Happy birthday to astronaut, author, professional football player, and STEM educator Leland Melvin, born on this day in 1964.
He's also one of the stellar cast of astronauts featured in National Geographic's series One Strange Rock, which tells the story of Earth’s history from a planetary perspective. (Plus he has one of the greatest official work photos of all time!)
Within our solar system, planet Earth is utterly unique among the planets, moons, and dwarf planets found there. Only Earth has a breathable atmosphere, the ability to “heal” itself following planetary bombardment in its early history and more recent “extinction events,” and large amounts of liquid water on its surface.
We offer free lessons plans for this series to teach in science, English and history classes.
It's a great cross-curriculum teaching tool for Earth Month!
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