Ancient Egypt and Whales - February 16

Sunday, February 16, 2025

Today is the Daytona 500, Innovation Day, World Whale Day, and Almond Day.

Black History Month Resource of the Day: PBS LearningMedia

• Celebrating Black History and Culture Collection

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Ancient Egypt and Whales

ON THIS DATE

• 1923 - King Tutankhamun's burial chamber is unsealed.
• 1959 - Fidel Castro becomes Premier of Cuba.
• 1968 - The first 911 emergency telephone system is launched in Haleyville, Alabama.
• 2006 - The last Mobile army surgical hospital (MASH) is decommissioned by the United States Army.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1920 - General Anna Mae Hays
• 1957 - Actor LeVar Burton
• 1958 - Rapper and actor Ice-T
• 1959 - Tennis player John McEnroe
• 1990 - Canadian singer-songwriter The Weeknd

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• The Bangles - Walk Like an Egyptian - LISTEN
• Jimmy Fallon Does Jim Morrison - Reading Rainbow - LISTEN
• SNL - Steve Martin - King Tut Song - LISTEN

THEME:  Ancient Egypt

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Bert and Ernie in a Pyramid (4:55) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-3 - Let's Go Luna - Magic Globe Teaches Egyptian Arabic (1:18) - VIEW
  
• Grades 1-5 - Cyberchase - Clock Like an Egyptian (11:35) - VIEW
  
• Grades 6-12 - PBS Learning Media - Egypt's Treasure Guardians (55:45) - VIEW
• Grades 3-12 - PBS Learning Media - Nova - How the Ancient Egyptian Pyramids Were Built (3:12) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Be Smart - How The Pyramids Were Built (5:40) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Be Smart - Who Built the Pyramids (4:46) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Nova - What's Inside the Great Pyramid? (1:45) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Secrets of the Dead - Sacred Crocodile Mummies Reveal the Climate of Ancient Egypt (2:59) - VIEW

THEME:  Whales

• Grades PreK-2 - Splash and Bubbles - The Way Whales Talk (3:14) - VIEW
• Grades K-4 - Wild Kratts - Whale Watching (10:02) - VIEW
• Grades K-5 - PBS LearningMedia - Guess How Whales Hear (5:58) - VIEW
• Grade 1-3 - PBS LearningMedia - Wild Kratts - Whale of a Squid (26:25) - VIEW
• Grades 1-3 - PBS LearningMedia-  Wild Kratts - Adventures with Whales (1:26) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-6 - PBS LearningMedia - DragonflyTV - Whale Scientist (available in Spanish) (2:38) - VIEW
• Grades 4-12 - PBS LearningMedia -  Ocean Today - Gray Whale Migration (2:14) - VIEW
• Grades 6-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Jonathan Bird's Blue World - Wilma the (beluga) Whale (10:04) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Jonathan Bird's Blue World -The Shark and the Whale (9:07) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - When Whales Walked - Pakicetus: Walking Whale Ancestor (3:12) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia- Quest - Whale Sharks (3:15) - VIEW
• Grades 8-10 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - Killer Whales and the Changing Arctic (3:31) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Eons - When Whales Walked (4:56) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Eons - How the Andes Mountains Might Have Killed a Bunch of Whales (8:27) - View

Pressroom Contact

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