Radio, Bison, and Cookie Monster - November 2

Sunday, November 2, 2025

Today is All Souls Day, Cookie Monster's Birthday, Look For Circles Day, Deviled Egg Day, and Plan Your Epitaph Day. Daylight Saving Time Ends at 2 am.

Native American Heritage Month Resource of the Day - Native American Heritage Collection 
Drum Month Resource of the Day -  Sesame Street: M is for Musician with Questlove

 AMERICAN REVOLUTION HISTORY ON THIS DATE

1750 - Thomas Pickney was born on his date. Pinkney was an aide to General Horatio Gates during the Revolutionary War. He later was the Governor of South Carolina and was appointed by George Washington as a minister to Britain.

On This Date
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme:  RADIO, BISON, AND COOKIE MONSTER

ON THIS DATE

• 1889 - North Dakota and South Dakota are admitted as the 39th and 40th states.
• 1920 - KDKA of Pittsburgh begins broadcasting as the first commercial radio station. 
• 1959 - Quiz show contestant Charles Van Doren admits to a Congressional committee that he had been given questions and answers in advance on the game show Twenty-One.
• 1983 - President Reagan signs a bill creating Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
• 2016 - The Chicago Cubs defeat the Cleveland Indians in the World Series, ending a 108-year drought.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1734 - Frontiersman and politician Daniel Boone
• 1755 - French queen Marie Antoinette
• 1795 - 11th President of the U.S. James K. Polk
• 1865 - 29th President of the U.S. Warren G. Harding
• 1879 - Tennis player Marion Jones Farquhar
• 1961 - Canadian singer-songwriter k.d. lang
• 1974 - Rapper Nelly

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• The Buggles - Video Killed the Radio Star - LISTEN
• Joni Mitchell - You Turn Me On I'm A Radio - LISTEN
• Rush - The Spirit Of Radio - LISTEN
• Queen - Radio Ga Ga - LISTEN
• Elvis Costello  - Radio Radio - LISTEN
• REM - Radio Free Europe - LISTEN
• k.d. lang - Constant Craving - LISTEN
• Cookie Monster - C is for Cookie - LISTEN
• Buffalo Springfield - For What It's Worth - LISTEN
• Roger Miller - You Can't Roller Skate in a Buffalo Herd - LISTEN
• Bob Marley - Buffalo Soldier - LISTEN
• Pete Seeger - Buffalo Gals - LISTEN
• Bruce Springsteen - Buffalo Gals - LISTEN

THEME: RADIO

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Martians Radio (2:25) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-3 - PBS LearningMedia - KidVision - Radio Station Field Trip (8:19) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Country Music - The Impact of Radio (3:17) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - NASA - Tour of the Electromagnetic Spectrum: Radio Waves (3:38) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - The Roosevelts - Radio During World War II: Pacific Front (4:02) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - MacArthur Fellows Program - Jad Abumrad, Radio Host and Producer (3:25) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Ken Burns: Empire of the Air - The Power of Sound (1:05) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Genius by Stephen Hawking - Are We Alone? : Listening for Extraterrestrial Life (9:08) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Theater of the Mind Radio Drama Collection -VIEW and LISTEN
• Grades 7-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Career Connections - Radio Host (6:08) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio (1:51:56) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - ReadWriteThink - Audio Broadcasts and Podcasts: Oral Storytelling and Dramatization Lesson Plan - DO
• Grades 9-12 - EDSITEment - FDR's Fireside Chats: The Power of Words Lesson Plan - DO

THEME: BISON

• Grades K-12 - PBS LearningMedia - San Diego Zoo Kids - The Mighty Mighty Bison (3:32) - VIEW
• Grades K-12 - USDA - Bison Live Camera - VIEW
• Grades 3-4 - PBS LearningMedia - Wild Kratts - Bison Roadblock (1:41) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 3-12 - NHPBS - Wildlife Journal Junior - American Bison - READ
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - Buffalo Survival (3:50)  - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - The Winter World of Wolves and Buffalo (2:27) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - The American Buffalo Ken Burns Documentary - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - PBS LearningMedia - The American Buffalo Learning Resources - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - America's Heartland - Bringing Back the Bison (5:08) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - The Age of Nature - European Bison Roam Poland's Bialowieza Forest (2:57) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Restoring Bison on the Minnesota Prairie (3:50) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS NewsHour - How Scientists Brought Bison Back to Banff (3:16) -VIEW

THEME: COOKIE MONSTER

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Cookie Monster's Back to School Snack Compilation (39:58) -VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Cookie Monster Thinks the Moon is a Cookie (54:53) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - The Spy Who Loves Cookies (5:15) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - The Mysterious Cookie Thief (52:51) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Jurassic Cookies (5:09) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Cookies of the Caribbean (5:15) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-Adult - Sesame Street - Cookie Monster Song Compilation (1:56:19)  - VIEW
• Grades 8-Adult - W-ORD Channel 7 News with John Oliver and Cookie Monster (5:17) - VIEW
• Grades 8-Adult - Cookie Monster and John Oliver Outtakes (4:54) - VIEW
• Grades 8-Adult - Jimmy Kimmel Live - Cookie Monster Writes Jokes for Jimmy Kimmel (4:24) - VIEW

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