Crabs and Genealogy - March 9

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Saturday, March 9, 2024

Today is Amerigo Vespucci Day, Barbie Day, Crabmeat Day, Genealogy Day, and Meatball Day.

Women's History Month Resource of the Day: Women in Science Profiles

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Crabs

ON THIS DATE

• 1776 - The Wealth of Nations by Scottish economist Adam Smith is published.
• 1862 - The ironclad warships USS Monitor and CSS Virginia fight to a draw in the Battle of Hampton Roads.
• 1959 - The Barbie doll makes its debut at the American International Toy Fair in New York.
• 1997 - The Notorious B.I.G. is murdered in Los Angeles. 

BIRTHDAYS

• 1454 - Italian cartographer and explorer Amerigo Vespucci
• 1839 - Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky
• 1910 - Composer Samuel Barber
• 1934 - Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin
• 1943 - Chess player Bobby Fischer

SONGS OF THE DAY 

Samuel Barber - Adagio for Strings - LISTEN
Modest Mussorgsky - Night On Bald Mountain - LISTEN

THEME:  Crabs

• Grades PreK-12 - Monterey Bay Aquarium - Spider Crab Cam - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - PBS LearningMedia - Dinosaur Train - Collect a Critter (1:16) - VIEW and DO 
• Grades 1-5 - PBS LearningMedia - Kratts Creatures -Crazy About Hermit Crabs (1:44)  - VIEW
• Grades 3-4 - PBS LearningMedia - Wild Kratts - Shell Exchange (1:55) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 3-5 - PBS LearningMedia - Wild Kratts - Shell Surprise! (1:47) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 3-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Schoolyard Films - Horseshoe Crabs: Prehistoric Paramedics (16:10) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - The Cuban Crab Migration (4:09) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Quest - Rendezvous With Horseshoe Crabs (4:49) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - Crash: A Tale of Two Species - Horseshoe Crabs and Red Knots (6:30) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - Crash: A Tale of Two Species - Horseshoe Crabs and Humans (5:44) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - Crash: A Tale of Two Species - The Living Fossil (3:13) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - Crash: A Tale of Two Species - Protecting the Horseshoe Crab (3:38) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Big Pacific: Mysterious - Horseshoe Crabs (4:55) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - For Pacific Mole Crabs It's Dig or Die (3:28) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Whack! Jab! Crack! It's a Blackback Land Crab Smackdown (3:44)- VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - Nature - Swarm of Crab Mothers Cross Traffic to Lay Thousands of Eggs (2:48) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Why Do Things Keep Evolving Into Crabs? (6:46) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - Claw Size and Competition: Behaviors of Male Fiddler Crabs (5:01) - VIEW and DO

THEME:  Genealogy

• Grades 4-12 - Find A Grave - DO
• Grades 4-12 - Family Search - DO
• Grades 4-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Finding Your Roots: The Seedlings: Episode 1: Genetics and Genealogy Camp Overview (8:15) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Finding Your Roots: The Seedlings: Episode 2: DNA Extraction(10:25)  - VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Finding Your Roots: The Seedlings: Episode 3: DNA Ancestry (11:29) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Finding Your Roots: The Seedlings: Episode 4: Observable Traits (11:29)  - VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Finding Your Roots: The Seedlings: Episode 5: Natural Selection (935) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Finding Your Roots: The Seedlings: Episode 6: Evolution of Skin Color (12:06) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Finding Your Roots: The Seedlings: Episode 7: Genealogical Research (13:27) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Finding Your Roots: The Seedlings: Episode 8: Classification (8:42) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Finding Your Roots: The Seedlings: Episode 9: Final Presentations (10:39)  - VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-12 - PBS LearningMedia - History Detectives - Family History and Genealogical Research (17:06)  - VIEW and DO
• Grades 5-13 - PBS LearningMedia - Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Collection - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Finding Your Roots - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - National Archives - U.S.Census Records - SEARCH and READ
• Grade 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Finding Your Roots - Founding Mothers (3:20) - VIEW and DO

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