- Hi everybody, my name is Zach, and welcome to Camp TV.

Are you ready for some summer fun?

Me too!

Now, as your head counselor, I will be introducing you to all sorts of cool activities, arts, crafts, games, math, and science, as well as some of my favorite books, nature, and theater.

I will be here to take you from one activity to the next, so follow me on Camp TV.

[light music] - [Announcer] This program was made possible in part by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a private corporation funded by the American people.

Additional funding was provided by the Peter G. Peterson and Joan Ganz Cooney Fund, and the Pine Tree Foundation of New York.

[upbeat ukulele music] ♪ Camp TV ♪ ♪ It's time for us to start ♪ ♪ From furry animal encounters ♪ ♪ Summer reading and the arts ♪ ♪ No matter what the weather ♪ ♪ We'll explore it all together ♪ ♪ It's a place for you and me ♪ ♪ It's Camp TV ♪ [dramatic music] Good morning, I'm weatherman Zach, and today's forecast, expect the unexpected.

Whether you live in the north, south, center of the country, or the coasts, we're expecting two feet of snow every six seconds starting here, starting now, right in my living room.

[record scratching] Wait, what?

That can't be right.

[dramatic music] Okay folks, this just in, this snow is brought to you by Camp TV, because we believe every kid deserves an extra day to chill.

Brr, it's a brand new day, welcome to snow day on Camp TV.

A little help here.

A little birdie told me it's time to go wild.

[upbeat music] - Hi, I'm Susan, a senior keeper at the San Diego Zoo, and today at Polar Bear Plunge is a very special day for our polar bears.

It is snow day for them.

The polar bears are showing some great behavior today with the snow.

I did see one of our polar bears, Tatqiq, sliding down the snow down the hill, which I think she thought that was kind of fun.

And they also do a lot of digging and making great big holes that they could lay in, as well as they kind of sniffed around and were enjoying the different things that were hidden in the snow.

[upbeat music] The polar bears too were so excited.

They definitely wrestled with each other.

Some of that behavior, they grab each other at the neck, and it looks a little bit rough, but they were just really having fun, and it's part of their play behavior.

Polar bear fur appears white because it is actually hollow and it reflects the sun's light.

So it altogether appears white, but if they're rolling in different substrate that we give them, substrate is dirt or mulch or even sand, and even when they rub against some palm fronds they get a little bit green.

So they take on the color that they had just rolled around in.

[upbeat music] Polar bears do not hibernate.

The females will build a den and be in that den for about six months.

So it's similar to hibernation, but while they're in that den, they have cubs, and they're feeding their cubs throughout those six months.

Polar bears have some great adaptations, and we saw a little bit on snow day today, although they did slide around on the snow as they were walking around, they didn't look like they were slipping at all.

They have fur on the bottom of their paws as well as great foot pads.

And so that allows them better traction in the snow.

They also in the wild will have great big layers of fat on their bodies to keep them nice and warm in the cold Arctic temperatures.

[upbeat music] - [Zach] Jump, dance, play.

It's time to get active.

Let's move.

- Hi, welcome to NDI live.

My name is Dustin Garcia, I'm a teaching artist and choreographer for National Dance Institute.

And this is my family.

So these exercises are meant to challenge your strength, your balance, and your coordination.

And the beauty of them is that you can do it with your entire family.

First, we're gonna do a full body workout called the burpee, which you increase the intensity on as you see fit.

We're then gonna do a balance challenge that's gonna test the strength in your legs, your core, and your coordination, and we're gonna finish with a hands challenge that's going to test your hand eye coordination and the strength in your hands.

Playing music for us today is NDI's very own music director, Jerry Korman, thank you, Jerry.

So now give yourself some room, try your best, do what you can, and have some fun.

Okay guys, so let's try this.

The first thing we're gonna do is take a jump up in the air with your arms out, ready?

Go jump, just like that.

Now once you land, after you land, you're gonna put your hands down to the floor like this, got that?

Okay, here we go, ready?

Let's stand up and let's try that one more time, ready?

Jump up, jump, then put your hands on the floor, boom.

Now once your hands are on the floor you're gonna kick your legs all the way to the back and get into a pushup position, go like this, yes, good, bring it back, let's try that again, ready?

Stand up, you're gonna go jump, hands down, pushup position, and then bring it up, you bring it back down to here, yes?

Let's try that one more time, so from the standing up position, here we go, jump, hands down, pushup position, and bring it back, good.

That is a burpee, we're gonna try to do that as many times as we can, here we go.

Okay guys, so now we're gonna try to do it as many times as we possibly can with some music, ready?

