Glaciers - May 11

Wednesday, May 11, 2022

Today is Eat What You Want Day, National School Nurse Day, and, National Twilight Zone Day.

May is Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Glaciers

ON THIS DATE

• 1858 - Minnesota is admitted as the 32nd state
• 1894 - Four thousand Pullman Palace Car Company workers go on strike.
• 1910 - Glacier National Park in Montana is established
• 1960 - Nazi war criminal  Adolf Eichmann is captured in Argentina.
• 1997 - The Deep Blue IBM computer defeats Garry Kasparov and wins a six-game chess match.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1874 - Pilot Harriet Quimby
• 1888 - Composer Irving Berlin
• 1894 - Choreographer Martha Graham
• 1904 - Spanish artist Salvador Dalí
• 1905 - Architect and public housing advocate Catherine Bauer Wurster

SONG OF THE DAY 

Patsy Cline - Always (by Irving Berlin) - LISTEN

THEME:  Glaciers

• Grades PreK-2 - Let's Go Luna - Glacier or Bust (3:15)  - VIEW
  
• Grades 3-8 - NHPBS Video - Dragonfly TV - Glaciers (7:38) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Nova - What’s Causing Greenland’s Biggest Glacier to Melt? (2:04) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - It's Okay to Be Smart - How Do Glaciers Move? (6:30) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Wild Alaska - Glaciers -  READ and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova -  Fastest Glacier (5:15) - VIEW and READ
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova -  Glacier Up Close (2:46) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Frontline -  Observing Melting Glaciers In Greenland (5:30) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Frontline -  High Altitude GLaciers in the Tropics (4:40) - VIEW, READ,  DO

Pressroom Contact

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