guest all right people here we are yes um yeah so we're here happy day folks welcome to science with ms steph um folks we are on facebook live yes it says that on my little iphone okay um and we are on um instagram live as well um it's a challenge out here like still there's no reason for stuff not to work but it still like doesn't okay um i don't have control over it i'm gonna move on all right so i have my fun earrings on these are these are my world's world's best science teacher earrings and
stuff um let's go ahead and cross post this let's let everybody know that she's on yes okay cool cool sounds like a good time y'all so i'm gonna post give me like a few minutes to do all of that because as you know trying to cross post it um like like beforehand is is not a thing that happens easily um i gotta fix the hair all right so let's head over here and there and everywhere [Music] boom all right all right hi hi hi welcome once again to science with mid staff i missed up yes and we're go
ing to do four so um all of that whatnot that i just did that's like all that's our whole entire two seconds of me being silly because we need to move really quickly on this today we have four yes i'm serious four we've got four activities for you right um for activities for you to try um for over winter break right the winter holiday break um so once again welcome to science with ms steph and i am misstep it's great to see you and you here with me today uh y'all the four activities i'm going to
do vary in their science concepts and all that type of stuff but this month i really want you to have an understanding of steam and why we do steam what's the whole entire point right science technology engineering arts and mathematics okay so for those of you that are on facebook let me know that you can hear me want to make sure that you are able to hear me and that the audio is coming from the right place all right it looks like over here it's like the one that i hooked up so just checking l
et's go over here to instagram kind of tagging a couple of people let's make sure people know that we're on it all right all right okay just a few folk right letting them know that we are hanging out live today yeah yeah who can say yeah awesome cool few more people [Music] all right so like i said we have four different things and so first thing that we're going to do to make science fun for y'all project number one like i said there's four projects today okay there are four projects we're goin
g to do this thing called amazing snow okay amazing snow let's see if we can get kind of the light to shift a little bit bring bring over the the source a bit so that it hits um our folks over here on instagram well all right so we're gonna rock out some amazing snow kid you not you it's true thanks okay the reason we're doing this one first remember remind you we're doing four different activities today the reason we're gonna hop into this one first is so that we can um that i can kind of go fr
om what takes the longest to you know from what takes the least amount of time to what takes the longest amount of time right and also what not only takes the least amount of time to do but then also the least amount of time to splain right to explain all right scientists so i have a container of water right i told you this particular activity only takes two um two main materials right you could technically say that uh the container is a material but you know what i'm saying okay hi hi thanks fo
r joining us all right so once again we've got water inside of a container so you might want to technically say that that's two things but i mean that's you do you i understand where you're coming from as a scientist right remember science technology engineering arts and mathematics all right and then this next thing that we're going to use is called amazing super snow all right let me show it to you amazing super snow and i'm going to tilt this down amazing super snow let me make sure that y'al
l can see that all right let me make sure that y'all can see it over here okay amazing super snow i'm going to talk about quick i'm going to talk about like just insanely fast and put some more just so you can like really see what's happening all right do y'all see that more more you know you want more one more okay so this particular investigation and uh is based on you know these super absorbent polymers right the polymers that are in um disposable diapers and so on and so forth so it's plasti
c okay the type of polymer right we talk about polymers the things that are linked together chemicals that are linked together in these long chains all right and it's super absorbent okay do y'all see all that water i have the water filled up to here right okay and then all i did was add that little scoop let's remind you of how big of a scoop i added i added three of these little scoops to get this that's it okay um i obtained this online from the people that i y'all know how i feel i i won't n
ecessarily mention them okay but i didn't obtain it online and so this is one of those things that you can grab online and just continue to make fun things once again this is science with ms stuff and today we're doing four different projects that you can try during the winter holiday break okay winter holiday break most schools in the us are out in some way some folks started their break yesterday and then some folks won't start their break until next friday but i want to give you lots of steam
activities that you can do with your young scientists as you can imagine you can try this with different amounts of water different amounts of the fun fluffy um stuff you can decide if you want to add food color yellow hot photo food growing right you can decide if you want to add food coloring all of that you can do lots of different things with this particular one and see we're done with that one okay i told y'all we have four things to do today so i'm gonna be quick quick quick about it let'
s trade plates balance balance okay your girl is over here like got stuff all set up all right i'm gonna move you kind of back and down a little bit so that i don't have to adjust you multiple times throughout the session there there there there there there we go all right so welcome again to science with misstep this is the winter holiday edition okay because you have um young people that are going to be him i can imagine right some of you for like two weeks and due to the recent um uptick in u
