Crabs - March 9

Wednesday, March 9, 2022

Today is National Meatball Day and National Crab Day

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-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

Pressroom Contact

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