Sheep and Sir Isaac Newton - July 5

Saturday, July 5, 2025

Today is Bikini Day, Mechanical Pencil Day, National Graham Cracker Day, National Apple Turnover Day, and Workaholics Day.

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
National Park Month Resource of the Day
Ice Cream Month Resource of the Day
Today's Theme: Sheep and Sir Isaac Newton

ON THIS DATE

• 1687 - Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
• 1937 - Spam! Spam! Spam! Spam!  is introduced by Hormell Foods.
• 1946 - The bikini makes its debut at an outdoor fashion show in Paris.
• 1954 - Elvis Presley records his first single, "That's All Right", at Sun Records in Memphis.
• 1975 - Arthur Ashe becomes the first, and to date only, black man to win a Wimbledon singles title.
• 1996 - Dolly the Sheep becomes the first mammal cloned from an adult cell.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1756 - English actor Sarah Siddons
• 1810 - Showman P. T. Barnum
• 1940 - Artist Chuck Close
• 1943 - Singer-songwriter and guitarist Robbie Robertson
• 1963 - Actor Edie Falco

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Elvis Presley - That's Alright - LISTEN
• Brian Hyalnd - Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini - LISTEN
• The Band - The Weight - LISTEN
• Monty Python - Spam - LISTEN
• Idina Menzel - Defying Gravity - LISTEN

NATIONAL PARK MONTH RESOURCE OF THE DAY

Glacier National Park, Montana - VIEW

ICE CREAM MONTH RESOURCE OF THE DAY

Design Squad Nation - Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream Science - VIEW

THEME: SHEEP

• Grades PreK-12 - Sheep Sanctuary - Sheep Barn Live Cam - VIEW
• Grades PreK-K - NHPBS LearningMedia - Valley's Gold - Sheep (2:12) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-K - NHPBS LearningMedia - Circle Time At Home - Learning to Recite Baa Baa Black (6:06) Sheep - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-1- Sesame Street - Murray Had a Little Lamb (6:48)- VIEW
• Grades PreK-1- Sesame Street - Ernie Counts Sheep To Sleep (3:02) - VIEW
• Grades K-5 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Folktales of the World - Colombian Folktale: Pastorcita (Available in Spanish) (2:39) - VIEW
• Grades 3-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - The Herding Dogs of the United Kingdom (7:44) - VIEW and DO
  
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS  Wildlife Journal Junior - Bighorn Sheep - READ
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS Video - Kingdoms of the Sky - Head Banging Bighorn Sheep of the Rockies (2:56) - VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Crossroads - Sheep and Wool (26:39) - VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Return of the Tunis Sheep (5:16) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Indie Alaska - Searching for Sheep in Denali (4:55) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12  - NHPBS Video - Nature - Running with the Herd (13:56) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Nature - Running With The Herd: The Recovery (7:28) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Outdoor Nevada - Bighorn Sheep (4:52) - VIEW, READ, and DO
  

THEME: Isaac Newton

• Grades K-2 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum - Isaac Newton Reader - READ and DO
• Grades 2-5 - British Council - Sir Isaac Newton (2:40) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Newton's Apple - Vintage Science Show Episode Segments - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - BBC Teach - Sir Isaac Newton: The Man Who Discovered Gravity - READ
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Newton Must Have Been a Sports Fan (28:53) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nova - A Complicated Man - READ
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nova - Einstein on Newton - READ
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nova - Newton the Alchemist - READ
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nova - Newton's Legacy - READ
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Newton's Laws: Crash Course Physics (11:03) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - Cambridge Digital Library - Newton Papers - VIEW and READ

Pressroom Contact

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