h the uh protein um um some of y'all may already have weren't expecting kids home until say next weekend but some of you may already have kids home um today right because that's one of the reasons why we did not meet in person as much as we love meeting in person with your awesome scientists here in new york city um out of an abundance of caution i had to make the decision it's my responsibility to keep everybody safe but she decided that we were going to do a little extended online version toda
y okay um so yeah so i'm going to move the um actually let's do this i'm going to move guests here to do and get a set up for project number two project number two once again thank you for joining me for science with ms steph i've got gene over here on instagram love her appreciate her okay shout out girl you know i always got to say hi to you um and also hi to my buddy okay now this particular project uh you can order the materials online if you want to but you can also grab them from say like
a michaels i know that michael's carries these um the main um material in this all right so obviously cups you're not gonna have to cups spoon some salt it does not have to be this brand of salt this is just a salted eye okay um but this particular item is your main item these are i call these water beads but my lovely scientists call them orbeez as soon as i break them out they're like no matter what time of year i know it does not matter the time of year when i break these out people yes oh um
i just found out one of my students isn't feeling too good i'm sorry to hear that tell them this stuff says time all right so yeah so we have the orbeez now this is what i'm going to do with these once again i said that you can source these online that's usually where i source a lot of my stuff just because it's easiest for me because i buy in like bulk hello um it's a lot for me to carry home and all that because y'all know the lab lives here right now anyway right now eventually it's not goin
g to okay um but i have two things one of the just kind of basic scientific investigations um and like introducing experimentation that i like to do with students of various ages is do regular water which is what you're supposed to use okay and salt water right you can do an investigation with your little one and hi hi hi to my little ones that are on watching right now you all know that miss steph loves loves loves you as a scientist and thinks that you're absolutely awesome and brilliant and s
o once again this is science with ms steph and we're on for four four different activities and investigations that you can try and change up throughout the winter holidays things to play with and and learn with at home science technology engineering arts and mathematics all right so so many different components can be changed with this right i'm introducing you just to to a basic fresh water versus salt water sea water type thing but you can say that you want to add different amounts of salt in
the cups and see what change occurs you can say that you want to do different temperatures of the water you can say that you want to start them in salt water and finish them in fresh water or go vice versa you can really do quite a few different things today's basic thing is going to be fresh water and some salt water so when we're making out making up our salt water we're going to put in enough salt in to the salt water as you can see some of y'all can see that i have this labeled all ready pre
-labeled as scientists we want to be labeling our materials and our samples okay so i'm going to make this salty enough such that it's cloudy okay so that it at least starts off cloudy once again miss steph here for science with miss steph and we are doing four count em four fun activities that you can try with your scientists at home during the winter holiday break because there are several holidays actually that occur right now during this time of year so by the way happy holidays everyone it'
s great to see you here all right i give this a really really good stir for those of you who are just now joining us thank you so much and we are on project number two out of the four that i'm going to talk to you about today i have regular just plain old fresh water from the tap and this is fresh water from the tap with one scoop of salt enough to make it cloudy so that you can tell that there's a difference all right and of course i want to add the same amount of water beads to each okay to ea
ch so i'm going to kind of count these out right two four six eight ten two who can tell me why i'm using the same amount of water beads four six eight ten who knows why it's important to make sure you're using the same amount of water and all the samples all right okay okay so put this here those of you watching on facebook see that i have the finished samples here and so i'll talk to you all about that in a second all right yeah so we've got our water our fresh water and then we've got our sal
t water notice how they're starting at the same exact time the water is at the same temperature okay our variable right science using experimentation one variable our variable is that we have salt inside of one of the containers that's the only variable i put the same amount of water beads inside of both i'm using the same size of water pieces water beads or orbeez like i said as my various students like to call them come in different sizes so it's very important to make sure that you use the sa
me the same size water beats right all right so now let's see what happens all right what happens folks ladies and gentlemen in person so that the result of this exactly shout out to gene over here who knows her science right so here's one of the samples after it's been sitting for the same amount of time i let them equilibrate okay one set of samples one set of the orbeez okay and here's the other set of course you would walk through a hypothesis step with your student right right and for my li
ttle ones watching with me and getting ideas with me right i'm sure you made a prediction of what would happen what would happen and what the difference would be okay and the difference in the end is that one of them does not expand as well as the other okay this is my fresh water my freshwater water beads expand best in 100 water when it's only water all right and these same size beads okay i've been sitting and let's let it focus there we go nice little focus and these are our salt water beans
