Good morning and welcome to Camp.

I'm Lori.

>> I'm Dan.

And we're coming to you from Camp Fowler, located in Orfield, Pennsylvania.

We have a lot of awesome activities scheduled for this week.

We'll be learning a lot of cool things from the Cradle of Liberty Council of the Boy Scouts of America.

And then we're going to check in the garden with our friends from ArtsQuest.

Let's start the day with our friends, Jenn and Isaac.

>> Hey, everybody, welcome back to Camp Fowler.

I'm Isaac.

>> And I'm Jenn.

>> Today we're talking about caring for ourself and others and we're gonna be using our spider's web.

So, again, we are back on our multi-use course and we're going to be doing the spider web.

Looks very exactly like a spider web.

I know you can tell that.

But what we're gonna be doing is essentially getting four team members from this side of the spider's web to the other side of the spider's web.

So we have Dan, we have Caleb.

We have Kyle and we have our designated spotter.

Thank you so much, Liz.

She's gonna be spotting so that everybody stays safe and they stay caring for themselves and others.

So here's the deal.

You cannot touch any of the ropes that are on the spider's web.

If you do, it closes up and you can't use it anymore.

Additionally, if you do go through it, it also closes up.

So it's kind of like you can use one, but then if you mess up, then you can't use it at all, even to get over it.

Does that make sense?

>> Mm-hm.

Yep.

>> I'm going to be watching, but I want everyone to have their integrity lights on.

Right.

And if you do hit the spider web, just call yourself out.

Right.

No big deal.

Does anybody have any questions, comments, concerns?

OK.

Sounds good.

All right.

So I'm going to facilitate.

And so it's gonna be Kyle, Caleb, Jenn and Dan trying to get through.

>> Sounds good.

And we got Liz is our spotter over there.

OK, go ahead.

We're here.

>> We're caring for you.

>> Above you, you're pretty close with this shoulder here.

Going good.

>> Walk with your hands.

>> You got it.

>> Just watch the feet.

>> Oops, I touched the net.

>> You OK?

>> I'm good.

>> Awesome.

>> I touched the net over here.

>> That's OK.

All right.

So this one is closed for business.

No more spiders can go on that web.

So the three of us, you want to go next, Caleb, in case we need to lift?

>> Sure.

>> So how do we want to do it?

>> We can start with a fireman's lift.

>> OK.

>> He can reach through.

Put his hands on somebody's shoulders and then they can walk back and start spotting him.

And then when his weight passes through, then we can switch >> and hold up.

>> OK.

That sounds good.

>> Protective gear.

>> So you must... Something like this.

So then he leans on you.

And I could spot your leg like that, if you're OK with that.

>> Shoulder?

>> Shoulders.

Yeah.

>> Oh.

>> OK.

Put your head down.

>> The other two spotters are gonna come in.

As you go forward, they're gonna slide in.

>> Yeah.

There we go.

>> You got his legs?

>> Oh, very nice.

>> Nicely done.

>> OK.

>> All right.

I'll go through there.

But maybe you can just help me see if that's accurate.

Maybe like what Dan was thinking originally, like... >> You might... >> Maybe both feet?

Maybe I could lean on you.

>> And bring this foot.

>> Oh, there you go.

Always feels like a dance.

OK.

>> What's your plan?

What's your plan?

What's your plan?

>> I guess I should... >> It's very fun, what happened... You head is clear, your shoulder's clear.

You're doing good.

Just need to step over.

>> All right.

Nicely done.

So that was the spider's web.

Obviously, we really had to care for each other.

I know Jenn was doing a lot of like holding the part of the rope the person was gonna hit.

Liz literally, like, took Caleb out of the hole.

Right.

So we were all trying to care for each other because if we were just all to do that by ourselves, imagine how difficult that would have been.

>> Really tricky.

>> Yeah.

Everyone was all on their own.

>> Yeah.

>> So this is a really good example of taking care of your team and of the people around you.

