Television Secret #147 – Smart, Cute Kids Make Any Segment GREAT!
One of my favorite parts of hosting Science Mondays on KUSA-TV 9News is having guest helpers… and yesterday was no exception. I spent the afternoon with Sophie (6th grader) and Makayla (4th grader) as we experimented with different versions of the Bubbling Lava Lamp experiment.
Since this is live television, there’s no retakes or do-overs, as they call them. As you’ll see in the video, these sisters stole the show. When I watch other television science demonstrators work with kids, one of the things I look for is how scripted and rehearsed the kids are. As great as Mr. Wizard was back in the 1960s, his kid helpers were so overly scripted that it was comical. For example, when Mr. Wizard asked why the egg went into the bottle, little Susie replied, “Is it because the combustion in the flask created a rise
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