Ghosts and Haunted Things - October 30
Spooky Learning
Wednesday, October 30, 2024
Today is Checklist Day, Buy a Donut Day, Haunted Refrigerator Night, Candy Corn Day, World Audio Drama Day, and Pumpkin Bread Day.
Ghost Cam of the Day: Willard Library Ghost Cam
Dessert of the Day: Candy Corn Cookies
LGBT History Resource of the Day: The Origins and Impact of the Stonewall Uprising
Scary Resource of the Day: Ghosts of the Elysian Arms Radio Drama
On This Date
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Ghosts and Haunted Things
- 1831 - Nat Turner is arrested for leading a slave rebellion in Virginia.
- 1938 - Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds.
- 1941 - President Franklin Roosevelt approves $1 billion in Lend-Lease aid to the Allied nations.
- 2003 - Lebron James made his NBA debut with the Cleveland Cavaliers.
- 2005 - Rosa Parks became the first woman to lie in honor in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda.
- 1735 - Second president of the U.S. John Adams
- 1839 - French painter Alfred Sisley
- 1885 - Poet Ezra Pound
- 1896 - Actor and screenwriter Ruth Gordon
- 1915 - Broadcast journalist Fred Friendly
- 1932 - French director Louis Malle
- 1939 - Singer Grace Slick
- 1945 - Actor Henry Winkler
- 1946 - Journalist Andrea Mitchell
THEME: GHOSTS AND HAUNTED THINGS
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Haunted House (1:35) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-3 - NHPBS Video - Glitter Glue Ghost Art (1:00) - VIEW and DO
- Grades K-5 - PBS LearningMedia - Kratts Creatures - Ghost Bats (1:48) - VIEW
- Grades K-5 - PBS LearningMedia - The Ghost With One Black Eye (3:37) - VIEW
- Grades 3-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Haunted House for Good (2:33) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 5-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Moundsville Ghosts (7:58) - VIEW
- Grades 5-12 - Willard Library Ghost Cams - VIEW (If You Dare)
- Grades 6-8 - It's Lit - Fear of Ghost ... Writing (8:38) - VIEW
- Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Monstrum -Pontianak: The Vampiric Ghost of Southeast Asia (9:24) - VIEW
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