Mothers and Glaciers - May 11

Sunday, May 11, 2025

Today is Mother's Day, Eat What You Want Day, Hostess Cupcake Day, and Twilight Zone Day.

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

ON THIS DATE

• 1858 - Minnesota is admitted as the 32nd state
• 1894 - Four thousand Pullman Palace Car Company workers go on strike.
• 1910 - Glacier National Park in Montana is established
• 1960 - Nazi war criminal  Adolf Eichmann is captured in Argentina.
• 1997 - The Deep Blue IBM computer defeats Garry Kasparov and wins a six-game chess match.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1874 - Pilot Harriet Quimby
• 1888 - Composer Irving Berlin
• 1894 - Choreographer Martha Graham
• 1904 - Spanish artist Salvador Dalí
• 1905 - Architect and public housing advocate Catherine Bauer Wurster

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• The Beatles - Julia - LISTEN
• The Shirelles - Mama Said - LISTEN
  
• Three Dog Night - Mama Told Me Not to Come - LISTEN
• Taylor Swift - The Best Day - LISTEN
• Patsy Cline - Always (by Irving Berlin) -LISTEN

ASIAN AMERICAN & PACIFIC ISLANDER HERITAGE MONTH RESOURCE OF THE DAY

F is for Fred Korematsu | ABC's of AAPIs

 THEME: Mothers

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Mother's Day Song - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - M is for Mom - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Mom and Me - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Rotten Grouchy Mother's Day - VIEW
• Grades 1-5 - Cyberchase - Mother's Day - VIEW
• Grades 4-12 - Anna Jarvis and the History of Mother's Day - VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - PBS Learning Media - Nature - Orangutans: Mother Knows Best - VIEW and DO

THEME:  Glaciers

• Grades PreK-2 - Let's Go Luna - Glacier or Bust (3:15) - VIEW
  
• Grades 3-8 - NHPBS Video - Dragonfly TV - Glaciers (7:38) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Nova - What’s Causing Greenland’s Biggest Glacier to Melt? (2:04) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video -   Be Smart - How Do Glaciers Move? (6:30) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Wild Alaska - Glaciers - READ and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - Fastest Glacier (5:15) - VIEW and READ
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - Glacier Up Close (2:46) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Frontline - Observing Melting Glaciers In Greenland (5:30) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Frontline - High Altitude Glaciers in the Tropics (4:40) - VIEW, READ,  DO

Pressroom Contact

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