The Solar System

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Friday, February 19, 2021

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Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: The Solar System
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ON THIS DATE

• 1878 - Thomas Edison patents the phonograph.
• 1945 - The Fourth and Fifth  Marines land on  Iwo Jima.
• 1963 - "The Feminine Mystique" by Betty Friedan is published.
• 2008 -  Fidel Castro resigns as Cuba's president.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1473 - Polish mathematician and astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus
• 1717 - English actor, producer, and playwright David Garrick
• 1911 - Actor Merle Oberon
• 1940 - Singer-songwriter Smokey Robinson
• 1948 - English guitarist and songwriter Tony Iommi
• 1952 - Novelist Amy Tan
• 1955 - Actor Jeff Daniels

SONG OF THE DAY 

Smokey Robinson - Cruisin" - LISTEN

THEME:  The Solar System

• Grades PreK-1 -Sesame Street: Planet Moon and Stars (Song) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-3 - Ready Jet Go - Solar System Song - VIEW 
• Grades PreK-3 - Ready Jet Go - Solar System Coloring Sheet - DO
• Grades PreK-3 - PBS LearningMedia - Ready Jet Go! - Our Orbiting Solar System - VIEW
• Grades PreK-3 - PBS LearningMedia - Ready Jet Go! -Tour of the Solar System - VIEW
• Grades 3-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Design Squad and NASA - Mission: Solar System Collection - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 5-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Walking the Solar System - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 5-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Measuring Distance in the Solar System | NASA Planetary Sciences - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-8 - PBS LearningMedia - What Is the Solar System? (Available in Spanish) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-8 - PBS LearningMedia -  Smithsonian Science How - Exploring the Solar System with Antarctic Meteorites - VIEW
• Grades 6-8 - PBS LearningMedia -Tour the Solar System - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-8 - PBS LearningMedia - To Scale: The Solar System - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Scaled Images of the Solar System - VIEW
• Grades 6-8 - PBS LearningMedia - ,Map a Model Solar System - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-8 - PBS LearningMedia - NASA - Solar System Fact Sheet  - READ
• Grades 6-9 - PBS LearningMedia - NASA - Teaching About the Solar System - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - How Solar Systems Form - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 -  PBS LearningMedia - NOVA scienceNOW: Origins of the Solar System (Available in Spanish)  - VIEW, READ DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Nova - The Planets - Inner Worlds - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Nova - The Planets - Mars - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Nova - The Planets - Jupiter - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Nova - The Planets - Saturn - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Nova - The Planets - Ice Worlds - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Crash Course Astronomy - Introduction to the Solar System  - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - NASA Planetary Sciences - The Solar System's Boundaries  - VIEW and DO

Watch 

• 8-9 am NH WORLD - Beyond The Elements On Nova - Life
• 8:30-9 am NHPBS  - Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum - I Am Jesse Owens/I Am Ella Fitzgerald *
• 9-10 am NH WORLD - Europe's New Wild - The Land Of The Snow And Ice
  
• 10-11 am NH WORLD - Forces of Nature - Color
• 12-12:30 pm  NH WORLD - Illustrative Math  Gr 6 -  Write Expressions Where Letters Stand For Numbers
• 12:30 - 1 pm  - Illustrative Math Gr. 7 - Multiplying Rational Numbers
• 1-1:30 pm NH WORLD - Illustrative Math  Gr. 8 - Fitting a Line To Data
• 1:30-2 pm NH WORLD - Illustrative Math  Algebra 1 - Solving Quadratic Equations With The Zero Product Property
• 2-3 pm NH WORLD - Unladylike2020: American Masters
• 3-5 pm NH WORLD - Lorraine Hansberry: American Masters *
• 7-8:pm NH WORLD - Black Ballerina *
• 8-10 pm NH WORLD - American Experience - Voice Of Freedom*
• 9-11 pm NHPBS - Driving While Black: Race, Space and Mobility in America *

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