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[Shabazz buzzing] [child buzzing] - This is the story about a few bees.

This story is by me, Shabazz Larkin, and... - [Royal] Royal.

- That's the man behind the camera.

- And Naji.

- And that is the bumblebee.

That's also him right there on the cover of the book.

So what is "The Thing About Bees"?

- A book.

[Shabazz laughs] - [Shabazz] A book by who?

- Papa.

- [Shabazz] And what's this book about?

- This book's about bees.

- And what sound does the bee make?

[child buzzing] Perfect.

"The Thing About Bees: A Love Letter".

This book is dedicated to my sons, who teach me what it means to be fearless.

When a bee and a flower love each other very much, a fruit is born.

The flower makes a yellow sticky dust called pollen.

And as the bee drinks the flower's nectar, she gets pollen all over her hairy body.

Have you ever gotten pollen all over your hairy body?

The bee moves from one flower to another.

Then we wait, and wait, and presto!

The flower turns into a fruit that we can eat.

This process is called pollination.

We'd be hungry without the bees.

They help vegetables and nuts grow too.

So be sure to thank the bees.

Thank you, bees!

Pollination, today this book "The Thing About Bees" is all about pollination.

About where our food comes from, and our food comes from a little process called pollination.

Well, at least the fruits and the vegetables, and the cotton, and the coffee, and well, I guess we'll get into that as we read a little bit more in the book.

Here's the thing about bees, sometimes bees can be a bit rude.

They fly in your face and prance on your food.

They buzz in the bushes and buzz in your ear, they sneak up behind you and fill you with fear.

And worst of all, they do this thing called sting.

We may want bees gone, because their sting hurts, but if they were all gone, it would hurt much worse.

Without bees, there'd be no more picnics with watermelon.

Does anybody out there love watermelon?

There'd be no more smoothies with mango.

My family is from Jamaica, and we eat a lot of mangoes when you're from Jamaica.

There'd be no more strawberries for shortcakes, no more avocados for tacos, there'd be no apples, which means no more pie.

No more cucumbers, which means no more pickles.

No more blueberries and raspberries for pancakes or sweet cherries to drizzle, because some foods won't grow without bees to help them along.

In a way, the bees are just like you.

You!

You buzz in the bushes and buzz in my ear.

You sneak up behind me and fill me with fear.

You fly in my face and prance on my food.

You even sting when you're in a bad mood.

But I never stop loving you.

You're my sweet cherry, the apple pie of my eye.

You're my cucumber pickle, my bumblebee in the sky.

You're my cold watermelon at a picnic in the park.

You're the avocados on my tacos.

You're my strawberry heart.

Without those little buzzers, the world wouldn't know what to do.

That's the thing about bees, we need them just as much as we need you.

I wrote this little special note in the back.

I have a lot to learn from bees, I wrote this book because I have a ridiculous fear of the bees.

And when my sons were born, I didn't want to pass that fear to them.

So I set out to discover all that I could about the buzzers.

I learned three things, are you ready?

First, I learned that every living creature has a special part to play in the world, and that includes you.

Second, when I learned more about a scary thing, the thing feels less scary to me.

Third, I research which bees and wasps are kind, and which are kind of mean.

I made a guide to help you see the difference too.

It's brave to understand the things that scare us, now go be brave, love, me, Shabazz.

And I've made a guide about everything you need to know about how not to get stung.

A guide to bees and wasp from kind to kind of mean.

There's lots and lots of species of bees and wasps in the world, and I brought a few of the most common ones, so you could know how not to get stung.

Let's start over here with the bumblebee.

Now, the bumblebee's a pretty friendly bee.

It's pretty friendly.

You know the bumblebee because it's very fuzzy and fat.

It's the friendliest of all the bees.

It can sting, but usually ignores humans.

It nests in the ground.

It's an excellent pollinator and makes honey, but not nearly as much honey as the honey bees.

It's very fuzzy and too big and blobby for its own tiny wings.

Next is the carpenter bee.

The carpenter bee is a big harmless bee.