Today's journal Prompt is, when thinking about going back to school, what are some difficulties or challenges that you might face and how do you get help for those?

So that's all that we have for you today.

>> Have a good day.

>> See you tomorrow.

>> That was great.

Let's go learn something new with our friends from the Cradle of Liberty Council, from the Boy Scouts of America.

>> Hi, kids.

I'm Bob.

I'm with the Cradle of Liberty Council Conservation Committee, and I have a forestry degree from Penn State, so I just love trees.

So what I'm going to talk to you a little bit about today is how we identify trees.

When we're out in the woods, to most people, all the trees pretty much look the same.

So, first of all, the trees are broken into two categories.

The angiosperms and the gymnosperms.

So those are big words.

But to really simplify it, the angiosperms are generally trees that have leaves that we see turn color in the fall and fall off.

And the gymnosperms are the pines, the hemlocks, the spruce, the type of trees that have needles.

So those are the two major categories.

There's a lot of subcategories, which we learned in forestry school.

But, for today, we'll stick with that.

One of the best ways to identify your trees are by the leaves, which we can do generally in the summertime.

And there's all different shapes, as you see.

This is a long shape.

This one, there's different leaflets, we call them, on a single stem.

So some leaves are actually simple, like the oak.

This is a red oak.

There's just one leaf per stem.

Or we can have compound leaves like this walnut.

And you can see there's multiple stems on what we call a rachis.

And it's easy to identify trees because some are very distinct.

An ash tree has seven leaflets per stem.

The hickories typically have five leaves.

You might not be able to see this.

It's a little bit wilted, but there are five leaves per stem.

So that's that's one way that we can definitely tell the difference in species.

Another way is alternate and opposite.

So that is where the leaf attaches to the stem.

This is a dogwood, which is an opposite.

And if you can see this, the leaves come off opposite one another on the stem, like this picture.

And then some alternate.

So that helps us to narrow down what species we're looking at, whether it's alternate or opposite.

As I said earlier, we have all different types of needles and leaves.

There is needle-like trees, which are typically pine.

White pine, which is very common in Pennsylvania, is the only pine species with five needles per bundle.

And I think I have one here.

So it's a very soft needle and you may not be able to see it here, but if you pull it off the tree, there will always be five needles together on a bundle.

Most pines have two.

So you really have to know a little bit more about the tree to identify the type.

One other distinctive pine is the pitch pine, that has three needles per bundle.

So the white pine and the pitch are very distinct.

We also look at, as I said earlier, compound leaves.

So there's multiple leaflets per this rachis and there's two types of compound.

There's the palmately, which looks like your palm and the, uh, the the pinnately that I showed you earlier.

In the wintertime, we don't have the leaves on the tree, obviously.

So we have to identify trees by the bark or the twigs.

In this example, this is white ash.

So it has a very distinctive furrowed and rough bark.

This is black cherry, which is much different.

So after a long time of being in the woods and looking at these different types of species, a forester can generally easily tell what they are.

This is sugar maple.

So it's very distinctive from from the white ash.

So after, like I said, after a while and with a trained eye, you can definitely identify trees very quickly by looking at the bark.

But there's a lot of differences in trees.

It takes time.

You have to get out there, but get out.

Enjoy the woods.

It's a beautiful time of the year and great, great job, if it's something you're thinking of getting into, into forestry or other conservation fields and we need young people like you.

So thanks again, kids, and hope you learned something today.

>> 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.

So, this week, we've been looking at wheels through industrial history.

We started with a pedal-powered wheel.

We looked yesterday at the steam-powered wheel.

And now we're going to look at how wheels transfer energy.

So here I have a new artifact for us to look at.

And we're going to be looking at the governor, which is this guy right here.

The governor is like the speedometer of steam engines.

It tells the machine when it's going too fast and it needs to shut off.

So the way that the governor communicates is through transferring energy from this wheel to this wheel.

