Hubble Telescope - April 24
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Sunday, April 24, 2022
Today is New Kids on The Block Day
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Poem of the Day - April is National Poetry Month
Today's Theme: Hubble Telescope
ON THIS DATE
- 1800 - President John Adams established the Library of Congress when he signs legislation to allocate $5,000 to purchase "such books as may be necessary for the use of Congress".
- 1898 - Spain declares war on the United States.
- 1990 - The Hubble Space Telescope is launched from the Space Shuttle Discovery.
- 1904 - Painter Willem de Kooning
- 1905 - Novelist and poet Robert Penn Warren
- 1934 - Actor Shirley MacLaine
- 1942 - Singer and actor Barbra Streisand
POEMS OF THE DAY
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - The Light of Sars
Megan Snyder-Camp - Repairing the Hubble Telescope
THEME: Hubble Telescope
- Grades 3-5 - PBS LearningMedia - Science Trek - The Hubble Telescope (3:09) - VIEW
- Grades 4-12 - NASA - Hubble Space Telescope Site - VIEW and READ
- Grades 4-12 - NASA - Hubble Space Telescope - VIEW and READ
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - Hubble and the Expanding Universe - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Hubble Telescope: Looking Up (Available in Spanish) (2:19) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - NASA - Swift and Hubble Probe an Asteroid Crash (Available in Spanish) (1:46) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - NASA - What Hubble Taught Us About the Planets (Available in Spanish) (4:46) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Physics Girl - What's the Darkest Part of the Sky? The Hubble Deep Field (2:41) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - Invisible Universe Revealed (52:52) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Hubble Data Used to Look 10,000 Years into the Future (1:33) - VIEW
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