okay these are the salt water ones isn't that cool i love it love it love it love it all right folks we are moving on if we were in the classroom i would say to everybody everybody say moving on and then everybody goes a little bit [Music] okay all right all right okay right so i've got a comment over here saying that salt is actually a drying agent yes it is all right that salt is a drying agent and it does not expand as so it makes it harder for the beets to expand because the beans are expan
ding off of hi hi thank you for joining us the beads are um expanding by the fact that they are absorbing water okay and so when you have the salt water the salt water is actually the salt inside of the salt water sample is counteracting the that that absorption um effect all right now now she's about to get kind of a little extra ridiculous okay okay remember i'm telling you these are all activities that you can try at home are you going to have to source a couple of things yeah okay um but i t
hink it's important for me to make sure that i'm introducing you to various um types of sciences um various uh things that you can do instead of just like doing all the kind of kitchen chemistry stuff right don't you think so i think so okay so now i'm going to take this apart for a quick little second electromagnet so i'm going to use electricity electricity to form a magnet okay to get a magnetic field going so what does a magnet do so let's just kind of demonstrate very quickly what a magnet
does okay so i've got some paper clips here paper clips y'all see these paper towels because you know that's for the last project because your girl has four things and we are only on project number three okay i've got my okay test magnet here all right because i want you to see what happens okay paper clip sticks to magnet right magnetic field okay magnets right so you get attract and repel situations when you're dealing with magnets now let's move on to the idea of creating a magnetic field an
attraction field okay using electricity okay and that's really what's happening in a magnet anyway the electrons are aligned in a certain kind of way to where they it attracts um certain metals not all metals okay and so we can then create that effect by pumping electricity through a wire all right so what i have here y'all i have an iron nail okay an iron nail that has copper wire twisted lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of times around it again are these things that you can source on t
he ground yes they are you can go into a hardware store baby and pick these things up can you get them online at one of my places that i shop frequently yes you can okay and doable for you at home during the um holiday break okay this is like totally doable okay wires alligator clips right nine volt battery okay all right so i'm connecting the battery my electrical source battery okay the two leads till tilt um here's my copper wire i just wanted you to see the wire here all right welcome folks
to science with miss steph for those of you who are just joining us you are coming in on our third okay project that i'm saying that you can try at home with your scientists who might be let's not say bored but who might need a little something to do all right so i've got my alligator clips i'm clipping i'm clipping okay so you can see these are things that's why i'm not left-handed so let me go that way okay and you can see that these are things that your scientists might need help with dependi
ng on their um fine motor skills or this is something that you can let them practice you can let them practice their fine motor skills okay by attempting to do this all right let me explain what this part is this is my insulator okay because when we're talking about electricity and just open wires okay it's going to get hot and so so that i protect my own fingers i suggest you do the same okay especially once i've got everything hooked up our our pieces of metal that are exposed are going to get
hot they're going to heat up because i'm running the electricity through them okay once everything is connected once i've got my closed circuit right everything's going to start to heat up okay all right so now let's see if our electromagnet is charged enough to be able to attract one of these paperclips once again miss dev here for science with midstat and i just made an electromagnet out of very simple materials that you can grab from the hardware store here in harlem we have like lots of the
m okay these are this is just basic materials y'all okay and this is this is something that you can do with your scientists scientists little scientists i'm telling you make sure you have um adult supervision when you're trying this project because like i said the wires get hot okay all right all right notice how all the stuff with water i put to the side okay i'm not miss mixing electricity and water y'all that's not what she's doing no she's not okay so magnets a magnet i made a magnet boom al
l right now um what else do i want to say about this i mean what i do want to say is this particular part is hot be very careful be very careful when you when you're using these different things okay and yeah it it's simple um you could see if you can try to pick up multiple paper clips but you'll notice that you have trouble picking up multiple paper clips because it's not a very strong magnet and that's where our engineering design process can come in you can say hmm what will make the magnet
stronger would it be a stronger battery a battery that has a higher voltage has more energy that it can put out would it be wrapping thicker or more doing more coils around the nail would it be a larger nail a smaller nail what would it be okay so you can imagine how this could take you a while to play with and investigate and learn more about the engineering design process all right all right all right steph here i told you i promised you four and that was the third one the electro magnet i'm s
o so glad to be with y'all today and let's break out our last project okay i'm bringing to you four count of four projects and activities steam education activities that you can do while you were on this winter holiday break okay um the majority of school systems in the us have a break around this time of year and so what can you do during this break and especially right now because we are having i mean in new york city we're having a bit of a little outbreak um [Music] of of coveted so this is
