Pluto - February 18
Not a Planet Learning
Tuesday, February 18, 2025
Today is Eat Ice Cream for Breakfast Day and Pluto 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
ON THIS DATE
- 1885 - Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is published.
- 1930 - Clyde Tombaugh finds photographic evidence of Pluto.
- 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
- 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
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