The Moon - July 20

Saturday, July 20, 2024

Today is Chess Day, Moon Day, Space Exploration Day, Lollipop Day, World Jump Day, Fortune Cookie Day, International Cake Day, Nap Day, and Ice Cream Soda Day.

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
National Park Month Resource of the Day
Ice Cream Month Resource of the Day
Today's Theme: The Moon
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ON THIS DATE

• 1969 - The Lunar Module Eagle from the Apollo Mission lands on the moon carrying astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, who walk on the moon just hours later.
• 1976 - Viking 1 lands on Mars.

BIRTHDAYS

• 356 BC - Alexander the Great
• 1304 - Italian poet Petrarch
• 1591 - Puritan preacher Anne Hutchinson
• 1822 - Botanist Gregor Mendel
• 1938 - Actor Natalie Wood
• 1939 - Artist Judy Chicago
• 1947 - Musician Carlos Santana

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Santana ft. Rob Thomas - Smooth  - LISTEN
• Frank Sinatra - Fly Me To The Moon - LISTEN
• The Police - Walking On The Moon - LISTEN
  
• REM - Man on the Moon - LISTEN

NATIONAL PARK MONTH RESOURCE OF THE DAY

Craters of the Moon, Idaho - GO

ICE CREAM MONTH RESOURCE OF THE DAY

Ready Jet Go: Asteroids and Ice Cream - VIEW

THEME: THE MOON

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - I Don't Want to Live On the Moon (Original) (2:38) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - I Don't Want to Live On the Moon (Animated) (2:57) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - I Don't Want to Live on the Moon with Ernie (Lennon and Maisy) (2:54) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Cookie Monster Thinks the Moon is a Cookie -  featuring Buzz Aldrin (54:53) - VIEW
• Grades K-3 - Ready Jet Go!  - Landing on the Moon (1:16) - VIEW
• Grades K-3 - Ready Jet Go! - Why Does the Moon Change Shape? (1:54) - VIEW
• Grades K-3 - Ready Jet Go! - My Moon Journal - DO
• Grades K-3 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Journey to the Moon (6:11) - VIEW
  
• Grades 4-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia - STEM in 30 -Voyage to the Moon: 50 Years Ago and Today (28:29) - VIEW
• Grades 5-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia - STEM in 30 - Moon Rocks (31:09) - VIEW
  
• Grades 5-12 - NASA - The Moon - VIEW and READ
• Grades 6-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nova - Back to the Moon - Finding Water on the Lunar Surface (3:31) - VIEW
• Grades 6-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nova - The Origin of the Moon (Available in Spanish) (3:56)- VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - American Experience - The Road to Apollo: An Interactive Journey - DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - American Experience -  Chasing the Moon - Sputnik’s Launch Begins the Space Race (5:55) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Quest - NASA Ames Rocket to the Moon (11:41) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - American Experience - Chasing the Moon, Part 1 (8:31) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - American Experience - Chasing the Moon, Part 2 (7:08) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - American Experience - Chasing the Moon, Part 3 (9:16) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Be Smart - Apollo’s Most Important Discovery: Inside NASA’s Moon Rock V (10:22) - VIEW
  
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Be Smart - This Could Change the Future of Space Travel (11:31) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - NASA - Evolution of the Moon (Available in Spanish) (2:32) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - NASA - Meet ATHLETE, a Moon Rover (3:15) - VIEW, READ, DO

WATCH

NH EXPLORE - 11.2 Comcast (11/801) More Options

10 Homes That Changed America 
Saturday, 7/20 from 10-11 pm NH EXPLORE
Visit homes that transformed residential living, from grand estates like Thomas Jefferson's Monticello and Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater to the pueblos of Taos, New Mexico, and the tenements of 19th-century New York. 10 that Changed America Streaming Video

NH WORLD - 11.3 More Options

CAN WE ALL GET ALONG? THE SEGREGATION OF JOHN MUIR HIGH SCHOOL 
Saturday, 7/20 from 7-8 pm NH WORLD
At his 30th high school reunion filmmaker Pablo Miralles questions what has happened to his once-integrated public high school in Pasadena, CA.

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: The Harvest: Integrating Mississippi's Schools 
Saturday, 7/20 from 8-10 pm NH WORLD
Explore what happened when the small Mississippi town of Leland integrated its public schools in 1970. Told through the remembrances of students, teachers, and parents, the film shows how the town - and America - were transformed. AMERICAN EXPERIENCE Streaming Video

Pressroom Contact

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