an opportunity to kind of re-up on your learn from home things if these activities do not suit your fancy guess what i have which i have well over 70 videos um 70 signs with mid step videos on my youtube channel on the instagram um you can also access things on facebook and of course you could if you need more information you can um send me an email to say hey how did you do that project all right so you could send me an email my email is on the screen over here on facebook live okay um m s s t
e p h at t f empowerment dot org if you're wondering um how to do this if you need more information about the materials how to source the materials so on and so forth all right people so we are on for science with ms steph winter holiday 2021 edition come on let's head on out for our final project project number four pudding paint yes i said it and i meant it you can make paint really frankly in my opinion out of anything this is where steam really comes into play right science technology engine
ering arts and mathematics looking at the properties of something thinking about how technology is something that makes our lives more fun or easier right that's technology so creating paint is technology that is an actual job that someone has well not just someone lots of people that's a job that you could have when you grow up okay and so that's something that you can try at home dabbling in making paint and making toys and all those types of things in engineering an engineer there are differe
nt kinds of engineers not just the engineers that do like structural things but engineers that do chemical engineering there's a lot of different chemicals that need to be engineered and made to last longer right to be preserved right and if you have some old pudding at home an old pudding cup you could with the permission of an adult family member you could take that old pudding cup instead of throwing it away you can say i'm going to turn it into a science project and you can create some art a
ll right and art is something that we enjoy something that looks um pleasing quote unquote that looks pretty okay i'm just gonna take this pudding okay i've got pudding cup this is a vanilla pudding cup there's a couple of um things chemically that are inside of the vanilla pudding cup that we definitely need to uh talk about for you to have a true understanding of how to really mix the colors okay color theory hi hi greetings okay we've got a lot of people coming in and joining us thank you so
much for joining me for science with ms stuff folks we are on with four different activities that you can try during the quote-unquote um winter holiday break season that we've got going on and also during some now that some of us are having to go remote again okay um so i am rocking out this pudding paint thing i'm telling y'all pudding paint yes it seems kind of strange but it is potentially um a bit cheap cheaper than purchasing paint okay and also it's potentially a use right reduce reuse re
cycle it's a use for putting cups that maybe are past their expiration date and you don't want to throw them away and you want to say hey how can i reuse this thing or how can i um prolong its usefulness to me okay also i have some canvas so you could use canvas you can use any type of thing i buy canvas these little things in bulk and so because of that i have a lot of them again making sure that i'm not wasting my re my materials um reduce reuse recycle right making sure that um you have diffe
rent options that you can try when you're trying to do these particular activities at home once again science with ms stuff and i am doing now our art project you all know how i feel science and art really come together in me in my heart and so i like to encourage all of my artists to love science and all of my scientists to love art so let's finish our session today with this project so i'm going to tilt you down my facebook people okay and of course my instagram people y'all should be tilted y
'all should be able to see what's happening and yes i did say y'all okay i know i live in new york city but i grew up in all kinds of places and so i say things like y'all all right so again you can do this scientists of all ages can have a really good time with this now some of the things that are important to kind of understand when you're doing science projects again of all ages with scientists of all ages right it's kind of like some of the properties of the chemicals that you're using to tu
rn into paint okay so one of the things that's already present inside of vanilla and i say that in air quotes right i hadn't dropped anything until then so she made it pretty far okay some one of the things that's already in vanilla can anybody put it in the chat for me what's already in vanilla vanilla pudding that we might want to be aware of when we're trying to create paint and create specific colors that's my hint what's already in vanilla anybody anybody can can anybody think about that al
so y'all i will be putting this on the yt for replay so everybody can see it okay all of my things that i put online i want to make sure that our whole steam community okay near and far can experience all these projects okay so yeah so we've got okay i'm going to take this banner off we have [Music] this palette right okay i'm creating a palette okay it's very important as an artist and a scientist to have a full understanding of the materials that you have and what's inside of the materials rig
ht um pudding cups have quite a bit of there's milk in here there's preservatives and so forth because it's shelf stable and there's a lot of yellow actually in the background there's yellow food coloring you saw i added my special gel food coloring that i love and of course you can definitely use dollar store food coloring with this you can't you'll just need more okay and so there's a lot of yellow in the background so that will impact one of that's one of the things that we've learned over th
e years of making this particular project is that it will impact your final color okay and as you can see this is an older pudding cup okay it's very very lumpy a more fresh pudding cup that's not expired yet will not be quite this lumpy okay again as an artist and a scientist i need to have an understanding of my materials and how they work together i'm looking at the importance of understanding how colors mix together when i'm doing this okay color theory and all that hi hi thank you for joini
ng me okay thank you for joining me for science with ms steph folks i'm live on instagram and simulcasting on facebook as well using stream yard so if you're just now joining me but you want to get an idea of all the other three projects that i did today you can hop over on facebook to to launch it or you can um watch it on youtube um starting tomorrow okay so yeah so you see how i mix this in it's really important to have an understanding of the materials okay this is an orange that i'm doing m
