Rosa Parks and Mushrooms and Other Fungi - February 4
Rosa Parks and Fun Fungi Learning
Tuesday, February 4, 2025
Homemade Soup Day, Liberace Day, National Stuffed Mushroom Day, World Cancer Day, Rosa Parks Day, Sweater Day, and Willie Mays Day.
Black History Month Resource of the Day: 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 - 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
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Mushrooms and Other Fungi
ON THIS DATE
- 1801 - John Marshall is sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States.
- 1861 - Delegates from six southern states meet in Montgomery, Alabama, and form the Confederate States of America.
- 1941 - The United Service Organization (USO) is created to entertain American troops.
- 1974 -The Symbionese Liberation Army kidnaps Patty Hearst in Berkeley, California.
- 2004 - Facebook is founded by Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin.
- 1899 - Black physician and public health expert Virginia M. Alexander *
- 1902 - Aviator Charles Lindbergh
- 1906 - Astronomer and Pluto discoverer Clyde Tombaugh
- 1913 - Civil rights activist Rosa Parks
- 1948 - Singer-songwriter Alice Cooper
THEME: Mushrooms and Other Fungi
- Grades PreK-2 - Nature Cat - Ronald's Mushroom MUSEUM! (3:56) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-2 - Nature Cat - Mushroom Tour (3:34) - VIEW
- Grades 1-5 - Time for Kids - Mighty Mushrooms - READ
- Grades 4-12 - NHPBS - Wildlife Journal Junior - Decomposers - READ
- Grades 4-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Mycoremediation (Available in Spanish) (1:05) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - EcoSense for Living -The Secret Life of Mushrooms (9:44) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - This American Land - Fabulous Filtering Fungi (7:36) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Rewire - What Mysteries Do Mushrooms Hold? (2:51) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - SciTech Now - Can Mushrooms Help to Save the Honeybees? (5:28) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Crash Course Biology - Fungi: Death Becomes Them (11:50) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Eons - When Giant Fungi Ruled (6:37) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - Gross Science - An Internet Made of Fungus (4:03) - VIEW and DO
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