Crabs - March 9

Sunday, March 9, 2025

Today is Daylight Savings Time, Amerigo Vespucci Day, Barbie Day, Check Your Batteries Day, Crabmeat Day, Meatball Day, Girl Scout Sunday.

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 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