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Two... Three... That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.

Two...One... ♪♪ Greetings, my fellow Earthlings.

Welcome to Space Day on Camp TV.

This is going to be one of my favorites because ever since I was little, I've been totally fascinated by space.

The sun, the moon, the stars, galaxies far, far away.

And I'm pretty sure there must be aliens.

I mean, how else do we explain my younger brother?

Someone I look up to is Neil Armstrong, a very famous astronaut.

He was the first human to walk on the moon -- like ever.

I'm hoping one day we'll all have a chance to follow in his footsteps.

In the meantime, ready for some out of this world fun?

Then you've landed in the right place.

Oh!

Enjoy your first activity.

Arts and crafts?

Yes, please!

Let's Get Artsy.

Man: High atop of the citadel, in the city.

it was said that a forest would grow.

And this future city will come into contact with nature.

Until the robot arrived.

[ Humming menacingly ] Hi.

My name is Sam Jay Gold.

I am a theater artist and a puppeteer, and I'm also a teaching artist at the New Victory Theater.

And I'm here today to talk to you about set building, specifically set building in miniature.

Now, when I got my start as a puppeteer, one of the first things I discovered that I really loved is that I could dream fanciful stories and other worlds.

I could think of whatever story I wanted to tell, and I wouldn't really have to pare it down.

I just had to build it in miniature.

And that felt like a useful thing to consider these days when you might be at home for most of the day.

So we're going to explore how to take a story and create an environment for -- a set -- out of everyday objects we find in our apartment, and then also later I'll show you how to do it with paper and scissors as well.

But first we need to go over our materials.

Flashlight -- make sure you have one of these.

If you don't have an actual flashlight, that's totally okay.

Just about every modern smartphone has a really good flashlight built into it.

So, you know, you can borrow your parent's flashlight or if you have your own cell phone, you could use that, but we want to make sure we have a flashlight.

Second, we need to grab materials from around our house.

These are going to be the backdrop, our set for our story.

There's all sorts of ways that you can go about this.

You could think of a story you want to tell and decide what background you would need.

Maybe it's from your favorite book.

Maybe it's a myth or a fairy tale.

You could also just walk around your house and grab things that look interesting and then discover in the moment what kind of world you can create.

I'll wait for a minute so that you can have time to go find a few things.

Did you get what you were looking for?

Great.

Let me show you what I have today.

I have two candle holders, some wooden blocks, some beautiful different colored vases, and two giant books.

Now, I was inspired by this figurine, which I have lying around in my house.

This is like a little wooden robot.

I got this guy really early into my career as a puppeteer, and I hadn't thought about him much in a long time.

And I saw him earlier today and I thought, Oh, that's cool, let's build a world for this robot.

So I think with these materials, I can make, like a futuristic city.

That's what I'm going to try and make.

So the first thing you need to do is look at all of your materials.

And so thinking, what could this be?

If this wasn't a vase, what could it be?

I think this one could be the skyscraper.

I think this one could also be a skyscraper.

Maybe it has an interesting red top to it.

Now these books, I wonder if I could put one here, add to it, maybe even put one of these on top.

Now we're really building kind of like a cityscape.

You will keep this one lower, though, and we can stack a few things on to this.

Let's see put a few buildings even lower.

Since we're making a city, I like to have different heights so that we can really see our whole cityscape.

Put that right there.

Yeah, that looks pretty good.

So you can already start to see we have different heights.

We can imagine these are buildings.

Maybe this is where there's more like apartments.

This could be an important space, but now we're going to see how this all transforms in the dark.

So let's hit the lights.

Okay, we are in the dark.

I'm going to try my flashlight on the count of three and we're going to see what kind of shadows the cityscape makes.

One, two, three.

Mmm.

So this is very interesting.

Do we have like our citadel, our skyscrapers.

I love how it makes different colors.

And then over here, you have another part of the city.

And you notice, it's almost like a movie.

Once I have this flashlight that I can move around, it almost becomes like a movie where this is the camera, right?

So we can start really close in to something.

We could be here.

That's very interesting, and then we can move out and reveal.

That's just one building in our city.

And then, since I made this li-- since I have this robot, what if we even put the robot into the picture.

So maybe we'll start over here.

Started red, even.

And then slowly move out, taking in more and more of our cityscape.

Until finally, there's our robot.

Maybe he's just a robot with a dream.

First time in the new city, in the big city.

Ready to go on his adventure.

That looks pretty cool.

We're back in the light.

And I'm curious what kind of backdrop you made.

Did you make a jungle or a beach?

Maybe a desert or a mountaintop?

Maybe you made a city like me.

Whatever it was, I hope that you were surprised by some of the shadows that you could make from things you found around your apartment.

Sometimes when we're making a set, though, we have an idea and it's so specific that no candlesticks or vase or blocks are going to cut it.

You got to have exactly the picture you have in your brain.

That's when paper is really useful.

I like to use cardstock, but really any kind of paper will work.

All you really need is a pencil, right?

First you can draw out exactly what you have in mind.

Then once it's drawn, you can cut it out with scissors.

