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

Contact Us

Contact the Discovery Center and Living Lab staff at livinglab@mos.org

Bubble-ology: Older Children & Adults



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 older children explore Bubble-ology?

Scaffold

Older children and adults can help young children use the bubble solution and tools safely, by modeling proper safety goggle use and how to blow through a straw.

They can hold the cups up out of the tray for very young children, and show older kids different ways of making bubbles.

Seriously, Have Fun

Often, science is just plain fun. This is never more true than when exploring bubbles.

Everyone loves bubbles. . . Everyone. . . . .

    You, in the back. . . I said everyone.