Basketball and Presidents Day - February 17

Monday, February 17, 2025

Cabbage Day, Cafe Au Lait Day, Indian Pudding Day, Public Science Day, President’s Day, and Washington’s Birthday.

Black History Month Resource of the Day: Alvin Ailey

• PBS NewsHour - The Legacy of the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Basketball and Presidents Day

ON THIS DATE.

• 1801 - The House of Representatives chooses Thomas Jefferson as president after a 73-73  electoral tie between Jefferson and Aaron Burr.  
• 1863 - The International Red Cross is founded in Geneva
• 1904 - Madama Butterfly premières at La Scala in Milan.
• 1933 - Newsweek magazine is first published.
• 1968 -The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame opens in Springfield, Massachusetts.
• 1996 - World chess champion Garry Kasparov beats the Deep Blue supercomputer in a chess match.
• 2009 - President Barack Obama signs a $757 billion economic stimulus package into law.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1874 - IBM founder Thomas J. Watson
• 1879 - Education reformer and activist Dorothy Canfield Fisher
• 1942 - Activist and Black Panther co-founder Huey P. Newton
• 1963 - Basketball player Michael Jordan
• 1981 - Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt
• 1991 - English singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Mariia Callas - Madame Butterfly - Un Bel di Vedremo  - LISTEN

THEME:  Basketball

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street -  Basketball, "What If" (1:26) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Elmo Makes His Shot (2:51) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Practicing Basketball (1:51) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - The Harlem Globetrotters - The Number 3 (1"24) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Rebecca Lobo and the Letter O (1:52) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-2 - Let's Go Luna - A Game of Basketball (1:11) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-2  - Molly of Denali - Playing Basketball on Snow (2:32) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-3 - NHPBS LearningMedia -  Angles - What's Good (3:56) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-3 - PBS LearningMedia - KidVision - Basketball (8:57) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 3-6 - PBS LearningMedia - Cyberchase - WNBA Supermom (4:13) - VIEW and DO
  
• Grades 4-8 - NHPBS LearningMedai - STEM in 30 - Basketball in Space (2:00) - VIEW
• Grades 5-8 - PBS Learning Media - Dragonfly TV - Basketball Physics (5:38) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 5-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Aiming For the Basketball Hall of Fame - Using Ratios (4:38) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Poetry in America - Fast Break (6:06) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 8 - Thinkport - Basketball and Functional Relationships Collection - VIEW and DO
• Grades 9-12 -  PBS LearningMedia - Class C: The Fort Shaw Women's Basketball Team (3:04) -  VIEW and DO
• Grades 9-12 -NHPBS Video - Something in the Water: A Kinston Basketball Story (26:46) - VIEW

THEME:  Presidents Day

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Elmo is the First Monster President (6:56) - VIEW
• Grades K-12 - PBS LearningMEdia - U.S. Presidents Collection - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 3-12 - PBS LearningMedia - 60-Second Presidents Collection (Available in Spanish) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 3-5 - PBS LearningMedia - Presidents Day (Available in Spanish)  (0:58) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 3-5 - PBS LearningMedia - Presidents Day Word Search - DO
• Grades 4-8 - PBS LearningMedia - What Makes a Perfect President - DO
• Grades 4-12 - Library of Congress - The Presidents, First Ladies, and Vice Presidents - Photographs -VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - The Miller Center - University of Virginia - The Presidents - READ
• Grades 6-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Politics on Point - The Power of the President (3:47) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 9-12 - C-SPAN - The Presidents - READ and VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - The American Experience - The Presidents Collection - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - NewsMakers - Presidents Day History (26:46) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - American Experience - The Presidents Collection - VIEW

Pressroom Contact

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