- I think I got eight times.

- Okay, one more - I'll do it 100 times.

- She says 100 times, let's just do it a few times, here we go, ready?

Here we go, and up, and down, feet out, try it again, okay, and up, and down, feet out, do it again, yes, jump up, and down, feet out, bring it back, try it again, go up, go down, feet out, keep going, again, up, and down, feet out, yes, keep going, up, and down, feet out, try it again, one more time, up, and down, feet out, and yes, again, go up, and down, feet out, and yes.

I thought that was good, yes, good, good.

[applauding] Okay, so for this next one, we're gonna do a balance challenge.

Try to follow me and do whatever it is I'm doing, you ready to go?

You ready to go?

She's ready, are you ready to go?

Okay, here we go with some music.

Ready, starting with your feet together, let's try to lift one leg up like this, just like that, good, grab it like this, lift it up a little bit higher, now balance, arms out, arms out, good, touch your nose, touch your nose, touch your head, touch your head, touch your shoulder, touch your shoulder, touch your hips, now shake it, shake it, shake it, switch, the other leg, bring it up, switch it, try to balance, good job.

Lift the leg up, and let it go, there you go, touch your nose, touch your nose, touch your head, touch your head, shoulder, shoulder, arms side, arms side, or hold your daddy just like that and shake, shake, shake, shake, good.

Now for one little last balance, this is a real big challenge, pick a leg, any leg you want, I'm going to lift my left leg, maybe, yes, we're gonna cross the leg over like this, you're gonna put your hands here like this, and now we're gonna try to go all the way down, we're gonna try to go all the way down, we're gonna try to go all the way down and sit with no hands like that.

Okay guys, so for this next challenge you're gonna come up close.

I'm gonna try to challenge you with your hands, see if I can challenge your hand eye finger coordination.

Let's try it.

Here we go, follow me with some music.

Take your hands like this, close them down, open 'em up, close 'em, open 'em up, now turn them, move forward, there you go yes, one close, one away, good.

Now keep going with your fingers just like that, now cross your fingers, cross your fingers, cross your fingers, now try this, close, open, close, open, close, open, close, now try this, here you go, here you go, try this, close, open, close, open, close, open, close, try it faster now, close, open, close, open, close, open, close, open, close, open, there you go, like that, now try this, switch.

Good, now I'm gonna really challenge your hand eye coordination, here we go, let's try it, ha, ha, ha, ha, good, ha, ha, ha, ha, good.

[upbeat music] All right, I hope you enjoyed yourselves, thank you for joining us at NDI Live, we'll see you again next time, bye, bye.

- Hi, welcome back to snow day on Camp TV.

Awesome last activity, wouldn't you say?

And speaking of awesome, who's ready for another Zach Challenge?

Before me, six glasses of melted snow, and in this bowl, a bunch of bouncy ping pong balls.

I mean, stellar snowballs.

My challenge: bounce three snowballs in in a row in under 20 seconds, okay, here we go.

So close.

Oh!

[laughing] Wait, I need one more, no.

[dramatic music] I celebrated too soon, no.

Oh, that was snow much fun.

See you after your next few activities.

Arts and crafts?

Yes please.

Let's get artsy.

- [Brian] Hi, my name is Brian Wilson, I am a security officer at the Museum of Modern Art.

This painting in the background is one of my paintings called Gugabizi.

I would like to show you a fun way to express yourself called a doodle a day.

I drew a doodle a day for a year after seeing my art school friend, Jennifer Broderick, doing it.

They helped me express what I was feeling that day, whether I felt happy, heavy, or serene.

The doodles help me to explore shapes and lines, and reality itself.

Now you can watch while I do one.

First what you need is a black Sharpie marker, or you can use any pen, and use a black sketchbook like this, or any sketchbook or paper.

And what you wanna do is you can just breathe for a moment, get in touch with yourself, and then start to doodle.

Just let the line flow as you're breathing.

I feel whimsical today, the weather's changing, I have a lot of these little whimsical lines.

There's no time limit, just til you feel that you've expressed something, but I will say having a time limit helps you to commit to the image.

But I use the black Sharpie because it helps me create a bold line that I'm committed to.

And there it is, and you can try one, and when you're done, you can actually frame it the way I did.

This is one that I did that I framed.

Have fun doodling, and have a funtabulous day.

- [Zach] Music, dance, magic, and more.

Step right up to center stage.

