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It's Camp! Week 10 Ep. 5
Episode 49 | 26m 50sVideo has Closed Captions
Summer is waning and PBS39 is bringing the best parts of camp to your home this summer.
PBS39 is bringing the best parts of camp to your home this summer. It's Camp! is a 30-minute program produced from Valley Youth House's Camp Fowler.
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It's Camp! Week 10 Ep. 5
Episode 49 | 26m 50sVideo has Closed Captions
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I'm Lori.
>> I'm Dan.
>> And we're coming to you from Camp Fowler, located in Orefield, Pennsylvania.
Let's start the day with our friends, Jenn and Isaac.
>> Hey, everybody, welcome back to Camp Fowler.
>> I'm Isaac.
>> I'm Jenn.
>> And we are here with our friends, Liz, Caleb, Lori and Dan.
So we are on what's called our team wall here at camp.
So it might have spoiled the ending of it, but basically we're taking a team and we're getting them up over the top.
So Liz and I are the spotters up on the wall.
So we always want to make sure that there are these two people up on the top of the wall.
And then we're going to somehow get all of our friends down here up over the wall with us.
Does anybody have any questions, comments, concerns?
We want to make sure that we're wearing sneakers.
Want to make sure that we're being safe.
Nothing in your hands.
Nothing in your pockets.
Nothing in your mouth.
Everybody's shoelaces are tied.
If you have like a watch, you want to tighten or put away and just make sure that everyone's being safe.
You also need to spot down there as you go.
So I'm going to let you guys debrief yourselves.
>> You guys are comfortable spotting up there?
>> Yes, we are.
>> Remember how to not hurt yourselves.
>> Yeah.
>> Awesome.
Cool.
I love that we can all take care of each other.
OK, so we're all gonna try and go over this wall.
Everyone wants to try it?
OK.
So you want to go first?
OK.
All right.
So we'll figure out how to spot him.
So we're going to send Caleb up to you guys first.
>> Do you want to go on top of my shoulders?
>> So let's not stand on shoulders for safety's sake.
So let's do hands or knees maybe.
So if you do that.
Can you just step in his hands like that?
And then Lori and I will spot you.
>> And then I can lift.
>> And then they'll reach down and grab him.
Three, two, one.
Try to just stand up.
They gotcha.
There you go.
Cool.
>> Nicely done, Caleb.
Good job.
>> OK.
So how about you come back down and help us keep spotting the next people over?
That was awesome.
OK.
That works.
>> The same thing?
>> So it's still good for you.
>> Wasn't that bad.
>> All right.
Three, two.
OK, ready?
Three, two, one.
Up the wall.
There you go.
>> Nice.
>> All right.
>> Team Wall!
>> If you come down and help us spot.
I really like this idea of this activity because everybody has to be so plugged in and clued in to each other's safety.
It's serious at this point.
We're lifting people all the way up there.
That's ten feet up in the air.
Cool.
So you're doing this?
OK.
What are we doing?
You are taller naturally already.
We want to try and do it the same way?
>> Kind of.
>> I've seen some people, I don't know how you feel about this, doing like a fully supported in the back.
Like just, I don't know how you feel about that, rather than off to the side.
>> That might help hold that.
>> Oh.
That'll be OK.
We can adjust.
So we'll get you close to the wall.
OK.
So, ready up there?
OK.
Three, two, one.
There you go.
Spider-Man!
>> Well done.
Thanks, Dan.
>> Cool.
All right.
So I guess I'm the last one to go up.
OK.
All right.
Let's do this.
Seems to be working however you guys have been doing this.
All right.
So, step up here, OK.
You ready up there?
Step up like that.
All right.
Three, two, one.
>> OK.
>> Nice.
>> Cool!
>> So it is the end of week.
Thank you for joining us and making sure that you're taking care of yourself and others.
We are going to leave you with a journal, which is when was a time that you had to have multiple people help you with a goal that wasn't a goal that you could just accomplish by yourself?
Thank you so much for joining us.
Hope you have a great weekend.
>> See you next week.
>> That was great.
Let's go learn something new with our friends from the Cradle of Liberty Council from the Boy Scouts of America.
>> Hey, kids.
I'm Grace and I'm an entomologist on the STEM committee at Washington District, and I love coming out here and looking for all the bugs I can find.
Have you ever sat outside in your garden or next to a pond or maybe even just by some weeds at the side of a playground and really looked?
If you sit still for a while, you eventually realize how many things are out here.
There's bugs.
There's plants.
There's birds.
There's frogs.
There's all sorts of interesting things.
And you know what?
Scientists are interested in what things are out here, too.
They want to know how many of what kind of things there are.
They want to know where they are because that really helps them understand how to protect the natural world.
