Bubbles - February 5

Monday, February 5, 2024

Today is Adlai Stevenson Day, World Nutella Day, and National Frozen Yogurt Day.

Black History Month Resource of the Day: Hank Aaron

• PBS NewsHour - Looking Back at the Baseball Legend Hank Aaron
• Baseball Hall of Fame - Hank Aaron
• Yogi Berra Museum - When Baseball Led America Lesson Plan

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Bubbles
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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 from 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 (2:42) - 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

WATCH

NHPBS - 11.1 Comcast (2/802) More Options

INDEPENDENT LENS - Sister Una Lived a Good Life
Monday, 2/05 from 10-11 pm NHPBS
Following a cancer diagnosis, a wisecracking Catholic nun chooses to live as she's dying. In this touching end-of-life documentary, the self-proclaimed "leader of the misfits" plans her funeral in her last nine months to live. INDEPENDENT LENS Streaming Video

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GREAT PERFORMANCES - The Magic of Spirituals
Monday, 2/05 from 2-3 pm NH EXPLORE
Glimpse behind the curtain at opera legends Kathleen Battle and Jessye Norman's famed concert at Carnegie Hall on March 18, 1990, featuring performance clips and new interviews with opera star Angel Blue, Met Opera General Manager Peter Gelb, and more. GREAT PERFORMANCES Streaming Video

NH WORLD - 11.3 Comcast (956) More Options

AMERICAN MASTERS - Miles Davis
Monday, 2/05 from 3-5 pm NH WORLD
Discover the man behind the legend. With full access to the Miles Davis Estate, the film features never-before-seen footage, including studio outtakes from his recording sessions, rare photos, and new interviews. AMERICAN MASTERS Streaming Video

Pressroom Contact

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