Buzzards, Vultures, and Quilts - March 15

Saturday, March 15, 2025

Today is Buzzards Day, The Ides of March, Peanut Lovers Day, Corndog Day, Quilting Day, and Play the Recorder Day.

Women's History Month Resource of the Day: PBS NewsHour: Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Buzzards, Vultures, and Quilts

ON THIS DATE

• 44 BC - Julius Caesar is assassinated.
• 1820 - Maine becomes the 23rd state.
• 1916 - President Woodrow Wilson sends 4,800 United States troops over the U.S.–Mexico border to pursue Pancho Villa.
• 1917 - Tsar Nicholas II of Russia abdicates the Russian throne
• 1965 - President Johnson called for legislation to guarantee every American's right to vote.
• 1990 - Mikhail Gorbachev is elected as the first President of the Soviet Union
• 2011 - Beginning of the Syrian Civil War.
• 2019 - 1.4 million young people in 123 countries go on strike to protest climate change

BIRTHDAYS

• 1767 - 7th President of the United States Andrew Jackson 
• 1887 - Businessperson Marjorie Merriweather Post
• 1921 - Television writer Madelyn Pugh
• 1933 - Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
• 1963 - Singer-songwriter Bret Michaels
• 1970 - Baseball player Kevin Youkilis

SONGS OF THE DAY 

Poison -  Every Rose Has Its Thorn - LISTEN

THEME:  Buzzards and Vultures

• Grades K-12 - San Diego Zoo Safari Park - Condor Cam - VIEW
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS NatureWorks - Decomposers and Scavengers (14:46) - VIEW
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS Wildlife Journal Junior - Turkey Vulture - READ
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS Wildlife Journal Junior - Black Vulture - READ
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS Wildlife Journal Junior - Cathartidae - New World Vultures - READ
• Grades 5-12 - PBS Learning Media - Untamed - Vultures (26:44) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Gross Science - Why Don’t Vultures Get Food Poisoning? (2:20) - VIEW and DO

THEME:  Quilts

• Grades K-5 - EDSITEment - History in Quilts Lesson Plan - DO
• Grades K-10 - PBS LearningMedia - Geometric Quilts in the Style of Martha Osborn (2:41) - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Arts After School - Quilt Squares (4:03) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades K-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Anna Von Mertens: Visual Arts - Quilting (10:32) - VIEW and DO 
• Grades 1-2 - Mattatuck Museum - Faith Ringgold and Story Quilts Lesson Plan - DO
  Grades 2-8 - Southwest Educational Development Laboratory - Visual Arts Quilting Lesson Plan - DO
• Grades 4-12 - PBS Learning Media - Quilts: Juanita Yeager (5:10) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - New England Quilt Museum - VIEW and READ
• Grades 6-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Craft in America - Painting with Fabric: How Two Artists Make Quilts (8:24) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Craft in America - Quilts (55:06) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Picturing America - Quilts (6:13) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia -The Quilts of Ken Burns in 360° (4:50) - VIEW and DO

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Director of Communications
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