Mice (and Other Small Rodents) - February 10

Monday, February 10, 2025

Today is Cream Cheese Brownie Day, National Flannel Day, Umbrella Day, and Clean Out Your Computer Day

Black History Month Resource of the Day: Claudette Colvin

• NPR - Before Rosa Parks, There Was Claudette Colvin
• NHPBS Video - They Dared: Claudette Colvin
• NHPBS Video - Wit and Wisdom Grade 8 Episode One - Claudette Colvin
• NY Times - Lesson of the Day: ‘A Civil Rights Pioneer Seeks to Have Her Record Cleared’

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Mice and Other Small Rodents

ON THIS DATE

• 1763 - The Treaty of Paris ends the French and Indian War and France cedes Quebec to Great Britain.
• 1840 - Britain's Queen Victoria marries Prince Albert of Saxe Coburg-Gotha.
• 1940 - Cartoon characters Tom and Jerry make their debut with Puss Gets the Boot.
• 1964 - Bob Dylan's album "The Times They Are A-Changin"' is released.
• 1967 - The 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified.
• 1996 - IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov in chess for the first time.
• 2007 - Illinois senator Barack Obama announces his candidacy for president in the 2008 elections, which he later goes on to win.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1890 - Russian author Boris Pasternak
• 1898 - German playwright and poet Bertolt Brecht
• 1930 - Children's author and illustrator E. L. Konigsburg
• 1937 - Singer-songwriter Roberta Flack
• 1950 - Swimmer Mark Spitz
• 1961 - Journalist George Stephanopoulos

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Roberta Flack - Killing Me Softly with His Song  - LISTEN
• Bob Dylan - The Times They Are A-Changin - LISTEN
• Rihanna - Umbrella - LISTEN

THEME:  Mice 

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street -  Miami Mice with The Count (5:04) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - PBS LearningMedia - Super Why! - The City Mouse and the Country Mouse (26:24) - VIEW 
• Grades PreK-1 - NHPBS Video - Reading Explorers - If You Give a Mouse a Cookie (26:47) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - NHPBS Video - Reading Explorers - If You Take a Mouse to School (26:47) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - NHPBS Video - Reading Explorers - If You Give a Mouse a Brownie (26:47) - VIEW
• Grades K-2 - NHPBS Video - Reading Explorers - Country Mouse City Mouse (26:11) - VIEW
• Grades 3-12 - NHPBS Wildlife Journal Junior - Rodentia - gophers, mice, rats, squirrels, porcupines, beavers, chipmunks - READ
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS VIDEO - Deeper Look - Kangaroo Rats Are Furry, Spring-Loaded Ninjas (4:06) - VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Nature - Meet the Kangaroo Rat (2:15) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS Newshour - How Giant African Rats Are Finding Land Mines in Cambodia (7:03) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Eons - Why Did These Ancient Gophers Have Horns? (8:23) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Animal IQ - This Rat Can Drive a Car? (7:35) - VIEW

Pressroom Contact

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