Seeds and Booker T. Washington - April 5

Saturday, April 5, 2025

Bell Bottoms Day, First Contact Day, Gold Star Spouses Day, Caramel Day, Dandelion Day, National Deep Dish Pizza Day, Flash Drive Day, and Raisin and Spice Bar Day.

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Poem of the Day - April is National Poetry Month
Today's Theme: SEEDS and BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

ON THIS DATE

• 1710 - The Statute of Anne establishes copyright law in the U.K.
• 1792 - George Washington casts the first presidential veto.
• 1933 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs an executive order establishing the Civilian Conservation Corps. (CCC in New Hampshire)
• 1951 - Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are sentenced to death for spying for the Soviet Union.
• 1984 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar becomes the highest-scoring player in NBA history with 31,421 career points. He still holds the record with 38,387 points.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1588 - English philosopher Thomas Hobbes
• 1692 - French actress Adrienne Lecouvreur
• 1732 - French rococo painter Jean-Honoré Fragonard
• 1856 - Educator Booker T. Washington
• 1858 - Canadian businessman  Washington Atlee Burpee
• 1900 - Actor Spencer Tracy
• 1908 - Actor Bette Davis
• 1916 - Actor Gregory Peck
• 1925 - Geneticist Janet Rowley
• 1935 - English astrophysicist Donald Lynden-Bell
• 1937 - General and former Secretary of State Colin Powell
• 1949 - Astronaut and engineer Judith Resnik
• 1951 Inventor and NH resident Dean Kamen
• 1973 - Singer-songwriter Pharrell Williams 
• 1980 - Basketball player and Concord, NH native Matt Bonner

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Pharrell Williams - Happy - LISTEN
• Pharrell Williams - Sesame Street B is for Book - LISTEN
• Kim Carnes - Bette Davis Eyes - LISTEN
• Jimmy Buffet - Love in the Library - LISTEN
• Green Day - At the Library - LISTEN

POEMS OF THE DAY 

• Robert Frost - Putting in the Seed
• Kathleen Driskell - Seed

THEME:  BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

• Grades 3-7 - PBS LearningMedia - American Icons - Booker T. Washington: Orator, Teacher, and Advisor ( Available in Spanish) (3:51) -  VIEW and DO
• Grades 5-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Booker T. Washington (2:00) - LISTEN
• Grades 5-12 - PBS LeearningMedia - Booker T. Washington Invites Carver to Tuskegee (4:33)- VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - National Park Service - Measure of a Man (13:00) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - The Roosevelts - Booker T. Washington at the White House (3:18) - VIEW
• Grades: 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - American Masters - Dr. Bledsoe: A Fictional Booker T. Washington (2:33) - VIEW and DO
• Grades: 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow - Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois: The Conflict (3:31) - VIEW and DO
• Grades: 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia- The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow - Booker T. Washington: An Education (7:21) - VIEW and DO
• Grades: 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Biography of America - You Decide: Washington or Du Bois? (28:40) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Basic Black - Booker T. Washington vs. W.E.B. DuBois (26:46) - VIEW

THEME:  SEEDS

• Grades PreK - PBS LearningMedia - Peep and the Big Wide World - Experimenting with Seeds (1:27) - VIEW
• Grades PreK - PBS LearningMedia - Peep Plants a Seed (8:50) - VIEW
• Grades PreK - PBS LearningMedia - Between the Lions - The Carrot Seed (3:47) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - PBS LearningMedia - Everyday Learning - From Seed to Fruit (2:01) - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Mrs. Obama Plants Garden (2:39) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Elmo's World: Growing Beans (1:47) - VIEW
  
• Grades PreK-1 - Sid the Science Kid - Growing Plants (1:49) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-2 - PBS LearningMedia - Mister Chris and Friends - Seeds (13:46) - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-2 - Plum Landing - Seed Racer Game - DO
• Grades PreK-2 - Plum Landing - Make a Seed Blaster - DO
  
• Grades PreK-2 - Plum Landing - Seed Travels - DO
  
• Grades K-4 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature Cat - Seed Soaring Game - DO
• Grades K-4 - PBS Learning Media - Nature Cat - Travelin' Seeds (11:50) - VIEW
• Grades K-5 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - From Seed to Flower (1:07) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades K-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Zoom - Sock Seeds (3:00) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - America's Heartland - Organic Seeds and Grain (3:36) - VIEW and  DO

Pressroom Contact

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