[orchestral music] ♪ 'Cause I'm in the starts tonight ♪ ♪ So watch me bring the fire and set the night alight ♪ ♪ Shoes on, get up in the morn' ♪ ♪ Cup of milk, let's rock and roll ♪ ♪ King Kong, kick the drum, rolling on like a Rolling Stone ♪ ♪ Sing song when I'm walking home ♪ ♪ Jump up to the top, LeBron ♪ ♪ Ding dong, call me on my phone ♪ ♪ Ice tea and a game of ping pong ♪ ♪ This is getting heavy ♪ ♪ Can you hear the bass boom, I'm ready ♪ ♪ Life is sweet as honey ♪ ♪ Yeah, this beat cha-ching like money ♪ ♪ Disco overload, I'm into that, I'm good to go ♪ ♪ I'm diamond, you know I glow up ♪ ♪ Hey, so let's go ♪ ♪ 'Cause I'm in the stars tonight ♪ ♪ So watch me bring the fire and set the night alight ♪ ♪ Shining through the city with a little funk and soul ♪ ♪ So I'ma light it up like dynamite, whoa ♪ ♪ Bring a friend, join the crowd ♪ ♪ Whoever wanna come along ♪ ♪ Word up, talk the talk ♪ ♪ Just move like we off the wall ♪ ♪ Day or night, the sky's alight ♪ ♪ So we dance to the break of dawn ♪ ♪ Ladies and gentlemen, I got the medicine ♪ ♪ So you should keep your eyes on the ball ♪ ♪ This is getting heavy ♪ ♪ Can you hear the bass boom, I'm ready ♪ ♪ Life is sweet as honey ♪ ♪ Yeah, this beat cha-ching like money ♪ ♪ Disco overload, I'm into that, I'm good to go ♪ ♪ I'm diamond, you know I glow up ♪ ♪ Hey, so let's go ♪ ♪ 'Cause I'm in the stars tonight ♪ ♪ So watch me bring the fire and set the night alight ♪ ♪ Shining through the city with a little funk and soul ♪ ♪ So I'ma light it up like dynamite, whoa ♪ ♪ Dynamite ♪ ♪ Dynamite ♪ ♪ Shining through the city with a little funk and soul ♪ ♪ So I'ma light it up like dynamite, whoa ♪ ♪ Dynamite ♪ ♪ Dynamite ♪ ♪ Dynamite ♪ ♪ Light it up like dynamite ♪ ♪ Dynamite ♪ ♪ Dynamite ♪ ♪ Dynamite ♪ ♪ Light it up like dynamite ♪ ♪ I'm in the stars tonight ♪ ♪ So watch me bring the fire and set the night alight ♪ ♪ Shining through the city with a little funk and soul ♪ ♪ So I'ma light it up like dynamite ♪ ♪ I'm in the stars tonight ♪ ♪ So watch me bring the fire and set the night alight ♪ ♪ Shining through the city with a little funk and soul ♪ ♪ So I'ma light it up like dynamite, whoa ♪ ♪ Dynamite ♪ ♪ Dynamite ♪ ♪ Shining through the city with a little funk and soul ♪ ♪ So I'ma light it up like dynamite ♪ ♪ I'm in the stars tonight ♪ ♪ So watch me bring the fire and set the night alight ♪ - [Zach] Curiosity and wonder, let's discover together.

It's science wow!

- [Narrator] What are the different types of clouds?

Clouds are often one of the first things we notice when we look up into the sky.

They're all made of water droplets, or ice crystals, but they can take on lots of different appearances.

Clouds can be wispy and high in the sky, foggy and near the ground, or anything in between.

Different types of clouds can give us clues about what is happening in the atmosphere, and what we can expect to happen in the weather.

For example, some clouds mean that you can expect to see fair weather in the forecast.

Here are a few examples.

Cumulus clouds often look like fluffy, white cotton balls, relatively low in the sky.

A bit higher in the atmosphere are altocumulus clouds.

They have several patchy white or gray layers and seem to be made up of many small rows of fluffy ripples.

Cirocumulus clouds are even higher in the atmosphere.

They are thin, sometimes rippled, sheet-like clouds.

They usually show up in cold, but fair weather.

However, other clouds signal that you should probably prepare for rain or snow.

Gray altostratus and nimbostratus clouds are found in the mid level of the atmosphere.

If you see these clouds outside, that usually means you can expect continuous rain or snow.

But what type of cloud will you see before really severe weather happens?

Cumulonimbus clouds grow when warm, moist air rises very high into the sky.

From far away, they look like huge mountains or towers.

These clouds are a sign that thunderstorms and maybe even hail and tornadoes could be on their way.

You can easily spot cumulonimbus from the ground, but NOAA's GOES, or a series of weather satellites, looks for these clouds from space too.

