Vegetables, Raccoons, and Jimmy Carter - October 1
Learning That's Good For You and Will Dig Through Your Trash
Sunday, October 1, 2023
Today is CD Player Day, International Coffee Day, Black Dog Day, World Vegetarian Day, Homemade Cookies Day, International Music Day, Raccoon Appreciation Day, National Hair Day, and Willy Wonka Day.
World Animals Month Animal Cam of the Day: National Zoo Giant Panda Cam
National Dessert Month Dessert of the Day: Blackberry Coconut Popsicles
LGBT History Month Resource of the Day: Origin of Everything - From Stonewall Riots to Raves: How Did Pride Become a Parade?
On This Date
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Vegetables, Raccoons, and Jimmy Carter
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- 1890 - Yosemite National Park is established by Congress.
- 1903 - The Boston Americans meet the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first World Series game.
- 1957 - "In God We Trust" appears on U.S. paper money.
- 1958 - The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics becomes NASA.
- 1971 - Walt Disney World opens in Florida.
- 1975 - Muhammad Ali defeats Joe Frazier in a boxing match in Manila, Philippines.
- 1989 - Denmark recognizes the world's first legal same-sex partnerships.
- 2017 - Fifty-eight people are killed and 869 injured in a mass shooting at a country music festival on the Las Vegas Strip.
- 1207 - England's King Henry III
- 1903 - Pianist Vladimir Horowitz
- 1910 - Bank robber Bonnie Parker
- 1924 - President Jimmy Carter
- 1935 - Actor and singer Julie Andrews
- Julie Andrews - My Favorite Things - LISTEN
- Georgie Fame - The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde - LISTEN
Merle Haggard - The Legend of Bonnie and Clyde - LISTEN - Gene Wilder - Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory - Pure Imagination - LISTEN
- Dana Carvey - SNL Audition -
Choppin' Broccoli - LISTEN Vladimir Horowitz plays Chopin's Polonaise in A Flat Major op.53 - LISTEN- Almost Cut My Hair - Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young - LISTEN
- The Cowsills - Hair - LISTEN
- India.Arie - I Am Not My Hair - LISTEN
- America - Sister Golden Hair - LISTEN
- Mitzi Gaynor - I'm Gonna to Wash That Man Right Out of My Hair - LISTEN
- Whip My Hair - Willow Smith - LISTEN
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - V is For Vegetable (1:18) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Eating Colorful Fruits & Vegetables (2:12) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - John Leguizamo Is Captain Vegetable (3:49) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Do the Veggie Dance (1:21) - VIEW and DO
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - A Song About Brocolli (2:30) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Hurray-Hurrah For Broccoli (1:30)- VIEW
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - How to Make a Vegetable Sushi Roll (1:04)- VIEW
- Grades PreK-1 - Between the Lions - Joy Learno: Turnip (1:10) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-1 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Dinosaur Train - Dinosaur Discoveries: Planting a Garden (1:01) - VIEW and DO
- Grades PreK-1 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood - Under the Ground (1:47) - VIEW and DO
- Grades PreK-2 - Sid the Science Kid - Vegetable Planting Game - DO
- Grades PreK-2 - Sid the Science Kid - Vegetable Harvest Game - DO
- Grades PreK-3 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Valley's Gold - Artichokes (2:05) - VIEW and DO
- Grades PreK-3 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Valley's Gold - Carrots (1:56) - VIEW and DO
- Grades PreK-5 - PBS Parents -
- Career Connections - Food Scientist (5:16) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - SciTech Now - The Vegetables of the Sea (5:51) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Japanese 236 - At the Vegetable and Fruit Store (26:48) - VIEW and DO
THEME: RACCOONS
- Grades K-2 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Animal Alphabet - Raccoon (0:15) - VIEW and DO
- Grades K-2 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Wild Kratts - Masked Bandits at the Campfire (2:28) - VIEW and DO
- Grades PreK-3 - NHPBS Video - Camp TV - Paper Heart Raccoon Craft (2:16) - VIEW and DO
- Grades K-5 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Kratt's Creatures - Crazy Marty is Selling Raccoon Houses (1:14) - VIEW
- Grades K-5 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Kratt's Creatures - Night Prowl (1:05) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 -NHPBS Video - SciTech Now - The Mysterious Minds of Raccoons (26:46) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nature - Raccoons and the City (Available in Spanish) (6:09) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nature - Learning to Be a Raccoon (Available in Spanish) (4:02) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nature - Raccoons Gone Wild (Available in Spanish) (4:45) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nature - Observing the Secret Life of Raccoons (Available in Spanish) (5:40) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Jamaica Bay: Terrapin Predators (5:42) - VIEW and DO
THEME: JIMMY CARTER
- Grades PreK-3 - The Little Baby Snoogle-Fleejer Read By Jimmy Carter (11:03) - VIEW and DO
- Grades PreK-3 - The Little Baby Snoogle-Fleejer Read By Jimmy Carter (11:03) (In Spanish) - VIEW
- Grades 4-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - 60 Second President - Jimmy Carter (1:21) - READ, VIEW, DO
- Grades 5-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - The Civil Rights Movement: A Tale of Two Governors - Jimmy Carter (4:00) - VIEW
- Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - When Music Makes History - Ramblin' Man (1:24) - VIEW
- Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - In Their Own Words - Jimmy Carter (54:18) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Amanpour and Company - Jimmy Carter: The Most Misunderstood President in US History - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - American Experience - The Presidents - Jimmy Carter - Inflation (1:22) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - American Experience - The Presidents - Jimmy Carter - Rosalynn (1:07) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - American Experience - The Presidents - Jimmy Carter - Campaigning on Honesty (0:50) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - American Experience - The Presidents - Jimmy Carter - Energy Crisis (1:37) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - American Experience - The Presidents - Jimmy Carter -The Camp David Accords (2:18) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - American Experience - The Presidents - Jimmy Carter - Selected Clips - READ and VIEW
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THE STAND: HOW ONE GESTURE SHOOK THE WORLD
Sunday, 10/1 from 3:30-4:40 pm NHPBS
A look at the circumstances that compelled runners Tommie Smith and John Carlos to make an iconic gesture of defiance at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City during a critically important and volatile time for the civil rights movement. THE STAND Streaming Video
NHPBS EXPLORE - 11.2 Comcast (801) More Options
BASEBALL - Our Game
Saturday, 10/1 from 3-5 pm NHPBS EXPLORE
The first inning tells the story of baseball's rise, in only one generation, from a gentleman's hobby to a national sport played and watched by millions. BASEBALL - Streaming Video
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