Maps - March 5
Going My Way Learning
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.
- 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
- 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
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