Science Potpourri; 77-37

Okay, man, this is science popery, and I'm Gene Lycanon. Hey, students, come here. We've got a birthday boy today. This is Tony's birthday. It's a 26. So let's hear it for Tony. Listen, you know we have a good time down here, and you have a good time with science too, don't you? Sure you do. And let me tell you, teachers, if you haven't received your new guide and activity sheets, why don't you jot down this number and give a call? And I know they'll be sent to you. Okay, that's eight, four, two, three, six, six, one. And I want to thank you for sending in your comment sheets.

We appreciate getting them. They're helpful to us to know what it would be more helpful to you on this program. So be sure in this guide you'll notice at the end of this guide that there is a little different comment sheet, and we'd appreciate it after we finish this unit if you would mail us in your remarks then too. And right now, let's go meet our guests on short subjects. My special guest today on short subjects are friends of yours because they've been here several times, but we'll have them introduce themselves again anyway. I'm Mark Proert from the SNAP class under my school, and I'm Neil Brown from this is Matt's Class Montgomery School. Okay, fellas, what did you bring to share with us on short subjects today? We're going to show you how friction produces heat. How friction produces heat. Okay, and you have a poster that you're going to. Well, you see, this is a wire and we are going to saw this ice cube in half with the wire. And the wire is going to produce friction so it melts the ice cube in the water.

And the ice is still ice. It will freeze back the water and when we get all the way through, I should stay together. Now, let's go over that again. You're telling me you can saw through an ice cube in half, you mean? Come on, fellas. It should stay together. It should? Okay, let's go. Let's see what happens in. We have an ice cube and a bottle, and this is a piece of really fine wire, isn't it? Yeah. What kind of wire is that? Where did you get it? Or did you have it for a long time? Just a real thin. Yeah, we need some help there. Now, you started sawing on this before we came on the air so it wouldn't take so terribly long. Now, what is happening now because you are creating some friction? It's causing the heat in the water. The ice is melting in the water and the ice is freezing back.

And the water that melted is supposed to be freezing back. The water that it's heated. Do you think our studio lights would have any effect on it here? That would be interesting. We don't know, do we? Can I hold for a minute? Yeah. Have you done this before? Yes. And works? Yeah. That's it. Good. Uh-oh. We didn't anticipate that, did we? Well, I did. You did? Yeah, it always happens. It's happening. At least the return we've done it. Okay, can you push it down through? Yeah. Okay, let's see. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. That's all right. We can get up and show. Show us. Anyway. Um, as you see, I couldn't get it through. And that's the reason for that is because the water froze to get, froze the ice together. And that's what we're trying to do.

Okay, so actually when, if that had, if your wire had broken and you had gone through that, and then you pick it up and it really wouldn't be in two parts. Is that what you're saying? It looks like it is, but. But somewhere along there, there's been enough freezing take place to adhere the two half, half together. Is that right? Oh, Mark, I think that's so neat. Neil, did you think that would happen when you first started doing it? Well, it happens every time I... Wire break. Not in me, the wire break. Whatever you first did that with an ice cube. Do you think it would work or not? Well, I thought it would work because. Sounded logical, too? Uh-huh. That's great. Well, say something news been added. You have some new braces, don't you? Yeah. Great. Okay, listen, Mark and Neil, I think that's really neat. I'm going to have to try that myself. Thank you both for coming. Okay. I just need a neat project. Student, you remember that we have talked about, mmm, several of the systems in our human body,

right? And the last program we talked about the nervous system, and recall, we talked about an important organ in the central nervous system, and that was our brain. We talked about the cerebrum. And you remember what it controlled, some of the things it controlled? Okay, it was touch, and speech, and vision. And another thing you remember I commented on was emotion. Well, today we're going to talk about this emotion and how it affects our well-being. In fact, today the name of our program is mental health. And I have a very special, well special guest today. And first of all, I want you to meet Dr. Marsha Landau, who is a clinical psychologist, who has her own practice here in town, and also who works with the Albuquerque Child Guidance Center. And she has some students that I know that you will want to meet.

Thank you. I'd like to introduce the students who are coming to help us out today. And I'd like each of you to tell your names, and your age, and where you go to school. Okay, I'm Joshua Orgo, and I'm 10, and I go to Manavista. I'm really Mr. Pearson, and I'm 10, I go to Manavista. I'm Irene Norwood, and I'm 10, and I go to Manavista. Okay, fine. Well, we all know something about what to do with a healthy body, a healthy body. It's when we feel good, and we can do the things that we want to do. And when things don't go well, we go to the doctor. The doctor helps us fix the body, okay? Well, today we're going to talk about our minds. How do we know when our minds are healthy, and when things are going well? And to help us understand that, we're going to talk about a very fancy term that they use in psychology, in studying people, called self-concept. So first, I'm going to tell you something about what a self-concept is,

and then we're going to see if we can figure out what it means for each one of us. Our self-concept is how we feel about ourselves. And it turns out that people who study other people have found that our self-concept is made a great deal by the way other people treat us. So that when other people treat us very well, we feel good about ourselves. And when other people treat us not so well, we don't feel so good. So I thought that maybe we could start off by maybe talking about some experiences that we've all had, where somebody has made us feel very good about our self, who has helped our self-concept. Let's start off maybe talking about when that happens at school. Would anybody like to give some example? I guess so. Okay, Josh. Well, I don't quite remember. Well, sometimes my friends make me feel very good by making, telling me good things about myself.

