The Solar System - February 19
Sun in the Center Learning
Wednesday, February 19, 2025
Today is Iwo Jima Day and International Tug-of-War Day
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: The Solar System
Black History Month Resource of the Day: Smokey Robinson
- Gershwin Prize - Library of Congress Interview with Smokey Robinson
- PBS NewsHour - How Smokey Robinson Knows a Good Song When He Sees One
- Smokey Robinson: The Gershwin Prize Finale
ON THIS DATE
- 1878 - Thomas Edison patents the phonograph.
- 1945 - The Fourth and Fifth Marines land on Iwo Jima.
- 1963 - "The Feminine Mystique" by Betty Friedan is published.
- 2008 - Fidel Castro resigns as Cuba's president.
- 1473 - Polish mathematician and astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus
- 1717 - English actor, producer, and playwright David Garrick
- 1911 - Actor Merle Oberon
- 1940 - Singer-songwriter Smokey Robinson
- 1948 - English guitarist and songwriter Tony Iommi
- 1952 - Novelist Amy Tan
- 1955 - Actor Jeff Daniels
- Grades PreK-1 -Sesame Street: Planet Moon and Stars (1:39) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-3 - Ready Jet Go - Solar System Song (1:40) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-3 - Ready Jet Go - Solar System Coloring Sheet - DO
- Grades PreK-3 - PBS LearningMedia - Ready Jet Go! - Our Orbiting Solar System (2:02) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-3 - PBS LearningMedia - Ready Jet Go! -Tour of the Solar System (12:26) - VIEW
- Grades 3-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Design Squad and NASA - Mission: Solar System Collection - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 5-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Walking the Solar System (5:12) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 5-8 - PBS LearningMedia - NASA Planetary Sciences - Measuring Distance in the Solar System (3:30) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 6-8 - PBS LearningMedia - What Is the Solar System? (Available in Spanish) (1:44) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 6-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Smithsonian Science How - Exploring the Solar System with Antarctic Meteorites (29:16) - VIEW
- Grades 6-8 - PBS LearningMedia - To Scale: The Solar System (5:16) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Scaled Images of the Solar System - VIEW
- Grades 6-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Map a Model Solar System Interactive - DO
- Grades 6-8 - PBS LearningMedia - NASA - Solar System Fact Sheet - READ
- Grades 6-9 - PBS LearningMedia - NASA - Teaching About the Solar System Professional Development - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - How Solar Systems Form (6:01) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - NOVA scienceNOW: Origins of the Solar System (Available in Spanish) (5:39) - VIEW, READ DO
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Crash Course Astronomy - Introduction to the Solar System (9:57) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - NASA Planetary Sciences - The Solar System's Boundaries (4:53) - VIEW and DO
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