Now, the rotations of the wheel and the size of the wheel really matter.

As you can see, this one is small.

And this one's big.

So if I use this piece, this piece is cut to be the size of this big wheel here.

I can't get it to... Let's see.

There we go.

All right.

So, big wheel here is this green.

Now, if I wrap this green around the small wheel, do you think it's gonna go around one time?

It's going to go around one time, but I'm going to have some extra because that wheel's bigger.

So I'm going to keep going and going.

And now we've dropped it around one and a half times, which means this wheel has to spin one and a half times for every turn that this wheel spins.

So as it's transferring energy, the number of rotations is also changing.

Let's look at another example.

So here we have wheels that have been turned into gears.

The way that gears work is there's two interlocking parts that move together and this controls the speed.

The wheel is moving.

So in this example, this gear is transferring horizontal energy as it rotates here to the interlocking gear here.

That's going to turn it into vertical energy and send it up to the governor.

So now that we've looked at rotations, horizontal and vertical energy, let's see this guy in action.

So here I am.

I'm going to crank it as an example.

You can kind of see that the balls are starting to spread out and the lock is going to tell me when I have to stop.

So that's the steam engine telling me that it's got to go.

But this isn't hooked up to a steam engine.

So I'm going to show us it at full power.

Nice and fast.

The balls are spreading out very far.

And as I slow down, they will come back to a resting place.

So that is our governor in action.

The speedometer of steam engines.

So that's it for today.

But come back and join us tomorrow as we look at how wheels create different kinds of force.

See you later, guys.

>> Let's take a moment to relax and do some yoga with our friends at Valley Youth House.

>> Hi, everyone, welcome to Camp Yoga.

My name is Rachel, and today we're gonna be talking about some breathing exercises that you can do if you're ever having a bad day or you're stressed out or maybe you just didn't have a good day at school.

We're going to talk about how you can do some breathing practices to help you with that.

So first thing you want to do is find a comfortable seat.

You can sit criss cross like this or you can sit on your knees, whatever feels best for you and just let yourself sit up nice and tall.

So you want to make your spine, your back nice and long and let your shoulders relax.

Good.

Maybe even take a few shoulder rolls, big shoulder rolls to let the body relax a little bit.

And then still sitting up tall, you're gonna bring your hands right onto your belly, so placing them onto your belly.

This type of breath is called a belly breath.

So you're gonna start by taking a deep inhale through your nose and you'll feel the belly get bigger.

And then an exhale through your nose and you'll feel the belly get a little smaller.

So inhale through your nose.

Exhale through your nose.

And just feeling the belly, move back and forth.

So we'll try that together.

Hands on your belly.

Inhale through the nose.

Exhale through the nose.

Inhale.

And exhale.

And if you'd like, you can even close your eyes.

Sometimes that makes it a little bit more comfortable.

Inhaling.

And exhaling.

So each time you breathe, try to make your breaths just a little bit bigger.

Inhale and exhale.

Do a few more together.

Inhale deeply.

And exhale fully.

Inhale.

And exhale.

So for these next few rounds, I want you to try them on your own, so you can keep your hands on your belly if that helps you, or you can even let your hands come to your thighs and take a few breaths on your own.

Remembering to inhale through your nose and exhale through your nose.

Let yourself take three more rounds like that.

Inhale.

Exhale.

Inhale.

Exhale.

Inhale.

And exhale.

So if your eyes were closed, you can let them blink open, if your hands were on your belly, you can let them come back down to your thighs and just take a moment and notice how you're feeling, maybe a little bit calmer.

Maybe you can breathe a little bit easier and knowing that if you're ever having that bad day or you're just stressed out, you can always come back to those belly breaths to help you through it.

So thanks so much for joining and watching.

And I'll see you tomorrow.

Bye, everybody.

>> Let's go learn something new with our friends from the Minsi Trails Council of the Boy Scouts of America.

>> Hi, It's Camp.

>> I'm Jim and...Jean?