It rarely stings, makes nests in dead wood, you may have seen it drilling little holes in the side of your house.

It's a great pollinator, which means it spreads pollen around and helps the flowers grow into fruits and nuts and vegetables.

And has a little furry jacket.

And then there's the honey bee.

Now the honey bee is the world's best pollinator and pollen eater.

It's very friendly.

Can only sting once, so it doesn't really wanna sting you.

Lives inside hollow trees or logs, or in human built hives.

The honey bee makes honey, and then eats it, and makes wax to build honeycombs for storing pollen, honey, and maybe bees.

And does a little waggle dance to help hive mates find the good flowers.

So the honey bees are the hardest working bees in the business.

So remember anytime you're tasting some honey, remember to thank the honey bees.

Now let's get to the wasps.

Now the wasps aren't really bees, but we always call them bees, and that's a mistake, because the wasps are the ones that start to get unkind.

But before we get to the unkind bees, we'll start with the mud dauber.

Now the mud dauber's interesting because though it looks very menacing, it's actually one of the wasps that you don't have to worry about.

This little buzzer is not really a bee, it's not aggressive, rarely stings, has a long, skinny body with almost no hair, it hunts for spiders for dinner, so if you got a spider problem, one of these mud daubers might help to take care of that.

Most famous for it's tube shaped nests made out of mud, but it is not a pollinator.

Then there is the hornet.

The largest wasps, only aggressive when threatened, still hurts the most of all wasps, and they can sting more than once, so watch out.

A pollinator, but much less than the bees.

It chews wood into a pulp to make paper nests, and loves to eat rotten fruit and other insects.

So if you got some rotting fruit around, you might also get a couple wasps too.

Now to the last of all the wasps, to the meanest of them all, the yellow jacket.

It's very aggressive when threatened, not very hairy, also not a bee, but they do pollinate a bit.

And if you see one, walk away slowly.

If one stings you, run away fast, because others will follow.

Hunts garden pests making gardens happy, and eats meat and people food, making picnickers very grumpy.

So with that, I'll finish the book with the last page, it says, "But seriously, we need to love the pollinators.

"Do all you can to save the bees, please.

"And if you're still afraid of the bees, "you can wear a beekeeper's suit like this, "because we are all beekeepers."

Remember, love will conquer fear.

Thanks for listening to this book.

As an author and an illustrator, I've chosen to make the world a better place by encouraging people to love and understand the bees in ways that they haven't before.

And so, as we read this book, think about how you can respect, honor, and love the earth in a better way.

Think about what you can create, how can you get people excited about loving and caring for the bees.

How can you get people loving and caring for the earth.

And most of all, how can you get people loving and caring for themselves and overcoming their fears.

That's what this book is all about.

And I'm curious to see what your book will be all about.

Again, my name is Shabazz Larkin, and I hope to see you soon.

- Hi, movers and shakers.

This is Violet, and I'm here with my sister, Ivy.

- Hi.

- We're gonna sing a song with you called, "My Aunt Came Back".

It's a silly song, and it has a pattern in it, and I wonder if you'll be able to hear it by the end.

I think you will.

So this is a call and respond song.

That means I'm going to sing the words, and you're going to repeat after me, and Ivy's gonna sing that part with you.

It also has movement, so follow along with us.

You can be sitting down or standing up, however you want to.

All right, are you ready?

- Mm-hmm.

- Okay.

♪ My aunt came back ♪ ♪ My aunt came back ♪ ♪ From Kalamazoo ♪ ♪ From Kalamazoo ♪ ♪ And she brought with her ♪ ♪ And she brought with her ♪ ♪ A wooden shoe ♪ ♪ A wooden show ♪ ♪ My aunt came back ♪ ♪ My aunt came back ♪ ♪ From the New York Fair ♪ ♪ From the New York Fair ♪ ♪ And she brought with her ♪ ♪ And she brought with her ♪ ♪ A rocking chair ♪ ♪ A rocking chair ♪ ♪ My aunt came back ♪ ♪ My aunt came back ♪ ♪ From the Jersey Shore ♪ ♪ From the Jersey Shore ♪ ♪ And she brought with her ♪ ♪ And she brought with her ♪ ♪ An apple core ♪ ♪ An apple core ♪ ♪ My aunt came back ♪ ♪ My aunt came back ♪ ♪ From Timbuktu ♪ ♪ From Timbuktu ♪ ♪ And she brought with her ♪ ♪ And she brought with her ♪ ♪ Some friends like you ♪ ♪ Some friends like you ♪ - Can you hear the pattern?

