Eleanor Roosevelt, Ada Lovelace, and Computers - October 11

Tuesday, October 11, 2022

Today is Ada Lovelace Day, International Day of the Girl Child, National Coming Out Day, National Food Truck Day, National It's My Party Day,  National Sausage Pizza Day, Southern Food Heritage Day,  and World Child Development 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: 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 
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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
• Thomas Dolby - She Blinded Me with Science - 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:  ADA LOVELACE

• Grades 4-12 - BBC  - Newsround - Who Was Ada Lovelace? - READ
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Visionaries: Ada Lovelace (1:21) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - Computer History Museum - Ada Lovelace - READ 
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia -  Victoria, Season 2 - A Woman Mathematician (1:10) - VIEW and DO

THEME: COMPUTERS 

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Where Are the Computers in Your Neighborhood? (2:46) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-3 - PBS LearningMedia - Ready Jet Go!- Programming Computers (1:31) - VIEW
• Grades 2-6 - PBS LearningMedia - Computer Programmer (4:08) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 2-10 - PBS LearningMedia - MIT Science Out Loud - How to Make a Video Game (4:29) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 3-6 - PBS LearningMedia - Science Trek - Computers Collection (3:41) - VIEW
• Grades 6-8 - PBS LearningMedia - NOVA Wonders -Teaching Machines to See - Can We Build a Brain? (3:43)  - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - NOVA scienceNOW - Luis von Ahn: Computer Scientist (5:08) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Physics Girl -How Does Your Phone Send Emojis? (6:03) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Crash Course - Computer Science Collection (40 videos) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia -False Dawn: The Babbage Engine (5:37) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Origin of Everything - Why Are There So Few Women in Computer Science? (6:15)  -  VIEW

Watch 

NHPBS - 11.1 Comcast (802) Live Stream More Options

MAKING BLACK AMERICA: THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE - The Work of the Imagination
Tuesday, 10/11 from 9-10 pm NHPBS
From HBCUs to Black businesses to the Harlem Renaissance to political organizations, African Americans turn within, creating a community that not only sustains but empowers. MAKING BLACK AMERICA Streaming Video

BECOMING FREDERICK DOUGLASS
Tuesday, 10/11 from 10-11 pm NHPBS
Discover how a man born into slavery became one of the most influential voices for democracy in American history. Oscar-nominated filmmaker Stanley Nelson explores the role Douglass played in securing the right to freedom for African Americans. BECOMING FREDERICK DOUGLASS Streaming Video

READING FREDERICK DOUGLASS
Tuesday, 10/11 from 11 pm-12 am NHPBS
On July 5, 1852, former slave and abolitionist movement leader, Frederick Douglass delivered one of his most famous speeches - What to the slave is your fourth of July? Produced in partnership with the Black Heritage Trail of New Hampshire, people from around the state participate in a virtual reading of the speech. READING FREDERICK DOUGLASS Streaming Video

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WARRIOR WOMEN
Tuesday, 10/11 from 1:30-2:30 pm NHPBS EXPLORE
Warrior Women is the untold story of American Indian Movement activists who fought for civil rights in the '70s, anchored by one of the Red Power Movement's most outspoken Lakota leaders, Madonna Thunder Hawk, and her daughter Marcy Gilbert.

BATTLE OVER BEARS EARS
Tuesday, 10/11 from 2:30-3:30 pm NHPBS EXPLORE
Bears Ears National Monument, a remote section of land lined with red cliffs and filled with juniper and sage, is at the center of a fight over who has a say in how Western landscapes are protected and managed. BATTLE OVER BEARS EARS Streaming Video

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FIRST CIVILIZATIONS - Cities
Tuesday, 10/11 from 2-3 pm NH WORLD
View the birthplace of civilization: the Middle East, site of the world's first villages, towns and cities, from the hills of Turkey to the plains of Iraq. They were crucibles of invention and innovation-turbo-charging the pace of progress. FIRST CIVILIZATIONS Streaming Video

FIRST CIVILIZATIONS - Trade
Tuesday, 10/11 from 3-4 pm NH WORLD
Examine an ancient civilization unlike any other, that of the Indus Valley. Rather than imposing order through war or religion, it relied on the free flow of trade. The exchange of goods promoted wealth, cooperation, and trust. FIRST CIVILIZATIONS Streaming Video

INSIDE THE COURT OF HENRY VIII
Tuesday, 10/11 from 4-5 pm NH WORLD
Part Renaissance prince, part medieval tyrant, Henry VIII is the most famous of English kings. Venture beyond the facade of his glamorous court to understand the danger and intrigue that routinely cost courtiers their heads. INSIDE THE COURT OF HENRY VIII Streaming Video

Pressroom Contact

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