akes mix mix mix right so there's all kinds of things that you as young scientists can learn and if you are an adult watching that works with children there are different things that you can teach them while trying to turn a food product into paint right what are the advantages to using food and what are the disadvantages to using um a quote-unquote food item mind you their thirds egg in acrylic paint normally and there's there's there's dairy all that type of stuff okay um and also just what do
es it imply right so there's a lot of different things that you may be may want to consider when using these types of materials with your students also for those of us working with particularly young students we may use food so that if they eat something it's safe for them it just they they would get sick right so notice how even though i've got a lot of yellow in the background i added enough blue so that it's actually going to be very very blue paid okay also again you know some programs um so
me of you out there running programs may have like a lot of budgeting constraints and so being able to use this type of material and turn pretty much anything into paint really is just how i feel anything can be turned into a paint thing okay um this might be easier or cheaper or just simply more accessible for you than trying to order um quote unquote non-toxic paint online okay so i'm gonna put switch this okay i've got my palette i have my different colors right how so for my art teachers rig
ht how do these colors mix together how do these colors not go together all those types of things the things that you're kind of like the conversation you're having with students and that aspect okay and then also definitely as a science teacher not only the materials that i have here to paint with um but then when i'm painting on why use canvas um or cardboard paper over regular construction paper what's the difference okay so that's another way that you can make it an actual science project so
once you make your quote-unquote paint you can then say okay so we're going to test it on various surfaces okay so let's try to spread this right how does this spread okay that's another thing that you how does it spread and how does it come out what type of texture can i create what type of texture am i going to get what type of coverage am i going to get right so those of us those of you who are engineers in the in the art space right in art in the art material space you're always thinking ab
out the texture and the coverage that you're getting with these different materials so you see how this glides on and once again if i'm working with young children if they accidentally eat it okay see what you're getting okay and the type of pigment that i'm getting all right and then the materials that you need so yes y'all thank you thank you so much we've had several different people join us today for science with mid staff right and then just depending on kind of how i feel okay and because
i know that this is something that has some stability that can like kind of stand up okay so that i can get kind of a 3d kind of situation here and pile it on in this way okay because i can't right okay so these are the different things that i can do when i'm thinking about what activities i want to do over the break okay i'm so excited that you joined me for science with ms steph today we did four different activities for different activities we did we started off with our amazing snow right y'
all and that was just that was a quick one literally water and that um imitation stow and it's instant snow that's the instant stuff that's not my snow recipe that's on youtube and of course i invite you to check out that recipe and of course then you could compare how that feels smells and changes over time compared to the the the polymer that we use today that literally just you just add water okay so the first project we did was the to just add water snow and then and then so you see i'm usin
g all kinds of stuff i'm having a really good time here painting and then for our project project number two i'm gonna see how this mixes together just because i i feel like it and then for project number two i then said wouldn't it be fun to try out water beads and to see how water beads well also known as orbeez how orbeez expand if i use salt water instead of just fresh water like the instructions say right that's how i turned it into a science investigation i tried it out and the only variab
le making it therefore more like a science experiment the only variable that i used that i had was the salt one of them had salt one cup had salt okay and i showed you how the water beads did not expand as well in the salt water okay and then also also i did an electromagnet right we we made an electromagnet okay with just some things that you can get from the hardware store and finally i mean pudding paints people four different awesome activities that you can try at home if you so choose you c
an order stuff online so see how my picture is coming together it's not complete obviously okay um but it's coming together and then the idea of how um different kinds of paints dry right if it's not dry is it a sufficient thing that we can use as paint right so yes so for different activities that you can try at home during this time of um possible you know some of you having to go to remote learning um this last week before break and some of you who may be in other parts of the country who are
already on break or maybe your child goes to a school that's already gone off on a break tony ho scientist thank you so much for joining me for science with misstep for our four winter holiday activities i invite you to make sure that you like share and subscribe to all of the pages and of course if you want to know more information about thank you for coming up um if of course if you want to know more information about all the different things that we do please go ahead and go to www.tf empowe
r y'all it has been awesome thank you so much for joining me and i will see you um next time definitely make sure that you're following because you never know i might do a couple of things even um next week during the holiday okay once again thank you for joining me for science with miss chef until next time
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