Spiders and Butterflies - March 14

Friday, March 14, 2025

Today is Celebrate Scientists Day, Learn About Butterflies Day, Preschooler's Day, Pi Day, Potato Chip Day, Save a Spider Day, and Science Education Day.

Women's History Resource of the Day: Rogue History: The Notorious Women of Piracy

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Spiders and Butterflies

ON THIS DATE

• 1794 - Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the cotton gin.
• 1900 - The Gold Standard Act is ratified.
• 1903 - Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge in Florida, the first national wildlife refuge in the US, is established.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1833 - Dentist and educator Lucy Hobbs Taylor
• 1879 - Physicist Albert Einstein
• 1920 - Cartoonist and Dennis the Menace creator Hank Ketcham
• 1923 - Photographer Diane Arbus
• 1933 - Music producer Quincy Jones
• 1948 - Actor Billy Crystal
• 1988 - Basketball player Stephen Curry
• 1997 - Gymnast Simone Biles

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• The Who - Boris the Spider - LISTEN
• Jim Stafford - Spiders and Snakes - LISTEN

THEME:  Spiders

• Grades PreK-1- Sesame Street - Jim Parsons: Arachnid (1:31)  - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Jordan Spacks - Itsy Bitsy Spider (1:21) - VIEW
• Grades K-2 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature Nuggets - Spiders at Work (1:44) - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-2 - PBS LearningMedia - Wild Kratts - Orbit the Spider (1:20) - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-2 - PBS LearningMedia - Wild Kratts - Designer Spider Silk (1:28) - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-2 - PBS LearningMedia - Wild Kratts - Make a Web (2:15) - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-5 - PBS LearningMedia - Kratt's Creatures - Tarantula Time (1:33) - VIEW
• Grades 3-5 - PBS LearningMedia - Garden Spiders (2:40) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-8 - Centers for Disease Control  - Venomous Spiders - READ
• Grades 6-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Great Job: Spider Biologist (6:32) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Lens 0f Time: Spider Seduction (7:29)  - READ and VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Is a Spider Web Part of Its Mind? (4:43) - VIEW

THEME:  Butterflies

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Little Butterfly Friend Song (1:45) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - 11 Butterflies (1:18) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-2 - NHPBS Learning Media - If I Was a Butterfly (5:31) - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-2 - NHPBS LearningMedia - KidVision - A Day with a Butterfly Expert  (9:00) - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-3 - Dinosaur Train - All About Butterflies  (1:39) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-3 - Nature Cat - Butterfly Garden  (2:17) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-3 - NHPBS Video - Crafts for Kids - Make a Butterfly Costume  (3:01) - VIEW
• Grades K-6 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Science Trek - Butterflies: They Taste With Their Feet  (4:06) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 2-6- SciGirls - Butterfly Diaries (26:10) - VIEW
• Grades 4-6 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Dragonfly TV - Butterfly Wings  (7:04) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS Wildlife Journal Junior - Moths and Butterflies -  READ
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS Video - Wildlife Journal Junior - Karner Blue Butterfly  (8:26) - VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Deep Look - Glasswing Butterflies Want To Make Something Perfectly Clear (5:24) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia -  Quest - Fire and Butterflies  (5:00) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Be Smart - The Mystery of the World's Greatest Butterfly Migration (9:12) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Be Smart - Using Gene Editing To Repaint Butterfly Wings  (11:13)  - VIEW

Pressroom Contact

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