Mars, Frederick Douglass, Hummingbirds, and Vultures - September 3

No Little Green Men, but Lots of Uplifting Learning

Sunday, September 3, 2022

• Today is International Bacon Day, International Vulture Awareness Day, National Hummingbird Day, World Beard Day, and National Cowgirl Day.
  
  
• September is National Square Dancing Month, National Food Safety Education Month, Classical Music Month, Library Card Sign-up Month, National Hispanic Heritage Month, National Save A Tiger Month, College Savings Month, and Be Kind To Editors & Writers Month.
  
  
• Daily Hispanic Heritage Resource of the Day: Hispanic Leaders
  
  
• Classical Music Resource of the Day: Classical Music's Next Generation

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme:  Mars,  Frederick Douglass, Vultures and Hummingbirds
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ON THIS DATE

• 1783 - The Revolutionary War ends with the signing of the Treaty of Paris.
• 1838 - Frederick Douglass escapes from slavery.
• 1962 - Poet E.E. Cummings dies in North Conway, N.H.
• 1976 - The unmanned spacecraft Viking 2 lands on Mars.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1849 - Author Sarah Orne Jewett
• 1887 - Author Sally Benson
• 1929 - Crime boss Whitey Bulger
• 1986 - Snowboarder Shaun White

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• David Bowie - Life on Mars  - LISTEN
  
• Paul Simon (Sesame Street) - El Condor Pasa - 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 LearningMedis - 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 - Nova - Mars (53:53) - VIEW
• 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 - PBS LearningMedia - Crash Course Astronomy - Mars (10:10) - VIEW

THEME: FREDERICK DOUGLASS

• Grades 3-7 - PBS LearningMedia - American Icons - Frederick Douglass: Orator, Editor, and Abolitionist (Available in Spanish) (3:36) - VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Reading Frederick Douglas (45:45) -VIEW
• Grades 6-10 - PBS LearningMedia - The African Americans - Frederick Douglass (3:59) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - American Experience - The Abolitionists - Ex-slave Frederick Douglass Joins the Abolitionists (3:59) - VIEW 

THEME: VULTURES

• Grades PreK-3 - PBS Kids - Nature Cat - Tammy and Tobias Turkey Vulture (3:33) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-12 - San Diego Zoo - Live Condor Cam - VIEW
• Grades 3-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Untamed - Vultures (26:44) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 3-8 - NHPBS Video - NatureWorks - Decomposers and Scavengers (14:46) - VIEW
• Grades 3-8 - NHPBS - NatureWorks - Decomposers and Scavengers - Lesson Plan and Resources - READ and DO
• Grades 3-12 - NHPBS - Wildlife Journal Junior - Cathartidae - New World Vultures - READ
  
• Grades 3-12 - NHPBS - Wildlife Journal Junior - Black Vulture - READ
• Grades 3-12 - NHPBS - Wildlife Journal Junior - Turkey Vulture - READ
• Grades 3-12 - PBS LearningMedia - EARTH: A New Wild - Vultures: India's Clean-Up Crew (Available in Spanish)  (4:40) - VIEW
  
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS Video - Nature - Fox Attempts to Steal Carcass from Vultures (1:25) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - SciTech Now: Saving California's Condors (11:09) -  VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - EARTH: A New Wild - The Decline of Vultures in Nepal (3:52) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Gross Science - Why Don't Vultures Get Food Poisoning? (2:20) -VIEW and DO

THEME: HUMMINGBIRDS

• Grades PreK-1 - PBS Kids - The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That  - What Do Hummingbirds Drink? (2:43) - VIEW
• Grades K-2 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature Nuggets - Hummingbird Nest (1:45) - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-3 - Wild Kratts - Hummingbird: Creature Power (3:09) - VIEW
• Grades K-3 - PBS LearningMedia - Wild Kratts - Hummingbirds (26:25) - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-5 - PBS LearningMedia - Kratts Creatures -You Gotta Love Hummingbirds (1:40) - VIEW
• Grades 3-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - Hummingbird: Survivor, Architect, and Builder (2:28) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - Structure and Function: Hummingbird Tongue (5:12) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - Cuba's Wild Revolution: The World's Smallest Bird (4:44) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - Extraordinary Birds: Little Brain, Big Journey (Available in Spanish) (2:41) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Inside Science - Why Hummingbirds Have a Sweet Tooth (2:09) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - Cellular Respiration in Scarce Oxygen: Hummingbird Adaptations at High Altitudes (6:03) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - A Variety of Hummingbirds (Available in Spanish) (2:50) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - California Academy of Sciences -  Lens of Time: How Hummingbirds Hover (6:41) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Deep Look -  What Happens When You Put a Hummingbird in a Wind Tunnel? (3:25) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Georgia outdoors - Hummingbird Heaven (26:46) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - The Hummingbird's Gift by Sy Montgomery (3:41) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - Hummingbirds and Hawks: An Unlikely Pair (5:43) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Evolution - Hummingbird Species in the Transitional Zones (3:48) - VIEW, READ, DO

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A look at the lived experience of more than twenty young people with mental health challenges, along with the observations and insights of families, providers, and advocates. HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT Streaming Video

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