Thanksgiving, Turkeys, Clouds and Mars - November 28

Gobble, Gobble and Puffy Planet Learning

Thursday, November 28, 2024

Today is National French Toast Day, Giving Tuesday,  and Red Planet Day.

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

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:  Turkeys

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Do the Turkey Gobble Wobble with Elmo and Abby (1:53) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - T is for Turkey (1:20)  - VIEW
• Grades 3-4 - PBS LearningMedia -Wild Kratts - Secret Turkey Lurk (1:45) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 3-4 - PBS LearningMedia -Wild Kratts - Activate Turkey Power (2:03) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 3-4 - PBS LrarningMedia -Wild Kratts - Who Are You Calling Turkey? (2:21)  - VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS - Wildlife Journal Junior - Phasianidae - Pheasants, Turkeys, Grouse - READ
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS - Wildlife Journal Junior - Tracking Turkeys (7:31) - VIEW
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS Video - Nova - When Turkeys Attack (2:35)  - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - My Life as a Turkey  - Turkey's Basic Instinct (Available in Spanish)  (3:27) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - My Life as a Turkey - Turkey Talk (Available in Spanish) (2:38) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - My Life as a Turkey  - An Imprinting Experiment (6:50) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - Animal Adaptations: Brush Turkey Mounds (5:18) - VIEW and DO

THEME:  Thanksgiving

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Celebrate Thanksgiving Collection (26:48)  - VIEW
• Grades 2-6 - PBS LearningMedia - All About the Holidays -Thanksgiving (Available in Spanish) (0:56) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 3-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Library of Congress - Thanksgiving Collection - VIEW and READ
• Grades 3-12 - PBS LearningMedia - The First Official Thanksgiving Media Gallery - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 5-6 - PBS LearningMedia - American Experience - The Pilgrims: Alliance with Massasoit’s People and the First Thanksgiving (5:04)  -  VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - A History of Thanksgiving Interactive  Lesson - DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - It's Okay to Be Smart - The Surprising Origin of Thanksgiving Foods (5:09)  - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - PBS NewsHour - Thanksgiving Through the Lens of Native Americans Today: Lesson Plan - VIEW, READ, DO

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 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 - 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

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