Clouds, Mars, and Native American Heritage Day - November 28

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Friday, November 28, 2025

Today is Black Friday, Buy Nothing Day, Maize Day, National Day of Listening, National Leftovers Day, French Toast Day, Red Planet Day, and Native American Heritage Day.

On This Date
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Clouds,  Mars, and Native American Heritage Day

ON THIS DATE

• 1520 - Ferdinand Magellan reaches the Pacific Ocean after passing through the South American strait that now bears his name.
• 1942 - A fire at the Cocoanut Grove nightclub in Boston kills 492 people.
• 1943 - President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet leader Josef Stalin meet in Tehran during World War II.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1628 - English theologian and author John Bunyan
• 1757 - English poet and artist William Blake
• 1772 - English meteorologist Luke Howard, who came up with our cloud nomenclature.
• 1853 - Educator and first American woman to earn a Ph.D., Helen Magill White
• 1943 - Singer-songwriter Randy Newman
• 1969 - Comedian and TV host Jon Stewart

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Randy Newman - You've Got a Friend in Me - LISTEN
• Joni Mitchell - Both Sides, Now - LISTEN
• Arlo Guthrie - Alice's Restaurant - LISTEN
• Adam Sandler - Thanksgiving Song - LISTEN

David Bowie - Life on Mars - LISTEN

THEME: Clouds

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Ellie Goulding -Thank You Clouds Song (1:42) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - PBS LearningMedia - Everyday Learning - Clouds and Weather (2:15) - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-5 - PBS LearningMedia - Observe Clouds (1:33)  - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Gross Science - Can Bird Poop Make Clouds? (3:55) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - Why So Many Cloud Types? (Available in Spanish) (3:34) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - Clouds and Weather (Available in Spanish) (3:21)  - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - Clouds in Weather Patterns (Available in Spanish) (1:02) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - Clouds and Currents (1:33) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Earth Sky - The Effect of Clouds on Climate (7:53) - LISTEN

THEME: MARS

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Bruno Mars: Don't Give Up (1:51) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street: Pizza Delivery Astronaut (7:20) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-4 - Ready Jet Go! - Mars Lesson (1:51) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-4 - PBS LearningMedia - Ready Jet Go - Earth and Mars (1:55) - VIEW
• Grades K-6 - PBS LearningMedia - Science Trek - Exploring Mars Collection - VIEW
• Grades K-6 - PBS Learning Media - Science Trek - Mars: The Red Planet Revealed (5:21) - VIEW
• Grades 3-6 - NASA - All About Mars - READ, VIEW, DO
• Grades 4-6 - PBS LearningMedia - DragonflyTV - Mars (6:04) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-6 - PBS LearningMedia - DragonflyTV - Scientist Profile: Mars Rover Engineer (Available in Spanish) (2:07) - VIEW
• Grades 5-8 - PBS LearningMedia - STEM in 30 - Mars Rovers (28:37) - VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - PBS LearningMedia - NASA - How Mars Became a Desert (5:03) - VIEW, READ, DO
  
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Physics Girl -The Surprising Ways Mars is Hostile to Life (10:11) -VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - PBS Space Time - The First Humans on Mars (7:51) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS Space Time - Could We Terraform Mars? (15:33) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - Designing for Drilling on Mars (Available in Spanish) (4:34) - VIEW and DO 
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - NASA - Soaring Over Mars (4:09) - VIEW, READ, DO 
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Crash Course Astronomy - Mars (10:10) - VIEW

THEME:  Native American Heritage

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Cripple Creek (2:12) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-2 - Molly of Denali Series - VIEW and DO
• Grades 3-12 - National Museum of the American Indian - READ, VIEW, DO, EXPLORE
• Grades 3-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Native American Heritage Collection - VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS Video - Our New Hampshire - People of the Dawn(18:19) - VIEW
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS Video - Native America - Hopi Origin Story (4:21) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Reconnecting Roots - Native Americans: An Uncommon History (27:02) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - KVIE Arts Showcase - Native American Art (27:48) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - If Cities Could Dance - Albuquerque's Native American Hip-Hop Dance (6:08) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - If Cities Could Dance - Native American Hoop Dancing and Hip-Hop in Minneapolis (4:17) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - The Warrior Tradition  (54:41) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Sound Field - What Does Electric Pow Wow Sound Like? (14:01) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video -DIGADOHI: Lands, Cherokee, and the Trail of Tears (56:45) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Made Here - Nebi, Abenaki Ways of Knowing Water (12:31) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Native America Series - VIEW

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