Octopi (Octopuses, Octopode) and Ada Lovelace - October 8
Eight-legged Learning
Wednesday, October 8, 2025
Today is National Salmon Day, World Octopus Day, Fluffernutter Day, National Pierogi Day, National Children’s Day, and Bring Your Teddy Bear to Work & School Day.
World Animal Month Animal Cam of the Day: Oregon State University Octo Cam
Dessert Month Dessert of the Day: Pumpkin Spice Chewy Snickerdoodles
LGBT History Month Resource of the Day: The Pursuit: 50 Years in the Fight for LGBT Rights
On This Date
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Octopi
- 1869 - Former president Franklin Pierce dies in Concord, N.H.
- 1871 - The Great Chicago Fire begins.
1956 - New York Yankees' Don Larsen pitches the only perfect game in a World Series, beating the Brooklyn Dodgers by a score of 2-0 in game five. - 2001 - President George W. Bush announces the establishment of the Office of Homeland Security.
- 2003 - Arnold Schwarzenegger is elected governor of California.
- 1920 - Dune author Frank Herbert
- 1930 - Artist Faith Ringgold
- 1941- Activist Jesse Jackson
- 1943 - Actor Chevy Chase
- 1943 - Author R. L. Stine
- 1949 - Actor Sigourney Weaver
- 1964 - Singer-songwriter CeCe Winans
- 1970 - Actor Matt Damon
- 1985 - Singer Bruno Mars
- 1997 - Actor Bella Thorne
- Grades PreK-1 - PBS LearningMedia - The Heaviest Catch (2:49) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-2 - The Cat in the Hat - Coral Reef Camouflage (1:45) - VIEW
- Grades 1-3 - PBS LearningMedia - Wild Kratts - Octopus Power! (1:33) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 1-3 - PBS LearningMedia - Wild Kratts - Octo Explorer (1:51) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 1-3 - PBS LearningMedia - Wild Kratts - All Tangled Up (2:11) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 4-6 - PBS LearningMedia - DragonflyTV - Scientist Profile: Octopus Trainer (2:09) - VIEW
- Grades 4-5 - NHPBS NatureWorks - Squid and Octopus - READ
- Grades 4-12 - PBS LearningMedia - NOAA - Octopus Moving Along the Ocean Floor (1:34) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Big Pacific: Mysterious (53:36) -VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Quest - The Fierce Humboldt Squid (10:02) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Be Smart - My Date with a Giant Pacific Octopus (3:07) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12- NHPBS Video - Nature - Octopus Dreaming (1:48) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12- NHPBS Video - Nature - Can a Teenager Befriend an Octopus (1:57) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12- NHPBS Video - Nature - An Octopus' Coconut Home (2:29) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - If Your Hands Could Smell, You’d Be an Octopus (3:12) -VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - SciTech Now - Living Like an Octopus (5:27) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Crash Course Biology - Simple Animals: Sponges, Jellies, & Octopuses (11:30) - VIEW
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