These weather satellites can spot cumulonimbus clouds by measuring the temperature of cloud tops.

Because giant cumulonimbus clouds rise up so high in the atmosphere, the tops of these clouds are very cold.

By finding where these clouds are forming, those satellites can help meteorologists forecast major storms to keep people safe.

[thunder cracking] - Welcome back to snow day on Camp TV.

Have I mentioned how much I love snow?

In fact, sometimes I really miss that crisp, cool feeling during the summer.

So how about we make something that feels kind of like the real thing?

It's time to make some winter in the summertime snow.

You will need just two ingredients, some baking soda and shaving cream.

Start by pouring some baking soda into a mixing bowl.

Then add some shaving cream and kneed it into the baking soda.

Definitely gonna get messy.

Add more baking soda and then shaving cream and then mix and repeat.

Oh boy, you might wanna get a towel.

You'll know it's ready when it becomes light, powdery, and leaves very little mess behind on your hands.

There we go, now we're talking.

You can press it and mold it like real snow.

Pretty cool, don't you think?

You took the words right out of my mouth, write on.

- I'm Lauren, and today we are going to practice showing, not telling, with similes.

Similes are a type of figurative language, fancy, and they are when you compare one thing to an unexpected other thing.

They're a great way to show, not tell, because they're a pretty easy way to get really creative and use your imagination.

Let's try one.

The man is tall.

Let's see what that would look like.

- Hey, what's up, I'm tall.

- Not so interesting, I just told you he was tall, I didn't show you what kind of tall he was.

Let's make this more interesting by using a simile and comparing the man to something else.

The man was tall like a giraffe.

Let's see what that would look like.

- Hey guys, I'm tall, look how tall I am compared to this giraffe.

Hey, giraffe, I think there's something on top of your head.

- That was so fun, he was tall like a giraffe.

Let's try another one.

The wizard is weird.

Let's see what that would look like.

- Hey, I'm weird.

- I didn't show, not tell, I just said he was weird, we don't know what kind of weird, we don't know how the wizard is weird.

Okay, it's okay, we have this under control, let's use a simile, let's compare the weird wizard to something else.

The wizard was as weird as an upside down frog sneezing confetti.

Oh, this is gonna be weird.

- Ribbit, achoo.

- That was so much fun, we used similes to compare one thing to another.

I'm feeling as proud as my Aunt Linda when she won that chili cook-off.

Most alarms of chili only go up to five alarm chili, but mine's a seven.

- [Zach] Curiosity and wonder, let's discover together.

It's science wow!

- Hi, my name is Jennifer Moss Logan and I am an educator at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science.

And so I'm at home right now practicing social distancing, I'm working with my colleague who's also on the line, Keelan, also good to have you here as well, and we learned all sorts of interesting things about making animated films, and one of the things we learned about is how they add sound to these movies.

So in an animated film, they have to add all the sounds, there isn't anything except what they add in.

In some cases, that can be pretty complex, but in other cases, it's really simple.

Let's say they wanna make a hinge sound, they just use a squeaky hinge and they move it to make that sound.

If they wanna make footsteps they can get some shoes and clunk around on the different types of floor to make the sound.

So we learned that there are a lot of sounds like that, and you can make them with stuff you have at home.

So I took a look around my own house to see what I could find and came up with a couple of cool things, and we're gonna show you some pictures and make those sounds and see if you can put them together.

So let's see, let's go ahead and get started, and the first sound we're gonna make, gonna make it with this thing right here, this is just a plastic bag from some cereal.

And what I can do is I can crumple it around, make this kinda sound, and tell me, what does that sound sound like to you?

How about a fire, can you imagine that sound to make the sound of a campfire?

I can almost smell those marshmallows right now.

Here's another thing you can use for the same kind of fire as well, I have here an envelope, it's just one of those envelopes from maybe a bill or something that I got, and inside of here it has this little window, and if I make that crinkly sound, [plastic crinkling] it also sounds like a fire.

So maybe you can get different kinds of plastic and you can make crackling sounds together with someone else in your household as well.

All right, let's look at another sound.

So right now what I have is I've got a couple of these plastic cups, they're the kinda things that they're from some Tupperware or something like that for storing food in your fridge or takeout, and I'm just gonna take these two sounds, [cups tapping] what does that sound like?

It does, it sounds like a horse.

Okay, let's look at another sound.

So for this next one, I have here a bag of cornstarch.

Now, it gets pretty messy, so heads up on that one, but if you seal it really well, then what you're gonna do, and the sound is a little subtle on this one, but listen to this sound.

[bag crackling] What does that sound like?

Yeah, it's like footsteps going through snow.

