The Moon and Ice Cream - July 20

Sunday, July 20, 2025

Today is National Ice Cream Day, Moon Day, Anne Hutchinson Day, Chess 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 and Ice Cream

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
• Louis Prima - Banana Split for My Baby - LISTEN
• "Weird Al" Yankovic - I Love Rocky Road -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

THEME: Ice Cream

• Grades PreK-K - PBS LearningMedia - Ice Cream Parlour Fieldtrip (7:15)  - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-1  - Sesame Street - Ernie's Ice Cream Cone (3:05) -  VIEW
• Grades PreK-2 - PBS LearningMedia - Let's Learn - Homemade Ice Cream (12:59) - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-2 - PBS LearningMedia - Let's Learn - Making Non-Dairy Ice Cream (10:52) - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-3 - Arthur - An Ice Cream Experiment (1:46) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-5 - PBS LearningMedia - 60 Second Science - Making Ice Cream (1:06) - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-3 - PBS LearningMedia - Martha Speaks - Operation Ice Cream Game - DO
• Grades 3-6 - NHPBS Video - DIY Science Time - Thermal Energy (23:39) - VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Delishtory - We All Scream for Ice Cream (5:30) - VIEW

Pressroom Contact

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