Iguanas and Star Trek - September 8

Sunday, September 8, 2024

Today is Iguana Awareness Day, Star Trek Day, Literacy Day, National Ampersand Day, National Actors' Day, Grandparent's Day, Date Nut Bread Day, and Hug Your Hound Day.

• Daily Hispanic Heritage Month Resource of the Day: The Hispanic Heritage Awards: Bad Bunny
• Classical Music Month Resource of the Day: Classical Rewind

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Iguanas and Star Trek

ON THIS DATE

• 1504 - Michelangelo's David is unveiled in Piazza della Signoria in Florence
• 1565 - A Spanish expedition establishes the first permanent European settlement in what is now the U.S. at  St. Augustine, Florida.
• 1664 - The Dutch surrender New Amsterdam to the British, who rename it New York. 
• 1900 - Galveston, Texas is struck by a hurricane that kills 6,000.
• 1966 - Beam me up Scottie -  the TV series "Star Trek" premieres on NBC.
• 1974 - President Ford pardons President Nixon.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1849 - Composer Antonín Dvorák
• 1863 - English writer W.W. Jacobs, best known for his short story, "The Monkey's Paw."
• 1868 - Mandolin player and composer Seth Weeks
• 1897 - Singer-songwriter Jimmie Rodgers
• 1922 - Actor and comedian Sid Caesar
• 1924 - Writer and Manchester, NH native Grace Metalious
• 1927 - Actor  Peter Sellers
• 1932 - Musician Patsy Cline
• 1940 - Poet Jack Prelutsky
• 1941 - Politician Bernie Sanders
• 1954 - Civil rights activist Ruby Bridges
• 1979 - Singer-songwriter Pink

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Antonín Dvorák - Seranade for Strings in E Major- LISTEN
• Seth Weeks - Polka Caprice - LISTEN
• Jimmie Rodgers - Blue Yodel No. 1 - LISTEN
• Patsy Cline - Crazy  - LISTEN
• Pink - Me & Bobby McGee - LISTEN

THEME:  IGUANAS

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Iguana - Elmo the Musical (7:24) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Pet Show and Tell: Iguana (1:13) - VIEW 
• Grades PreK-2 - Cat in the Hat - Ignacio the Iguana (1:50) - VIEW
• Grades 1-3 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Wild Kratts - Flight of the Draco Collection - VIEW and DO 
• Grades 2-5 - San Diego Zoo - Iguana - READ and LISTEN
• Grades 3-12 - National Zoo - Grand Cayman Blue Iguana - READ
• Grades 4-6 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Math Mess - Clash of the Iguanas: Calculating Rates of Change (1:06) -VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Big Pacific - Galapagos Marine Iguanas (3:28) - VIEW

THEME:  STAR TREK

• GradesPreK-1 - Sesame Street - Spaceship Surprise Next Generation (3:36) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Make It So Number One! (2:07) - VIEW
• Grades 3-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia - STEM in 30 - Star Trek at 50 - Science Fiction of Science Fact (28:30) - VIEW 
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS Video - Shanks FX - Strat Trek Transporter Effect (2:37) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS NewsHour - Star Trek - VIEW and READ
• Grades 6-12- Pioneers of Television - How Well Do You Know Star Trek Quiz - DO
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Antiques Roadshow - Star Trek Script and Treatment c. 1964 (3:57) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Metrofocus - Star Trek Realities at NYU (5:07) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Nichelle Nichols, Actress and NASA Recruiter (3:56) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Religion and Ethics Newsweekly - Spock, Spirituality, and Star Trek (6:31) -VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS Spacetime -Is The Alcubierre Warp Drive Possible? (7:21) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Remembering Leonard Nimoy (58:13) - VIEW

Pressroom Contact

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