It's Camp
It's Camp! Week 7 Ep. 5
Episode 34 | 28m 24sVideo has Closed Captions
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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 7 Ep. 5
Episode 34 | 28m 24sVideo has Closed Captions
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I'm Lori.
I'm Dan.
I'm Jessica.
And we are coming to you from Camp Fowler, located in Orfield, Pennsylvania.
We have a lot of great activities planned for you this week.
We'll be learning and exploring with the Wild Lands Conservancy.
We will also do some more fun arts and crafts with our friends at Art Quest.
Let's start our day with our friends, Jen, Isaac and Gabby to learn more about being present in the moment.
Hey, everybody, welcome back to Camp.
I'm Isaac.
I'm Jenn.
And I'm Gabby.
Today, we're gonna be doing something a little bit different, we haven't done something like this before, but in the spirit of this week, which is our theme, is that this year we're gonna be taking what's called a true colors personality quiz.
You might have already taken this in school, but it is a quiz.
We will provide you with a link to it and with a downloadable copy as well as the results.
So you take this quiz.
You answer the questions, and then you get one of four colors and the colors tell you something about your personality that you might not already know.
So we'll you about the colors at the end.
But first I'm going to explain just quickly the directions and then we're going to take the quiz.
So if you would like to pause it here and go grab the quiz printed out or look at it, you're welcome to do so.
Or you can write it down on a piece paper on your own .
There are incomplete sentences that describe people.
Each sentence has four possible endings.
Give four points to the phrase that is most like you.
So if you totally agree with it, you're gonna give it four points.
Three points the phrase that is next most like you.
So this is kind of like me.
Two points to the next phrase.
So I would say two is maybe the most neutral one.
And then one is least like you.
That's absolutely not like me.
I don't agree with that at all.
First question, when I make decisions, A, I do it quickly and go with the first impression.
B, I think about it, consider the options and then decide.
C, I listen to my feelings and consider how my decisions will affect others.
D, I take it seriously and always try to make the right decision.
The best way for others to show me they care about me is to A, do fun things with me.
B, Give me space to be myself.
C, Spend time with me doing anything.
Or D, do what I want to do.
Not let me down or go back on their word.
So just take a second to answer it.
When I'm with my friends, I like to provide the excitement, the fun, the jokes, B, questions, answers, a logical way of looking at things.
C, concern for others.
A lot of caring.
Or D, the planning, a sense of security, a good standard.
I like to A, act on a moment's notice, do risky things.
B, provide answers or give thought to people's questions.
C, help maintain a sense of harmony and togetherness.
And D, be responsible, dependable and helpful to others.
One thing I am really good at is A, acting courageously, b, thinking, C, being sensitive or D, or organizing.
Friends who know me best would say that I'm A, competitive.
B, reserved, thoughtful.
C, emotional and friendly.
D, neat, prepared.
All right.
So what you're gonna see now is the results page and I'm going to go over that with you.
It'll probably take a little bit.
So you're going to record your answers.
You're gonna go through the quiz and record your answers one through 11 across.
So if I got four for A I'm going to put a four here.
If I got a two for B, I'm going to put a two here.
If I got a one for C, I put a one here and if I got a three for D I'm going to put a three here.
So you're gonna go through all of them and then you're going to total your answers down so that you get all of your A answers, all your B answers, your C and your D. So ideally what's gonna happen is the biggest number is going to be the letter that you are.
And I'm going to go over which letters are which.
So we all got blue.
So I'm just gonna read a couple words that are associated with blue.
So enthusiastic, sympathetic, personal, warm and communicative.
So these are people that like being artistic and communicating with other people.
They like helping people.
They are skilled at motivating, interacting with others, and they are easily able to make friends.
So anybody else get green?
I got green as my second color.
Yeah, I got green as well.
Blue, green.
So greens are analytical, conceptual, inventive, logical and abstract.
So they are basically people who like analyzing things.
They like taking something and pulling it apart.
They like thinking about things.
They're drawn to challenges.
They like things to be a little bit more difficult and they like to explore ideas.
These are the kind of people who are you can think of like a scientist, is like a green.
So in regards to being here, I would say that this connects because you're able to actually focus in on what your skillset is and what you are good at.
It's a lot easier to know what you're good at and then kind of work from there and maybe do something more challenging than not knowing at all what your kind of skillset is or what things you're good at.
Yeah, I think when we're aware of all those things, then we can be really present in the moment and make good decisions that we feel good about and build friendships like we've been talking about all week.
So we've had a lot of fun playing together this week.
We hope you had fun at home as well.
And we will see you next week.
Bye bye.
See ya.
Let's go learn something new with our friends from The DA Vinci Science Center.
Hi, everyone.
Tyler Groft back here at The DaVinci Science Center, where we bring science to life and lives to science each and every single day.
