Galaxies - March 11

Monday, March 11, 2024

Today is Dream Day, Johnny Appleseed Day, Napping Day, and World Plumbing Day.

Women's History Month Resource of the Day: Unladylike 2020 - Astronomer Wiliamina Fleming

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Galaxies
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ON THIS DATE

• 1941 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act into law

BIRTHDAYS

• 1893 - Author and illustrator Wanda Gág
• 1952 - English author Douglas Adams

SONG OF THE DAY 

• Monty Python - Galaxy Song - LISTEN
• We Are Family - Sister Sledge - LISTEN
• Me Llamo with Elmo, Zoe, and Luis (In memory of actor Emilio Delgado, who played Luis Rodriguez for 45 years on Sesame Street)  - LISTEN

THEME:  Galaxies

• Grades PreK-3 - NHPBS Videos - Crafts for Kids - Make a Galaxy in a Jar (1:12) -VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-3 - PBS LearningMedia - Ready Jet Go! - The Milky Way Song (2:01) - VIEW
• Grade PreK-3 - PBS LearningMedia - Ready Jet Go! - Map of the Galaxy(1:32) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Galaxies (1:21) - VIEW
• Grades K-12 - NASA - Galaxies - VIEW and READ
• Grades K-6 - PBS LearningMedia - Science Trek -Galaxies (3:04) - VIEW
• Grades 3-5 - PBS LearingMedia -  Tour of the Galaxy (Available in Spanish) (2:59) - VIEW
• Grades 3-8 - NASA Space Place - Galaxies - READ and DO
• Grades 4-6 - PBS LearningMedia - Dragonfly TV - Scientist Profile: Galactic Astronomer (2:36) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - Black Hole Apocalypse: Modeling Galaxies (4:23) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Genius by Stephen Hawking - Where Did the Universe Come From? -  Number the Galaxies in the Universe (10:15) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Great American Read - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (3:03)  - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NASA - Galaxies - READ and VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Videos - PBS Space Time  - How Black Holes Kill Galaxies (11:20) - VIEW 
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Videos - PBS Space Time - The Andromeda-Milky Way Collision (9:15) - VIEW 
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Videos - PBS Space Time - Was the Milky Way a Quasar? (13:31)  - VIEW 
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Physics Girl - How the Edge of Our Galaxy Defies Known Physics (10:36) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Indie Alaska - I Am a Universe Photographer (4:32)- VIEW
• Grades 8-10 - PBS LearningMedia - Stars and Galaxies and the Universe: Oh My! (7:18) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia -NOVA - How to Find a Galaxy (4:20) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Dinner and a Book - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (26:46) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - University Place - Galaxies and Their Monstrous Black Holes (53:30) - VIEW 
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - University Place - How to Make a Galaxy (38:33) - VIEW 

WATCH

NHPBS - 11.1 Comcast (2/802) More Options

AMERICAN MASTERS - Laura Ingalls Wilder: From Prairie to Page
Monday, 3/11 from 3:30-5 pm NHPBS
Follow the journey of the award-winning author of the best-selling "Little House" series in this exploration of her life and legacy and her little-known, secret collaboration with her daughter on the books that shaped American ideas of the frontier. AMERICAN MASTERS Streaming Video

AMERICAN MASTERS - Mae West: Dirty Blonde
Monday, 3/11 from 10-11:30 pm NHPBS
Dive into the life and career of groundbreaking writer, performer, and subversive star Mae West. Over a career spanning eight decades, she broke boundaries and possessed creative and economic powers unheard of for a female entertainer in the 1930s. AMERICAN MASTERS Streaming Video

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GREAT PERFORMANCES AT THE MET- Renee Fleming In Concert
Monday, 3/11 from 12-1 pm NH EXPLORE
Experience the beloved American soprano perform arias by Puccini and Massenet to selections by Handel and Korngold from the intimate music salon of Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.C.  GREAT PERFORMANCES Streaming Video

AMERICAN MASTERS - Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go For It
Monday, 3/11 from 1-3 pm NHP EXPLORE
Discover how Moreno defied her humble upbringing and racism to become one of a select group of Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Award winners. Explore her 70-year career with new interviews, clips of her iconic roles, and scenes of the star on set today. AMERICAN MASTERS Streaming Video

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AMERICAN EXPERIENCE - Sandra Day O'Connor: The First
Monday, 3/11 from 3-5 pm NH WORLD
During her 25 years on the Supreme Court, O'Connor was the critical swing vote on cases involving some of the 20th century's most controversial issues, including abortion, and affirmative action - and she was the tiebreaker on Bush v. Gore. Forty years after her confirmation, this biography recounts the life of a pioneering woman who both reflected and shaped an era. AMERICAN EXPERIENCE Streaming Video

Pressroom Contact

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