Maps - March 5

Wednesday, March 5, 2025

Today is Ash Wednesday, Equal Pay Day, Cheese Doodle Day, Poutine Day, and Peace Corps Day.

Women's History Month Resource of the Day:  Community Classroom: Women's History Month

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Maps
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ON THIS DATE

• 1770 -  Boston Massacre: Five Americans are shot by British troops.
• 1946 - Winston Churchill delivers his famous "Iron Curtain" speech.
• 1963 - American country music stars Patsy Cline, Hawkshaw Hawkins, Cowboy Copas, and their pilot Randy Hughes are killed in a plane crash in Camden, Tennessee.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1512 - Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator 
• 1637 - Dutch painter Jan van der Heyden
• 1853 - Illustrator Howard Pyle
• 1876 - Tennis player Elisabeth Moore
• 1908 - English actor Rex Harrison
• 1958 - Australian singer-songwriter Andy Gibb

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Andy Gibb - I Just Want to Be Your Everything - LISTEN
• Patsy Cline - Crazy - LISTEN

THEME:  Maps

• Grades PreK-2 - PBS LearningMedia -What are Maps? (2:26) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-2 - Peg + Cat - Treasure Maps (3:33) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-2 - Nature Cat - The Map (1:03) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-3 - Ready Jet GO! - Let's Make Our Own Maps (1:17) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-4 - PBS LearningMedia - Map Borders (1:33) - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-2 - PBS LearningMedia - Map It! (1:29) - VIEW
• Grade 2 - NHPBS Video - Maps - 2nd Grade Social Studies (28:25) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - History Detectives - Is This a Map of the Underground Railroad? (3:39) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 8-12 - NHPBS Video - Mapping the Multiverse (14:21) - VIEW

Pressroom Contact

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