Asteroids and Marian Anderson - October 7

Friday, October 7, 2022

Today is Bathtub Day, Kids Music Day, National Diversity Day, and World Smile Day,

October is Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Month, Down Syndrome Awareness Month, Dyslexia Awareness Month, Health Literacy Month, Pizza Month, National Dessert Month, National AIDS Awareness Month, Country Music Month, LGBT History Month, Bat Appreciation Month, World Animal Month, Bullying Prevention Month, and Raptor Month.

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 and Marian Anderson
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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 - It's Okay to 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 - It's Okay to 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 LearningMedia - 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 - PBS LearningMedia - Marian Anderson Biography - READ
• 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 (1:40:16) - VIEW
• 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

Watch 

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AMERICAN MASTERS - Loretta Lynn
Friday, 10/07 from 10 pm-12 am NHPBS
Inducted into more music Halls of Fame than any female singer to date, Loretta Lynn has earned four Grammy Awards, Kennedy Center Honors, and a Presidential Medal of Freedom, and sold more than 45 million records worldwide.   AMERICAN MASTERS Streaming Video

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INDEPENDENT LENS:- Missing in Brooks County
Friday, 10/7 from 8:30-10 pm NH WORLD
Migrants go missing in rural South Texas more than anywhere else in the U.S. For many families whose loved ones have disappeared after crossing the Mexico border, one activist detective is their last hope. INDEPENDENT LENS Streaming Video

Pressroom Contact

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