Like what kinds of things would they have they told you? Can you think of a special thing? Not really. They tell me, like, I'm a good reader or something, and it makes me feel good. Yeah, it makes you feel like you're kind of smart when somebody says that you're a good reader. Yeah. Yeah, how about you? Mostly the same thing as what he said. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Can you think of any special time at school where somebody's made you feel good about yourself? Well, once we were playing softball and I wasn't so good at it, but I hit almost a home run and then everybody started saying that I was the best and that really made me feel good. Uh-huh. How about at home, our self-concepts at home? Has anybody ever made you feel really good about who you are at home? About something special you've done? Well, I asked for a Christmas present to get on my brother's room. I mean, he was sharing rooms. And so we had a sort of room I went in there and I fixed up the way I want and all that stuff. And since then on, now it always has been clean.

And my mom says that's really nice of me to keep you all clean. So keeping the room all clean, fixing it up and then your mom telling you that it was nice and you feel good about yourself. Josh, when I sometimes, my room usually stays clean, not that clean, but clean. And my mom, when I clean up my room, my mom compliments me sometimes on my work. Uh-huh. So when your mother says something good about how you're doing housework, that makes you feel good at home. How about you? Well, mine's pretty much like Josh's because sometimes when I'm washing the floors of vacuuming and my mom says, you did that really well and I'm proud of you. And did you do a special job or a really special job or one particular thing at home with you? Well, kind of once I was dusting off the tops of the doors and things that don't usually get dusted. And my mom really made me feel good by saying, it's nice of me to do that.

When somebody notices something special, you know, you feel really nice. How about your teachers? Has that ever happened at school at any time this year or last year? Oh, yeah. Sometimes one of my teachers, she compliments me like when I've accomplished something like running a division or something. Like running a division? Yeah, and like I know how to do it. Right, yeah. And how about with your friends? Do your friends sometimes make you feel good about yourself? Yeah, my own. When I was not on the soccer team but I was playing with one practice. This guy named Carl, I've been practicing with him like two weeks or so. And then my brother started to practice with with us and my friend, well, kind of my friend. Carl said that I was a lot better than my brother was.

Oh, so he said, and is your brother older or younger? He's two years older than me. So when you got a compliment that you did something a little bit better than your brother, it's older that really felt good from your friend. Well, when I'm playing soccer at school, Trevor and the people who play with me say I'm a good player. And God feels good. Yeah, it feels really nice. Sometimes when we were doing the do-lard a few days back, and then I was coloring in a square of it. And people started saying, here's the best I mean. That really made you feel good. Yeah, it really is nice when somebody takes special time out to say that you've done something really good and that makes you feel good about yourself. Do you think that your self-concept stays the same all the time? No, no. It changes. It changes. It goes from good to bad to bad. One of the things that's interesting is that according to a lot of people who work with other people, they say that when you're younger, other people make up your self-concept even more than when you get older.

When you get older, hopefully we build in ways of saying we're doing a good job without having to look around to other people. But when you're young, you're kind of stuck. You've got to listen to what other people say and it hurts and sometimes it feels real good. So, okay, we've got a self-concept. It's affected by what other people say. And you've all given some good examples on how people have made you feel really good. Your friends, your teachers, your mothers. Sounds like being clean is very important to moms, yeah, and schoolwork. How about times when it doesn't go so good when somebody says something to us and makes us feel not so good? That's a hard thing to talk about. We don't have to use anything, but maybe some of you can share something that's happened where someone's made you feel not so good about yourself. Yeah, well, there's kind of like a style in school of how you wear your clothes and if you don't wear it pretty much like that. But you get teased and so I came wearing, it was a different kind of shirt with kind of lacy's lace on it.

Last year and then some girls started teasing me and saying that I was trying to show off and that really made me feel awful. Yeah, it's literally something so small, like just what you put on, the clothing you wear can do that. Yeah, my mom sometimes sort of quite sometimes, like one day I break a window off the car the next day. I break a cartridge off a record friend thing. The next day I break a window. So NG yells at me and I go back really sad. Yeah, so like when you make a bunch of mistakes in a row and somebody notices it. Yeah, and you really feel like you've got a little black cloud over you. Yeah, and I felt like nobody liked me or I was helpless useless or something. You were helpless and useless.