Yeah, that's right.

At the end of the line, it's a place, and then there's a thing that rhymes with it that the aunt brought back from that place.

Good job.

All right, thanks everyone.

- Thank you.

[upbeat music] - Hi, friends.

It's me, Isabel.

And welcome to my learning corner.

Today, we are going to be building and reading words with a very special form of punctuation, called an apostrophe.

Are you ready?

[children cheering] Great!

Let's get started.

First, we're going to begin with a listening activity.

Today, we're going to be segmenting, or breaking words down into all the sounds we hear, so before we get started, let's tune up our ears.

[playful tune] Good job!

Now I'd like you to stand up, are you ready?

Stand up!

Good job.

I'm gonna say a word, you're going to repeat the word, and then we are going to chop out all the sounds we hear in the word.

Are you ready?

Let's try one together.

The first word is grin.

Can you say that word?

Good job.

Let's break that word up into all of the sounds we hear.

G, R, I, N. Grin.

Great job chopping out all the sounds you heard.

Let's try another word.

The next word is shin.

Can you say that word?

Good job.

Let's chop that up.

Sh, I, N. Great job.

Let's try another word.

The next word is mile.

Get ready.

M, I, L, mile.

Let's try one more word.

The next word is smile.

S, M, I, L, smile.

Great job.

Now let's learn a little bit more about the apostrophe.

Now that we've warmed up, we're ready to talk about that special form of punctuation called the apostrophe.

Now you may already know that an apostrophe can be used to show ownership, as in, my mom's, apostrophe S, pencil.

Mom's pencil.

Well, an apostrophe can also be used to form an contraction.

A contraction is one word that has been formed from two words using the apostrophe.

Let's look at three examples to see how that will work.

I can use an apostrophe to combine the first two words.

What are the first two words?

Great job.

I am.

I'm going to use the apostrophe to put them together.

Watch me.

I, M, I'm.

The apostrophe takes the place of the A and allows me to put the two words together.

I can say, I am going to the store, or I'm going to the store, and they'll both mean the same thing.

Let's look at another example.

That's right.

I will.

Which two letters will the apostrophe take the place of in this word?

That's right, it's going to take the place of the W and the I.

So this is how we'll right it.

I, Ll, I'll.

When I say I will, you say I'll.

I will.

I will.

Great job!

Let's try another set of words.

He is.

Hmm, which letter will the apostrophe take the place of now?

Let's see.

He, Ss, He's.

I'll say he is, you'll say he's.

He is.

He is.

He's.

Good job!

Let's look at two special words.

These two words, do not, will form a contraction in a special way.

There will be do, and we're going to use the apostrophe in the place of the O.

However, this word will be pronounced slightly different.

Do not, don't.

Do you see how that sounds a little bit different?

Let's try that again.

Don't.

Good job.

Now that we've talked about contractions, let's practice blending and reading them.

Are you ready?

Let's try one together.

W, E, ll, We know that the Ll stands for will, right?

Good job.

We, ll.

We'll.

Let's try another one.

Are you ready?

Let's go.

I, ss, nt.

Nt.

Is, nt.

Let's put it together.

Isn't.

Great job.

Let's try one more.

Sh, E, ll.

That's short for will.

She, ll.

Let's put it together.

She'll.

Good job!

Let's blend and read some words now.

Now that we've taken time to read words together, it's your turn to read words.

But first, I have a question.

What do all of these words have in common?

That's right, they're all contractions.

They all started out as two words, and they've been brought together by our handy dandy apostrophe to make one word.

