Kangaroos - May 15

Thursday, May 15, 2025

Today is International Kangaroo Care Awareness Day, Bring Flowers to Someone Day, International Day of Families, National Chocolate Chip Day, and Straw Hat Day.

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

ON THIS DATE

• 1911 - The Supreme Court rules that Standard Oil is a monopoly under the Sherman Antitrust Act and orders that it be broken up.
• 1941 - Joe DiMaggio begins a 56-game hitting streak.
• 1970 - President Richard Nixon appoints Anna Mae Hays and Elizabeth P. Hoisington as the first female Army generals.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1567 - Italian composer and priest Claudio Monteverdi
• 1689 - English writer Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
• 1856 - Wizard of Oz writer L. Frank Baum
• 1857 - Astronomer Williamina Fleming
• 1859 - French physicist Pierre Curie
• 1890 - Writer Katherine Anne Porter
• 1909 - English actor James Mason
• 1923 - Photographer Richard Avedon
• 1930 - Artist Jasper Johns
• 1936 - Playwright and novelist Paul Zindel
• 1937 - Politician and diplomat Madeleine Albright

SONG OF THE DAY 

Men At Work - I Come From a Land Down Under - LISTEN

ASIAN AMERICAN & PACIFIC ISLANDER HERITAGE MONTH RESOURCE OF THE DAY

Pacific Heartbeat

THEME:  Kangaroos

• Grades PreK-K - PBS LearningMedia - Paws for a Minute - Tree Kangaroo (1:00) - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Five Kangaroos with Jessica Mauboy! (1:53) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Kangaroo Blues (1:52) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-12 - Sydney Zoo - Australian Wildlife Videos - VIEW
• Grades K-2 - PBS LearningMedia - Wild Kratts - Kicking It With the Roos (26:26) -VIEW
• Grades K-4 - PBS LearningMedia - Camp TV - Kangaroos (4:27) - VIEW
• Grades K-4 - PBS LearningMedia - Wild Kratts - Kickboxing Kangaroos (2:14) - VIEW
• Grades K-4 - PBS LearningMedia - Wild Kratts - Macropod Mania (2:14) - VIEW
• Grades K-6 - PBS LearningMedia - Cartoon Academy - Kangaroo and Joey Too (6:12) - VIEW And DO
• Grades 3-12 - NHPBS Wildlife Journal Junior - Kangaroos and Wallabies - READ
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - Kangaroo Island: Australian Bushfire Rescue (9:34) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - Australia's First Four Billion Years - The Evolution of Kangaroos (3:43) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - Gross Science - Could Kangaroo Farts Curb Global Warming? (2:26) - VIEW and DO

Pressroom Contact

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