Asteroids, Marian Anderson, and Bullying Prevention - October 7

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Monday, October 7, 2024

Today is Frappe Day, World Habitat Day, Child Health Day, Bathtub Day, LED Light Day, Bullying Prevention Day, and World Day of Architecture.

Animal Cam of the Day:  Maryland Zoo Giraffe Feeding Station Cam
Dessert of the Day: Franken Pops
LGBT History Resource of the Day: Ma Rainey

On This Date
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme:  Asteroids, Marian Anderson, and Bullying Prevention
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ON THIS DATE

• 1954 - Marian Anderson became the first black singer hired by New York's Metropolitan Opera.
• 1968 - The Motion Picture Association of America adopts a film-rating system.
• 1982 - The musical "Cats" opens on Broadway.
• 1996 - Fox News Channel makes its debut.
• 1998 - Gay college student Matthew Shepard is beaten, robbed, and left tied to a wooden fence outside Laramie, Wyoming. He dies five days later.
• 2008 - Asteroid 2008 TC3 impacts the Earth over Sudan, the first time an asteroid impact is detected before its entry into the Earth's atmosphere.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1879 - Communist revolutionary leader Leon Trotsky
• 1885 - Physicist Niels Bohr
• 1897 - American leader of the Black Muslim movement Elijah Muhammad
• 1931 - South African archbishop Desmond Tutu
• 1951 - Singer-songwriter John Mellencamp
• 1952 - Russian president Vladimir Putin
• 1955 - Cellist Yo-Yo Ma
• 1967 - Singer-songwriter Toni Braxton
• 1968 - British musician Thom Yorke
• 1992 - Baseball player Mookie Betts

SONG OF THE DAY 

• John Mellencamp - Small Town - LISTEN
• Toni Braxton - Un-break My Heart - LISTEN
  
• Yo-Yo Ma  - Bach: Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major, Prélude - LISTEN
• Radiohead - Lotus Flower - LISTEN
• Marian Anderson - Ave Maria - LISTEN

THEME: ASTEROIDS

• Grades PreK-1- Sesame Street - Letter A  Adventure (1:37) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-4 - Ready Jet Go! -  VIEW, READ and DO
• Grades PreK-4 - Ready Jet Go! - PBS LearningMedia  - Asteroids, Meteors, and Meteorites (3:07) - VIEW
  
• Grades 3-5 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Science Trek - Asteroids and Comets Collection - VIEW
• Grades 3-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia - STEM in 30 - Asteroid Redirect Mission (28:39) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Nova - Touching the Asteroid (54:30) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - NOVA: Asteroid; Doomsday or Payday? -  Mining Asteroids (4:59) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - NOVA: Asteroid; Doomsday or Payday? -  Protecting Earth from Asteroids (5:58) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Be Smart - Asteroid Mining: Our Ticket To Living Off Earth? (5:16)  -VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - NASA - Asteroid Closely Passes Earth (Available in Spanish) (2:00) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Be Smart - Asteroids, Meteors, and Comets… OH MY!!! (7:08) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Nova - Can Humans Deflect an Asteroid? (6:08) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Nova - Asteroids Provide Hints About the "Ingredients" in Planets (4:30)  - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS Space Time - How Asteroid Mining Will Save Earth (10:37) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Crash Course Astronomy - Asteroids (11:32) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nova - Why Study Asteroids? (4:18) - VIEW, READ, DO

THEME: MARIAN ANDERSON

• Grades: 4-12 - "Marian Anderson Sings at the Lincoln Memorial" Newsreel Story (1:50) - VIEW
• Grades: 6-12 - NHPBS VIDEO - Echoes from Marian Anderson’s Defiant Performance (5:42) - VIEW
• Grades: 6-12 - NPR Morning Edition - Denied A Stage, She Sang For A Nation - READ, VIEW, and LISTEN
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - American Experience - The Voice of Freedom: Chapter One (9:18) - VIEW
• Grades: 7-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Marian Anderson and the Concert that Challenged Racism (5:43) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 7-12 - American Masters - Marian Anderson: The Whole World In Her Hands - READ,  VIEW, and LISTEN

THEME: Bullying Prevention

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Don't Be a Bully (2:17) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Standing Up to a Bully (1:05) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Chris Colfer & Elmo Talk About Bullying (0:51) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street in Communities - Becoming an Upstander (14:03) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-5 - PBS LearningMedia - Teaching Kindness in the Classroom Collection (56 assets) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades K-3 - Arthur - Arthur the Bully (2:00) - VIEW
• Grades K-5 - PBS LearningMedia - Kind Acts Bingo (Available in Spanish) - DO
• Grades K-5 - NHPBS - Tiger Takes on Bullying (25:21) - VIEW
• Grades K-5 - PBS LearningMedia -Empathy: An ARTHUR Interactive Comic - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-6 - PBS LearningMedia - GIRL Power - Power up with Self-Confidence! (3:15) - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-6 - PBS LearningMedia - GIRL Power - Power up with Leadership (3:58) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 2-6 - PBS LearningMedia - Move It - Stand Up to Bullying (6:05) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - PBS NewsHour - Muslim American Students Face High Rates of Bullying (7:54) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - EarthSky Podcast - Jean Decety Says Bullies' Brains Might Work Differently (8:00) - LISTEN
• Grades 8-12 - PBS LearningMedia - FILMS BYKIDS - Fighting Prejudice and Bullying (7:28) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades Teacher/Parents - Independent Lens - Bullying Resources - DO

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