>> Oh!

Hey, hi, I'm Jean.

>> And we're talking about hiking.

What we're going to do is take what we've learned so far and start kicking it up a notch, start getting out.

>> Whoa, whoa.

You got to go, "And take it up a notch!"

>> Do it.

>> Take it up a notch!

>> All right.

So we've been doing rail trails.

We've been doing community parks.

Let's get up a little bit more.

Let's talk about maybe some state parks.

A little bit west of here is a place called the Pinnacle.

Awesome view.

It's out in Hamburg but you can see all the way to Macungie on a clear day.

>> And then they have Hawk Mountain up there.

You can see the hawks.

Fantastic!

>> Hawk Mountain's probably a better one to start with because you don't have as much of a rocky trail.

You get a chance to see how your footwear is working.

We've been harping on the footwear.

That's because that's the thing that's going to most likely give you trouble.

In fact, for this kind of stuff, I'm going to start moving to more of a boot, because I'm going to be walking on some rocks.

I want something that's going to have a little more support.

>> Rigidity.

>> Rigidity.

There you go.

And with the boots, if you ever go to try them on, try them on with the same socks you're going to wear.

I've got these these, a wool blend.

They hoik the moisture out of my foot.

So I don't get all sweaty down there.

And I make sure it fits well, that I'm not getting rubbing with my feet in the boots.

That's how you're going to get a blister.

>> And taking that up a notch, when is the best time to go buy your shoes?

>> Ooh.

Not first thing, I bet Not lunchtime, I bet.

>> Absolutely not.

Make sure you've been walking on your feet a couple hours so they're nice and plumpy.

So when you put it on, that's how it will be at your worst moment on the trail.

Don't want them when your feet are at their nicest, like when you get out of bed.

They're fabulous.

But after a while, you're like, oh, god, no.

So, yeah.

No, don't do that.

Make sure you go after you've been on it a while.

>> So now you can be hiking for two, three hours, four hours.

So you going to want to take a little bit more to eat.

I'm definitely going to take more to eat.

You know, snacks and pack a light lunch, some kind of sandwich that's not going to spoil.

I'll probably avoid the... >> Ham and cheese!

>> Only if I've got a frozen bottle of water in the pack with it, which I will do, because by the time I get around to lunch, it's only gonna be half water, half ice.

That tastes pretty good.

>> Italian hogie?

>> Again, as long as I've got something to keep it cool.

I see a theme going on here.

I'm still gonna avoid the chocolate unless I've got a way of keeping it cool... >> With an ice bottle.

>> Yeah.

>> I got that.

>> You picked the theme.

Or take a couple of liters' worth of water.

So, again, those big Gatorade bottles, take a couple of those full of water.

I also might take just a Gatorade to drink with my lunch.

A beautiful view from Hawk.

There's a beautiful view from the Pinnacle.

Great places to sit and eat.

Make sure you bring everything back with you.

All your trash.

>> What goes in comes out.

Leave no trace, man.

Leave no trace.

>> Now, speaking of water, you got something different here this time.

>> So when I hike, I don't like to carry a lot and, fantastically, we have this creek over here I was playing in earlier.

Fantastic.

This is my hydration system.

I can put into any water source, pop my little top off right here, goes through my filter system.

It's fabulous.

It's great on a hot day.

So there's another option you can do when you hike so you don't have to carry so much with you.

Make sure there's water sources nearby.

>> Unfortunately for Hawk Mountain, there isn't.

You got to carry in, carry out.

>> Then maybe I'll go to on Jacobsberg.

>> There you go.

Creek running right through the middle of it.

Lot of different trails you can choose from.

It's a great way to take it up a notch from where we've been.

Only other thing I can think of on that, again, buddies, make sure you've got somebody with you, maybe sharing with some friends.

It's always better with friends, but also talk afterward.

Hey, that was cool.

What did you like?

What didn't you like?

>> You didn't talk about my snacks.

