Thanksgiving, Turkeys, Clouds and Mars - November 28

Thursday, November 28, 2024

Today is National French Toast Day, Giving Tuesday,  and Red Planet Day.

On This Date
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Clouds and Mars

ON THIS DATE

• 1520 - Ferdinand Magellan reaches the Pacific Ocean after passing through the South American strait that now bears his name.
• 1942 - A fire at the Cocoanut Grove nightclub in Boston kills 492 people.
• 1943 - President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet leader Josef Stalin meet in Tehran during World War II.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1628 - English theologian and author John Bunyan
• 1757 - English poet and artist William Blake
• 1772 - English meteorologist Luke Howard, who came up with our cloud nomenclature.
• 1853 - Educator and first American woman to earn a Ph.D., Helen Magill White
• 1943 - Singer-songwriter Randy Newman
• 1969 - Comedian and TV host Jon Stewart

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Randy Newman - You've Got a Friend in Me - LISTEN
• Joni Mitchell - Both Sides, Now - LISTEN
• Arlo Guthrie - Alice's Restaurant - LISTEN
• Adam Sandler - Thanksgiving Song - LISTEN

David Bowie - Life on Mars - LISTEN

THEME:  Turkeys

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Do the Turkey Gobble Wobble with Elmo and Abby (1:53) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - T is for Turkey (1:20)  - VIEW
• Grades 3-4 - PBS LearningMedia -Wild Kratts - Secret Turkey Lurk (1:45) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 3-4 - PBS LearningMedia -Wild Kratts - Activate Turkey Power (2:03) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 3-4 - PBS LrarningMedia -Wild Kratts - Who Are You Calling Turkey? (2:21)  - VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS - Wildlife Journal Junior - Phasianidae - Pheasants, Turkeys, Grouse - READ
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS - Wildlife Journal Junior - Tracking Turkeys (7:31) - VIEW
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS Video - Nova - When Turkeys Attack (2:35)  - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - My Life as a Turkey  - Turkey's Basic Instinct (Available in Spanish)  (3:27) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - My Life as a Turkey - Turkey Talk (Available in Spanish) (2:38) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - My Life as a Turkey  - An Imprinting Experiment (6:50) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - Animal Adaptations: Brush Turkey Mounds (5:18) - VIEW and DO

THEME:  Thanksgiving

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Celebrate Thanksgiving Collection (26:48)  - VIEW
• Grades 2-6 - PBS LearningMedia - All About the Holidays -Thanksgiving (Available in Spanish) (0:56) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 3-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Library of Congress - Thanksgiving Collection - VIEW and READ
• Grades 3-12 - PBS LearningMedia - The First Official Thanksgiving Media Gallery - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 5-6 - PBS LearningMedia - American Experience - The Pilgrims: Alliance with Massasoit’s People and the First Thanksgiving (5:04)  -  VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - A History of Thanksgiving Interactive  Lesson - DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - It's Okay to Be Smart - The Surprising Origin of Thanksgiving Foods (5:09)  - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - PBS NewsHour - Thanksgiving Through the Lens of Native Americans Today: Lesson Plan - VIEW, READ, DO

THEME: Clouds

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Ellie Goulding -Thank You Clouds Song (1:42) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - PBS LearningMedia - Everyday Learning - Clouds and Weather (2:15) - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-5 - PBS LearningMedia - Observe Clouds (1:33)  - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Gross Science - Can Bird Poop Make Clouds? (3:55) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - Why So Many Cloud Types? (Available in Spanish) (3:34) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - Clouds and Weather (Available in Spanish) (3:21)  - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - Clouds in Weather Patterns (Available in Spanish) (1:02) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - Clouds and Currents (1:33) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Earth Sky - The Effect of Clouds on Climate (7:53) - LISTEN

THEME: MARS

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Bruno Mars: Don't Give Up (1:51) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street: Pizza Delivery Astronaut (7:20) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-4 - Ready Jet Go! - Mars Lesson (1:51) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-4 - PBS LearningMedia - Ready Jet Go - Earth and Mars (1:55) - VIEW
• Grades K-6 - PBS LearningMedia - Science Trek - Exploring Mars Collection - VIEW
• Grades K-6 - PBS Learning Media - Science Trek - Mars: The Red Planet Revealed (5:21) - VIEW
• Grades 3-6 - NASA - All About Mars - READ, VIEW, DO
• Grades 4-6 - PBS LearningMedia - DragonflyTV - Mars (6:04) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-6 - PBS LearningMedis - DragonflyTV - Scientist Profile: Mars Rover Engineer (Available in Spanish) (2:07) - VIEW
• Grades 5-8 - PBS LearningMedia - STEM in 30 - Mars Rovers (28:37) - VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - PBS LearningMedia - NASA - How Mars Became a Desert (5:03) - VIEW, READ, DO
  
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Physics Girl -The Surprising Ways Mars is Hostile to Life (10:11) -VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - PBS Space Time - The First Humans on Mars (7:51) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS Space Time - Could We Terraform Mars? (15:33) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - Designing for Drilling on Mars (Available in Spanish) (4:34) - VIEW and DO 
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - NASA - Soaring Over Mars (4:09) - VIEW, READ, DO 
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Crash Course Astronomy - Mars (10:10) - VIEW

Pressroom Contact

Carla Gordon Russell
Director of Communications
crussell@nhpbs.org
(603) 868-4339