[bag crackling] now, another sound that they also use to make that crunching through snow is just sand, you're using sand to make the sound, but when your eye sees the snow scene, you think it's snow.

Another thing you can use in a winter scene is a pine cone.

So I went outside just in my backyard and I found a pine cone, now my pine cone is kinda the soft kind, it's not ideal for this sound, but if you have that pine cone in your backyard that's kinda crunchy sounding, that crunchy kind, go ahead and give it a crunch and you'll be making the same sound they use to make cracking ice sounds.

So that's another fun one, okay, let's go to another one.

So for this next one I had to make a prop for these, I have some gloves right here, and on the gloves I have just taped some paperclips right here that you can see, and I'm gonna put those on, this is a technique we learned from those professional sound artists, this is something that they use.

I'm gonna put these on and them I'm just gonna tap 'em against a surface, and listen to this sound, [clips tapping] what does that sound like?

That's right, it sounds like dogs' toenails, and so you can make this sound either on my computer right now, you could put it on concrete or on the floor, and you could make your own dog paw sounds with that, so that's pretty fun.

Okay, let's go on to another sound, take my dog paw gloves off.

This one we're gonna use a different kind of glove, we're gonna use these like leather work gloves.

[gloves slapping] What does that sound like?

Like birds, like the sound of the birds taking off.

So they use this to make flapping wing sounds for birds, so very cool.

Okay, let's go on to yet another one.

Now, this one reminds me to tell you about something really interesting with being a sound artist.

So for animated films, they have to make all the sounds entirely, but even for movies that would naturally have sound they could record, sometimes they want to do a special recording instead of the kind they can get in the field.

So an example would be if they were filming underwater and they wanted some bubble sounds, well, it's really hard to bring your microphone underwater and get the right kind of sound.

Or it could be a really big, open environment, and just hard to get the sound you want.

So they remake it in the studio.

So I have a sound here from an environment like that, I have just a piece of cloth that I found, and I'm gonna shake it.

[cloth flapping] What kinda sound do you think that is?

Yeah, what we have there is the sound of the sails on a ship.

So technically they could bring a recording microphone out there and get that sound, but it's really hard with all the wind and the water, so they record it back in the studio and then maybe somebody else splashes some water, and those two things together they can use to make the sound of this boat going through the water with the wind going through the sails.

So these are the kinds of things that they use to make sound, and when you're doing that in a studio, you are a sound artist, and in fact, there's even a special name for this, you're called a Foley artist, named after the guy who originally came up with this in the 1940s when they were first doing talkies and adding sound to movies.

So just as we said, and you can see a guy here in just a moment, just as we said, you could get those sounds out in the field, but often they wanna recreate them right there on the spot.

So they'll play the movie which is completely done, and a Foley artist will be watching the movie and adding those sounds in real time, recording them and adding them in real time.

So for example, here you can see that they're recording the sound of this Foley artist dropping a bowling ball onto sand for whatever sound it is they're trying to make.

Well, you can do this same thing at home, you can do this, maybe you wanna do a recording, like a radio recording or a video blog or a radio blog, or maybe you wanna do some claymation or some stop motion animation, now you have what you need in order to add the sounds for your own videos.

And even if you don't wanna do any of that, you can just go around the house and find some fun stuff that you can use to make sounds in this way.

And in the meantime, stay safe, thank you so much, have fun.

- Who's ready for a field trip?

[inspiring piano music] [upbeat music] Let's get cooking.

What better way to wind down a snow day than with some hot chocolate?

With an adorable snowman on top, I say.

You will need some hot chocolate, some large marshmallows, some pretzel rods, chocolate chips, candy corn, and some toothpicks.

To make the snowman, take a toothpick and carefully poke it halfway through a marshmallow.

If you could use some help, be sure to ask an adult.

Place a second marshmallow on one end of the toothpick and a third one on the other end until it looks like the shape of a snowman.

On the bottom marshmallow, add two pretzels for legs, and on the middle marshmallow, add two pretzels on the sides for arms.

With the help of an adult, melt some chocolate, and then place it into a plastic bag.

Cut a little hole at one of the corners and squeeze some dots for the buttons and make the eyes.

Okay, how cute is that?

Come on.

You can finish by adding a piece of candy corn for the nose.

That is adorable.

Once it's complete, place your snowman on top of your drink and let it float in all its glory.

Just be careful of the toothpick, be sure to let friends know there's one inside, that is, if you can stand eating such adorableness.

I think I'll save mine for now, maybe make him a cup of hot chocolate too.

Music, dance, magic, and more.

Step right up to center stage.