One thing you can do to help them is go out and find things for them.
See, there's not nearly enough scientists out there to find all the things.
And so if you help out, you can give them data to work from when they're doing their research.
There's a great site called iNaturalist.
It lets you upload your photos and if you give them a date and a location, scientists can use that information in some really interesting research.
They can learn about where invasive species are.
They can learn about what is in a certain area.
They've even identified diseases from trees just by people's pictures of them.
So I'm going to show you how you can take some pictures and upload them to the site.
Now, when you're photographing nature, it's important to be still and quiet.
So I see some bugs over here on this flower.
What I like to do is just sit real still and wait for a long time.
And any time I see something, I take as many pictures as I can.
Because bugs are not very cooperative.
And so hopefully if you take enough pictures, some of them will turn out all right.
Once you've taken your pictures, you can go to a site, iNaturalist.com and you can make an account and you can upload them and you can mark them with your location and your time.
And you can give it any idea of what you think it is.
If you have an idea, like it's a butterfly or a dragonfly, you can write that in.
If you have no idea, if the best you can say is it's a plant, you can do that.
And there are people who go on that site and help identify and they'll identify your photos for you.
In fact, AI has gotten so good at helping to identify what's in photos that when you upload a photo, there's a good chance it'll tell you what you found.
And so if the picture it shows you looks like what you saw, you can say, "Yeah, I think that's it."
So if you have a camera like this or even if all you have is your cell phone, you can go out there and take some awesome pictures and help out scientists.
Thanks for joining me today.
And I hope you get out there and take some awesome pictures and learn something while you're at it.
>> How cool was that?
Let's go learn more about wheels with our friends at the National Museum of Industrial History.
>> Hi, my name is Amber, and I'm here at the National Museum of Industrial History.
This week we have been looking at how wheels show up throughout industrial history.
We started with our pedal powered wheel.
Then we looked at our steam powered wheel.
Then we looked at how wheels transfer energy from wheel to wheel.
And then we looked at wheels as force, friction and compression.
Today, we're going to look at wheels as transportation.
So I'm gonna let you see my lovely friend back here, the Frick Portable Steam Engine.
So let's look at how the steam engine changed from the factory steam engine we looked at in the model to the engine you see here.
So right here, this black part is the boiler, just like the boiler we had heating up in our little factory earlier this week.
This red part up here, with our flywheel, is just like the steam engine that we had running our small factory earlier this week.
So when the steam engine went from factory model to farm model, it was necessary that not only it be smaller and more compact so that farmers could use it in smaller spaces, but also that farmers could move it around.
They weren't stationary like machines.
So we added four more wheels right to the bottom of the machine.
This makes it the portable steam engine.
So how did this portable steam engine impact farmers?
Well, it helped them out a ton.
You can see over here with these barrels.
This is the amount of product that a farmer would be able to pick just by using his hands.
If you take a look over at this side, this is the amount of product they'd be able to pick with the help of the portable steam engine.
So this steam engine was such a big helper for our farmers.
And not only because it was compact, but because it was portable.
So let's think about how the idea of wheels as transportation has impacted our lives beyond the portable steam engine.
If I think of something I use almost daily that has wheels, it's my car, parked right outside.
I'm sure that you guys have cars that you travel in too.
There's other things that have been helpful, like the lovely cart that's carrying my model or maybe even a rolling suitcase for an easier way to travel.
There are so many examples of wheels as transportation, whether hand-held or sitting outside on your carport.
So I challenge you to take a look around, look in your house, look outside and see how the invention of the wheel impacts you every single day.
Thank you so much for joining me this week here at the museum.
And we look forward to welcoming you as you come and visit us one day to see all of these artifacts on the floor and much, much more.
Thanks so much.
Bye-bye.
>> Let's take a moment to relax and do some yoga with our friends at Valley Youth House.
>> Hi, everybody.
Welcome to Camp Yoga.
My name is Rachel.
And today we're going to work on some balance poses.
So life is all about balance, sometimes, and kind of a fun way to practice that is doing some standing balance poses.
So you're going to find a comfortable flat space where you can stand.
We're going to start with a pose known as Tree Pose.
So start with your hands right on your hips and you're going to put the weight into your right foot.
So planting that foot down, then come to the ball of your left foot.
Turn your knee open so you're almost making a kickstand for your leg.
You can stay right here.
And guess what, you're balancing.
If you'd like to try a little bit more, you can move your foot up to your calf.
If you still want to try more, you can move your foot up to your thigh.
So the only place you don't want that foot is right on the knee.
So your hands can stay on your hips.
You can bring them right in front of your heart.
Or you can let your tree grow tall by stretching up.
Just trying to find something in front of you that's not moving and keeping your attention there.
