Bees and Amelia Earhart - May 20

Tuesday, May 20, 2025

Today is International Dinosaur Day, Eliza Doolittle Day, Josephine Baker Day, Be a Millionaire Day, Quiche Lorraine Day, Rescue Dog Day, Weights and Measures Day, Bee Day, and Metrology Day.

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month Resource of the Day
Today's Theme: Bees and Amelia Earhart

ON THIS DATE

• 325 - The First Council of Nicaea is opened. (Frontline - From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians (Pt. 1) (1:51:05) - VIEW
• 1570 - Cartographer Abraham Ortelius issues the first modern atlas, the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum.
• 1609- Shakespeare's sonnets are published in London.
• 1861 - North Carolina votes to secede from the Union.
• 1862 - President Lincoln signs the Homestead Act into law, opening 84 million acres of public land to settlers.
• 1873 - Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive a patent for blue jeans with copper rivets.
• 1902 - Cuba gains independence from the United States. 
• 1927 - Charles Lindbergh takes off for Paris from Roosevelt Field in Long Island, N.Y., aboard the Spirit of St. Louis on the first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
• 1932 -  Amelia Earhart begins the first solo nonstop flight by a female pilot across the Atlantic Ocean, taking off from Newfoundland and landing in Ireland. 
• 1960 - A white mob attacks a busload of "Freedom Riders" in Montgomery, Alabama.
• 1971 - The album "What's Going On" by Marvin Gaye is released.
• 1993 - The final episode of "Cheers" airs on NBC.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1768 - First Lady Dolley Madison
• 1799 - French author Honoré de Balzac
• 1825 - 1st ordained mainstream protestant female minister Antoinette Brown Blackwell.
• 1908 - Actor Jimmy Stewart
• 1944 - English singer-songwriter Joe Cocker
• 1946 - Singer-songwriter and actor Cher
• 1972 - Rapper and actor Busta Rhymes

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Joni Mitchell - Amelia - LISTEN
• Marvin Gaye - What's Going On - LISTEN
• Joe Cocker - You Are So Beautiful - LISTEN
• Cher - Believe - LISTEN

ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER RESOURCE OF THE DAY
NHPBS LearningMedia - Asian Americans Collection

THEME:  Bees

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - B is for Bees (1:39) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Elmo's World - Bees (5:21) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Baby Bear and Bees (1:47) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-4 - Wild Kratts - Follow That Bee (2:48) - VIEW
  
• Grades K-6 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Science Trek - What's the Buzz about Bees? Collection - VIEW
• Grades 3-8 - NHPBS Learning Media - Wild TV - Bees (5:08) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-12 - Reactions - How Do Bees Make Honey? (2:25) - VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - Disappearance of the Bees - What's the Impact? (5:31) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia - The Bounty of Bees (3:51) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Lens of Time - Bumper Bees (5:52) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Be Smart - Why Are the Bees Dying? (4:01) - VIEW
• Grades 8-12 - NHPBS Video - Nature - My Garden of a Thousand Bees (53:13) - VIEW

THEME:  Amelia Earhart

• Grades PreK-3 - Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum - Amelia Earhart Coloring Sheet - DO
  Grades PreK-3 - Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum - Amelia Earhart Biosheet - READ
• Grades 3-7 - PBS Learning Media - Amelia Earhart- Aviator, Record-breaker, and Activist Video (Available in Spanish) (4:00) - VIEW
• Grades 3-8 - PBS Learning Media - Amelia Earhart- Aviator, Record-breaker, and Activist Lesson Plan - DO
• Grades 3-8 - PBS LearningMedia - STEM in 30 - Fly Girls: Women in Aerospace (29:59) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - American Experience - Amelia Earhart (8:39) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - American Experience - I Think I'd Like to Fly - Amelia Earhart (0:48) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Images of the Past - Finding Amelia (27:19) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - WLRN History - Amelia Earhart's Last Flight (3:13) - VIEW

Pressroom Contact

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