- Hi, my name is Sidney, and I'm a teaching artist at New Victory Theater.

And I'm really excited to be with you today to think about how art lives all around us, all around me and all around you.

And what makes an artist is someone who makes choices about the things they create and use around them.

So in thinking about our time together today I was like well, what are some objects that are around my house that might help me think about being an artist?

And I grabbed a pen.

There were some artists who made some choices about the size of this pen and the shape of this pen and the color of this pen.

And I thought wow, well, that's a lot of choices that artist made to make this pen.

This is knitting, and this is an art form that someone in my family taught me, and now I'm using this art form to make new pieces of art.

This is gonna become a hat that I can give to someone that I love.

And I got to make choices about the color of yarn that I wanted to use and the size of needles, and because I think art does live all around us, I kinda wanna talk to somebody about the art in their house and in their family.

I'm gonna call a friend.

My friend's name is Christina, let's do it.

Hey Christina.

- Hey Sidney.

- Hi, how are you?

- I'm doing great, how are you today?

- I'm so good, I wanted to call you because I was thinking about art, and I know you're an artist, and I wondered if I could talk to you a little bit about the art in your house and the art in your family.

- Oh, that's great.

I would love to talk to you about art.

You know, I do it all the time.

We're making choices, making transformations.

I love art in all its forms.

- I wonder, do you have any family traditions that incorporate art that you'd be willing to share with me?

- Oh yeah, my family traditions are a little bit more interactive, I think.

My dad and I, we whistle together, he taught me how to whistle when I was a little girl.

And actually sometimes when we'd be walking in a grocery store or out and about, if I didn't see him, I could hear him because he'd be whistling.

- Like a secret language almost.

- Almost.

- Well, how did your dad teach you how to whistle?

- Hmm, that's a great question.

So he actually used a song.

There's a song called Dock of the Bay by Otis Redding.

And there's a whistling section in that song.

And so he taught me to put my lips together and blow out my lips.

[Christina whistling] And then we kind of started making up the melody and using that song as the song to practice to.

- That's amazing, what does it sound like?

- You wanna hear it?

- I would love to.

- Okay.

[Christina whistling] - That is so beautiful.

Wow, thank you so much for sharing that, Christina.

- Oh, absolutely.

It's super fun, I love whistling.

- Well, I don't actually know how to whistle very well.

- That's okay.

I wonder if you could take the inspiration from the whistle and transform it into something that is inspiring to you.

How would you like to transform the whistle?

- Oh, well, something that I can do, and sometimes it feels really good is to like kind of make rhythms on my body.

So I wonder if I could transform what you offered in the song that you shared in the whistle into how I make rhythms on my body.

Let me see if I can do it.

[Sidney tapping] - I love it, I love that last part.

So, so creative, Sidney.

- Well, thanks, I feel like your art form that you shared with your father I was able to make choices as an artist and transform it into something that felt good to me.

I wonder if our friends who are watching can take this same whistle and transform it in a way that feels good to them, you wanna try?

- Sure, should we actually try to put it together, maybe?

- That sounds great, if you whistle, then our friends at home can try to transform that song into something that feels good to them as their artistic choices.

- Awesome, okay, let's try, on three, one, two, three.

[Christina whistling] - Wow, now I can't actually see you at home, but I can imagine that some of you put it into your body like a dancer, and maybe some of you put it into your body like a drummer.

Maybe some of you even drew a picture to the whistle and transformed it into visual art.

That's cool.

- Sidney, thank you so much for reminding me about this amazing art form that I have in my family.

- Christina, thank you so much for being willing to share it and letting it be inspiration that allowed all of us to explore transforming it as we became artists today together too.

I'm really glad that we shared this time, and something that feels really fun to me about our time was that we got to share it together.

So for all my friends out there who are watching and playing along, we invite you to call your friends, or your family, maybe someone in your house or home, or maybe someone who is outside your house or home, and interview them and find a piece of art of theirs that you can transform too.

See you later.

- Bye.

[Christina whistling] - [Zach] A little birdie told me it's time to go wild.

[light music] - This is Dot and she is just about three months old, - And this is Lucas, and he's about a month older than Dot.

These guys were hand raised from day one, we actually acquired these eggs from Minnesota Zoo as part of a breeding loan.

Once they got big enough and lost most of their baby down at about six weeks old, we introduced him to a pool out back in holding where it was a safe place to swim.

And once we were confident in their swimming abilities, we introduced them to whatever members of the colony wanted to come into the back area and meet them.

[light music] - These penguins are definitely spunkier than any of the penguins we've worked with.

We like to call them spirited.

