our next guest left her job as a
chemical engineer to be at home with the
kids but she didn't leave her love for
science behind instead she started a
science lady is so cool her name is
Tracy borg Meyer she recently stopped by
with easy science experiments you can do
at home with the kids welcome Tracy
thank you
so you left your your career and you
decided to write a book and be a
stay-at-home mom how did this all happen
so when I was working in the oil
industry I was you know busy I was
flying offshore and helicopters and I
decided it was time to take a break and
be home with my kids so my daughters
were starting to ask all these questions
like why is this guy blue and why is um
you know why did things turn green and
and I decided well I'm just gonna show
her I'm gonna actually do some
experiments and show her how all this
works so through experimenting I started
writing I wrote about my experiences and
shared them with my mom friends and my
mom friends were like we want more we
want to see how we do this and we want
to share it with others and I also found
that a lot of people were a little bit
intimidated to do science they're like
we're not smart enough we didn't do
science in school like so I the whole
point of the blog was to show moms you
can do this right well let's get started
with some of these experiments starting
with this fan and this is Bernoulli's
balloon so you can find this on my blog
but basically Bernoulli figured out that
if you put a tube of something into a
passive air it'll make the air pressure
be lower in the middle of the tube so
what you can do is turn this on and
we're actually going to do a little bit
experiment and we should show people by
the way how you made this tube you
essentially just took yeah you make the
tube you tape it together and you you
know you can just got it to piece of
paper you tape them together and the
tube is forming and you make your your
old college fan I actually did this when
I was in a heatwave and our air
conditioner went out I was like gotta
get the fan out like let's start
experimenting with the might as the fan
go
where it goes as high as you want but on
the low condition and so we can put
multiple balloons in in the tube because
it wants to stay in the middle so some
people might have seen this at the
Children's Museum there's a small little
Bernoulli blower at the Children's
Museum but this is actually how it works
so you can do this like right at home
that is super cool and it will just stay
like that forever they like that forever
about motion so now we're trying to
figure out about a catapult and why we
can make every action has a reaction
right so we learned this stuff in high
school but how do you make it fun so we
can do just plain old craft sticks okay
we've got a few rubber bands and we put
them together with a plastic spoon oh my
son so basically I told my son if you
can get this Lego man into the plastic
cup I'll like you know you can make this
conversation with him
of course the conversation could be you
know what's happening how do we
experiment with this and how do we make
him go farther make him go shorter so
against it's very simple do your
do-it-yourself type of experiments well
and your son so we're seeing some video
right now of your son trying it how long
did it take till he are you kidding if
you put water in a cup and a
four-year-old is gonna want to figure
out how to sink the guy so that's right
okay now what is this what is this okay
I'm is very big right now sly on
Instagram like you see people really
stretching the slime and stuff like it's
a little bit more basic so there was a
book called Bartholomew's Oobleck by dr.
Seuss okay so this is a classic
experiment all you need is corn starch
so you've got this you know of course
art you get at the grocery store you use
it to make gravy thicker right yeah you
put a little bit two cups of corn starch
1 cup of water and a little bit of food
coloring and you start stirring it don't
we mix some of it up right here okay so
essentially the food color can be
whatever whatever you all are you want
pink because okay so the corn starts
this is all non-toxic so absolutely in
you know there's no there's no you know
boric acid there's no nothing so I mean
like if I could get this all over my
clothes is this is going to come out
with food coming out yes it'll come out
will we would not want your lab coat to
get dirty okay so once you have it kind
of mixed together then this is called a
non-newtonian fluid so what that means
is it doesn't act like every other
liquids non-newtonian non-newtonian yes
and that's all that
mom's can just google this stuff and
moms and dads okay so you can pick it up
and ball it up guys this is a trip
because it looks like you could just
like it's liquid like you could reach
into it and you but I'm actually it's
like running into try and stick this
like real quickly try and stick that
yeah okay experiment with it you can
freeze it you can pick it up you can put
it through a strainer
yeah let's fit there strain and see what
happens okay I am completely awesome it
feels awesome
it looks like reaching into a bowl of
liquid yeah it is totally the cool thing
about this is you can literally make a
pool of this stuff and run across it now
I have not personally done this gonna do
this summer as one of our summer bucket
list things to do I am totally gonna be
doing this all you use corn starch some
water and some food coloring great thing
about this and the bad thing is you
cannot put this down the sink because
then it will make your garbage disposal
you know it's called hailey Harper's
science girl extraordinaire she's
actually named after Halley's Comet
Haley is basically the science girl I
wanted to read about as a kid so I had
punky brewster I had encyclopedia brown
but I wanted a hero that did science and
did all this cool stuff and made it you
know save the day so this girl uses
Oobleck on this particular book this is
book one to save the day book two is
coming out in July and she uses
chemistry to save the day so it's going
to be a series with all different genres
of science
save the day go hailey girls interested
and keep doing science well not just
girls there a lot of boys out there
probably who will be totally inspired by
the book and this Oh blech I am still
tripping I'm tripping guys thank you so
much this was really interesting and if
you all out there would like to try the
experiments before it yourself
Tracy's directions are on our website
and for more science fun you can follow
her blog that she loves science calm
Tracy
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