>> We'll bring them up next time.

>> Real quick.

These are great.

These are energy chews, super small, super tasty.

Pop them in your mouth.

Get a little energy.

You get carbs, sugars, you can move on.

Ooh, another one.

Honey waffles.

Basically, same thing.

Nice and lightweight.

Put it in there.

Sustainable, man, sustainable.

Just don't let the squirrels steal them.

They've done that.

I wasn't happy.

OK, now you can talk.

>> So this is camp.

I'm Jim.

>> I'm Jean.

And we're talking about hiking.

>> Let's jump over to the Banana Factory and check out some cool crafting with ArtsQuest.

>> Today, I'm going to show you the next step in how we make our stuffed animal.

So we've cut out our fabric for our stuffed animal.

I've sewn on a fun little face with a mouth and a button nose.

And our next step is going to be to pin our two pieces of fabric together so we can sew it pretty easily.

I'm going to lay my two pieces of fabric on top of each other.

And the one thing that's very important is I want to make sure that my kind of outside pattern s facing in.

With this fabric, we have these nice, bright white polka dots, but you can't see them quite as well when I turn the fabric kind of upside down or inside out or whatever you want to call it.

So I'm making sure that on both sides, I have my outside facing in so that, eventually, once we saw it all together, we're going to turn it back right side out or inside out.

Now I'm getting all of my words confused.

We want it to look just like this where we have our fabric like this.

I can still see my chalk line.

And now it is time to pin everything together.

Now, if you've never done a lot of sewing before, a straight pin is a very good friend for you.

What you're going to do is you have this, sometimes you have like a nice, big, like kind of ball on the end like this.

Sometimes it's just a flat bit.

But this is going to hold our two pieces of fabric together so we can sew without everything falling apart.

Now I'm going to use my straight pins along that chalk line I made.

That's going to be a great guide.

And you poke it in one side of the fabric and out the other and you go through both of your layers of fabric at once.

And you want a few pins all the way around your piece so it's not going to be flopping apart on you, but you don't need them every single step of the way.

I like to keep an inch or two between them.

This part always takes a little... a little bit of time, but it is worth it in the end.

All righty.

So this is about close enough.

I think it'll stay together while I sew it.

And you can see on the backside, it's gone through both layers of fabric, so it won't be getting in the way.

And we're about ready to start sewing.

But before we do that, I want to let you know where we're going to sew.

So this chalk line, again, is going to be super helpful for us because we can sew all the way along our chalk line.

But one thing you want to really try to remember, I do this almost every time I make a stuffed animal, is you don't want to forget that you're going to turn it inside out.

So I'm going to leave like a two-inch space, probably down towards the bottom where I can pull all the fabric back through and turn it inside out or right side out so that I can put stuffing in it and finish it off.

But we can get started.

I'm going to use the back stitch just like before.

And just get a little bit of the way started.

I don't think you guys will want to watch me sew the entire bear together, it's a little bit time consuming, but I'll show you kind of the gist of it.

But just like before, I've tied a knot in the end of my string and I'm going to just kind of pull through my fabric.

And again, I like to use the back stitch.

And this is where when I make my first stitch and I go back to the end of my previous stitch, so I'm always going backwards.

I personally just find this to be a very easy stitch to do.

But it also makes nice straight lines and it's very strong because you don't have any gaps between your stitches.

It does use a little bit more thread though.

So if you're worried about conserving thread, you may want to just do your standard running stitch, which is just up and down in a straight line.

All right.

And I think that that was enough of you guys watching me sew for one day.

But if you tune in tomorrow with your kind of fully sewn stuffed animal, minus that two inch gap by the bottom, I can show you our next steps, which will be turning our bear or other animal inside out so that we can put the stuffing inside.

Thank you guys for watching.

And I hope I see you tomorrow.

>> What a great day at camp.

We hope you had fun with us today.

>> Join us again tomorrow for more activities, learning and fun.