Rosa Parks and Antarctica - December 1

Friday, December 1, 2023

Today is Antarctica Day, Rosa Parks Day, World Aids Day, Christmas Lights Day, and National Pie Day.

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Rosa Parks and Antarctica
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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 seat 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 LearningMedai - Antarctica's Dry Valleys (4:33) - VIEW, READ, DO

Watch 

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THE BLACK CHURCH: THIS IS OUR STORY, THIS IS OUR SONG - Part One
Friday, 12/01 from 7-10 pm NH WORLD
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores the roots of African American religion beginning with the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the extraordinary ways enslaved Africans preserved and adapted faith practices from the brutality of slavery to emancipation. THE BLACK CHURCH Streaming Video

Pressroom Contact

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