Now I'm going to point to each word and you are going to read it all by yourself.

Are you ready?

Good job!

He's, she'll, I'm, hasn't, don't, it's, can't, you'll.

Now I'd like you to put everything you learned together to read this sentence.

Do you see the contraction in this sentence?

Where is it?

Point to the contraction.

That's right, this is the contraction.

Let's read this sentence together.

I'll whisper and you can say it as loud as you'd like.

She'll help you with your homework.

Great job, guys.

We're gonna end today's lesson with some dictation.

So I'd like you to take out a piece of paper or something to write on, and a pencil, or something to write with, or you can even write in the sky.

[upbeat music] Are you ready?

The first word is he's.

Can you say that word?

Good job!

Let's stretch that out, he, ss.

Don't forget your apostrophe.

Good job.

Tell me what to write.

He.

Apostrophe, ss.

The S makes the ss sound in that word, did you catch that?

And the word is he's.

Good job.

Can we try one more word?

The next word is, isn't.

Can you say that word?

Good job, let's stretch it out.

Isn't.

Is, nt.

Go ahead and write it down, and don't forget our apostrophe.

While you're writing it down, I'm going to erase my board.

Okay.

Is, N, T. Is that what you wrote?

Great job!

You have done some amazing work today.

You've read words with me, read words all by yourself, and also written words all contractions with our very special form of punctuation, the apostrophe.

And remember, with a trusted adult, you can play the call and response game.

It goes like this, when I say I am, you say I'm.

I am.

I am.

Great job!

You can use any contraction in the place of the one I used in that example.

So have a wonderful day.

Don't forget to watch the next episode, and see you soon, bye friends.

[light music] - I check the labels on my kids' lunchboxes and toys, wanna know why?

- [Woman] The dangers of lead might feel like old news, but it's still a very real threat.

Lead is a dangerous metal that can cause serious learning and behavior problems in children and problems during pregnancy.

People with lead poisoning usually don't look or feel sick.

Lead can be found in old paint and in some products from other countries.

Here are a few things to look out for to protect yourself and your little ones from lead.

Lead paint was banned in New York City, but some buildings may still have lead in the older layers of paint.

If you notice peeling paint in your home, talk to your landlord immediately.

If your landlord doesn't act quickly, report the peeling paint to 311.

Health remedies, foods, spices, pottery, cosmetics, toys, and jewelry from certain countries may contain lead, use with caution.

If the paint of a toy cracks, throw it out.

It's not worth risking exposing your child to lead.

Safe lunchboxes are labeled lead free.

Be sure to check for this label before you buy your little one a lunchbox.

Remind your doctor to test your one or two year old for lead poisoning.

Lead your family away from lead.

[upbeat music] - Hello, everyone, welcome to the Memphis Zoo here in the city of Memphis, Tennessee.

My name is Chelsea, and I'm an animal interpreter here at the Memphis Zoo.

As an animal interpreter, I get to share all the cool stories of the animals I work with, with you all.

Now you might've already known this, but people and animals share the same basic needs.

Basic needs are things that are necessary for survival, like food, water, and shelter.

What you might not have known is that people and animals also share secondary needs.

Now secondary needs aren't necessary for survival, but they're super important for happiness and health.

Now you probably realize it might be hard to be happy and healthy, if you're feeling fearful or nervous.

That's why here at the Memphis Zoo, we foster an environment that is comfortable for both our staff and our animals.

Now come on in, and let's learn more about the secondary needs of comfort and safety.

Come on.

[upbeat music] So first, we're going to talk about one of the biggest ways we make sure our animals and comfortable and safe.

And that is through choice and control.

We like to give our animals the option of whether or not they want to participate or engage with people.

If you didn't get to choose what you wanted to do, you probably wouldn't be very comfortable either.

Whenever we go to take an animal out, we like to make sure they are interested and engaging with their keeper.

One of the ways we do that is with training.

When we train our animals, we don't force them to work with us.

Instead, we try to encourage them.

