Dinosaurs - March 18

Tuesday, March 18, 2025

Today is Sloppy Joe Day, Oatmeal Cookie Day, National 3-D Day, and National Agriculture Day

Women's History Month Resource of the Day: BBC Idea: The True Story of Mary Anning the Girl Who Helped Discover Dinosaurs 

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Dinosaurs

ON THIS DATE

• 1766 - The British Parliament repeals the Stamp Act.
• 1937 - The New London School explosion in New London, Texas, kills 300 people, mostly children.
• 1944 - Mount Vesuvius in Italy erupts, killing 26 people.
• 1965 - Soviet cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov makes the first spacewalk.
• 1990 - 12 paintings worth around $500 million are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1634 - French author Madame de La Fayette
• 1837 - 22nd and 24th President of the United States Grover Cleveland
• 1844 - Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
• 1932 - Novelist John Updike
• 1934 - Country music singer Charley Pride
• 1963 - Actor and singer Vanessa L. Williams
• 1964 - Speed skater Bonnie Blair
• 1970 - Actor, rapper, and singer Queen Latifah
• 1984 - Brazilian race car driver Ana Beatriz

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Charley Pride - Kiss an Angel Goodmorning - LISTEN
  
• Vanessa Williams - Save the Best for Last - LISTEN
• Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov- Flight of the Bumblebee - LISTEN
• Queen Latifah - I Know Where I've Been - LISTEN
• Adam Sandler - Lunch Lady Land - LISTEN

THEME:  Dinosaurs

• Grades PreK-2 - Dinosaur Train  Web Site - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-5 - PBS LearningMedia - Dinosaur Train Collection - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades K-6 - PBS LearningMedia - ScienceTrek - Dinosaur Basics - (5:51) VIEW and DO
• Grades 1-5 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - The Adaptations that Helped a Giant Dinosaur Eat (5:13) - VIEW and DO
• grades 3-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - Studying Adaptations for Walking in Dinosaurs (5:48) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-6 - PBS LearningMedia - DragonflyTV - GPS: Dinosaurs (8:04) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 5-12 - PBS LearningMedia - SciTech Now - Discussing Dinosaurs with a Paleontologist (5:42) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Birds Are Living Dinosaurs (5:24) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 9-12- PBS LearningMedia - Eons - Inside the Dinosaur Library (7:18) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Eons - The Case of the Dinosaur Egg Thief (7:28) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Eons - The Raptor That Made Us Rethink Dinosaurs (8:36) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Eons - The Giant Dinosaur That Was Missing a Body (12:01) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Eons - Was This Dinosaur a Cannibal? (10:37) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Eons - When Dinosaurs Chilled in the Arctic (9:20) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Eons - An Illustrated History of Dinosaurs (12:20) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Eons - The Facts About Dinosaurs & Feathers (10:01) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Eons - What Colors Were Dinosaurs? (5:02) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Eons - What a Dinosaur Looks Like Under a Microscope (8:09) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Be Smart - The Dinosaur On Your Thanksgiving Table (10:16) - VIEW

Pressroom Contact

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