Superman and the Berlin Wall - June 12

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Thursday, June 12, 2025

Today is Peanut Butter Cookie Day, Falafel Day, Loving Day, Ghost in the Machine Day, Little League Girls Baseball Day, Superman Day, and World Day Against Child Labor.

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Ocean/River Month Resource of the Day
Today's Theme: Superman and the Berlin Wal

ON THIS DATE

1775 - British general Thomas Gage declares martial law in Massachusetts.
1817 - Karl von Drais rides his invention, the Laufmaschine or dandy horse, an early form of the bicycle.1939
1939 - The Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown, New York.
1963 - NAACP field secretary Medgar Evers is murdered in front of his home in Jackson, Mississippi by Ku Klux Klan member Byron De La Beckwith.
1964 - Anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison in South Africa.
1967 - The Supreme Court rules in Loving v. Virginia that state laws prohibiting interracial marriage are unconstitutional.
1987 - In a speech at the Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin, President Ronald Reagan demanded that Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev ''tear down this wall.''
2016 - 49 people are killed in a shooting at Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida.
2018 - President Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un of North Korea hold the first meeting between leaders of their two countries.

BIRTHDAYS

1824 - Swiss author of Heidi, Johanna Spyri
1924 - 41st President George H. W. Bush
1924 - German-Dutch diarist Anne Frank
1933 - Photojournalist Eddie Adams

SONGS OF THE DAY

Five for Fighting - Superman (It's Not Easy) - LISTEN
The Kinks - (Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman - LISTEN

OCEAN/RIVER RESOURCE OF THE DAY

NOAA - Exploring the Ocean with Robots - VIEW

THEME: SUPERMAN

Grades PreK-1- Sesame Street - Superman's Favorite Letter - S (1:13) - VIEW
Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Elmo the Superhero Musical (7:17) - VIEW
Grades PreK-3 - Hero Elementary - VIEW and DO
Grades 3-6 - ReadWriteThink - Is Superman Really All That Super? Critically Exploring Superheroes - READ and DO
Grades - Adults - PBS Parents -The Superhero Solution: How Make-Believe Boosts Kids’ Perseverance - READ
Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS NewsHour - After 75 Years, an Untarnished Reputation for Superman (6:46) - VIEW
Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Chicago Tonight - Up, Up and Away (10:23) - VIEW

THEME: BERLIN WALL

Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Teaching with Primary Sources - Fall of the Berlin Wall Collection - VIEW, READ, DO
Grade 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Statecraft: The Bush 41 Team - Fall of the Berlin Wall (5:26) - VIEW, READ, DO
Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS NewsHour - 30 Years After the Berlin Wall (9:28) - VIEW
Grades 9-12 - EDSITEment - The Berlin Wall and Beyond: An Online High School Curriculum - READ and DO

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