Maple Syrup and Flight - December 17

Tuesday, December 17, 2024

Today is Wright Brothers Day, National Maple Syrup Day, Clean Air Day

Winter Resource of the Day: Jack Frosty

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Maple Syrup and Flight

ON THIS DATE

• 1862 - General Ulysses S. Grant issues General Order No. 11, expelling Jews from parts of Tennessee, Mississippi, and Kentucky.
• Wilbur and Orville Wright make the first man-powered, heavier-than-air flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
• The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882  is repealed. 
• 1933 - The Chicago Bears beat the New York Giants 23-21 at Wrigley Field in the first NFL championship game.
• 1989 - The Simpsons premieres on television.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1706 - French mathematician, philosopher, and physicist Émilie du Châtelet
• 1807 - Poet and abolitionist John Greenleaf Whittier
• 1894 - Conductor Arthur Fiedler
• 1936 - Pope Francis

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Foo Fighters - Learn to Fly - LISTEN
• Lenny Kravitz - Fly Away- LISTEN
• Steve Miller Band - Fly Like an Eagle - LISTEN
• REO Speedwagon -Time for Me to Fly - LISTEN
  
• Scott Joplin - Maple Leaf Rag - LISTEN

THEME:  Maple Syrup

• Grades K-3 - Nature Cat - Tree Sap Becomes Syrup (3:37)  - VIEW
• Grades K-3 - Nature Cat - Making Maple Syrup from Tree Sap! (3:02) - VIEW
• Grade 3-6 - PBS LearningMedia - Maple Syrup (3:47) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Prairie Mosaic Shorts - Jerry Jacobson: Maple Syrup Maker (6:34) - VIEW 
• Grades 6-12- PBS LearningMedia - Climate Wisconsin - Sugaring (3:45) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Autumn Watch New England - Maple Syrup Tapping (2:32) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12- NHPBS Video - Made Here - Gathering Time (9:05) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - The People of the Big Lake - Maple Sugar (8:08) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Reactions - How Do They Make Maple Syrup? (13:43)  - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Welcome to My Farm - Maine Maple Sunday (25:47) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Show Me Ag - Maple Sugaring (26:48) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - The Sugar Makers (19:25) - VIEW

THEME:  Flight

• Grades K-4 - Ready Jet Go! - Flight Research Center(1:45) - VIEW
• Grades 3-5 - Cyberchase - Bunny Copter Flight Test (2:22) - VIEW
• Grades 3-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Know Ohio - The Wright Brothers (3:29) - VIEW
• Grades 3-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Know Ohio - Female Pioneers of the Sky (2:14) - VIEW
• Grades 3-8 - PBS LearningMedia - STEM in 30 - The Wright Stuff: Flying the Wright Flyer (34:54) - VIEW and DO 
• Grades 3-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Transforming the Future of Flight (Available in Spanish) (3:57) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grade 4-6 - PBS LearningMedia - Science Trek - Flight Collection - VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-8 - PBS LearningMedia - STEM in 30 -The Airplane's Family Tree: From the Wright Brothers to Today (28:30) - VIEW and DO 
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS Video - Curious Crew - Paper Airplane Science (26:46) -VIEW
• Grades 5-8 - PBS LearningMedia - STEM in 30 - Kites to Flight: Inventing with the Wright Brothers (29:44) - VIEW and DO 
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Alphonse Pénaud - The Forgotten Pioneer (1:23) -VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Be Smart - How Did Giant Pterosaurs Fly? (13:39) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Breakthrough: The Ideas that Changed the World - The Airplane (54:51) - VIEW 

Pressroom Contact

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