Dictionaries and Words and Hagfish - October 16
Learning is the Word
Thursday, October 16, 2025
Today is Dictionary Day, World Food Day, Department Store Day, Feral Cat Day, Boss Day, Hagfish Day, Learn a Word Day, and Take Your Parents to Lunch Day.
Wild Animal Month Animal Cam of the Day: Bronx Zoo - Canyons Edge Ocean Camera
Dessert of the Month Dessert of the Day: Mary Poppins Zodiac Cake
LGBT History Month Resource of the Day: LGBT History in the Classroom
AMERICAN REVOLUTION HISTORY ON THIS DATE
- 1780– The British-led Royalton raid is the last Native American raid on New England.
- 1758 – Lexicographer Noah Webster was born on this day.
On This Date
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Dictionaries and Words and Hagfish
- 1793 - French Queen Marie Antoinette is executed.
- 1847 - The novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë is published.
- 1859 - Abolitionist John Brown leads a raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
- 1964 - China detonates its first atomic bomb.
- 1968 - Tommie Smith and John Carlos are ejected from the US Olympic team for giving the Black Power salute during a medal ceremony.
- 1987 - 18-month-old Jessica McClure is rescued from a well in Midland, Texas, after 58 hours.
- 1758 - Lexicographer Noah Webster
- 1854 - Irish writer Oscar Wilde
- 1888 - Playwright Eugene O'Neill
- 1890 - Irish revolutionary leader Michael Collins
- 1925 - Actor Angela Lansbury
- 1997 - Tennis player Naomi Osaka
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Words Are All Around Us (3:20) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-2 - PBS LearningMedia -Vocabulary Words: Graphic Organizers (Available in Spanish) - PRINT AND DO
- Grades K-3 - PBS Kids - WordGirl -View and DO
- Grades 1-4 - PBS LearningMedia - No Nonsense Grammar - How to Use Reference Materials (0:46) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 1-5 - PBS LearningMedia - No Nonsense Grammar - Using Reference Materials to Correctly Spell Words (0:40) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 6-8 - ReadWriteThink - Using a Word Journal to Create a Personal Dictionary - DO
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Global Oneness Project - Marie's Dictionary (Available in Spanish) (9:35) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Articulate - Kory Stamper: Word By Word (9:30) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - ReadWriteThink - Brave New Words: Novice Lexicography and the Oxford English Dictionary - DO
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - University Place - UW's Dictionary of American Regional English (49:21) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - University Place - Dictionary of American Regional English, Vol. 6 - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Chicago Tonight -The Story of Ain't (8:05) - VIEW
THEME: HAGFISH
- Grades 4-12 - NHPBS - Wildlife Journal Junior - Agnatha - Lamprey, Hagfish - READ
- Grades 6-12- PBS LearningMedia - Nova - Fabric from Hagfish Slime (Available in Spanish) (5:04) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 6-12- PBS LearningMedia - Nova: Gross Science - Would You Wear Clothes Made of Slime? (1:48) - VIEW, READ, DO
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