Halloween, Frankenstein, and Lemurs - October 31

Friday, October 31, 2025

HALLOWEEN QUIZZES
How much do you know about Halloween? Take one or more of these quizzes from Granite State Challenge and find out!
Elementary Quiz
Middle School Quiz
High School Quiz

Today is Girl Scout Founder's Day, Halloween, Magic Day, Knock-Knock Jokes Day, Caramel Apple Day, World Lemur Day, and Frankenstein Friday.

Animal Cam of the Day: Reid Park Zoo Lemur Cam
Dessert of the Day: Frankenpops
Dessert of the Day #2: All-Natural Caramel Apples
Scary Resource of the Day: Monster Plants and the Humans Who Invent Them

On This Date
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme:  HALLOWEEN

ON THIS DATE

• 1517 - Martin Luther posts his 95 Theses on the door of the Wittenberg Palace church.
• 1913 - Dedication of the Lincoln Highway, the first automobile highway across the U.S. It ran 3,389 miles from Times Square in New York City west to Lincoln Park in San Francisco.
• 1984 -  Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is assassinated by two Sikh security guards.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1632 -  Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer
• 1711 - Italian physician and physicist, and the world's first woman university professor, Laura Bassi
• 1795 - English poet John Keats
• 1860 -  Founder of Girl Scouts of America, Juliette Gordon Low
• 1896 - Singer and actress Ethel Waters
• 1930 - Astronaut Michael Collins
• 1931 - Journalist Dan Rather
• 1950 - Journalist Jane Pauley
• 1966 - New Hampshire actor Mike O'Malley

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Ethel Waters - Stormy Weather - LISTEN
• Warren Zevon - Werewolves Of London - LISTEN
• Michael Jackson - Thriller - LISTEN
• The Nightmare Before Christmas - This is Halloween - LISTEN
  
• REM - What's the Frequency, Kenneth? - LISTEN
• The Crystals - Frankenstein Twist - LISTEN
  
• Bobby Pickett - Monster Mash - LISTEN

THEME: HALLOWEEN

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street: Happy Halloween! - Halloween Compilation (19:15) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street: Happy Halloween! - Halloween Compilation 2 (15:19) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street: Happy Halloween! - Halloween Parodies (13:40) - VIEW 
• Grades PreK-1 -  Peg + Cat - The Parade Problem/The Halloween Problem - (25:33)- VIEW
• Grades PreK-2- SuperWhy - The Ghost Who Was Afraid of Halloween - (25:48) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-2 - Sid the Science Kid - Halloween Spooky Science Special - (26:38)- VIEW
• Grades PreK-2 - PBS Learning Media - KidVision - Costume Shop (6:48) - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-3 - PBS Kids - Halloween Games - DO
• Grades PreK-3 - PBS Kids - Halloween Compilation (1:23:56)  - VIEW
• Grades PreK-3 - PBS Kids - Halloween Compilation 2 (37:25)  - VIEW
• Grades PreK-6 - PBS LearningMedia - Halloween Collection - VIEW and DO
• Grades 2-6 - PBS LearningMedia - All About the Holidays (0:53) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 3-6 - PBS LearningMedia - Cyberchase - Sharing Halloween Candy (2:28) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 9-12- NHPBS Video - Antiques Roadshow - Kooky & Spooky (52:30)  - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Origin of Everything - Is Poisoned Halloween Candy a Myth? (6:36) - VIEW

THEME:  LEMURS

• Grades K-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Leaping Lemurs of Data (7:17) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS Video - When Giant Lemurs Ruled Madagascar (10:09) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Islands of Wonder - Madagascar (55:11) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Islands of Wonder - Ring-Tailed Lemurs Battle Tough Terrain Searching for Food (2:02) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Georgia Outdoors - Lemurs on St. Catherine's Island (2:35) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Georgia Outdoors - Lemur Behaviors (3:00) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia -The Ring-tailed Lemur: Reproductive Isolation (5:46) - VIEW

THEME:  FRANKENSTEIN's MONSTER

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street: Back and Front Frankenstein (1:26) - VIEW
  
• Grades K-2 - PBS LearningMedia - Xavier Riddle and The Secret Museum - Mary Shelley Reader - READ and DO
• Grades K-2 - Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum - I Am Mary Shelley/I Am Harry Houdini  (22:32) - VIEW
• Grades K-3 - Arthur - Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1:23) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Be Smart - The Real "Doctor Frankenstein (6:12) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - The Great American Read - Frankenstein (4:49) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - The Great American Read - Allison Williams Explains Her Love for Frankenstein's Monster (1:57) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Monstrum - Rethinking Frankenstein's Monster (5:57) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Theater of the Mind Radio Drama - Frankenstein (58:56) - LISTEN and VIEW
• Grades 10-12 - PBS LearningMedia -The Great American Read -  Frankenstein: Analyzing Creative Works of Fiction Lesson Plan () - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 10-12 - PBS LearningMedia - The Great American Read - Exploring the Drive to Create in Frankenstein Interactive - VIEW, READ, DO

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