SEE THINGS DIFFERENTLY

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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.