With just a few bath toys or simple plastic cups, they will immediately begin to test the waves of their water lab. Watch and see how every child becomes a little scientist with fresh new bath time discoveries!
HOW TO OBSERVE
Make bath time fun and full of discovery! Like Archimedes, children can learn the basic properties of physics such as empty versus full, floating, sinking, weight, and cause and effect all while having FUN in the tub!
• Add cups of various sizes
• Include floating toys
• Encourage exploration with spinners and tubes
Use #InternationalBathDay to share on social media.
HISTORY
Legend has it that on this day, Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer Archimedes discovered, while taking a bath, that an object’s volume could be accurately measured by being submerged in water!
Unable to contain his excitement, Archimedes leapt out of the bathtub stark naked and yelled, “Eureka, Eureka!” as he ran through the streets of Syracuse, Greece.
Although born in 288 B.C., no one knows the exact date of Archimedes’ birth. However, to honor Archimedes, we commemorate the date he leapt out of the bathtub, being June 14.
How was this date determined? The ancient Greek legend says that it was precisely one week before the beginning of summer.
In those days, the Greeks followed an astronomical calendar and the seasons were determined due to the 23.5-degree tilt of the Earth’s rotational axis in relation to its orbit around the sun.
Summer began (then and today) on June 21. The week before is June 14, and this was the date set.
In 2016, the Registrar at National Day Calendar® proclaimed the day to be observed annually on June 14.
If you suffer from ablutophobia, please feel free to skip this day.
What is your favorite way to take a bath?
#NationalBathDay
#Eureka
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