Galaxies - March 11

Tuesday, March 11, 2025

Today is Dream Day, Johnny Appleseed Day, and World Plumbing Day.

Women's History Month Resource of the Day: Unladylike 2020 - Astronomer Wiliamina Fleming

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Galaxies

ON THIS DATE

• 1941 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act into law

BIRTHDAYS

• 1893 - Author and illustrator Wanda Gág
• 1952 - English author Douglas Adams

SONG OF THE DAY 

• Monty Python - Galaxy Song - LISTEN
• We Are Family - Sister Sledge - LISTEN
• Me Llamo with Elmo, Zoe, and Luis (In memory of actor Emilio Delgado, who played Luis Rodriguez for 45 years on Sesame Street)  - LISTEN

THEME:  Galaxies

• Grades PreK-3 - NHPBS Videos - Crafts for Kids - Make a Galaxy in a Jar (1:12) -VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-3 - PBS LearningMedia - Ready Jet Go! - The Milky Way Song (2:01) - VIEW
• Grade PreK-3 - PBS LearningMedia - Ready Jet Go! - Map of the Galaxy (1:32) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Galaxies (1:21) - VIEW
• Grades K-12 - NASA - Galaxies - VIEW and READ
• Grades K-6 - PBS LearningMedia - Science Trek -Galaxies (3:04) - VIEW
• Grades 3-5 - PBS LearingMedia -  Tour of the Galaxy (Available in Spanish) (2:59) - VIEW
• Grades 3-8 - NASA Space Place - Galaxies - READ and DO
• Grades 4-6 - PBS LearningMedia - Dragonfly TV - Scientist Profile: Galactic Astronomer (2:36) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - Black Hole Apocalypse: Modeling Galaxies (4:23) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Genius by Stephen Hawking - Where Did the Universe Come From? -  Number the Galaxies in the Universe (10:15) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Great American Read - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (3:03)  - VIEW and DO
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Videos - PBS Space Time  - How Black Holes Kill Galaxies (11:20) - VIEW 
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Videos - PBS Space Time - The Andromeda-Milky Way Collision (9:15) - VIEW 
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Videos - PBS Space Time - Was the Milky Way a Quasar? (13:31)  - VIEW 
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Physics Girl - How the Edge of Our Galaxy Defies Known Physics (10:36) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Indie Alaska - I Am a Universe Photographer (4:32) - VIEW
• Grades 8-10 - PBS LearningMedia - Stars and Galaxies and the Universe: Oh My! (7:18) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - NOVA - How to Find a Galaxy (4:20) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Dinner and a Book - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (26:46) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - University Place - Galaxies and Their Monstrous Black Holes (53:30) - VIEW 
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - University Place - How to Make a Galaxy (38:33) - VIEW 

Pressroom Contact

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