That's going to help you with your balance.
It's going to help you focus.
All right.
And bring your hands back to your hips.
You're going to turn your knee forward and then let that foot come down.
Give your legs a little shake.
We're going to switch our sides.
So planting your left foot, going to do the opposite side.
And starting with that kickstand again, turning your knee open, standing up nice and tall.
And then again, if you'd like to take the journey up your leg, you can come up to your calf or maybe you come all the way up to the thigh.
Find that point in front of you that's not moving, trying to keep your attention there.
And then if you'd like, you can bring your hands right in front of your heart or you can stretch up tall, letting your tree grow.
Nice job.
And if you fall, that's OK.
Just try it again.
Hands are gonna come to your hips.
Turn the knee forward and then lower that foot down.
All right.
Give everything a little shake out.
All right.
We're gonna do another pose.
So this is known as dancer's pose.
So you're gonna step the right foot forward.
OK, then you want to push off your back leg.
You're going to squeeze the heel in and reach back for your foot.
So you're going to grab the inside of your foot if you can, and then reach the right arm up.
Good.
Begin to come forward, pressing your foot into your hand.
Keep that focal point, something that's not moving.
Try one more breath here and then lift yourself up.
Lower the foot, lower your hand to your side.
All right, now we're gonna try the other side.
So now you're stepping your left foot forward.
Start to put the weight onto that left foot.
Squeeze your right heel in and reach for the foot.
Try for the inside.
If not, you can grab the outside of your foot and reach your left arm up, begin to come forward pressing your foot into your hand.
Finding your balance.
All right.
And then lift yourself up, lower the right foot down, hands at your sides.
All right.
We're gonna do one more pose.
So it's known as Warrior Three.
You're going to step back a little bit so you can step the right foot forward and push off that back leg, reach your arms out to the side, almost like you're a bird.
Left leg, straight back.
Maybe you want to play with the arms.
You can reach them forward.
Good.
And then bring your hands to your hips.
Step your left foot to meet your right.
We need to try that on the left side now.
So you want to start so you can take the left foot forward and then push off your back leg, begin to find your balance.
The arms can stretch out like you're a bird.
They can even reach forward or they can come along your sides, and bring your hands to your hips.
Step your right foot forward, right to meet the left.
Nice job.
Bring your hands to your sides.
Thanks for joining us at camp this week.
We had a great time.
Have a great weekend, everybody.
Bye.
>> Let's go learn something new with our friends from the Minsi Trail Council of the Boy Scouts of America.
>> This is Camp with Jean and Jim.
And we have had so much fun with you guys this week talking about hiking, getting outside and just doing everything.
And in our last, final day, we're going to talk about the most number one important thing.
>> What's that?
Fun!
I got to have fun out there, Jim.
Not talking about shoes and food all the time, but you forgot the fun.
Got to have fun.
>> If your feet hurt, you're not going to have fun.
But now the feet don't hurt.
>> Well, let's talk about fun.
>> OK.
So what are some of your fun things to do?
>> Well, can't really hear it here, but in the background, we've got a bunch of birds going.
I love hearing that.
I'll actually even wake up in the morning to hear that around my house, which is scary but true.
>> This amazing book on birds that you could take with you and absolutely look and see what kind of bird it is.
This is a little vintage, but it's OK.
For you New Age kids that are all about the tablets and the phones, there's two apps.
The Bird Sound app.
It'll listen to the bird, tell you what it is.
And then two, you can take a picture of the bird and it'll tell you what it is.
So that's kind of fun.
You can make it a scavenger hunt - who could find the most birds or whatever.
They also do it for mushrooms, leaves, plants.
>> And animals?
>> And animals, so there's a way to make it fun.
>> Yeah.
>> And I... I like my binoculars.
So I can see the birds closer.
Or maybe, you know, like stuff.
I don't know.
>> She's accused me of this before, and it's true, I love going out to the Pinnacle.
I love watching the hawks go by, the turkey vultures.
>> I need to get him out more.
>> Yeah, I just, I love that area.
Easy place to park and go.
>> But there's a whole new world.
So the Pinnacle needs to be... ♪ Let it go ♪ Let it go >> Well, I've also gone up to Delaware Water Gap.
That is a climb coming up there.
Saw bald eagles last time I was there.
Hiked to the top.
About an hour to get to the top.
We didn't pack our lunch.
We packed a stove and cooked lunch on the top.
That had a lot of people jealous, there and eating their sandwiches and stuff.
I'm like, "You want some hot soup?"
"Yeah, sounds good."
>> "A little cheese?"
>> Talking food again.
>> Yeah.
Look, I told you, I focus on food.
So what else do you do for fun on the hike?
>> Geocaching.