Today, we're actually only working with one of the coldest substances on the earth.
We're going to actually look at liquid nitrogen.
In order to prepare we're going to make sure that we actually put on our super safety gloves and we keep our goggles on at all times.
Liquid nitrogen is kept in a device like this called a dewar.
Keeps our liquid nitrogen really, really, really cold.
Now, as I pour our nitrogen into our container, we start to see some things.
What types of things might you notice?
We can usually see two things right off the bat.
The first is this weird, white wispy stuff that's all around our container.
And the second is actually the bubbles happening inside of the liquid nitrogen.
If we go out into a cold space or if you open up your freezer and you take a deep breath.
And what you're seeing there is as you breathe out, all of the teeny tiny water molecules inside of your breath are trapped in the air, which freeze very, very quickly, producing that nice, dense white fog that we see as we breathe over the top of our liquid nitrogen.
The other thing that we're taking a look at was all of the teeny tiny bubbles inside.
Our liquid nitrogen will actually boil at any temperature above -320 degrees Fahrenheit.
The first thing I'd like to do in terms of an experiment is we're actually in to take a look and see what happens to water when we add liquid nitrogen to it.
We'll go ahead and pour it straight down over the top of our water.
You can hear it begin to boil and bubble and crack.
And it's just seconds after adding our liquid nitrogen to our pool of water, we've actually been able to create a pretty decent layer of regular old ice.
Now, our ice is very, very cold.
So I have to still wear my gloves.
However, it is just regular ice, just like you would find inside your freezer.
It just takes only a few seconds to make versus a few hours.
What do we think liquid nitrogen might do to a balloon?
Go ahead and pour some liquid nitrogen right over the top of our balloon and see what happens when you make a gas really, really cold.
If you wanted to try this experiment at home once again, you could try it in a freezer as you have your parents' permission.
Take a balloon, blow it up, maybe take a measurement or two, then go ahead and pop it into the freezer for a few hours.
You'll find that as your balloon gets colder and colder, the air inside will actually shrink as ours has.
It appears as though our balloon has flattened as we make our air really, really cold.
All the molecules that are all bouncing around inside get really, really tight and condense to make our balloon able to flatten out.
Now that our air is all heating back up to room temperature, it's going to continue to expand and expand back to the original size.
All right.
Now over to our last experiment that we're going to go ahead and try together today.
We're going to see what happens when we take a solid and we make it really, really cold.
So, again, we're gonna pour liquid nitrogen, which is negative 320 degrees Fahrenheit, right on top of our racketball.
We just use a little bit of weight on top just to go ahead and keep our racketball submerged, which will help this to happen a little bit faster.
After the past few seconds of our racketball being submerged in our liquid nitrogen, negative 320 degrees Fahrenheit, it is really super cold.
We'll see what happens in three, two, one... Oh my goodness.
Our racketball doesn't bounce anywhere and shattered all over our brick.
As things get cooler, they actually condense.
It can't shrink as well.
So when we actually drop it, it is so brittle that it was able to shatter all over the place.
I've had tons of fun exploring all things about science, technology, engineering, art and math with you.
And I hope to see you again next time on Its Camp.
That was fantastic.
Let's go see what our friends at Valley Youth House are up to.
Welcome back, campers.
I'm Isa and I'm here with my friends Flor, Jessica and Robert.
For the past couple days, we're been learning what is Bomba, the history of Bomba, where it came from is from three different cultures, from Spain, from Africa, that it was also a way to celebrate religion, to communicate between them and just to get together, have fun and loose a little bit.
Right?
That was the first thing that we learned about Bomba.
Second day, it was more about the dancing.
Robert showed us how the male moved in Bomba.
And I showed you the fun part.
You remember the skirt and the shoulders and everything?
Then, Robert teach us how to play the instrument.
And do you remember the rhythm that we've been playing over and over these days?
Let me hear it.
That's the one.
And also, remember the Bomba has, oh, my God like 20 different rhythms.
Then we teach you how to sing Bomba.
The lead singer introduces the chorus and the rest of the group followed the lead singer.
And always remember, you don't need to have the perfect, perfect voice to sing Bomba.
And you don't even have to be the perfect dancer because Bomba is the way to express yourself.
The way you feel.
In so many different ways.
If you feel a little bit upset, come on.
Just step it up and dance a little bit, OK?
And always remember, it's about fun.
So right now what we are going to do is like to wrap it up everything.
Introduce you a little bit more of our beautiful culture.
So we're going to sing the same song from yesterday.
Do you remember that one?
Can you say it again?
One, two, three.
Good job.
OK, so let's start singing.
Hit it, Robert.
♪ ♪ And now, for the male part, I'm going to invite a friend.
♪ ♪ Thank you very much for your time.
