Teddy Bears, Nikola Tesla, and the Scopes Trial - July 10

Thursday, July 10, 2025

Today is Don't Step On A Bee Day, Nikola Tesla Day, National Kitten Day, Teddy Bears' Picnic Day, U.S Energy Independence Day, Piña Colada Day, and Pick Blueberries 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: Teddy Bears, Nikola Tesla, and the Scopes Trial

ON THIS DATE

• 1913 - The temperature in Death Valley, California, hits 134 °F the highest temperature ever recorded on Earth.
• 1925 - The "Scopes Monkey Trial" begins in Dayton, Tennessee.
• 1940 -The Battle of Britain begins.
• 1962 - Telstar, the world's first communications satellite, is launched.
• 1891 - Boris Yeltsin takes office as the first elected president of Russia.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1509 - Theologian John Calvin
• 1856 - Engineer and physicist Nikola Tesla
• 1939 - Singer Mavis Staples 
• 1942 - Musician and Portsmouth, NH native Ronnie James Dio
• 1943 - Tennis player Arthur Ashe
• 1958 - Banjo player Béla Fleck

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Elvis Presley -  (Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear - LISTEN
• Ronnie James Dio - Dream On - LISTEN
• Mavis Staples - I'll Take You There  - LISTEN
• Bela Fleck and the Flecktones - Sinister Minister - LISTEN
• Fats Domino - Blueberry Hill - LISTEN
• Rupert Holmes - Escape (The Pina Colada Song) - LISTEN

NATIONAL PARK MONTH RESOURCE OF THE DAY

Waimea Canyon, Hawaii - GO

ICE CREAM MONTH RESOURCE OF THE DAY

PBS Video - Full-Time Kid - Easy Ice Cream Recipe - MAKE

THEME: TEDDY BEARS

• Grades PreK-1- Sesame Street - Bears, Bears, Bears (3:01) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1- Sesame Street - Do "The Bear" with Baby Bear (2:37) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Daniel Tiger - A Pandy Bear for Margaret (2:09) - VIEW
• Grades K-2 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Peep and the Big Wide World - A House for Teddy Bear (1:29) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 1-2 -  NHPBS learning Media - Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum Theodore Roosevelt Reader - READ
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS Video - Mississippi: A Thread Through Time -Teddy Bear (1:00) - VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - National Park Service - The Story of the Teddy Bear - READ
• Grades 5-12 - National Museum of American History - Teddy Bear - READ

THEME: NIKOLA TESLA 

• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - American Experience - Tesla: Reimagining the Electric Motor (2:58) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - American Experience - Tesla: Early Experiments with Wireless Power (4:11) - VIEW, READ, and DO
• Grades 9-12 -PBS - Tesla for Teachers - DO
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - American Experience - Nikola Tesla and Wireless Charging (2:27) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - American Experience - Cold Light from Tesla (1:11) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Drive-By History - Nikola Tesla's Lab (26:46) - VIEW

THEME: SCOPES TRIAL

• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Frontline - God in America Four: A New Light - (55:58) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Retro Report - Influencing Policy: Evolution and the First Amendment (10:56) -VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - American Experience - Monkey Trial Image Gallery - VIEW

Pressroom Contact

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