Mars and Frederick Douglass - September 3

Wednesday, September 3, 2025

Today is Skyscraper Day.

• Hispanic Heritage Month Resource of the Day: Hispanic Leaders
• Classical Music Month Resource of the Day: Classical Music's Next Generation

 AMERICAN REVOLUTION HISTORY ON THIS DATE

1777 – American Revolutionary War: During the Battle of Cooch's Bridge, the flag of the United States is flown in battle for the first time, according to legend.

1783 – American Revolutionary War: The war ends with the signing of the Treaty of Paris by the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain.

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme:  Mars and Frederick Douglass

ON THIS DATE

• 1783 - The Revolutionary War ends with the signing of the Treaty of Paris.
• 1838 - Frederick Douglass escapes from slavery.
• 1962 - Poet E.E. Cummings dies in North Conway, N.H.
• 1976 - The unmanned spacecraft Viking 2 lands on Mars.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1849 - Author Sarah Orne Jewett
• 1887 - Author Sally Benson
• 1929 - Crime boss Whitey Bulger
• 1986 - Snowboarder Shaun White

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• David Bowie - Life on Mars  - LISTEN
• Mark Ronson - Uptown Funk ft. Bruno Mars - LISTEN

THEME: MARS

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Bruno Mars: Don't Give Up (1:51) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street: Pizza Delivery Astronaut (7:20) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-4 - Ready Jet Go! - Mars Lesson (1:51) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-4 - PBS LearningMedia - Ready Jet Go - Earth and Mars (1:55) - VIEW
• Grades K-6 - PBS LearningMedia - Science Trek - Exploring Mars Collection - VIEW
• Grades K-6 - PBS Learning Media - Science Trek - Mars: The Red Planet Revealed (5:21) - VIEW
• Grades 3-6 - NASA - All About Mars - READ, VIEW, DO
• Grades 4-6 - PBS LearningMedia - DragonflyTV - Mars (6:04) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-6 - PBS LearningMedis - DragonflyTV - Scientist Profile: Mars Rover Engineer (Available in Spanish) (2:07) - VIEW
• Grades 5-8 - PBS LearningMedia - STEM in 30 - Mars Rovers (28:37) - VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - PBS LearningMedia - NASA - How Mars Became a Desert (5:03) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Physics Girl -The Surprising Ways Mars is Hostile to Life (10:11) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - PBS Space Time - The First Humans on Mars (7:51) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS Space Time - Could We Terraform Mars? (15:33) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - Designing for Drilling on Mars (Available in Spanish) (4:34) - VIEW and DO 
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - NASA - Soaring Over Mars (4:09) - VIEW, READ, DO 
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS  Video - Crash Course Astronomy - Mars (10:10) - VIEW

THEME: FREDERICK DOUGLASS

• Grades 3-7 - PBS LearningMedia - American Icons - Frederick Douglass: Orator, Editor, and Abolitionist (Available in Spanish) (3:36) - VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Reading Frederick Douglass (45:45) -VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Becoming Frederick Douglass Collection - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-10 - PBS LearningMedia - The African Americans - Frederick Douglass (5:19) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - American Experience - The Abolitionists - Ex-slave Frederick Douglass Joins the Abolitionists (3:59) - VIEW 

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