Puzzles - January 29

Putting the Pieces Together Learning

Wednesday, January 29, 2025

Today is National Puzzle Day, Seeing Eye Dog Day, and Curmudgeons Day.

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

ON THIS DATE

1861 - Kansas is admitted as the 34th state.
1907 - Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes the first Native American U.S. Senator. He later became the 31st vice president under Herbert Hoover.
1936 -Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Walter Johnson, and Christy Mathewson are revealed as the first inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1963 - NH poet Robert Frost dies in Boston.
1980 - The Rubik's Cube makes its international debut in London.

BIRTHDAYS

1737 - Political activist Thomas Paine
1843 - 25th President of the U.S. William McKinley
1860 - Russian playwright Anton Chekhov
1861 - Civil rights activist, educator, and writer Florida Ruffin Ridley
1880 - Actor and screenwriter W. C. Fields
1881 - Microbiologist Alice Catherine Evans
1923 - Writer Paddy Chayefsky
1954 Talk show host and producer Oprah Winfrey

SONGS OF THE DAY

Rolling Stones - Jigsaw Puzzle - LISTEN

THEME: Puzzles

Grade PreK-1 - Daniel Tiger - It's a Puzzle World (0:58) - VIEW
Grades 5-7 - PBS LearningMedia - The Belly Buster Pizza Puzzle (1:11) - VIEW and DO
Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - Raising an Obelisk: An Engineering Puzzle (5:52) - VIEW, READ, DO
Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - FoldIt: A Protein Puzzle Game (Available in Spanish) (3:07) - VIEW and DO
Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Physics Girl - Can You Solve This Pier Puzzle? (4:58) - VIEW
Grades 7-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Light Falls - What Puzzles You? (3:10) - VIEW and DO
Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Infinite Series - The Assassin Puzzle (9:12) - VIEW
Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Infinite Series - Instant Insanity Puzzle (9:32) - VIEW
Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Physics Girl - Can You Solve the Bowl Riddle? (6:11) - VIEW

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