Thanksgiving and Turkeys - November 25

Thursday, November 25, 2021

Today is Thanksgiving Day and National Day of Mourning.

November is National Peanut Butter Lovers Month, National Family Literacy Month, National Novel Writing Month, Picture Book Month, Native American Heritage Month, Manatee Awareness Month, and Historic Bridge Awareness Month.

Native American Heritage Month Resource - Native America - Episode 2: Nature to Nations

On This Date
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Thanksgiving and Turkeys
Watch

ON THIS DATE

• 1783 - The last British troops leave New York.
• 1947 - Movie studio executives blacklist the Hollywood 10 after they refuse to cooperate with the House Un-American Activities Committee.
• 1950 - The Great Appalachian Storm of November 1950 hits 22 American states, killing 353 people. Wind speeds at Concord, NH were recorded at 110 mph and 160 mph on Mount Washington.
• 1963 - President John F. Kennedy is buried at Arlington National Cemetery
• 1984 - 36 musicians record Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?" in order to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia.
• 1999 - A 5-year-old Cuban boy, Elian Gonzalez, is rescued by fishermen while floating in an inner tube off the Florida coast.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1835 - Industrialist Andrew Carnegie
• 1846 - Temperance activist Carrie Nation
• 1914 - Baseball player Joe DiMaggio
• 1946 - Arthur author and illustrator Marc Brown
• 1952 - NH politician and former governor John Lynch
• 1960 -  Lawyer and publisher John F. Kennedy Jr.

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas - LISTEN
• Simon and Garfunkle - Mrs. Robinson - 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

Watch 

NHPBS  - 11.1   Comcast (802)   Live Stream   More Options

• 6-6:30 am NHPBS - Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum - I Am Jigonsaseh/I Am Sacagawea
• 6:30-7 am NHPBS - Arthur - Postcards From Buster
• 7-7:30 am NHPBS - Molly of Denali - Trini's Super Coop/Trini's Winter Warm Up
• 7:30-8 am NHPBS - Wild Kratts - Happy Turkey Day
• 8-9 am NHPBS - An Arthur Thanksgiving
• 8-10 pm NHPBS - The Pilgrims: American Experience
• 10-10:30 pm NHPBS - Surviving New England's Great Dying
• 10:30-11 pm NHPBS - Our Hometown Ashland

NHPBS EXPLORE  - 11.2   Comcast (801)   More Options

• 12-2 pm NHPBS EXPLORE - The Pilgrims: American Experience
• 2:30-3 pm NHPBS EXPLORE - Elinor Wonders Why - Speed Racer/One Of These Goats
• 3-3:30 pm NHPBS EXPLORE - Hero Elementary - Heroes In Space
• 3:30-4 pm NHPBS EXPLORE -  Pinkalicious & Peterrific - A Fairy Thanksgiving/Pinkfoot Playdate
• 4-4:30 pm NHPBS EXPLORE - Let's Go Luna! - Andy, King Of Scots/Leo The Nessie Hunter
• 4:30-5 pm NHPBS EXPLORE - Odd Squad - Soundcheck/Double Trouble
• 5-5:30 pm NHPBS EXPLORE -  Wild Kratts - The Great Froggyback Ride
• 5:30-6 pm NHPBS EXPLORE - Molly of Denali - Climb Every Mountain/Happy Trails

NH WORLD - 11.3   Comcast (965)  More Options

• 8-9 am NH WORLD - Independent Lens - Home From School: The Children Of Carlisle
• 9-10 am NH WORLD - Independent Lens - Duty Free
• 11 am-12 pm  NH WORLD - We're Still Here
• 7-8 pm NH WORLD - Nova - Big Bang
• 8-9 pm NH WORLD - Secrets of the Dead - The Caravaggio Heist
• 9-10 pm NH WORLD - Secrets of the Dead - Abandoning The Titanic

NH KIDS - 11.5  Schedule   Live Stream   More Options

Pressroom Contact

Carla Gordon Russell
Director of Communications
crussell@nhpbs.org
(603) 868-4339