Rosa Parks and Antarctica - December 1

Monday, December 1, 2025

Today is Antarctica Day, Rosa Parks Day, World Aids Day, Christmas Lights Day, National Pie Day, Walt Disney Day, Wear a Dress Day, Cider Monday, and Cyber Monday.

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Rosa Parks and Antarctica

ON THIS DATE

• 1824 - The House of Representatives meets to decide the presidential election because no candidate received a majority in the Electoral College.
• 1865 - Shaw University, the first historically black university in the southern United States, is founded in Raleigh, North Carolina.
• 1913 - The Ford Motor Company introduces the first moving assembly line.
• 1924 - The NHL's first U.S.-based franchise, the Boston Bruins, play their first game.
• 1955 - In Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks is arrested when she refuses to give up her seat on a bus to a white man.
• 1959 - 12 countries, including the U.S., sign a treaty establishing Antarctica as a scientific preserve, free from military activity.
• 1969 - The U.S. holds its first draft lottery since World War II.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1761 - French sculptor Marie Tussaud
• 1940 - Comedian and actor Richard Pryor
• 1945 - Singer and actor Bette Midler
• 1949 - Children's author and illustrator Jan Brett
• 1970 - Actor, comedian, and Bedford, NH native Sarah Silverman
• 1985 - Singer-songwriter Janelle Monáe

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Janelle Monae - Hell You Talmbout -  LISTEN
• David Byrne's American Utopia  - Hell You Talmbout - LISTEN
  
• Bette Midler - Wind Beneath My Wings - LISTEN

THEME: Rosa Parks

• Grades K-3 - Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum - Rosa Parks (3:01) - VIEW
• Grades 3-7 - PBS LearningMedia - Rosa Parks: Civil Rights Activist (Available in Spanish) (3:48) - VIEW, and DO
• Grades 3-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Rosa Parks Interview (2:13) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 5-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott (6:29) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 5-12 - ReadWriteThink - Rosa Parks Activity - READ and DO
• Grades 7-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Montgomery Bus Boycott (35:05) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 8-12 - NHPBS Video - The Origins of Everything - Is the Rosa Parks Story True? (8:44) - VIEW
• Grades 8-12 - NHPBS Video - They Dared! - Claudette Colvin (2:41) - VIEW

THEME: ANTARCTICA

• Grades K-4 - Wild Kratts - Penguin Power (2:50) -  VIEW
• Grades 5-8 - Jonathan Bird's Blue World - Antarctica (16:35) - VIEW
• Grades 6-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Antarctica Today (7:32) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia- Antarctica's Climate Secrets Media Collection - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Antarctica's Ice on the Move (7:34) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nova - Antarctica: Sea Ice (2:34) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Antarctic Extremes Series - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Earth's Cryosphere: Antarctica (Available in Spanish) (2:38) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia  - Nova - Microbial Life in Antarctica (Available in Spanish) (2:27) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia  - Nova - Thriving on the Arctic Seafloor (Available in Spanish) (1:10) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - When Antarctica Was Green (11:03) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Reactions - Why Don’t Antarctic Fish Freeze to Death? (4:10)  - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS NewsHour - Can Antarctica Remain a Refuge for Science and Peace? (9:37) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Antarctica's Dry Valleys (4:33) - VIEW, READ, DO

Pressroom Contact

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