Bubbles - February 5

Learning That Pops

Saturday, February 5, 2022

Today is Bubble Gum Day, World Nutella Day, and National Frozen Yogurt Day.

*Black History Resource

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

ON THIS DATE

1907 - Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland announces the creation of Bakelite, the first synthetic plastic.
1917 - The U.S. Congress overrides President Wilson's veto and passes the Immigration Act of 1917, which severely restricted immigration for Asia.
1924 - The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals.
1937 - President Roosevelt proposes increasing the number of Supreme Court justices.
1958 - A hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb is lost by the US Air Force off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, and has not been recovered.
1971 - Astronauts land on the Moon in the Apollo 14 mission.
1994 - Byron De La Beckwith is convicted of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers. *
2020 - President Donald Trump is acquitted by the United States Senate in his first impeachment trial.

BIRTHDAYS

1848 - Outlaw Belle Starr
1892 - Tennis player Elizabeth Ryan
1934 - Baseball player Hank Aaron *
1942 - Quarterback Roger Staubach
1948 - Actor and director Christopher Guest
1964 - Actor Laura Linney

SONG OF THE DAY

Don Ho - Tiny Bubbles - LISTEN

THEME: Bubbles

Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Count the Bubbles (0:59) - VIEW
Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Elmo Teaches Abby How to Blow Bubbles 92:42) - VIEW
Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street: B is for Bubbles - VIEW
Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street: Making Bubbles! - Julia & Abby Cadabby (1:34) - VIEW
Grades PreK-1 - PBS Learning Media - Murray Experiment: Bubbles (3:05) - VIEW
Grades PreK-1 - Curious George - Bubble Pop Game - DO
Grades PreK-1 - PBS Crafts for Kids - Curious George - Discover the Magic of Bubbles - DO
Grades PreK-4 - NHPBS Video - PBS Crafts for Kids - Make a Bubble Bottle Fish (0:57) - VIEW
Grades K-2 - PBS LearningMedia - Peg + Cat - Bubble Bath Game - DO
Grades PreK-5 - PBS LearningMedia - 60 Second Science - Bubble Exploration (1:06) - VIEW and DO
Grades PreK-5 - PBS LearningMedia - 60 Second Science - Bubble Prints (1:06) - VIEW and DO
Grades K-5 - PBS LearningMedia - Full-Time Kid - How to Make Giant Bubbles (1:59) - VIEW
Grades 1-6 - NHPBS Video - The Friday Zone - Bubble Up (28:46) - VIEW
Grades 2-3 - PBS LearningMedia - Professional Development - Measurement: Bubble Mania (22:50) - VIEW and DO
Grades 2-5 - PBS LearningMedia - Science U - Is a Bubble Always Round? (1:51) - VIEW and DO
Grades 3-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Spot On Science - Weird Winter Phenomena (2:43) - VIEW
Grades 4-8 - NHPBS Video - Curious Crew - Bubble Science (26:46) - VIEW
Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Inside Science - Bubbles Break Bottles (1:55) - VIEW and DO
Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Physics Girl - How to Make a Hurricane on a Bubble (3:23) - VIEW
Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Physics Girl - What Are Antibubbles? (6:11) - VIEW

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