collisions (11:23) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video -  PBS Space Time - What Do Stars Sound Like? (9:13) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video -  PBS Space Time - Scientists Have Detected the First Stars (9:03) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia -It's Okay to Be Smart - How Many Stars Are There? (3:30) - VIEW
• Grades 8-10 - PBS LearningMedia -  Spaced Out - Cooking With the Stars (8:11) - VIEW
• Grades 8-10 - PBS LearningMedia -  Spaced Out - Stars and Galaxies and the Universe: Oh My! (7:18) - VIEW
• Grades 8-10 - PBS LearningMedia -  Spaced Out - We Are All Made of Stars (7:52) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Crash Course Astronomy - Stars (10:40) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Crash Course Astronomy - Star Clusters (10:21) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Crash Course Astronomy - Neutron Stars (12:42) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Crash Course Astronomy - White Dwarfs & Planetary Nebulae (11:09) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Crash Course Astronomy - Low Mass Stars (12:02) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Crash Course Astronomy - High Mass Stars (12:02) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Crash Course Astronomy - Binary and Multiple Stars (11:46) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - NASA - The Formation of Stars (Available in Spanish) (2:53) - VIEW and DO

Watch 

NHPBS  - 11.1   Comcast (802)   Live Stream   More Options

• 6-6:30 am NHPBS - Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum - I Am Florence Nightingale/I Am George Washington Carver
• 6:30-7 am NHPBS - Arthur - Fernfern And The Secret Of Moose Mountain/Thanks A Lot, Binky
• 7-7:30 am NHPBS - Molly of Denali
• 7:30-8 am NHPBS - Wild Kratts - Wolf Hawks
• 8-8:30 am NHPBS - Hero Elementary - Doggone Sox/Alma Spells It Out
• 8:30-9 am NHPBS - Alma's Way - Doggone Sox/Alma Spells It Out
• 2:30-3 pm NHPBS - Let's Go Luna!  - Stairway To Art Day/Melvini Madness
• 3-3:30 pm NHPBS - Nature Cat - Return To Mighty Mountain/Welcome To The Vernal Pond
• 9-10 pm NHPBS - American Veteran - The Return
• 10-11 pm NHPBS - Frontline - Pandora Papers

NHPBS EXPLORE  - 11.2   Comcast (801)   More Options

• 2:30-3 pm NHPBS EXPLORE - Elinor Wonders Why - Make Music Naturally/Light The Way
• 3-3:30 pm NHPBS EXPLORE - Hero Elementary - Looking Super / Schmubble Trouble
• 3:30-4 pm NHPBS EXPLORE -  Pinkalicious & Peterrific - Monkey Dance/Royal Peacock Dance
• 4-4:30 pm NHPBS EXPLORE -  Let's Go Luna! - Leo The Viking/Big Little Trouble
• 4:30-5 pm NHPBS EXPLORE - Odd Squad - Breakfast Club/Dr. O: Party Time, Excellent
• 5-5:30 pm NHPBS EXPLORE -  Wild Kratts - The Food Chain Game
• 5:30-6 pm NHPBS EXPLORE - Molly of Denali - Mouse In The Treehouse/Leader Of The Pack
  

NH WORLD - 11.3   Comcast (965)  More Options

• 8-9 am NH WORLD - The People's Protectors
• 9-10 am NH WORLD - Warrior Tradition
• 11 am-12 pm NH WORLD - Secrets of the Dead - Building Notre Dame
• 8-9 pm NH WORLD - America ReFramed - Blood Memory
• 9-10 pm NH WORLD - Unspoken: America's Native American Boarding Schools

NH KIDS - 11.5  Schedule   Live Stream   More Options

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