Basketball and Presidents Day - February 17
Full Court Press and Presidential Learning
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
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.
- 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
Mariia Callas - Madame Butterfly - Un Bel di Vedremo - LISTEN
- 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
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