Yeah, that's that's sometimes we feel like, how about you Trevor, do you have any? Well, that seems just like, when I break something, if I could smell it, I can really upset. Yeah, when you, and I think it's everybody does break things and make mistakes. That means, you know, they're going to be sometime when we don't feel good. What do each of you do? You know, when, when, you know, maybe by yourselves, when somebody hurts your feelings and makes you feel bad about you. What does anybody do with it? Well, sometimes I go outside and maybe kick a ball or throw something. You kick a ball and you throw it. So you kind of get the ball. Well, I don't throw the ball, I throw maybe a rock or a mud ball or something. Right, the opposite direction. Yeah. Okay, what do you do? Well, I go in my room and someone teases me. I just go in my room and I just, you get so pillow that has like two eyes on it, punch it out. It goes home all across the room.

Okay, what do you do? Well, like, I turn on the radio and I start singing the songs or something like that. So, oh, I mean, you're really good. You know all the songs and everything. And then I make myself feel better pretty much. Do you move around? Sometimes I dance, but not often. It's kind of interesting that the three of you have mentioned things where it looks like some kind of a feeling has to get out of you when you're really feeling bad, like either you get it out by throwing or punching or seeing. And it's got a kind of, the feeling's got to come out. Well, you can do that also with other people. You don't have to just do it alone. And sometimes it's nice to talk to somebody when we don't feel good about ourselves. Now, who do you go to talk to? Sometimes. Well, who works? You know what? Yeah, I go to my mom, my dad, maybe. Sometimes my brother, because when he's, when I'm feeling sad, he goes up to me, oh, don't feel bad or something. And it makes me feel better.

It's kind of nice. And your brother is how old is he? I'm seven. He's younger, and he can make you feel good about you. It's kind of nice. I need to go to my, well, my mom here. And if I, if I'm in New Jersey, I call my dad. Uh-huh. And what does your mom say that makes you feel a little bit better, do you know? Can you remember? Not really. Uh-huh. What do you do? What do you go to? I usually go to a friend, but occasionally I guess I go to my teacher, something like that. Mm-hmm. But you use your friends a whole lot. Yeah. So people, you're same age as you can help you out. How much? Well, another, another group of people who can help you out, if you're not lucky enough to have just the right friend there, or maybe your mom or your dad or your brother are feeling not so good too, is a professional person, somebody who's been trained. And that's kind of what psychologists and counselors do. They talk to people when they're feeling bad about themselves. Sometimes they talk to whole families, and they try to help them feel a little bit better and figure out what's going on. You know?

So that's, that's one of our jobs that we do. I've been to psychologists. You have? Yeah. The psychologists make you feel any better, help you feel a little bit. A little bit. When I was in New Jersey, my dad, I don't remember this two years ago. Uh-huh. And he said to my mom, he wrote a letter and told me to go to a psychiatrist or just whatever. You must have been worried about you if he told you to go see somebody. Uh-huh. And did it help? Oh, no, but. Good. Okay, so we can go to the people who are around us to make us feel good, and we can go to professional people. Um, one thing to think about is no matter how good your self-concept is, no matter how fantastic it is, something can happen that we don't expect or, or we can try something new that's really scary, and it shakes us up. And I thought today, the one thing I can think of that would shake the most of us up in it, clearly has, is coming on TV today. That's kind of a scary to come on TV, you know, or all freaked out. So I thought maybe we could tell some of the kids who were watching,

some of the things we were afraid of this morning. What was scary? What ifs? Like, yes, that's right. Like, um, when I was coming to the studio, I thought, what if the camera breaks down, or what if I freak out or something? Or the camera breaking down, okay, what do you think of? Like, like if I forgot to wake up early, I miss it. So what time did you get up? Six. At six, right. Okay. You made sure, so you worried about missing anything else you worried about? Not really. Uh-huh. And how about you? Well, I was thinking like, no shirts would be clean, and I'd have to wear some grovy little rag, or I'd lose one of my shoes. Yeah, right. And that can happen, too, Ken, when you're really nervous. And I was afraid I was going to forget the order of everything that we were going to do today. And then I wouldn't be able to talk at all. That's what I thought was going to happen on the way in this morning. Um, but even though we've kind of, we've had all these scary thoughts we've kind of made in here,

and it's been okay. Uh, did you think of anything nice happening? I think so. Yeah. Yeah. Like, I thought that maybe some person from some big TV network would be looking for fresh, new talent today. See one of us on TV in the wow, and then we want those. And then we'd be on some huge TV series and make a lot of money. Oh, good. And that was good. Well, last night, um, my dad was being kind of nice to me, and would you like a character, an apple, or something else? And I said, fathers are real nice, too, they're going to be superstars. They're going to be superstars, and we're all superstars today, yeah. Did you have any nice thoughts about this? Well, not the same thing they said. Same thing. It's okay, somebody discovering us, or being superstars, huh? Okay. So even when you're shook, you've got nervous thoughts, scary thoughts, and some exciting thoughts. So self concepts are kind of a thing that keeps changing and getting to be different shapes and sizes.

