Atoms and the Large Hadron Collider- September 10
Smashing Learning
Wednesday, September 10, 2025
Today is Suicide Prevention Day, Blame it on the Large Hadron Collider Day, Makeup Day, and TV Dinner Day.
- Daily Hispanic Heritage Resource of the Day: Hispanic, Latino, Latinx: What's in a name?
- Classical Music Resource of the Day: Rimsky Korsakov - Flight of the Bumblebee
AMERICAN REVOLUTION HISTORY ON THIS DATE
1776 – American Revolutionary War: Nathan Hale volunteers to spy for the Continental Army.
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Atoms and the Large Hadron Collider
ON THIS DATE
- 1846 - Elias Howe is granted a patent for the sewing machine.
- 1897 - 19 unarmed immigrant miners are killed by a sheriff's posse in Lattimer, Pennsylvania in what came to be called the Lattimer Massacre.
- 2008 - The Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland is powered up.
- 1852 - Seminole Nation of Oklahoma tribal chief Alice Brown Davis
- 1890 - Fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli
- 1933 - Fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld
- 1935 - Poet Mary Oliver
- 1945 - Singer-songwriter and guitarist José Feliciano
- 1950 - Musician Joe Perry
- 1960 - Actor Colin Firth
- 1964 - Former NH U.S. Senator John E. Sununu
- Thomas Dolby - She Blinded Me With Science - LISTEN
- Pet Shop Boys - The Sound of the Atom Splitting - LISTEN
- José Feliciano - Light My Fire - LISTEN
- Aerosmith - Dream On - LISTEN
- Grades K-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Smithsonian - Good Thinking! - What's the "Matter" with Cells and Atoms? (8:37) - VIEW
- Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Nova - What Does an Atom Look Like? (3:26) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Physics in Motion - Fusion (8:12) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Physics in Motion - Fission (8:39) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - SciTech Now - How Do Atoms Keep Time? (5:55) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Atoms & Electrons (1:22) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - A Space Odyssey - Atoms: The Space Between (Available in Spanish) (1:15) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Atomic Arrangements in Solids (1:30) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nova - Atomic Structure of an Alloy (Available in Spanish) (4:32) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Explore Materials - Moving Atoms (3:06) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Metropolitan Opera - Dr. Atomic (opera about the Manhattan Project) (1:21:06) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Bend, Twist, and Break: The Bridge (1:27) - VIEW
- Grades 7-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Genius by Stephen Hawking The Atomic Structure, Quantum Physics, and Counting Electrons (6:37) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Chem Think - Atomic Structure Interactive - VIEW and DO
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Chemistry: Unit 1 - Matter and the Rise of Atomic Theory (28:25) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Chemistry: Unit 2 - The Behavior of Atoms (28:26) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Chemistry: Unit 3 - Atoms and Light (28:25) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Chemistry: Unit 4 - Organizing Atoms and Electrons (28:25) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Crash Course Chemistry Collection - VIEW
THEME: LARGE HADRON COLLIDER
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Quest - Homegrown Particle Accelerators (12:15) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Learning Media - Physics Girl - Seeing the Smallest Thing in the Universe (5:38) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Physics Girl - Inside the World's Largest Science Experiment (14:00) - VIEW
- Grades 11-12 - NHPBS Learning Media - PBS Space Time -The Higgs Mechanism Explained (7:49) - VIEW
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