We do this by usually giving them something they might want, like food or treats.

Then many of our animals know that when they see this crate, it's time to go on a trip.

Once we're in our animal's enclosure, we ask for them to enter the crate with a cue.

If the animal chooses not to get in the crate, we leave them alone.

If they do choose to go into a crate, then they get a treat, or as we call it, reinforcement.

Now for some animals, the treat is getting to go somewhere new.

Let's take Bandit the Bullsnake for example.

Bandit travels in a large bag like this, so that she doesn't get tangled or caught in her crate.

Now our snakes only eat once every two weeks, because they take a while to digest their food.

So we can't exactly give Bandit a treat, however Bandit loves to explore.

So when she sees her large bag, she knows that it means she's going to go somewhere new and have an adventure.

So when she's home, we just hold the gray bag right up to her, and she can slither in if she wants to.

Our animals also have the option to say no.

There are a few ways animals can say no or leave me alone.

There tend to be three big ways an animal can say leave me alone.

They can change their appearance, they can use their body language, or they can make a sound.

For example, let's say Bandit was feeling scared or wanted to be left alone.

There are a few ways a snake like Bandit would show that.

She can vocalize or hiss loudly, she can bunch her body up to look bigger, or she can also shake the tip of her tail.

There is a venomous snake that rattles their tail, do you know which snake that is?

That's right, a rattlesnake.

Some snakes will shake the tip of their tails to try and trick you into thinking that they are venomous like a rattlesnake.

That's an example of how an animal can change their appearance to say leave me alone.

Let's go talk about another example.

Some animals vocalize, or make noise when they're afraid or uncomfortable.

Gibbons produce a loud whooping noise that can be heard from miles away.

A gibbon make call loudly if they're afraid a predator is nearby.

Alerting their family to get out of there and hopefully scaring the predator away in the process.

You might also realize how often you hear birds chirping and calling out to one another.

Certain bird calls may indicate that the birds are afraid or uncomfortable of something, and are warning other birds nearby.

Maybe it's the sight of someone on a walk outside with their large dog.

Just as humans might gasp or even scream, because they're afraid, animals might express their fears vocally too.

Now that we've identified when our animals are afraid or uncomfortable, let's talk about how we can make sure the homes our animals live in make them feel as comfortable as possible.

First, we make sure that the home that we give them looks like somewhere they might hang out in in their natural habitat.

Then we make sure the habitat is interesting for them.

We can give them different areas to explore and different enrichment or toys to play with.

We also make sure that in their home, there's somewhere they can go to when their scared or don't wanna be around people.

For example, take our meerkats here, in their natural habitat, meerkats spend most of their time on or under the ground.

They also feel safer and more comfortable when they live with a group of other meerkats.

There are also holes in the ground for them to go in and hide if they get nervous or wanna be alone.

Remember how secondary needs can be different based on the individual?

Well, the same thing applies to our animals when designing an enclosure.

We have to make sure that it's comfortable for them based on their lifestyle.

For example, our orangutan here lives in a home where he has plenty of room to climb and explore.

Since orangutans spend most of their life in the trees, we make sure there are lots of high places for our orangutan to climb and hang out.

Giving them somewhere to go off the ground is how we help our orangutans feel more comfortable.

Now I want you to think what you can change in your environment to make you more comfortable.

What makes you happier and more relaxed?

Maybe you feel more comfortable in a clean space.

Maybe you feel more comfortable surrounded by colorful art.

Maybe you feel more comfortable with lots of pets or books around.

Remember, all these things change because we all have different secondary needs.

[light music] Zoos often have rules that are important to know in order to keep the animals safe and comfortable.

Most zoos have signs up that will tell you specifically about an animal and how you can make it feel more comfortable around you.

Take this sign by our giraffes, it gives information on what not to do around wild animals.

This includes things like not being too loud, not moving too fast, and definitely not throwing anything.

Sometimes, these things can scare a giraffe, even though they're huge.

Because in the wild, if something is running, it's usually coming to eat them, or running away from something that might eat them.

