Asteroids and Social Media - June 30

Monday, June 30, 2025

Today is Asteroid Day, Meteor Day, Ice Cream Soda Day, Leap Second Time Adjustment Day, World Social Media Day, and National Organization for Women Day.

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Ocean/River Month Resource of the Day
Today's Theme:  Asteroids and Social Media

ON THIS DATE

• 1906 - Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act.
• 1908 - An asteroid explodes above Tunguska in Siberia.
• 1934 - Hitler conducts a purge of his political rivals in what became known as the Night of the Long Knives.
• 1966 - The National Organization for Women (NOW) is founded.
• 1994 - Tonya Harding is stripped of her national championship and is banned from skating for life for her role in an attack on Nancy Kerrigan.
• 1997 - The U.K. transfers the sovereignty of Hong Kong to China.
• 2019 -  Donald Trump becomes the first sitting US President to visit North Korea.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1917 - Actor and singer Lena Horne 
• 1942 - Oceanographer Robert Ballard
• 1966 - Boxer Mike Tyson
• 1985 - Swimmer Michael Phelps

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Lena Horne - Stormy Weather - LISTEN
• Aerosmith - I Don't Want to Miss a Thing - LISTEN

OCEAN/RIVER RESOURCE OF THE DAY

NOAA - Lesson Plans  - VIEW

THEME: ASTEROIDS

• Grades PreK-3 - PBS LearningMedia - Ready Jet Go! - Asteroids, Meteors, and Meteorites (3:07) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-3 - PBS LearningMedia - Ready Jet GO! - Meteorite Test (1:57) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-3 - PBS LearningMedia - Ready Jet GO! - What is a Meteor Shower? (0:57) - VIEW
• Grades 3-6 - PBS LearningMedia - Science Trek - Asteroids and Comets Media Gallery - VIEW and DO
• Grades 5-8 - STEM in 30 - Asteroid Redirect Mission (28:39) - VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - PBS LearningMedia - NASA - A Visit to Asteroid Vesta Interactive - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Smithsonian Science How - Astrogeology: Meteorites and Spacecraft Missions (29:16) - VIEW
• Grades 6-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Smithsonian Science How - Exploring the Solar System with Antarctic Meteorites (29:16) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Incoming! (24:42) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - NOVA: Asteroid; Doomsday or Payday? - Mining Asteroids (4:59) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - NOVA: Asteroid; Doomsday or Payday? - Protecting Earth from Asteroids (5:58)  - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - NASA - Asteroid Closely Passes Earth (Available in Spanish) (2:00) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - NASA - Swift and Hubble Probe an Asteroid Crash (Available in Spanish) (1:46) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia -  Occupation STEM -Tiffany Lockett, Lead System Engineer for the Solar Sail Near-Earth Asteroid (NEA) Scout (5:54)  - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS Space Time - How Asteroid Mining Will Save Earth (10:37) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS Space Time - 5 Ways to Stop a Killer Asteroid (8:35) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Crash Course Astronomy - Asteroids (11:32) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS NewsHour - How to Sample an Asteroid's Rocks, Without Landing On It (6:48) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Be Smart - Asteroid Mining: Our Ticket To Living Off Earth? (5:16) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Be Smart - Asteroids, Meteors, and Comets… OH MY!!! (7:08) - VIEW

SOCIAL MEDIA

• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Frontline - Social Media and Self-Promotion (3:50) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Above the Noise - When is Your Brain Ready for Social Media? (6:00) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Lab - How These Content Creators Used Social Media as an Outlet during the Pandemic (6:40) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Above the Noise - Should Politicians Have #nofilter on Social Media (8:41) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Above the Noise - Can you Change Someone's Mind on Social Media:  (8:56) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Above the Noise - How Much Do Social Media Algorithms Control You? (8:48) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - PBS NewsHour - Is Making a Threat on Social Media a Crime? (6:46) - VIEW and READ
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - PBS NewsHour - Social Media's Role in Monitoring Misinformation (4:51) - VIEW and DO

Pressroom Contact

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