Asteroids and Social Media - June 30

Sunday, June 30, 2024

Today is Asteroid Day, Blink-182 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
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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

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