Eleanor Roosevelt and Fossils - October 11

Friday, October 11, 2024

Today is Day of The Girl Child, Coming Out Day, Southern Food Heritage Day, Fossil Day, It's My Party Day, Sausage Pizza Day, and World Egg Day.

Animal Cam of the Day: Monterey Bay Aquarium Sea Otter Cam
Dessert of the Day: Red Velvet Cake
LGBT History Resource of the Day: Representation and Support in Schools

On This Date
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme:  Eleanor Roosevelt and Fossils

ON THIS DATE

• 1910 - Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first U.S. president to fly in an airplane.
• 1958 - NASA launches Pioneer 1, its first space probe. 
• 1968 - NASA launches Apollo 7, the first manned  Apollo mission.
• 1984 - Kathryn D. Sullivan becomes the first American woman to perform a spacewalk.
• 2000 - NASA launches STS-92, the 100th Space Shuttle mission.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1884 - First Lady, activist, and diplomat Eleanor Roosevelt
• 1918 - Choreographer Jerome Robbins
• 1932 - Country singer-songwriter Dottie West
• 1946 - Singer-songwriter Daryl Hall
• 1966 - Actor Luke Perry
• 1970 - Rapper and actor MC Lyte
• 1992 - Rapper Cardi B

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Barbara Walsh - Ladies of the Press (Eleanor Roosevelt) - LISTEN
  
• Dottie West - Here Comes My Baby - LISTEN
• Hall and Oates - I Can't Go For That (No Way) - LISTEN
• Science with Don - Fossil Rock Anthem - LISTEN

THEME: ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

• Grades 1-2 - PBS LearningMedia - Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum - Eleanor Roosevelt Reader - READ and DO
• Grades 3-7 - PBS LearnigMedia - American Icons - Eleanor Roosevelt: First Lady, Diplomat, and Activist (3:57) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - The Roosevelts - Eleanor Roosevelt: The Early Years (4:22) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - The Roosevelts - Eleanor Roosevelt vs. Sara Delano Roosevelt (4:25) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - The Roosevelts - Eleanor Roosevelt: South Pacific Visit (4:02) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - The Roosevelts - Eleanor Roosevelt: The Red Cross (2:58) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - The Roosevelts - Eleanor Roosevelt's First Step into Politics (3:24) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - The Roosevelts - FDR and Eleanor Roosevelt Respond to Pearl Harbor (6:49) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - The Roosevelts - Eleanor Roosevelt and the United Nations (9:27)  - VIEW and DO

THEME: FOSSILS

• Grades PreK-2 - PBS LearningMedia - Dinosaur Train - Fossil Finder - DO
• Grades PreK-2 - PBS LearningMedia - Dinosaur Train - All About Fossils (2:06) - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-2 - PBS LearningMedia - Dinosaur Train - Footprints and Trackways (4:01) - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-2 - Dinosaur Train - Dinosaur Discoveries - Fossils (1:41) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-2 - Nature Cat - Mammoth Fossil (3:15) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-3 - PBS Parents - Crafts for Kids - Homemade Fossils  - DO
• Grades K-6 - PBS LearningMedia - Science Trek - Dinosaurs with David Varricchio Collection (6:02)  - VIEW
• Grades 3-5 - PBS LearningMedia - Outdoor Nevada - Fossil Hunting (6:07) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 3-6 - PBS LearningMedia -  Science Trek - Fossils: The Hagerman Horse (3:26) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-6 - PBS LearningMedia - DragonflyTV - Scientist Profile: Paleontologist (2:35) - VIEW
• Grades 4-8 - PBS LearningMedia -  NC Science Now - Mystery Dino Science (6:23) - VIEW
• Grades 6-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Smithsonian Science How - How Fossils Explain the Rise of Dinosaurs (29:14) - VIEW
• Grades 6-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Smithsonian Science How -  Global Change: Reading Ocean Fossils (29:16) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - American Museum of Natural History - Meet the Paleontologists (2:45) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - Becoming a Fossil (2:34) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - Fossils: Rocking the Earth (2:08) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Eons - Were These Monsters Inspired by Fossils? (12:18) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Eons - How a Supervolcano Made the Cenozoic’s Coolest Fossils (9:24) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Eons - The Most Useful Fossils In The World (5:48) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Eons - Can We Get DNA From Fossils? (11;21)  - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Eons - The Oddest Couple in the Fossil Record (8:48) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Prehistoric Roadtrip Series - VIEW 
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Regents Review 2.0 - Fossils Collection (7:15) - VIEW

Pressroom Contact

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