And then you're going to need a little triangular flap to make it stand -- I'll show you what I mean.

Earlier I made some trees.

These are just two dimensional trees.

You can see they're really floppy.

But I just took a little triangle.

I cut it out and I taped it onto the back.

You can see here.

Taped it right there.

Folded it down.

Now...

It stands.

So I'm curious, what are they going to look like if I had more trees in this and we try to do shadows with those.

Let's take a look -- hit the lights!

Okay.

We're back in the dark, I'm gonna turn the flashlight on, on the count of three.

One, two, three.

Now here we are in our forest.

You can see because I put some of these trees at different layers, I can actually move past them.

And I can go back out.

Oh, this is a dense forest.

Again, because the flashlight is our perspective we can imagine it's someone walking, right?

We can go trudge, boom, boom.

Boom, boom, boom, boom.

And suddenly we hear something: "Rawr!"

These paper trees are about five inches tall.

But once we put them in shadow, we can make them really big.

And suddenly our story that takes place in the forest can really have a spooky forest set just with paper and flashlights.

So those are two different ways that you can create a set real small and then blow it up big time using a flashlight -- we made a forest, we made a futuristic city, and I'm sure there are all sorts of other things that you could create for your own ideas of where your stories take you.

One little tip when you're working with paper, sometimes these triangle tabs that you make just don't quite want to work the way you want them to, and leave it up and it falls down, that's totally okay, as long as you're using a safe, basic kind of tape and it feels like it's a good surface to put it on, you can always just tape it down and then it's not going anywhere.

I challenge you to think of your favorite story.

Now think of three different locations in that story and see what do I need with paper?

What I need with objects?

How could I create all three of those locations in the story and take my family on an adventure?

Good luck.

Welcome back, Camp TV space explorers.

I said it before and I will say it again: I love all things space.

And once in a blue moon, someone comes along and changes our world forever.

Like one of my heroes, Mary W. Jackson.

Miss Jackson work for NASA, which stands for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, back in the 1950s.

Like me, she loved space and wanted to learn everything she could about it.

But it wasn't always easy.

Miss Jackson lived during a time when there were laws that kept African-Americans from having the same rights as others.

But she fought for what she believed in, that everyone should be treated equally no matter what color their skin.

And she won.

In 1958, she became the first African-American female engineer at NASA.

I guess you could say she was finally recognized as mission critical.

Miss Jackson paved the way for others to succeed, too, like astronaut Mae Jemison, the first Black woman to go to space.

Just a few weeks ago, NASA decided to rename its main headquarters in Mary Jackson's name.

Have you ever fought for something you really loved and believed in?

The sky's the limit.

See you after your next activity.

Curiosity and wonder.

Let's discover together: it's Science Wow!

Hello, everyone, my name is Andrew, and I am with the Liberty Science Center.

Liberty Science Center is located in Jersey City, New Jersey, and is home to the Jennifer Chalsty Planetarium, the biggest planetarium in America.

It looks a little something like this.

If you've ever been to a planetarium before, a planetarium is like a really big theater where we talk all about space.

And today we're going to be using the same technology that we use in the planetarium to bring astronomy to you.

We'll be talking today all about the brightest thing we ever see in the nighttime sky, our very own moon.

So let's step outside on a nice sunny afternoon day, and looking up at the sky that we see here, what do you notice in the sky right now?

Yeah.

There really are just two shapes we can see in the sky.

We can see the sun over here on the right and over to the left of the sun we can see the moon.

Now, what's a word that you would use to describe the shape here of the moon?

What does that look like to you?

Well, it kind of looks to me like a... like a banana floating in the sky.

Now, astronomers and scientists call this shape a crescent moon.

It's a crescent moon.

Now, does the moon always look just like this, or does it sometimes change how it looks?

Yeah.

It doesn't always look like a crescent moon.

It changes over time.

We call these the phases of the moon.

Now, if we were to move forward in time three days, how do you think the moon would change?

How do you think its shape would change?

Mm.

How do you think it would move in the sky?

Would it move in the sky?

Some really, really great predictions.

Let's -- let's go ahead and find out.

We're going to move three days into the future and see how the moon changes.

Mmm.

So the moon has moved to the left.

And now we can see a little bit more of it.

Before, it was just a little crescent shape here, but now we can see about half of the moon.

We call this phase of the moon the quarter moon.

The quarter moon.

Now, if we moved another three days into the future, how do you think the moon would change?

Would it do the same thing or would it be different than what we saw before?

Let's find out.

If we move three days into the future, this is what the moon will look like.

The moon has again moved over to the left and we can see more of it, not quite all of it.

Still missing a little chunk over here on the left.

We call this phase of the moon the gibbous moon.

The gibbous moon.

Now, what if we moved another three days into the future?

What do you think would happen to the moon?

Well, let's go and find out: three more days into the future.

And we don't see the moon anymore.

What happened to it?

Did it disappear into outer space?

Well, the moon has been moving across the sky to the left.

It began over here and then it moved over here.

And then it moved over here.

The moon, it turns out, has just moved beneath the earth.

We can't really see it.

It's below the horizon.

