Ice Cream, Gwendolyn Brooks, Black Bears, and Prairies - June 7

Saturday, June 7, 2025

Today is National Chocolate Ice Cream Day, VCR Day, Donut Day, Running Day, and Daniel Boone Day.

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Ocean/River Month Resource of the Day
Today's Theme:  Ice Cream, Gwendolyn Brooks, Black Bears, and Prairies

ON THIS DATE

• 1776 - Richard Henry Lee of Virginia proposes that the Continental Congress draft a resolution calling for a Declaration of Independence.
• 1892 - Homer Plessy is arrested after refusing to leave his seat in the "whites-only" car of a train.
• 1929 - Vatican City becomes a sovereign state.
• 1942 - The Battle of Midway ends.
• 1965 -The Supreme Court rules in Griswold v. Connecticut that states can not criminalize the use of contraception by married couples.
• 2003 - New Hampshire Episcopalians elect an openly gay man, the Rev. V. Gene Robinson, to be bishop.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1848 - French painter Paul Gauguin
• 1917 - Poet Gwendolyn Brooks
• 1917 - Singer and actor  Dean Martin
• 1940 - Welsh singer Tom Jones
• 1952 - Actor Liam Neeson
• 1958 - Singer-songwriter Prince
• 1959 - Former Vice President Mike Pence
• 1978 - Actor and comedian Bill Hader

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Dean Martin - That's Amore - LISTEN
• Tom Jones - It's Not Unusual - LISTEN
• Prince - Let's Go Crazy - LISTEN

OCEAN/RIVER MONTH RESOURCE OF THE DAY

Camp TV - From an Otter Point of View - VIEW

THEME: Ice Cream

• Grades PreK-K - PBS LearningMedia - Ice Cream Parlour Fieldtrip (7:15)  - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-1  - Sesame Street - Ernie's Ice Cream Cone (3:05) -  VIEW
• Grades PreK-2 - PBS LearningMedia - Let's Learn - Homemade Ice Cream (12:59) - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-2 - PBS LearningMedia - Let's Learn - Making Non-Dairy Ice Cream (10:52) - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-3 - Arthur - An Ice Cream Experiment (1:46) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-5 - PBS LearningMedia - 60 Second Science - Making Ice Cream (1:06) - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-3 - PBS LearningMedia - Martha Speaks - Operation Ice Cream Game - DO
• Grades 3-6 - NHPBS Video - DIY Science Time - Thermal Energy (23:39) - VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Delishtory - We All Scream for Ice Cream (5:30) - VIEW

THEME: Gwendolyn Brooks

• Grades 4-12 - National Endowment for the Humanities - EDSITEment - Gwendolyn Brooks' "We Real Cool" Lesson Plan -LISTEN, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Poetry in America - To Prisoners (5:56)  - VIEW and DO
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Poetry in America - To Prisoners (25:26)  - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Chicago Tonight - We Real Cool (5:46)  - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Chicago Tonight - Gwendolyn Brooks: The Creative Person (29:09)  - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Chicago Tonight - Honoring Chicago Poet Gwendolyn Brooks (6:52)  - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Chicago Tonight - Gwendolyn Brooks: Still Real Cool at 100 (5:16)  - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Poetry in America - To Prisoners (25:26)  - VIEW
  
• Grades 7-12 - National Academy of American Poets -Teach This Poem: “the sonnet-ballad” by Gwendolyn Brooks - READ and DO
• Grades 7-12 - National Academy of American Poets -Teach This Poem: “To Prisoners” by Gwendolyn Brooks - READ and DO
• Grades 9-12 - National Council of Teachers of English - Read Write Think - Many Years Later: Responding to Gwendolyn Brooks' "We Real Cool" Lesson Plan - READ and DO
• Grades 9-12 -The Impact of a Poem's Line Breaks: Enjambment and Gwendolyn Brooks' "We Real Cool"
  Lesson Plan - READ and DO

THEME: Black Bears

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Do the Bear (2:37) - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-1 - PBS LearningMedia - Super Why - Goldilocks and The Three Bears (25:25) - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-6 - PBS LearningMedia - Science Trek - Bears (5:25)  - VIEW and DO
• Grades 1-5 - PBS LearingMedia - Kratts Creatures - Bear Camping (1:20) - VIEW
• Grades 1-5 - PBS LearingMedia - Kratts Creatures - Bear-ly Swimming  (1:41) - VIEW
• Grades 3-12 -  NHPBS - Wildlife Journal Jr. - Black Bear - READ
• Grades 5-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Untamed - Black Bears (26:45) - VIEW, READ and DO

THEME: PRAIRIES

• Grades PreK-1- Sesame Street  - Monsterpiece Theater - Little Prairie on the Prairie (2:31) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-2 - Nature Cat  - The Prairie is Awesome  (2:34) - VIEW 
• Grades PreK-2 - Nature Cat - Speaking Prairie Chicken  (2:38) - VIEW
• Grades K-4 - Wild Kratts - Bison Roadblock (1:44) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 2-6 - EEK! - What is a Prairie? - READ
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Vegetation on the Prairie (3:54) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Wetlands: A Prairie Slough (1:31) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Biodiversity on the Prairie (3:21) - VIEW

Pressroom Contact

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