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and welcome to stem stories of Mr Ewing.
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No. Today we're gonna talk about seeing things differently.
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You know, when I was a kid, I would always
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see dandelions out in the yard.
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And my father would always complain about the Daniel Lines
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in the yard because they were weed and they were
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messing up his yard.
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And my grandmother pointed out to me that she never
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really understood why people didn't like dandelions because she felt
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like they were really pretty flower.
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And I really started to look at the dandelion flower
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and realize it's actually a really beautiful little flower.
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And ever since then, I've kind of looked at things
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differently, and that is what we're gonna be doing today.
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We're gonna be looking at some stop on.
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We have to look at it and decide.
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Is this trash or these treasures?
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And when what I want to talk about is actually
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the pollution that's collecting in our waters, and we have
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a tremendous amount, mainly plastics that are clothed, collecting of
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floating, including our waters, and actually harming the sea life
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that you know is above the water, like our pelicans
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and our Siegel's, as well as thes life below are
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dolphins or whales are turtles are fish, but instead of
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looking at it is trash.
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What if we looked at it as something really beautiful
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and an idea of recycling or reusing it?
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Um, a few years ago, I had a really cool
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opportunity to see an exhibit at the National Zoo in
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Washington D.
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C. Part of the Smithsonian.
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Um, and it was an exhibit put on by an
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organization called Washed Ashore.
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And what wash a short does is they actually go
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out and collect all the trash and debris that washes
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up along our beaches all around the country.
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And then they take that and actually recreate or create
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repurpose this material into works of stunning sculptural art.
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This shark is just unbelievable, and that's actually all made
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from trash.
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And I love that someone looked at all that trash
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and said, You know what?
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We can make something really beautiful out of this, so
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they go around, they collect all this different debris that
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they find, and they pulled together and create unbelievable sculptures
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like this octopus.
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I love this polar bear clownfish.
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I love that he's swimming on waves of water the
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sea turtle.
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Um, you know, just unbelievable sculptures of all different types
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of species found along the water.
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Now, here's my question for you is when you look
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at something, What are you going to see?
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Are you going to see a pile of empty used
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water bottles?
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Or are you going to see a bird feeder or,
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uh, you know, a cover for a plant that kind
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of creates a greenhouse, both made out of bottles that
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somebody probably just tossed away?
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But using your eyes, you can think are using your
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brain. Think of a different way of seeing it and
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using it.
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I love these idea of just creating little tiny fish
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definitely works back into finding trash out of the water
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and saving those fish.
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So instead of seeing a big pile of trash, I
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want you to think of different ways you could use
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a repurpose those materials that we have our in our
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houses that we use every day instead of you know,
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those throwing that plastic bottle.
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I'll repurpose it into something really cool and you can
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go out online.
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There's a lot of resource is out there that have
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a lot of different ways.
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Or you can use that really creative mind I know
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is there to take something and make it into a
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beautiful work.
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Are I love this wall of soda bottle so that
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they turn into planters means sculptural e It's I think
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it's stunning.
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I would love to do that.
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Um, if you really crazy, you got the room for
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it. Hey, let's build a boat.
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Um, if you build a boat, you better be taking
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me out for a ride.
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Now, a little trip when you're creating these works of
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art on repurpose ing your plastic bottles if you pay
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with acrylic, paints will work.
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Tempera paints probably won't stick to your plastic.
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Very welcome acrylics do.
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But you want to paint on the inside of the
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plastic and said the outside And that's what excuse me
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gives it.
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That glossy look on the outside really gives it a
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finished look.
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I love this.
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So yes, this is actually painted on the inside and
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not the outside, and it gives you that super shiny
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finished look and they do some of the detail work
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on the outside with some googly eyes.
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And if you put these out in the sun.
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This light shining through it almost creates this like image
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of stained glass.
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I love love.
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Love that.
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I mean, this looks like it was made from fragile
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pieces of colored glass, and it's actually recycled plastic something
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that you can find at home.
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So I wanted to ask you What will you see?
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What are you gonna do that's going to help us
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save our earth and actually create something really, really cool?
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So are you gonna see trash?
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Are you gonna see treasure?
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I hope what you're seeing out there is treasure, and
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I really would love to see you create.
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You know, Mr Young would love to see photos and
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images of what your creative mind does with repurposing some
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recycled materials.
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So go out and have an amazing stem day.