episode description
8-year-old Kid Investigator Charles recalls the Taco Tuesday where he first noticed something strange… As he began to sweat (too much hot sauce), so too did his glass. He meets Aubrey and Andre in the STEAM Daydream studio to recreate the situation—minus the tacos. Will they be able to solve the mystery of where the water on the outside of the glass is coming from?
featured in this episode
meet our kid investigator
Charles. S. (he/him)
- from Springfield, Virginia
- 8-years-old
- favorite school subject: science and PE
meet our expert
Tom Di Liberto (he/him)
- Climate Scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- fun fact: "A lot of people who study our atmosphere can point back to an individual storm that sparked their interest. For me, it was the Blizzard of 1996 where I got to play in over two feet of snow!"
education standards
next generation science standards
- 2-PS1-1 Matter and Its Interactions: Plan and conduct an investigation to describe and classify different kinds of materials by their observable properties.
- 2-ESS2-3 Earth's Systems: Obtain information to identify where water is found on Earth and that it can be solid or liquid.
- 5-PS1-2 Matter and Its Interactions: Measure and graph quantities to provide evidence that regardless of the type of change that occurs when heating, cooling, or mixing substances, the total weight of matter is conserved.
- 5-ESS2-2 Earth's Systems: Describe and graph the amounts and percentages of water and fresh water in various reservoirs to provide evidence about the distribution of water on Earth.
vocabulary
matter:
anything in the world that takes up space, including the things we see (like a chair) and the things we can't see (like the air)
states of matter:
the different forms that materials in the world can exist in, including solid solids, liquids, and gases
solids:
matter that has a set size and shape, like a shoe or a tennis ball
liquids:
matter that has a set size but take the shape of the container that it's in, like water in a pool
gases, or gaseous state:
matter that does not have a set size or shape, like air
water vapor:
water in its gaseous state
condensation:
the process by which water in its gaseous form turns into liquid water