Bears - December 22

Monday, December 22, 2025

Today is National Cookie Exchange Day, Haiku Day, and National Date Nut Bread Day.

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Bears

ON THIS DATE

• 1937 - The Lincoln Tunnel opens to traffic in New York City.
• 1864 - Union General Sherman takes the city of Savannah, Georgia.
• 1989 - Berlin's Brandenburg Gate re-opens after nearly 30 years.
• 2010 -  The Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy banning homosexuals from serving openly in the United States military is repealed.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1639 - French playwright Jean Racine.
• 1858 - Italian composer Giacomo Puccini
• 1869 - Poet Edwin Arlington Robinson
• 1945 - Journalist Diane Sawyer
• 1960 - Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat
• 1970 - Politician Ted Cruz

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Elvis Presley - Teddy Bear - LISTEN
• Maria Callas - Puccini - O mio babbino caro - LISTEN

THEME: Bears

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Do the Bear (2:37) - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-1 - PBS LearningMedia - Super Why - Goldilocks and The Three Bears (25:25)  - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-12 - San Diego Zoo - Polar Bear Live Cam -VIEW
• Grades PreK-12 - Oakland Zoo - Grizzly Bear Cam - VIEW
• Grades K-4 - PBS LearningMedia - Wild Kratts - Polar Bears Don’t Dance (26:26) - VIEW
• Grades K-4 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - Animal Adaptations: Polar Bear Paws Collection - VIEW
• Grades K-6 - PBS LearningMedia - Science Trek - Bears Collection - VIEW and DO
• Grades 1-5 - PBS LearingMedia - Kratts Creatures - Bear Camping (1:20) - VIEW
• Grades 1-5 - PBS LearingMedia - Kratts Creatures - Bear-ly Swimming (1:41) - VIEW
• Grades 3-12 -  NHPBS - Wildlife Journal Jr. - Black Bear - READ
• Grades 5-12 - Polar Bears International - READ, DO, VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Untamed - Black Bears (26:45) - VIEW, READ and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - Bears in the Schoolyard (Available in Spanish) (3:06) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - Bears of the Last Frontier: The Road North - Urban Bears (Available in Spanish) (3:20) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - Bears of the Last Frontier: City of Bears - Feasting on the Salmon Run (Available in Spanish) (7:37) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - Bears of the Last Frontier: Arctic Wanderers - Climate Change Warning (Available in Spanish) (2:13) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - Bears Lunch Counter (Available in Spanish) (4:22) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - The Good, the Bad, and the Grizzly: Bear Necessities (Available in Spanish) (3:56) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - The Good, the Bad, and the Grizzly: This Is Their Land (Available in Spanish) (4:12) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Wild Alaska - Saving A Species: Polar Bears (29:57) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Nature - Bears (53:14) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Nature - Pandas: Born to be Wild (53:25) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Eons - The Mystery Behind the Biggest Bears of All Time (10:41) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Eons - The Fuzzy Origins of the Giant Panda (8:21) - VIEW

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