I wondered about one thing, which maybe you could think of right now. What would be a very bad or a yucky thing to happen when this thing is shown in your classroom that would make you not feel so good? What would the kids say that would change your self-concept about being on TV? Well, I think that they could say, you look dumb. You look like a dip. I hate you on TV. You shouldn't be on it all. Okay, they could make fun of how you look. Yeah. Alright, what else could they say when they watch it fast? They could say, um, he didn't do so good. That looks terrible. Uh-huh. You didn't comb your hair perfectly. You didn't comb your hair perfectly. Okay. So even when the show comes on, there's going to be some things about your self-concept that's going to happen. I think one interesting thing to think about right now is, what if you knew somebody who had, um, I'm not so good self-concept.

Who didn't feel good about themselves? What could you do? Well, I think that you could go up to them and say, I like the way your shirt is put on. I like the way you put, you use that necklace to make it look better. Uh-huh. Something like that. What could you do? Well, you could, um, say, like, oh, you're really nice. I like things to do, like. Uh-huh, compliment them. Yeah. You are a good leader, a good poet. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, and, you know, we're all very powerful because every one of us, everybody, everybody who's here can change other people's self-concept because we can walk out of here today and we can make people feel very good and we can make them feel bad. They can do the same thing to us, can't they? Mm-hmm. So we're pretty important. We can make our moms and dads feel good and our teachers and our friends. So not only can we change our own self-concept from what other people say, but we can change other people's, you know? So, uh, self-concept is something that we all have.

It changes. It changes by the way people treat us. Where we feel bad. We can do something by ourselves to let our feelings out, like smacking things, hitting pillows, kicking poom, or dancing, or singing. Where we can go to somebody and talk to them. Our friends, our families, counselors, psychologists, psychiatrists, all kinds of people who help us talk and get feelings out. And then we can always remember that we can influence other people by the way that we treat them. And I guess those are all very important things to remember about self-concept. Yeah. How are you all feeling now? Fine. Really good? Yeah. Okay. So are you all feeling pretty good about your self-concepts right this moment? Yeah. That's maybe a very good point to start there. When we talk about self-concepts, oh wow, it's mind-great today to think that Dr. Landau and Josh and Trevor and Irene have come to share some very important things

about our feelings today. And you've made me feel good, and I thank you for that. It's been a pleasure to be here, and they've done a beautiful job. They really have. And what I'd like for all of you to do is to stay with me and let's meet my guest on Pitbury. She's adorable. I have a pretty girl as my guest today, and she has brought a pretty, pretty dog. And you are... Stephanie Stevens. And where do you go to school? Chowwood. And your teacher. Mrs. Blackshare. And you brought a beautiful dog. What kind of dog is this, Stephanie? A part-skity and part-poodle. She's adorable. And what I love. And let's see if we can turn around. See this ribbon right here, boys and girls in her hair. And that is an aw, let me turn around. Brandy around.

And that's her name, isn't it? Look here what she's... What the well-dressed dog wears. I think that's adorable. And listen, she was doing some tricks like... Right, Stephanie? Show us what she does. Let's do it. Let's turn around now so they can see how cute she is. Okay, Brandy. Let's see. You going to finish that one? Hold it up like this so that they can see how cute is. And she's adorable. How have you had her, Stephanie? Well, for about five years. She's just so beautiful. Do you have any other pets? I have two cats. You do? How does Brandy and your cats get along? They get along pretty well. Do they? Say, do you get sleep with her? Did you stay in the house? She stays under my bed. She does at the time. She does. Oh, do you have to share her with anyone? Yes. Like my parents. Your parents. Do you have any brothers and sisters? No. So really, do you take care of her? Most of the time. Brandy, you're really looking there.

Is this her toy? Yes. Is it? That is so cute. She is so sweet. And I want you to have this button to show that you've been my special guest. Yes. And I'm so pleased you brought Brandy today. Steve, she'll stand up again for us with you. What do you mean? Teachers, if you haven't received your guide and activity sheets call 842-3661. Now let's find out what's coming up. This is George, the prehistoric squimduffet. Would you believe it? His eyes were on the ends of his tongues. This was neat because George could see what he was eating. George also learned that you can sometimes avoid black eye if you keep your mouth shut at the right time. To learn more about your eyes and sight, watch science popery next time.

My name is Jennifer Sturgeon. I go to Rio Rancho Elementary and my teacher is Miss Gage. Boys and girls, I hope that you have lots of fun in science. And bye for now. . . .

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