Mummies and Candy- November 4

Tuesday, November 4, 2025

Today is National Candy Day, Easy-Bake Oven Day, National Skeptics Day, Election Day, and King Tut Day.

Native American Heritage Month Resource of the Day - Native America in the Classroom Collection 
Drum Month Resource of the Day -  Hana's Japanese Drums

On This Date
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme:  MUMMIES and CANDY
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ON THIS DATE

• 1922 - British archaeologist Howard Carter and his team find the entrance to Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings.
• 1924 - Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming becomes the first female elected as governor in the United States.
• 1952 - Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower was elected president, defeating Democrat Adlai Stevenson.
• 1979 - The Iranian hostage crisis begins when militants storm the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.
• 1980 - Republican Ronald Reagan defeats incumbent President Jimmy Carter.
• 1995 - Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated by a Jewish extremist.
• 2008 - Barack Obama defeats John McCain and becomes the first person of color to be elected President of the United States.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1879 - Actor and humorist Will Rogers
• 1916 - Journalist Walter Cronkite
• 1921 - Rocket fuel scientist Mary Sherman Morgan
• 1946 - Former First Lady Laura Bush
• 1946 - Photographer Robert Mapplethorpe

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Steve Martin - King Tut - LISTEN
• Bow Wow Wow - I Want Candy - LISTEN
• Chordettes - Lollipop - LISTEN
• The Archies - Sugar, Sugar - LISTEN

THEME: MUMMIES

• Grades K-3 - PBS LearningMedia - Odd Squad - A Unicorn, a Robot, and a Mummy Walk into a Library (2:04) - VIEW
• Grades 4-12 - Smithsonian - Egyptian Mummies - READ and VIEW
• Grades 4-12 - American Museum of Natural History - Mummies - READ and VIEW
• Grades 4-6 - PBS LearningMedia - DragonflyTV - GPS Bogs (7:59) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-6 - BBC Bitesize -How to Make a Mummy - READ and VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Mummies Dearest (8:17) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12- PBS LearningMedia - Nova - Iceman Reborn: Modeling a Mummy Videos - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Egypt's Treasure Guardians - Preserving a Mummy (3:05) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Egypt's Treasure Guardians - Tutankhamun's Hidden Treasures (3:42) - VIEW
• Grade 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Antiques Roadshow - Appraisal: Egyptian Mummified Falcon, ca. 200 BC (1:31) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Theater of the Mind Radio Drama - Call of the Mummy (57:30) - VIEW and LISTEN
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Secrets of the Dead - Sacred Crocodile Mummies Reveal the Climate of Ancient Egypt (2:59) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video -  Newsmakers - The Discovery of King Tut  (26:45) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Chicago Tonight - Mummies at The Field Museum (8:39) - VIEW

THEME:  CANDY

• Grades 3-6 - PBS LearningMedia - Cyberchase - Sharing Halloween Candy (2:28) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 3-6 - PBS LearningMedia - Cyberchase - Harry's Job at a Candy Store (3:31) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 3-6 - PBS LearningMedia - Cyberchase - Sharing Candy among Gargoyles (2:36) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 3-6 - PBS LearningMedia - Cyberchase - Making Rock Candy (3:32) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 3-12 - NHPBS Video - Candy Cane Factory (5:39) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - SciTech Now - How Many Licks Does It Take to Get to the Center of a Lollipop? (26:46) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12- PBS LearningMedia - America Revealed - A Peep for All Seasons (Available in Spanish) (5:14) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Origin of Everything - Is Poisoned Halloween Candy a Myth? (6:38) - VIEW

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