Nurses and Teachers - May 6

Tuesday, May 6, 2025

Today is National Beverage Day, National Crepes Suzette Day, National Meeting Planners Appreciation Day, Golf Day, National Teacher's Day, National Nurses Day, National Tourist Appreciation Day, No Homework Day, and Childhood Depression Awareness Day.

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month Resource of the Day
Today's Theme: Nurses and Teachers

ON THIS DATE

• 1861 -  Arkansas secedes from the Union.
• 1863 - The Army of the Potomac is defeated by the Army of Northern Virginia. at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
• 1877 -  Chief Crazy Horse or Tasunke Witco of the Oglala Lakota surrenders to United States troops in Nebraska.
• 1882 -  Congress passes the Chinese Exclusion Act. 
• 1915 -  Boston Red Sox pitcher Babe Ruth hits his first major league home run.
• 1935 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt issues Executive Order 7034 creating the Works Progress Administration.
• 1937 - The German zeppelin Hindenburg catches fire and is destroyed while attempting to dock at Lakehurst, New Jersey, killing 36.
• 1940 - John Steinbeck is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Grapes of Wrath.
• 1941 - Bob Hope performs his first USO show at California's March Field.
• 1954 - British runner Roger Bannister becomes the first person to run the mile in under four minutes.
• 1960 - 20 million viewers tune in for the wedding of Princess Margaret marries Anthony Armstrong-Jones, the first televised royal wedding.
• 1998 - Steve Jobs of Apple Inc. unveils the first iMac.
• 2004 - The finale of "Friends" airs on NBC.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1758 - French politician Maximilien Robespierre
• 1856 - Austrian psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud
• 1856 - Admiral and explorer Robert Peary
• 1895 - Italian actor Rudolph Valentino
• 1915 - Actor, producer, director, and screenwriter Orson Welles
• 1931 - Baseball player Willie Mays
• 1937 - Boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter
• 1945 - Singer-songwriter Bob Seger
• 1955 - First host of NHPBS Granite State Challenge Tom Bergeron
• 1961 - Actor George Clooney

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Bob Seeger - Against the Wind - LISTEN
• Bob Dylan - Hurricane - LISTEN

ASIAN AMERICAN & PACIFIC ISLANDER HERITAGE MONTH RESOURCE OF THE DAY
Through Our Eyes - Reclaim

THEME:  Nurses

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - People in Your Neighborhood - Nurses and Pilots (2:23) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Mister Rogers - Nurse Miller’s Check Up (1968) (28:55) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-2 - Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum - How Did Florence Nightingale Help People? (1:30) - VIEW
• Grades 2-6 - NHPBS LearningMedia - A-Z Careers - Nurse Practitioner (4:58) -  VIEW and READ
• Grades 6-7 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Real-Life Math - Nurse (4:35) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Physics Girl - Candid Interview with COVID-19 ER Nurse and Epidemiologist (20:41) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Essential Voices - Shelley Sherman: Clinical Nurse Specialist (4:33) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Careers in Demand - Doctors and Nurses (3:05) - VIEW

THEME:  Teachers

• Grades PreK-1 - PBS LearningMedia - KidVision - A Day with a Teacher (10:42) - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-1 - PBS LearningMedia - Meet the Helpers - Teachers (4:04) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-12 - PBS LearningMedia - SciGirls - Andrea Chaves: Pedagoga/Teacher  (In Spanish, w/ English subtitles)  3:15) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Alaska Native Perspectives on Earth and Climate - Dustin Madden: Science Teacher (2:28) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - PBS NewsHour - Teach for America Struggling to Find New Teachers (6:12) - VIEW and READ
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - American Graduate - From Dropout to Mentor and Teacher (1:53) -VIEW and DO

Pressroom Contact

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