Mirrors, Auks, and Gettysburg - July 3
Reflective Learning
Thursday, July 3, 2025
Today is International Plastic Bag Free Day, Eat Beans Day, Fried Clam Day, Compliment Your Mirror Day, Disobedience Day, National Chocolate Wafer Day, and Earth at Aphelion (Farthest from Sun 3:54 pm)
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
National Park Month Resource of the Day
Ice Cream Month Resource of the Day
Today's Theme: Mirrors, Auks, and Gettysburg
ON THIS DATE
- 1754 - George Washington surrenders Fort Necessity to the French in the French and Indian War.
- 1775 - George Washington takes command of the Continental Army.
- 1844 - The last pair of great auks are killed.
- 1863 - The Battle of Gettysburg ends with Pickett's Charge.
- 1985 - "Back to the Future" premieres.
- 1738 - Painter John Singleton Copley
- 1878 - Songwriter George M. Cohan
- 1883 - Author Franz Kafka
- 1937 - Writer Tom Stoppard
- 1962 - Actor Tom Cruise
NATIONAL PARK MONTH RESOURCE OF THE DAY
Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah - VIEW
ICE CREAM MONTH RESOURCE OF THE DAY
Jacques Pepin Makes Ice Cream French Toast - VIEW
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Monster in the Mirror (3:00)- VIEW
- Grades K-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Mirror Messages (Available in Spanish) - READ and DO
- Grades 5-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Mirror Therapy: Tricking the Nervous System to Help People Heal (2:43) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nova - Treasures of the Earth - Golden Telescope Mirrors (1:54) - READ and VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Antiques Roadshow - Appraisal: Line Vautrin Talosel Mirror, ca. 1960 (4:26) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Antiques Roadshow - Appraisal: Cartier Chinoiserie Hand Mirror, ca. 1930 (1:13) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Antiques Roadshow - Appraisal: Georg Klimt Mirror, ca. 1910 ():53) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Physics Girl - Why Do Mirrors Flip Horizontally (But Not Vertically) (3:30) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Hot Mess - Could Space Mirrors Cool The Globe? (3:58) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Physics in Motion - Closer Look 6L: Mirrors (12:18) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Physics in Motion - Spherical Mirrors (7:21) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Lens and Mirror Lab - DO
AUKS
- Grades 4-12 - NHPBS Wildlife Journal Junior - Auks, Murres, and Puffins - READ
- Grades 6-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Bird Extinctions (29:14) - VIEW
GETTYSBURG
- Grades K-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia Ken Burns in the Classroom - The Address (2:48:22) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 4-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Looking for Lincoln - The Gettysburg Address (1:33) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 9-12- NHPBS Video - Gettysburg in Blood (26:45) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - The Civil War - The Battle of Gettysburg (8:21) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - The Civil War - The Gettysburg Address (5:50) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - The Civil War - The 75th Anniversary of Gettysburg: 1938 (3:09) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - The Battle of Gettysburg Media Library - VIEW
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