Shrimp and Bird Migration - May 10

Saturday, May 10, 2025

Today is Belly Dance Day,  Clean Up Your Room Day, Migratory Bird Day,  Miniature Golf Day, Shrimp Day, Windmill Day, and Train Day.

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Shrimp and Bird Migration

ON THIS DATE

• 1773 - The Parliament of Great Britain passes the Tea Act.
• 1774 - Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette become King and Queen of France.
• 1775 - Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys capture Fort Ticonderoga.
• 1775 - The Second Continental Congress takes place in Philadelphia.
• 1849 - A least 22 people are killed and 120 injured when a riot breaks out at the Astor Opera House in New York City, in what became known as the  Astor Place Riot.
• 1869 - A golden spike was driven at  Promontory, Utah, marking the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in the U.S.
• 1872 - Suffragist Victoria Woodhull becomes the first woman to run for President of the United States.
• 1908 -  Mother's Day is observed for the first time in the United States, in Grafton, West Virginia.
• 1940 - Winston Churchill is appointed Prime Minister of the United Kingdom following the resignation of Neville Chamberlain.
• 1962 -  Marvel Comics publishes the first issue of The Incredible Hulk. 
• 1994 -  Nelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa's first black president.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1838 - Actor and assassin John Wilkes Booth
• 1899 - Actor and dancer Fred Astaire
• 1902 - Director David O. Selznick
• 1909 - Musician Maybelle Carter
• 1919 - Politician and Connecticut governor Ella Grasso
• 1946 - Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan
• 1960 - Irish singer-songwriter Bono
• 1963 - Astronaut Lisa Nowak

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Carter Family - Wildwood Flower - LISTEN
• U2 - I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For - LISTEN
• Donovan - Mellow Yellow - LISTEN

THEME:  Shrimp

• Grades K-2 - Nature Cat - Fairy Shrimp (3:24) - VIEW
• Grades K-3 - Plum Landing - The Search for Shrimp (4:31) - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-4 - Wild Kratts - Shrimpy Chris (4:52) - VIEW
• Grades 6-8 - Sea Grant Louisiana - The Life of a Shrimp Lesson - READ and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Deep Look - Skeleton Shrimp Use 18 Appendages to Feed, Fight, and Frolic (4:38) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Indie Alaska - The Shrimp Whisperer (4:18) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS NewsHour - Shrimp Raves Raise Awareness of An Endangered Species (3:35) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Chicago Tonight - Scientist Recreate the Punch of the Mantis Shrimp in a Robot (3:36) - VIEW

THEME: BIRD MIGRATION

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - It's a Habitat Song with Lin-Manuel Miranda (1:10) - VIEW
  
• Grades PreK-3 - PBS Kids - Hibernate - Migrate Song (1:02) - VIEW
• Grades K-12 - Mississippi River Flyway Cam - VIEW
• Grades K-4 - Plum Landing - Migration Challenge - DO
• Grades K-3 - Ready Jet Go! - Bird Migration (2:52) - VIEW
• Grades K-6  - NHPBS LearningMedia - Science Trek - Bird Migration (5:04) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-8 - NHPBS - NatureWorks - Migration - READ and DO
• Grades 4-8 - NHPBS - NatureWorks - Migration (14:46) - VIEW
• Grades 6-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia -Nature - Earth Navigators: Arctic Summer (Available in Spanish) (2:52) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nature- Extraordinary Birds: Little Brain, Big Journey
  (Available in Spanish) (2:41) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Habitat Earth - Why Do Birds Migrate? (1:00) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Science Now - The Great Migration (8:59) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Quest - The Great Migration (10:17) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Flight Path: The World of Migratory Birds (56:45) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Journey of the Broad-Winged Hawk (59:00) - VIEW

Pressroom Contact

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