Pluto and Whales - February 18

Sunday, February 18, 2024

Today is Eat Ice Cream for Breakfast Day, Pluto Day, and World Whale Day.

Black History Month Resource of the Day: Misty Copeland

• Firing Line - Misty Copeland
• To The Contrary - Misty Copeland Discusses the History and Future of Ballet
• Open Studio with Jare Brown - Misty Copeland Broke Barriers and Made History
• American Masters - Misty Copeland American Ballet Theatre Soloist

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Pluto and Whales
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ON THIS DATE

• 1885  - Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is published.
• 1930 -  Clyde Tombaugh finds photographic evidence of Pluto.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1848 - Stained glass artist Louis Comfort Tiffany
• 1931 - Novelist Toni Morrison*
• 1950 - Director John Hughes
• 1950 - Actor Cybill Shepherd
• 1954 - Actor John Travolta
• 1968 - Actor Molly Ringwald

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Gustav Holst - Pluto: The Renewer - LISTEN
• Bjork - Pluto - LISTEN
• Sufjan Stevens - Pluto - LISTEN

THEME: PLUTO

• Grades PreK-3 - Ready Jet Go!  - Dear Little Frozen Pluto (1:09) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-3 - Ready Jet Go!   - Pluto is Not a Planet (1:44) - VIEW
• Grades 6-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - Is Pluto a Planet? (6:06) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - Chasing Pluto (53:07) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - Why Study Pluto and Dwarf Planets? (3:54) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - NASA - Changing Views of Pluto - VIEW, READ, DO (Available in Spanish) - (5:15)
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - NASA - Pluto, A Dwarf Planet in the Kuiper Belt (4:58) - VIEW, READ, DO 
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS Space Time - Is Pluto a Planet? (14:03) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video -  Be Smart - What Has New Horizons Taught Us About Pluto? (5:55) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Star Gazers - What Happened To Pluto? (4:30) - VIEW

THEME:  Whales

• Grades PreK-2 - Splash and Bubbles - The Way Whales Talk (3:14) - VIEW
• Grades K-4 - Wild Kratts - Whale Watching (10:02) - VIEW
• Grades K-5 - PBS LearningMedia - Guess How Whales Hear (5:58) - VIEW
• Grade 1-3 - PBS LearningMedia - Wild Kratts - Whale of a Squid (26:25) - VIEW
• Grades 1-3 - PBS LearningMedia-  Wild Kratts - Adventures with Whales (1:26) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-6 - PBS LearningMedia - DragonflyTV - Whale Scientist (available in Spanish) (2:38) - VIEW
• Grades 4-12 - PBS LearningMedia -  Ocean Today - Gray Whale Migration (2:14) - VIEW
• Grades 6-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Jonathan Bird's Blue World - Wilma the (beluga) Whale (10:04) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Jonathan Bird's Blue World -The Shark and the Whale (9:07) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Life on the Reef - Minke Whales (4:20) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - When Whale Walked - Pakicetus: Walking Whale Ancestor (3:12) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia- Quest - Whale Sharks (3:15) - VIEW
• Grades 8-10 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - Killer Whales and the Changing Arctic (3:31) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Eons - When Whales Walked (4:56) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Eons - How the Andes Mountains Might Have Killed a Bunch of Whales (8:27) - View

WATCH

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KINGDOMS OF THE SKY - Rockies
Sunday, 2/18 from 10-11 pm NH WORLD
Experience the amazing wildlife and remarkable people who inhabit this 3,000-mile mountain range, home to cougars, wolverines, wolves, and grizzlies. Daredevil wingsuit fliers jump from high peaks and Native Americans compete in breakneck horse races. KINGDOMS OF THE SKY Streaming Video

Pressroom Contact

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