I hope you had fun learning the history of Bomba, how to dance, how to play, how to sing it, and of course, how to have fun with the Puerto Rican culture.
Stay safe.
♪ That was awesome.
Let's go see what our Boy Scouts of America friends are doing.
Welcome.
My name's Walt from Sea Scouts, this is my son Jim.
Glad you showed up here for the last day at the lake at Scout Camp.
And you know, Sea Scouts are more than just having an awesome time on the water.
We also just have a lot of fun.
Today, we're going to show you how to have some backyard fun with a slip and slide.
It's an awesome experience to have with your buddies and friends in the back yard.
And it's easy to do.
All you need is a piece of plastic.
This happens to be some old plastic that I use to paint.
You can use a tarp if you'd like.
You know, you can just not cut the grass and have your grass nice and long.
That works, too.
You need some water.
You can use your garden hose.
Here we have a couple of buckets of water from the lake.
You need a pool rope and some dish soap.
Simple as that.
Simple awesome afternoon fun in a hot summer day like today.
OK.
Jim, we're going to set up the slip and slide.
We'll slide this out here.
Set it on the ground, what we're going to do here because of the breezes, we're going to pile a little bit of sand here on the corners.
To hold it down.
We've got just a beautiful breeze off the lake today.
Now, it doesn't have to be this short.
It can be a lot longer, you can have a couple sheets all together.
It's really whatever you have around the house.
First thing we want to do is wet this down.
And I get to wet my son down.
Oh, that was fun.
Now a little bit of soap.
Just ordinary dish soap.
And you can never have.
Too much dish soap.
We want to soak this up.
Nice and... Load it up with soap here.
OK.
A little bit more water here.
To get this nice and slopey.
You guys will have.
the cleanest backyard after this.
Okay, let's see if we're soapy enough.
We're going to give Jim here the pull rope.
We're gonna use our time here just to show you on this short piece of plastic, he's gonna lean back.
You get two or three buddies here and just pull.
Right across.
Pretty awesome.
Pretty awesome.
And it doesn't have to be knees.
We can use a boogie board.
We're going to soap up the boogie board.
Slide it on the plastic a little bit.
There you go.
We're going to try this out here.
Okay.
Ready?
Here we go.
Oh, it works better.
Works better with your belly.
The awesome one is... ..the tube.
The tube is just an awesome way to do that.
We want to get it a little slippery with soap on the bottom.
Okay.
Here we go.
Hold onto the handles.
Here we go.
Awesome.
If your backyard has a hill, aim it down the hill.
But just a lot of fun.
Hey, we want to thank you for joining us this week here at the lake at Scout Camp here on the Scout Reservation.
Hope you have a good summer and hope you have fun on the water.
Thank you very much.
Bye-Bye.
Let's jump over to the banana factory and check out some cool crafting with Art's Quest.
I'm going to show you how you can weave using paper instead of using yarn.
What I'm going to do first is cut some strips into my larger piece of construction paper.
I'm not going to cut all the way through because having a little border at the edge that's solid is going to help keep my whole weaving piece together.
So for this, I'm just going to kind of eyeball it.
You can measure it out if you want to, but it's not necessary.
I'm aiming for about an inch wide because that's about how wide my paper strips are.
If you have smaller paper strips or if you want interesting width differences, you can go for whatever size you want.
I have this now, it's almost like giant fringe.
What we're going to do is take our strip and we are going to send it over one of these and then under the next, over under, over, under, all the way across.
And with this, it's a little bit easier than with normal string because you can just pick up the flaps and that'll help it go a lot quicker and you can send it all the way up to the edge as far as you can take it.
And what I like to do in order to keep things from kind of falling out is I'll take a glue stick and I'll just add a little bit of glue at the edge.
Now we're ready for our next trip.
And you can stick with one color.
You can alternate any color you have.
Since last time I did over under, over, under, I'm going to do the reverse.
So this time I'll start under and go over and it's going to form kind of a checkerboard pattern.
I'm gonna do the same thing again with my glue stick.
I'm gonna add a little bit of glue and stick it in place and we can keep doing this all the way across.
And since this is my last strip, what I'm going to do is glue each of my wares into place here, carefully fold up my strip every time.
So I'm at the end.
I am noticing that I have a few little bits that trailed off so I can use my scissors to trim anything I don't like.
But that is basically how you weave with paper.
It's a lot simpler than weaving with yarn.
Thank you so much for learning how to weave with me this week.
And thank you for watching.
Hi, I'm Craig and welcome to Camp Fire Friday.
I'd like to play a song for you that I learned as a child.
I must've been six, seven, eight years old when I first heard this song.
There was a folk singing trio called Peter, Paul and Mary, and they would actually take a lot of Bob Dylan songs and make them quite popular because they sounded so sweet.
But this was one of their songs called Puff the Magic Dragon.
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