If a giraffe thinks they are being chased, they might end up hurting themselves running away to keep safe.

When you are afraid of something, does it stop you from doing things that might keep you healthy?

If someone told you there was a monster in your closet, would you be able to sleep well?

Or would it keep you up all night, and make you tired all day?

By remaining calm, we let the animals know nothing scary is happening.

This makes them comfortable, which is a huge part of staying healthy.

Animals can express that they are fearful or uncomfortable through their body language.

For example, there are ways to show our gorillas, here at the Memphis Zoo friendly body language, instead of threatening body language.

Gorillas look a lot like us.

You might think that they would like it if we smiled at them, just like we smiled at our friends.

In a gorilla's mind however, a smile looks like we're showing off our teeth, which means we're saying we're big, strong, and ready to fight.

So instead of smiling, we can turn our shoulder towards them and look down, this shows them that we don't wanna fight, we aren't there to hurt them, and we actually respect them.

Showing respect in the animal's language is a great way to enjoy the zoo and make the animals happy at the same time.

All right friends, I think it's time we wrap up our lesson for today.

We learned about the importance of safety and comfort as secondary needs for both people and animals.

If an animal is uncomfortable or fearful, they can express that through vocalizing, changing their behavior, or even changing their appearance.

For an animal to feel most comfortable and safe, they need an environment that fits their individual needs and plenty of respect and space.

Well, guys, on behalf of the Memphis Zoo, thank you so much for tuning in with me today, and I hope to see you next time.

Have a great rest of your day.

[light music] [speaking in Spanish] [upbeat music] - Hi, I'm Andrew and I am back with another activity about the built environment in your community.

What is a shape?

A shape is the flat outline of an object.

Is a shape 2D or 3D?

Because a shape is flat, that means it is two dimensional, or 2D.

But what happens when we take a flat 2D shape and make it 3D?

Make it three dimensional.

By taking something flat and turning it into something 3D, an object that you could walk all the way around, or see all the way around, or something that you could pick up and hold if it was small enough, we turn it from a shape into a form.

So 3D objects are called forms.

Just like a 2D flat outline is a shape.

We're going to look at some examples of common forms that you might've seen in the world around you, because shapes and forms together make up the built environment.

Let's look at some examples of 2D shapes and the 3D form that can be made from them.

And for each example, you're going to think of where you have seen this form before.

What's something in the world around you that looks like this.

Here's the first example.

What shape do we have on the left side?

Which flat 2D shape is this?

[playful music] This shape is a circle.

One 3D form that you can make from a circle is this one.

Do you know what this form is called?

This form is called a cylinder, so it has a flat circle for the top and also for the bottom, and straight even sides.

Where have you seen a cylinder before?

Can you think of an example of something in the world around you that has this form?

One example of cylinders in the world around us is many types of can are cylinders.

Another example of a cylinder would be these paper rolls.

And remember, any example that you think of might be different from the examples that I think of, because these forms are around us in so many different places.

So you might think of something else that I didn't mention.

Here's another two dimensional shape.

What shape is this?

This one is a square with four even sides that are all the same length.

And what 3D form does this square become?

This one is called a cube.

Where have you seen a cube before?

One place we can find a lot of examples of cubes is in games that we play.

For example, you might've seen a toy like this one, or you might also have seen dice, which are used to play many different games.

These are both examples of cubes.

Here is another 2D shape.

This one is a triangle.

And here's the 3D form that comes from a triangle.

Do you know what this one is called?

This 3D form is called a pyramid.

Pyramids can be found in a lot of different places.

Can you think of some examples?

You might've seen a pyramid before in the built environment, such as the famous Pyramids of Egypt which were built in ancient times, because people have been using pyramids in the built environment for a very, very long time.

You might see pyramids in other buildings as well.

Let's look at one last example.

Here's a shape that we've already seen before, a circle.

But 2D shapes can be made into different forms, so we're going to look at one more instead of a cylinder, a different 3D form that comes from a circle.

What would you call this 3D form?

You might call it a ball, but another name for it is a sphere.

