Pizza - February 9

Sunday, February 9, 2025

Today is  Superbowl Sunday, National Pizza Pie Day, National Bagels and Lox Day, Cut the Cord Day, and National Read in the Bathtub Day.

Black History Month Resource of the Day: Negro Baseball Leagues

• Making Black America - The Negro Baseball Leagues
• Ken Burns in the Classroom - Ken Burns in the Classroom - The Negro American League 

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

ON THIS DATE

• 1775 - The British Parliament declares Massachusetts in rebellion.
• 1825 - After no candidate receives a majority of electoral votes in the US presidential election of 1824, the United States House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams as President of the United States.
• 1861 - Jefferson Davis is elected the Provisional President of the Confederate States of America 
• 1964 - The Beatles make their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show,
• 1971 - Satchel Paige becomes the first Negro League player to be voted into the USA's Baseball Hall of Fame.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1737 - Common Sense author Thomas Paine
• 1773 - 9th President William Henry Harrison
• 1874 - Poet Amy Lowell
• 1914 - Singer-songwriter Ernest Tubb
• 1942 - Singer-songwriter Carole King
• 1944 - Poet and writer Alice Walker
• 1945 - Actor Mia Farrow

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Ernest Tubb - I'm Walking the Floor Over You - LISTEN
• Carol King - So Far Away - LISTEN
• David Bowie - Starman - LISTEN
• Dean Martin - That's Amore - LISTEN

THEME:  Pizza

• Grades PreK-1 - PBS LearningMedia - KidVision - Pizza Restaurant Field Trip (7:48) - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-1 - PBS LearningMedia - Snack Hacks - Pizza Bagels (0:29) - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-1 - PBS LearningMedia - Snack Hacks - Fruit and Nut Pizzas (0:29) - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-1 - PBS LearningMedia - Peg + Cat - Pizza Place Game - DO
• Grades PreK-1 - PBS LearningMedia - Snack Hacks - Pizz Cracker Snakcers  (0:14) - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-2 - PBS LearningMedia - Take the Stage - Gabby's Perfect Pizza Palace (5:13) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 3-5 - PBS LearningMedia - Think Gardens: Pizza Gardens (Available in Spanish) (3:11) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 3-5 - PBS LearningMedia - Rise and Shine Math Time - Turning Pizza Into Fractions (4:43) -VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-6 - PBS LearningMedia - Math Mess - THe Bellybuster Pizza Puzzle (1:11) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Cyberchase - Pizza Toppings as Venn Diagrams (3:31) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Be Smart  - A Slice of Pizza Science (3:32) - VIEW

Pressroom Contact

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