If we wait, though a little bit, wait for the sun to go down and for the moon to come back up -- there it is, and now we can see the full moon.

This last phase of the moon is called a full moon.

It's the time when we can see the entire moon all at once, at least all of the side that faces us.

If we continue to wait through time another three days, the moon will change again.

This time it's going to lose a little bit of light from the right side, and the left side is more lit up.

Another three days it'll go back to a quarter moon and then to a crescent, and it'll go through these same cycles of their phases every 28 days.

So take a look outside.

Maybe you can see the moon in the sky right now.

If you can't right now, maybe wait until later on tonight.

You can find the moon and figure out what phase it is in the sky.

So now I do want to take us all the way off the surface of the earth and take a flight to the moon.

Now, the moon is the closest thing to the earth in space, but it's still about 250,000 miles away.

But we'll get there here.

Now once we get closer to the moon, we can see a little bit more of it.

And what do you notice on the moon?

Well, from the earth, the moon almost looked like one big color, like just one solid color gray.

But once we get close to it, we can notice a couple different shades of gray.

For example, these darker areas here are called Maria.

These formed a few billion years ago when lava welled up and cooled down on the surface of the moon.

The lighter areas of the moon, like this area down here, we call the Highlands.

Those are older than the Maria and are covered in a lot more of these holes.

Right.

We call these holes on the moon craters.

And they are my favorite thing about the moon.

The moon is covered in them.

Now, craters like these ones that we see here form when really big rocks called asteroids or meteoroids come crashing into the moon.

They hit the moon so hard they actually dig these big holes in the surface.

The earth doesn't really need to worry about asteroids or meteoroids, though, because the Earth has air and an atmosphere to protect us.

Now, have you ever wanted to visit the moon?

Would you ever like to do that someday?

Well, I would love to someday, too.

But because the moon has no atmosphere, no air to breathe, we would need to bring a space suit to allow us to land safely on the moon and allow us to walk around on the surface.

But from the moon, we can still see the same stars that we see from the earth.

It's really a great thing to see.

And I hope if you'd like to someday you'll get a chance in the future to become an astronaut and to land on the moon.

Would you believe me if I told you the moon doesn't produce its own light?

I can hear you now: "Zach, come back to Earth, everyone knows the moon shines bright."

Well, you have the sun to thank for that, not the moon.

Confused?

Let me explain.

The moon can only be seen as a result of the sun's light reflecting off it.

And it's the sun that makes the moon look like it's changing shapes.

When you look up in the sky, have you ever noticed how different the moon looks from day to day or night to night?

Here, let me demonstrate.

The moon goes through eight phases a month and it repeats this pattern throughout the year.

The first phase is called a new moon, and it looks like this.

The next phase is called a waxing crescent moon and it looks like this.

The first quarter moon looks like this.

The waxing gibbous moon looks like this.

A full moon is up next, and then it starts to get smaller again.

It goes from the full moon to the waning gibbous moon, then to the third quarter moon, and finally to the waning crescent moon that looks like this.

So the next time you look up at the moon, see if you can figure out which phase it's in.

Arts and crafts?

Yes, please!

Let's Get Artsy.

♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ So if you couldn't tell, I really love outer space.

I like to imagine that I've taken off on a rocket ship, flying as fast as the speed of light, landing on some big, beautiful planet other than our own.

But lying on a blanket outside can be a little tricky right now.

So what do you say we bring the outside in?

Have you ever seen the constellation in the sky?

A constellation is a group of stars that makes up a shape.

For example, the Big Dipper.

Orion or Taurus, just to name a few.

For this activity, pick your favorite constellation.

Mine is the Big Dipper.

First, either trace or print out a picture of your constellation on a piece of construction paper.

Very carefully, with the help of an adult, use a pin or a toothpick to poke a hole where the stars should be.

Please be careful.

No poking of yourself or others allowed.

When you're done, grab a flashlight and turn out the lights and shine your flashlight on the paper.

It should cast a shadow across the wall or ceiling.

Ahh, now, if you'll excuse me, I've got some wishing on a star to do.

A little birdie told me it's time to Go Wild.

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

Hi, I'm Jasmine.

And today we're going to read a story about astronauts who went to the moon.

Listen closely and read along.

I'll be asking you some questions as you go.

In 1969, Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin flew in a rocket ship.

They landed on the moon.

Armstrong and Aldrin became the first people ever to walk there.

Let's see if you can remember.

When did they land on the moon?

Good job listening and reading closely.

The two men left footprints on the moon.

Their footprints are still there.

There is no wind to blow the footprints away.

The men left an American flag on the moon too.

Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin left an American flag on the moon.

What does this information tell us about what country they came from?

They took moon rocks with them.

Scientists on earth have studied the rocks.

Neil Armstrong took the first step on the moon.

As he did, he said, "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."

His sentence became famous.

We just heard all about the first two men to walk on the moon back in 1969.

What do you think the moon looks like now?

Draw a picture of the spot on the moon where Armstrong and Aldrin landed.

Don't forget to add yourself as an astronaut to your picture.

See you next time.

Bye!

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Additional funding was provided by Joan Ganz Cooney.

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