Moon Exploration - September 14

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Saturday, September 14, 2024

Today is Cream-Filled Doughnut Day, Eat a Hoagie Day, Coloring Day, German Language Day, lacemaking Day, Prairie Day, and Support Latino Business Day.

• Hispanic/Latino Resource of the Day: SciGirls (In English and Spanish)
• Classical Music Resource of the Day: Sesame Street - Yo Yo Ma - The Jam Session

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme:  MOON EXPLORATION

ON THIS DATE

• 1741 - George Frideric Handel completes his oratorio, Messiah.
• 1814 - Francis Scott Key writes the poem "Defence of Fort Henry" which becomes the lyrics to the "Star-Spangled Banner."
• 1901 - President William McKinley dies from his wounds after being shot on  September 6 by anarchist Leon Czolgosz.  He is succeeded by Vice President Theodore Roosevelt.
• 1959 - The Soviet space probe Luna 2 becomes the first man-made object to reach the moon when it crashes into the moon.
• 2001 -  President George W. Bush tours the ruins at the World Trade Center and addresses the crowd via bullhorn from atop the rubble.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1857 - Suffragist Alice Stone Blackwell
• 1879 - Birth control advocate Margaret Sanger
• 1983 - English singer Amy Winehouse

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Frank Sinatra - Fly Me To The Moon - LISTEN
• The Police - Walking On The Moon - LISTEN
  
• REM - Man On the Moon - LISTEN
• Creedence Clearwater Revival - Bad Moon Rising - LISTEN
• Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon - LISTEN
• Cat Stevens - Moonshadow - LISTEN
• Glenn Miller - Moonlight Serenade - LISTEN
• Sarah Vaughan - Moon  River - LISTEN
• Billie Holiday- Blue Moon - LISTEN
• The Marcels - Blue Moon - LISTEN
• Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys - Blue Moon of Kentucky - LISTEN
• Elvis Presley - Blue Moon of Kentucky - LISTEN
• Claude DeBussy - Clair de Lune - LISTEN
• David Bowie - Space Oddity - LISTEN
  
• Elton John - Rocket Man - LISTEN
• Royal Choral Society - Hallelujah Chorus from Handel's Messiah - LISTEN
  

THEME: THE MOON

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - I Don't Want to Live On the Moon (Original) (2:38) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - I Don't Want to Live On the Moon (Animated) (2:58) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - I Don't Want to Live on the Moon with Ernie (Lennon and Maisy) (2:54) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Cookie Monster Thinks the Moon is a Cookie featuring Buzz Aldrin (54:53) - VIEW
• Grades K-3 - NHPBS Video - Crafts for Kids - Make a Moon Phase Box (2:45) - VIEW and DO
  
• Grades K-3 - Ready Jet Go! - Why does the Moon Change Shape? (1:45) - VIEW
• Grades K-3 - Ready Jet Go! - My Moon Journal - DO
• Grades K-3 - PBS LearningMedia - Journey to the Moon (6:11) - VIEW
  
• Grades 3-5 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Moon Phases Simulation Viewed From Earth and Space  (Available in Spanish) -  DO
• Grades 4-8 - PBS LearningMedia - STEM in 30 -Voyage to the Moon: 50 Years Ago and Today (28:29) - VIEW
• Grades 5-8 - PBS LearningMedia - STEM in 30 - Moon Rocks (31:09) - VIEW
  
• Grades 5-12 - NASA - The Moon - VIEW and READ
• Grades 6-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Phases of the Moon (Available in Spanish) - DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Nova - Back to the Moon (53:38) - VIEW
• Grades 6-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nova - Back to the Moon - Finding Water on the Lunar Surface (3:31) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - American Experience - The Road to Apollo: An Interactive Journey - DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - American Experience -  Chasing the Moon - Sputnik’s Launch Begins the Space Race (5:55) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Quest - NASA Ames Rocket to the Moon (11:41) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nova - Origin of the Moon (Available in Spanish) (3:56) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Be Smart - Apollo’s Most Important Discovery: Inside NASA’s Moon Rock V (10:22) - VIEW
  
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Be Smart - Why We Should Put Rockets on the Moon (11:30) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - 8 Days to the Moon and Back - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Moonwalk (29:43) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Crash Course Astronomy - Moon Phases (9:45) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - NASA - Evolution of the Moon (Available in Spanish) (2:32) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - NASA - Meet ATHLETE, a Moon Rover (3:15) - VIEW, READ, DO

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