They're very curious.

They want to know all of the people business that's going on just as much as we want to know all the penguin businesses that's happening.

We have a 200,000 gallon pool here.

It's all manufactured salt water.

The water temperature is a brisk 59.3 degrees.

The reason this temperature is that low is because the penguins in their natural habitat live at the southern tip of South Africa, whereas most of the water that these guys swim in is much, much colder than what we have in the pool here.

- These birds are designed for this marine lifestyle.

They've got a nice layer of fat as well as very dense feathers.

They have the most dense feathers of any bird species in the world, on average 60 feathers per square inch.

The way those feathers line and lock actually prevents the water from penetrating through to their skin.

So they may look wet when they come out onto land, but they're actually dry underneath.

So they have their own personal dry suits.

The sharks that are in the water with them are leopard sharks.

Now, this species can be found here on our Pacific coast, but they're very similar to a species of shark that they would naturally live with in the wild in South Africa.

And the sharks in here do not eat penguins.

They actually are competitors.

They eat the same thing as the penguins, so they are a bottom dwelling shark with a small mouth, little teeth, and they enjoy eating fish, swimming, and occasionally they'll eat a fish that the penguin drops, or vice versa, the penguins will eat a fish that the shark drops.

- We work with them every day, and we appreciate their personalities, and we just love them as an animal, but their numbers in the wild are very, very threatened.

They estimate that there's only about 18,000 breeding pairs left.

So the more people we can get to meet these birds and fall in love with them, the more people will care about preserving the habitat and doing what they can to help their wild counterparts.

- [Zach] Curiosity and wonder, let's discover together.

It's science wow!

[whimsical music] - Are you tired of having uncooked kernels when you make popcorn?

The secret is to just take a minute and relax.

[whimsical music] Hi, I'm Julie, welcome to Hungry for Science.

Making popcorn on the stove is super easy, but sometimes you get stuck with a bunch of uncooked kernels at the bottom of the pot.

Today, I'm gonna show you a trick so that every last kernel gets popped.

Now, popcorn expands about 25 times in volume from kernel to popcorn, so you wanna make sure you have a pot that's at least 25 times bigger than the amount of kernels that you start with.

I have about two tablespoons of popcorn kernels here, that's gonna pop up to about three cups of popcorn.

So this pan's gonna be just fine.

I'm gonna coat the bottom with oil and bring it to medium heat.

And I'm actually gonna start by just adding two kernels.

I'm gonna add the two kernels in and I'm gonna wait until those two kernels pop.

Now, I have a pot with a clear lid so I can look at them, but you can also just wait until you hear the two pops.

It'll take a couple of minutes to get hot enough for that to happen.

My second kernel just popped.

I'm gonna turn off the heat, remove my two kernels, and now here's the trick, I'm gonna pour the rest of my kernels into the pot, make sure they're coated with oil, but I'm not gonna put it back on the heat right away, I'm gonna wait about one minute.

And waiting this amount of time actually helps distribute the heat more evenly across the kernels.

Now, the oil was just to the temperature necessary to pop the popcorn, but when I added all the kernels in, the temperature lowers a little bit, and the kernels are getting warmed up.

They're not gonna get warmed up hot enough to pop, but they're gonna evenly kind of warm up together, and when we put the popcorn back on the heat, then they'll start to pop.

So I'm gonna wait out the rest of my minute.

A minute's up.

I'm ready to put my pot back on the heat and I'm gonna actually leave the lid slightly open so that steam can escape.

Now, I'm going to heat it up until all the kernels pop.

And I know that's happened when it's been 10 seconds since the very last pop.

So I'm going to hear all the popping, and then as it slows down, then I'm gonna start to count.

[corn popping] It's been 10 seconds since my last pop.

Let's see how we did.

Pour out my popcorn into this bowl.

And sure enough, every last kernel popped.

By preheating the kernels in oil that's just below the popping temperature, you get them all close enough so that they'll pop together in a narrow range of times.

Normally, when you put everything in a pot and throw it on the heat, there are some early ones that get heated and pop and then some cold ones that take a long time and maybe they end up as uncooked kernels.

So just by relaxing one minute, you can maximize your pop, and be ready to chow on some popcorn.

- Daytime or nighttime, it's always time for story time.

Brr, it's cold out there.

Nice to be inside, warm and cozy, in my homemade igloo.

Feels like a perfect time to sit back, relax, and read a great book.

This is one of my favorites.

It's called Snowflake Bentley by Jacqueline Briggs Martin.

It tells the true story of an artist and scientist named Wilson Bentley.

