Museum of Science, Boston

Books for Kids

  • Bubble-ology
    , by
    Jacqueline Barber
  • How Do You Make a Bubble
    , by
    William Hooks
  • Pop! A Book About Bubbles
    , by
    Kimberly Brubaker Bradley & Margaret Miller

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Bubble-ology: Early Elementary Schoolers



Bubble-ology can be a fun science activity for people of all ages. We provide these generalizations as guidelines about what children at different ages might do during Bubble explorations at the Discovery Center’s Experiment Station, in the kitchen at home, or at school. Listed below are science and technology process skills that children may be practicing during their explorations. Please remember: each child develops at a different rate, so some children in each age group may be able to do some of the things described in the age group before or after their own.

How might early elementary schoolers explore Bubble-ology?

Classify - Early Elementary Schoolers

Early elementary aged visitors can identify the ingredients needed to make a bubble (soap, water and air), and can describe the characteristics of a bubble (round, shiny, wet).

Hypothesize - Early Elementary Schoolers

Early elementary aged children can think about whether- and why- bubbles are always round.

Early Elementary aged children can also participate in some of the challenges- such as “touch a bubble without popping it”- and consider how they accomplished this surprising result.

*Grownups- the trick is to "make your finger like a bubble" and wet it in the soap solution before trying to touch the bubble, but sssh- don't tell!*

Use Tools - Early Elementary Schoolers

Early elementary aged visitors can use all the tools available to make a bubble.

They can try to “release” a bubble from the end of the cup, allowing the bubble to float freely.

Early Elementary aged visitors can try to design their own bubble tools, using straws and string, to create different shapes or giant bubbles.