Mushrooms and Other Fungi - February 4

Sunday, February 4, 2024

Homemade Soup Day, Liberace Day, National Stuffed Mushroom Day, and World Cancer 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 - 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

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.

BIRTHDAYS

• 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 * (Learning Resources)
• 1948 - Singer-songwriter Alice Cooper

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Alice Cooper - School's Out - LISTEN
• Strawberry Alarm Clock - Rainy Day Mushroom Pillow -LISTEN

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

Pressroom Contact

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