He loved the snow so much, he took 500 photographs of individual snowflakes, and because they were taken so close up, we get to see the incredible range of shapes these tiny crystals can be.

Isn't snow amazing?

No two snowflakes are alike, almost as unique and special as you.

Or we could read that one.

This is Ten Ways to Hear Snow, written by Cathy Camper.

It's so hard to choose just one.

I know, eeny, meeny, miny, moe it.

Okay, let's read this one and save the other for another time, ready?

Ten Ways To Hear Snow written by Cathy Camper and illustrated by Kenard Pak.

"When Lina woke up, everything was quiet.

"No cars honked, no buses chugged, "no garbage trucks gulped the trash across the street.

"Snow!

"Last night's blizzard was gone, "leaving the city muffled and white, "but today was grape leaf day, "when Lina would help her grandma make warak enab.

"Sitti was losing her eyesight, "and Lina loved helping her cook.

"I wanna tell Sitti about the snowstorm "and make sure she's okay.

"The snow's so deep, Lina's mom said.

"We could go with you, Lina's dad offered.

"But Lina wanted to go to Sitti's by herself.

"Stay warm, Habibti, her dad told her.

"Lina bundled up.

"Outside, the sun on the snow was as bright white "as a light bulb.

"Lina squinched her eyes and pulled her scarf over her nose.

"She could barely see.

"I wonder if this is how Sitti feels, Lina thought.

"The world sounded softer, "but the noises she heard were clearer.

"Scrape, scrip, scrape, scrip.

"What was that?

"It was Mrs. Watson's shovel digging out the sidewalk.

"That's one way to hear snow, Lina thought.

"Lina walked down the street, snuck, snuck, snuck.

"The noise was low to the ground, what was that?

"It was the treads of Lina's boots "crunching snow into tiny waffles.

"Two ways to hear snow.

"Lina ducked under a pine tree, poof, a powdery sound.

"A blue jay on a branch had knocked down snow.

"Three ways to hear snow, Lina counted.

"She listened for more.

"Swish swish, swish swish.

"What was that soft, whiskery noise?

"People were sweeping snow off their cars.

"Their brushes made the fourth way to hear snow.

"Lina cut across the park.

"Scritch scratch, scritch scratch, "another snow noise?

"Lina saw long, skinny tracks by her boots.

"Ahead of her, people were skiing.

"Their skis made the fifth way to hear snow.

"Rashid and Miriam were building a snowman.

"Pat, pat, pat, what was that?

"It was mittens smoothing the snowman's head.

"The gentle sound made the sixth way to hear snow.

"As Lina walked away, her friends whispered and laughed.

"Flump, oh no.

"Lina ran away fast from the seventh way to hear snow.

"Lina reached Sitti's building all out of breath, "her boots covered with white powder.

"Stomp, stomp, stomp.

"Lina giggled.

"She was making the eighth way to hear snow.

"Hello, Lina, the lady in the lobby said, go on in.

"She pointed towards Lina's grandma's room.

"Lina tapped on the door.

"Surprise Sitti, it's me.

"I came to make grape leaves with you.

"Lina threw her coat and mittens on the radiator to dry.

"Wonderful, the lamb and rice are ready, Sitti said.

"Yalah, I can't wait, Lina shouted.

"Let's get started.

"Lina rinsed the grape leaves and placed them on towels.

"Put some filling in the center, roll them up, "and put them in the pot, Sitti instructed.

"They're like little grape leaf cocoons, "Lina said, looking at the piles on the plate.

"Or lots of little sleeping bags, Sitti replied.

"Ha, mine looks like a mustache.

"Lina held her stuffed grape leaf under her nose.

"Sitti held hers under her nose too.

"That's good.

"She wrinkled up her face and said "we look like a couple of real tough guys, "in a tough guy voice.

"Sitti, did you know we had a blizzard last night?

"Of course.

"Lina was surprised.

"How could her grandma know when she couldn't see very well?

"Then she heard a noise, drip, drip.

"Wait a minute, it was the sound of snow melting.

"Nine ways to hear snow.

"Suddenly, Lina understood how Sitti knew.

"Sitti, did you hear the snow?

"Sitti smiled, each morning I open the window and listen.

"Today, everything sounded hushed and soft.

"No noise is the sound that means it's snowing.

"Sitti, I listen too, I heard snow nine different ways.

"Shovels were one, boots were two, the blue jay was three.

"Slow down, Habibti.

"I wanna hear them all, but right now, shh.

"Sitti went to the window and opened it again.

"Listen, she said.

"Outside, the late blue afternoon was completely still.

"Quiet is the 10th way to hear snow."

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