Tessellations, M.C. Escher, and Stravinsky - June 17
Patterns of Learning
Wednesday, June 17, 2026
Today is Bunker Hill Day, National Apple Strudel Day, Eat All Your Veggies Day, World Croc Day, and World Tessellation Day.
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Poem of the Day
Ocean/River Month Resource of the Day
Today's Theme: Tessellations, M.C. Escher, Stravinsky
AMERICAN REVOLUTION HISTORY ON THIS DATE
1728 – Birthday of Penelope Barker, organizer of the Edenton Tea Party in North Carolina.
1775 – The British defeat the Colonists in the Battle of Bunker Hill, but at a great loss of 226 men killed and 828 wounded.
ON THIS DATE
- 1775 - The British defeat the Americans in the Battle of Bunker Hill.
- 1885 - The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor.
- 1930 - President Herbert Hoover signs the protectionist Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act into law.
- 1932 - Around 1,000 World War I veterans, known as the Bonus Army, gather at the U.S. Capital as the Senate considers a bill that would give them benefits. The bill was defeated by a vote of 62-18.
- 1944 - Iceland declares independence from Denmark.
- 1963 - The Supreme Court rules 8–1 in Abington School District v. Schempp against requiring the reciting of Bible verses and the Lord's Prayer in public schools.
- 1972 - Five burglars are arrested for breaking into the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate Hotel.
- 1987 - The dusky seaside sparrow, native to southern Florida, becomes extinct.
- 1994 - O.J. Simpson is arrested for the murders of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman, following a slow-speed chase.
- 2015 - Nine people are killed at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, in a racially motivated shooting.
- 1818 - French composer Charles Gounod
- 1882 - Russian composer Igor Stravinsky
- 1898 - Dutch artist M. C. Escher
- 1903 - Chocolate chip cookie inventor Ruth Graves Wakefield
- 1943 - Singer Barry Manilow
- 1980 - Tennis player Venus Williams
- 1987 - Rapper Kendrick Lamar
Sydney Symphony Orchestra - Igor Stravinsky's The Firebird - LISTEN- Barry Manilow - I Write the Songs - LISTEN
Constance Hunting - After the Stravinsky Concert
OCEAN/RIVER RESOURCE OF THE DAY
National Park Service - River Systems and Fluvial Landforms - EXPLORE
- Grades K-6 - Cyberchase - Can't Wait to Tessellate (1:47) - VIEW
- Grades K-5 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Let's Tesselate 'Em! (2:22) - VIEW
- Grades K-6 - NHPBS Learning Media - Cyberchase - Wallpaper Tessellations (3:31) - VIEW and DO
- Grades K-12 - NHPBS Learning Media - Visual Arts Toolkit - What is a Tessellation? (6:52) - VIEW and DO
- Grades K-12 - NHPBS Learning Media - Visual Arts Toolkit - Tessellating Stamps (12:36) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades K-12 - Math is Fun - Tessellation - READ and DO
- Grades K-12 - National Council of Teachers of Math (NCTM) - Tessellation Creator - DO
THEME: M.C. Escher
- Grades K-12 - M.C. Escher Collection - VIEW
- Grades 3-6 - NHPBS Video - NJTV Learning Live - M.C. Escher and Impossible Optical Art - Dayna Ensminger (56:20) - VIEW
- Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS NewsHour - Artist M.C. Escher Spent Lifetime Distorting Perspective (5:44) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Antiques Roadshow - Appraisal: 1958 & 1960 M.C. Escher Lithographs (3:23) - VIEW
THEME: Stravinsky
- Grades 4-12 - NHPBS Video - Great Performances - Gustavo Dudamel Conducts Stravinsky’s “The Firebird” (2:12) - VIEW
- Grades 4-12 - NHPBS Video - On Stage at Curtis - The Soldier's Tale (28:50) - VIEW
- Grades 4-12 - NHPBS Video - Two Steinways Concert: Ballet "Petrouchka" (31:47) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - Classic FM - Igor Stravinsky - READ and LISTEN
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