Eleanor Roosevelt, Fossils, and Bullying Prevention - October 11

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Wednesday, October 11, 2023

Today is National Stop Bullying Day, Day of The Girl Child, Coming Out Day, Southern Food Heritage Day, National Fossil Day, Bring Your Teddy Bear to Work & School Day, It's My Party Day, Sausage Pizza Day, and Take Your Parents to Lunch Day.

Animal Cam of the Day: Monterey Bay Aquarium Sea Otter Cam
Dessert of the Day: Red Velvet Cake
LGBT History Resource of the Day: Representation and Support in Schools

On This Date
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme:  Eleanor Roosevelt, Fossils, and Bullying Prevention
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ON THIS DATE

• 1910 - Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first U.S. president to fly in an airplane.
• 1958 - NASA launches Pioneer 1, its first space probe. 
• 1968 - NASA launches Apollo 7, the first manned  Apollo mission.
• 1984 - Kathryn D. Sullivan becomes the first American woman to perform a spacewalk.
• 2000 - NASA launches STS-92, the 100th Space Shuttle mission.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1884 - First Lady, activist, and diplomat Eleanor Roosevelt
• 1918 - Choreographer Jerome Robbins
• 1932 - Country singer-songwriter Dottie West
• 1946 - Singer-songwriter Daryl Hall
• 1966 - Actor Luke Perry
• 1970 - Rapper and actor MC Lyte
• 1992 - Rapper Cardi B

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Barbara Walsh - Ladies of the Press (Eleanor Roosevelt) - LISTEN
  
• Dottie West - Here Comes My Baby - LISTEN
• Hall and Oates - I Can't Go For That (No Way) - LISTEN
• Science with Don - Fossil Rock Anthem - LISTEN

THEME: ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

• Grades 1-2 - PBS LearningMedia - Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum - Eleanor Roosevelt Reader - READ and DO
• Grades 3-7 - PBS LearnigMedia - American Icons - Eleanor Roosevelt: First Lady, Diplomat, and Activist (3:57) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - The Roosevelts - Eleanor Roosevelt: The Early Years (4:22) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - The Roosevelts - Eleanor Roosevelt vs. Sara Delano Roosevelt (4:25) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - The Roosevelts - Eleanor Roosevelt: South Pacific Visit (4:02) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - The Roosevelts - Eleanor Roosevelt: The Red Cross (2:58) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - The Roosevelts - Eleanor Roosevelt's First Step into Politics (3:24) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - The Roosevelts - FDR and Eleanor Roosevelt Respond to Pearl Harbor (6:49) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - The Roosevelts - Eleanor Roosevelt and the United Nations (9:27)  - VIEW and DO

THEME: FOSSILS

• Grades PreK-2 - PBS LearningMedia - Dinosaur Train - Fossil Finder - DO
• Grades PreK-2 - PBS LearningMedia - Dinosaur Train - All About Fossils (2:06) - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-2 - PBS LearningMedia - Dinosaur Train - Footprints and Trackways (4:01) - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-2 - Dinosaur Train - Dinosaur Discoveries - Fossils (1:41) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-2 - Nature Cat - Mammoth Fossil (3:15) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-3 - PBS Parents - Crafts for Kids - Homemade Fossils  - DO
• Grades K-6 - PBS LearningMedia - Science Trek - Dinosaurs with David Varricchio Collection (6:02)  - VIEW
• Grades 3-5 - PBS LearningMedia - Outdoor Nevada - Fossil Hunting (6:07) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 3-6 - PBS LearningMedia -  Science Trek - Fossils: The Hagerman Horse (3:26) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-6 - PBS LearningMedia - DragonflyTV - Scientist Profile: Paleontologist (2:35) - VIEW
• Grades 4-8 - PBS LearningMedia -  NC Science Now - Mystery Dino Science (6:23) - VIEW
• Grades 6-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Smithsonian Science How - How Fossils Explain the Rise of Dinosaurs (29:14) - VIEW
• Grades 6-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Smithsonian Science How -  Global Change: Reading Ocean Fossils (29:16) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - American Museum of Natural History - Meet the Paleontologists (2:45) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - Becoming a Fossil (2:34) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - Fossils: Rocking the Earth (2:08) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Eons - Were These Monsters Inspired by Fossils? (12:18) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Eons - How a Supervolcano Made the Cenozoic’s Coolest Fossils (9:24) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Eons - The Most Useful Fossils In The World (5:48) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Eons - Can We Get DNA From Fossils? (11;21)  - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Eons - The Oddest Couple in the Fossil Record (8:48) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Prehistoric Roadtrip Series - VIEW 
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Regents Review 2.0 - Fossils Collection (7:15) - VIEW

HEME: 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 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - The Graduates Film Module - Juan's Story: Bullying (16:42) - VIEW and DO
• Grades Teacher/Parents - Independent Lens - Bullying Resources - DO

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NHPBS - 11.1 Comcast (802) Live Stream More Options

AMERICA OUTDOORS WITH BARATUNDE THURSTON - Maine: Embrace the Cold
Wednesday, 10/11 from 8-9 pm NHPBS
With its magnificent coastline and densely wooded interior, Maine is a place where outdoor adventure has a long history, and people are so committed to their outdoor passions that even the brutal winters can't deter them. AMERICA OUTDOORS WITH BARATUNDE THURSTON Streaming Video

NOVA - Ancient Earth: Frozen
Wednesday, 10/11 from 9-10 pm NHPBS
700 million years ago, Earth was a giant snowball cloaked in ice from pole to pole. How did life manage to hold on through this deadly deep freeze, find creative ways to bounce back, and thrive in the dramatically different world that emerged? NOVA Ancient Earth: Frozen Preview

EVOLUTION EARTH - Grasslands
Wednesday, 10/11 from 10-11 pm NHPBS
Grasslands are one of the planet's most important, yet most overlooked habitats. Follow scientists as they discover animal species with the power to transform and restore our grasslands, turning them into carbon sinks that could slow climate change. EVOLUTION EARTH Streaming Video

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AMERICAN EXPERIENCE - The Sun Queen
Wednesday, 10/11 from 11 am-12 pm NHPBS EXPLORE
For nearly 50 years, chemical engineer and inventor Maria Telkes applied her prodigious intellect to harnessing the power of the sun. She designed and built the world's first successfully solar-heated modern residence and identified a promising new chemical that, for the first time, could store solar heat like a battery. And yet, along the way, she was undercut and thwarted by her boss and colleagues - all men - at MIT. AMERICAN EXPERIENCE - The Sun Queen Streaming Video

NATIVE AMERICA - City of the Sky
Wednesday, 10/11 from 3-4 pm NHPBS EXPLORE
Discover the cosmological secrets behind America's ancient cities. Scientists explore some of the world's largest pyramids and 3D-scan a lost city of monumental mounds on the Mississippi River; native elders reveal ancient powers of the sky. NATIVE AMERICA Streaming Video

NATIVE AMERICA - New World Rising
Wednesday, 10/11 from 4-5 pm NHPBS EXPLORE
Discover how resistance, survival, and revival are revealed through an empire of horse-mounted Comanche warriors, secret messages encoded in Aztec manuscripts, and a grass bridge in the Andes that spans mountains and centuries of time. NATIVE AMERICA Streaming Video

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