Geocaching is a fun thing.
You find freakin' cool prizes and you get to write your name and you find stuff.
Got a Batman ring once.
>> Excellent.
There's also orienteering courses.
I like practicing my skills.
>> So what's that?
>> That's where I'm going to take, well, my version of it, there's races for orienteering.
We're going through different spots and being timed and going on that.
But it's using a compass and figuring out where you are and where you're trying to go.
>> Thank you.
I mean, like, seriously.
>> So, for me, all this is a lead up for me to go backpacking, because I love backpacking out in the Rockies.
I like backpacking on the Appalachian Trail here.
>> Probably likes it on the Pinnacle.
>> Did I have to say it?
Obvious.
>> Even the kids at home are now going, "Yeah, Jim, we know you like the Pinnacle."
>> The other thing I'll usually do is I'll take my camera with me.
Now, the phone's got an OK camera, but I'll take something with a longer lens, because let's face it, I talk too much and the birds know I'm coming, so I need to be able take something a little further away.
I haven't figured that one out.
>> One last fun thing that we can do?
>> I don't know.
But you're gonna tell me.
>> The number one thing is Pokemon Go.
That's right.
>> Definitely before my time.
Geocaching, maybe.
>> It's kind of like that, catching Pokemon.
So you know what?
It's been a great week, hasn't it?
It has been a totally fun week for me.
>> Definitely.
It's gone by so quick.
>> This has been camp with Jim.
>> And Jean.
>> From Minsi Trails Council.
We'll see you again.
Thanks.
>> Hey, everybody, welcome to the campfire.
My name's Dave Fry.
I'm glad to be here.
We're going to finish up the week with some singing and carrying on by the campfire.
We're going to have a great time.
And I brought with me my trusty Martin guitar.
Yeah, a mighty tool.
Helps me get people singing.
This is a good one for you to help me out on, called I Like Peanut Butter.
It's got a part for you.
I'm gonna go like this.
You're going to sing, ♪ Peanut, peanut butter You got that.
All right.
Sing that four times.
At the end of that, it's got a chorus where we sing together.
Very important at a campfire to sing together.
All right.
Get your thumbs out.
Go like this.
♪ I like peanut butter ♪ Creamy peanut butter.
How about... ♪ Chunky peanut butter, too.
And the best part is you go like this.
Woo!
Let me hear you.
One, two, three.
Woo!
I heard an echo.
All right.
It's going to be great fun.
♪ There's a food going round ♪ A sticky, sticky goo, everybody ♪ ♪ Peanut, peanut butter ♪ Tastes so good, but it's so hard to chew ♪ ♪ Come on ♪ Peanut, peanut butter ♪ People go round looking like they got the mumps ♪ ♪ Peanut, peanut butter ♪ When they're eating peanut butter in great big hunks ♪ ♪ Peanut, peanut butter ♪ I like peanut butter ♪ Creamy peanut butter ♪ Chunky peanut butter, too ♪ Woo!
♪ I like peanut butter Creamy peanut butter ♪ ♪ Chunky peanut butter too ♪ Woo!
♪ Well, my dog started barking in the night ♪ Sing it ♪ Peanut, peanut butter ♪ Woke up all my neighbors Nearly got me in a fight ♪ ♪ Peanut, peanut butter ♪ Well, I gave him peanut butter just to quiet him down ♪ ♪ Peanut, peanut butter ♪ Chewed himself to sleep, didn't make a sound ♪ ♪ Peanut, peanut butter Here we go.
♪ I like peanut butter ♪ Creamy peanut butter ♪ Chunky peanut butter, too ♪ Woo!
♪ I like peanut butter ♪ Creamy peanut butter ♪ Chunky peanut butter too If you want to dance, go ahead.
♪ Peanut, peanut butter ♪ And jelly ♪ Peanut, peanut butter ♪ And marshmallow ♪ Peanut, peanut butter ♪ On crackers ♪ Peanut, peanut butter ♪ Honey, honey, honey, honey, honey, honey, yeah ♪ ♪ Well, I went down into Camp Firewood ♪ ♪ We had we had s'mores with peanut butter ♪ ♪ Oh, it tastes so good ♪ But it sticks my teeth ♪ Peanut, peanut butter ♪ People going round like they got the mumps♪ ♪ Peanut, peanut butter ♪ They're eating peanut butter in great big hunks ♪ ♪ Peanut, peanut butter Here we go.
♪ I like peanut butter ♪ Creamy peanut butter Watch out.
♪ I like peanut butter ♪ Chunky peanut butter ♪ I like peanut butter, too.
Woo!
All right.
Good singing.
All right.
And you can take that and sing it the rest the weekend.
We'll see you in camp on Monday, all right?

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