Stars - November 9

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Saturday, November 9, 2024

Today is Carl Sagan Day, Go to an Art Museum Day,  and World Freedom Day.

Native American Heritage Month Resource of the Day - Navajo Bow and Arrow Dance
Drum Month Resource of the Day -  Sesame Street - Cultural Rhythms - Drums

On This Date
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme:  STARS

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: Chapter Two - How Many Stars? (8:37) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Physics Girl - Five Amazing Stars (6:25) - 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 - PNHPBS Video - 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 - NHPBS Video - Crash Course Astronomy - Stars (10:40) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Crash Course Astronomy - Star Clusters (10:21) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Crash Course Astronomy - Neutron Stars (12:42) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Crash Course Astronomy - White Dwarfs & Planetary Nebulae (11:09) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Crash Course Astronomy - Low Mass Stars (12:02) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Crash Course Astronomy - High Mass Stars (12:02) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - 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

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