And where can we find a sphere in the world around us?

The globes that we use as maps of the world are our spheres.

Many games that we play use balls, which are also spheres.

The world around us is made out of 2D shapes and 3D forms, so as I said, you might've thought of some different examples that we didn't mention, because we can find these forms in so many different places.

In our next activity, I'm going to show you how you can take paper and turn it into a 3D form.

So you're going to take a flat 2D shape and turn it into something 3D.

We're going to make a 3D model of a house or another building.

Do you remember what a model is?

For people that design the built environment like architects and engineers, models are small versions of a structure that they're going to build.

So we're going to be making a small model of a building.

The only materials that you need for this activity is paper.

Now you can use any color of paper that you have.

If you have rectangular paper, like this, if you have paper like this, you can use it, but I'm also going to show you how the final result is going to look different if you use a rectangle piece of paper like this one, or if you use a square piece of paper.

It's just going to create a different looking building.

Now I'm going to show you how you can create a 3D building using a 2D piece of paper.

All you need for this activity is a piece of paper.

And you can use, as I said, a rectangular piece of paper, like this one, and it can be white paper, or you can use a colorful piece of paper, and you can cut into a perfect square.

If your paper is square, it's going to create a building that looks a bit different than if your paper is a rectangle.

So the first thing you're going to do is take your paper and fold it in half.

And because this one is the rectangle, I'm going to be folding it in half along the short side of the rectangle.

Of course, if it's a square, you can do it on any side, because all the sides are the same.

So you fold it in half like this, and then you find the middle point of your paper.

Which is about here, and we're not gonna fold this all the way, but just so that we know that's there.

So there's the middle.

Now the next thing we need to do is take this side, and fold it over so that this part is gonna be in the middle.

And we don't want it to cross over the middle point here, so I'll show you, we can fold it like this.

And also going to fold the other side.

So now my paper looks like this.

Now I'm going to open here, and push it down, so I'm going all the way from the edge and pushing it down, and it's gonna look like that.

And you'll notice that it goes all the way to the point where we folded.

And then I'm going to do the same thing on the other side.

Do you see some shapes starting to appear?

What shapes do you see in the paper that we folded?

There's a lot of different triangles.

There's two triangles here that come together to make a bigger triangle.

There's a triangle in the middle, there's also down here, there are some rectangle shapes that are created.

So the next thing you have to do is turn over on the other side, and you're going to open the same way.

'Cause you want both sides to be the same.

So turn over and fold one more time, and now we're going to open it up.

So now you've created something that will stand, and I'll show it to you from another angle.

So it's gonna look like this from one side, and like this, and it's going to be able to stand on its own.

So now we've created something 3D out of a flat, 2D piece of paper.

You can also decorate this.

You can add windows or doors, or other details that you think that a building should have.

And you could decide what type of a building this is going to be.

'Cause of course, a community needs a lot of different buildings, so you're gonna decide which building you want to add, and you can make more buildings as well.

Let me show how it will come using a square.

So for this one I'm going to do the exact same thing.

Of course, it's on any side because all the sides are the same length.

Once again, I'm going to find the middle point without folding all the way through.

Then I'm going to fold to the middle on both sides.

Then I'm going to open it up and push down, do that on the other side as well.

And then flip it over and just fold this to the other side, and now it should be able to stand.

So now we have another building that looks like this, and looks like this.

So you can see when you look at them next to each other, there's a little bit of difference between them.

Like what differences do you notice?

Because this one was made from a square piece of paper, so it's not going to be as long in the middle.

It's going to be shorter.

This one was made from a rectangle, so it has a longer distance between this side and the other side.

So this is just another way that you can create a building using paper.

What kind of building did you make?

Did you make one using a square piece of paper or using a rectangle?

Were you able to add an colors or details to your building?

If you have the materials, you can create more buildings and you can make an entire model community of all different types of buildings that you think the community should have.

Today we learned about 3D forms and we turned something from a flat, 2D shape into a 3D form.

Join us next time for another activity about the build environment in your community.

Bye.

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