Toys and Dinosaurs - August 2

Saturday, August 2, 2025

Today is National Coloring Book Day, National Ice Cream Sandwich Day, Mead Day, Mustard Day, Sandcastle Day, and Water Balloon Day.

• Health and Wellness Month Resource of the Day:  Smoking and Vaping - Lung Health
• Sandwich Month Sandwich of the Day: Muffuletta: How This Gigantic New Orleans Sandwich Was Born

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: TOYS and DINOSAURS 

ON THIS DATE

• 1776 - Delegates to the Continental Congress begin signing the Declaration of Independence.
• 1790 - The first United States Census is conducted.
• 1923 - Vice President Calvin Coolidge becomes U.S. President upon the death of President Warren G. Harding.
• 1932 - The positron is discovered by Carl D. Anderson.
• 1934 - Adolf Hitler becomes the Führer of Germany following the death of President Paul von Hindenburg.
• 1990 - Iraq invades Kuwait, eventually leading to the Gulf War

BIRTHDAYS

• 1754 - Architect and designer of Washington, DC, Pierre Charles L'Enfant
• 1834 - French sculptor and designer of the Statue of Liberty, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi
• 1924 - Author James Baldwin
• 1939 - Director Wes Craven
• 1966 - Baseball pitcher Tim Wakefield
• 1970 - Actor, screenwriter, and director Kevin Smith

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Elvis Presley - Teddy Bear - LISTEN
  
• Melanie - Brand New Key - LISTEN
• Four Seasons - Rag Doll - LISTEN

THEME: TOYS

• Grades K-12 - Sesame Street - Rubber Duckie (2:22) - LISTEN
• Grades K-12 - Sesame Street - Rubber Duckie with Daveed Diggs (1:41) - LISTEN
• Grades K-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Toy Story - Toy Collection (8:02) - VIEW and DO
  
• Grades K-12 - NHPBS Video - Spanish with Esmeralda - Learn the Spanish Words for Some Toys (0:30) - VIEW
• Grades K-12 - National Toy Hall of Fame - READ and VIEW
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS Video - Timeless Toys - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Physics Girl - Bizarre Spinning Toys (4:56) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - SciTech Now - Engineering Toys that Capture Energy from Play (7:12) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - SciTech Now - How Architects Use Toy Blocks for Modeling (5:34) - VIEW and DO

THEME: DINOSAURS

• Grades PreK-2 - Dinosaur Train Website - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-5 - PBS LearningMedia - Dinosaur Train Collection - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades K-6 - PBS LearningMedia - ScienceTrek - Dinosaur Basics (5:51) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 1-5 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - The Adaptations that Helped a Giant Dinosaur Eat (5:13) - VIEW and DO
• grades 3-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - Studying Adaptations for Walking in Dinosaurs (5:48) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-6 - PBS LearningMedia - DragonflyTV - GPS: Dinosaurs (8:04) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 5-12 - PBS LearningMedia - SciTech Now - Discussing Dinosaurs with a Paleontologist (5:42) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Birds Are Living Dinosaurs (5:24) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 9-12- PBS LearningMedia - Eons - Inside the Dinosaur Library (7:18) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Eons - The Case of the Dinosaur Egg Thief (7:28) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Eons - The Raptor That Made Us Rethink Dinosaurs (8:36) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Eons - The Giant Dinosaur That Was Missing a Body (12:01) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Eons - Was This Dinosaur a Cannibal? (10:37) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Eons - When Dinosaurs Chilled in the Arctic (9:20) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Eons - An Illustrated History of Dinosaurs (12:20) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Eons - The Facts About Dinosaurs & Feathers (10:01) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Eons - What Colors Were Dinosaurs? (5:02) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Eons - What a Dinosaur Looks Like Under a Microscope (8:09) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Be Smart - The Dinosaur On Your Thanksgiving Table (10:16) - VIEW
  

Pressroom Contact

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