Clouds and Mars - November 28

Tuesday, November 28, 2023

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
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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
• David Bowie - Life on Mars  - LISTEN
  

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 - PBS LearningMedia - Crash Course Astronomy - Mars (10:10) - VIEW

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BECOMING FREDERICK DOUGLASS
Tuesday, 11/28 from 7-8:30 pm NHPBS WORLD
Discover how a man born into slavery became one of the most influential voices for democracy in American history.  BECOMING FREDERICK DOUGLAS Streaming Video

THE JEWISH JOURNEY: AMERICA
Tuesday, 11/28 from 8:30-9:30 pm NHPBS WORLD
The three-part story of I) Jewish life in the old country, II) the reasons behind leaving their respective homes and journeying to the US, and III) both the establishment of communities and the great accomplishments made in the US.  THE JEWISH JOURNEY Streaming Video

Pressroom Contact

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