Halloween - October 31
Trick or Treat Learning
Thursday, October 31, 2024
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, Books For Treats Day, and World Cities Day.
Animal Cam of the Day: San Diego Zoo Penguin Cam
Dessert of the Day: 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
- 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.
- 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
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
- 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
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