How to Make a Pollution Catcher | Science Projects

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Summary

TLDRThe video provides a step-by-step guide on how to make a simple pollution catcher using household items like a plate, yarn, and petroleum jelly. This catcher can be hung outside to gather air pollutants over a period of time, such as two weeks to a month. The purpose is to visually demonstrate the presence of air pollution in your environment. The experiment is intended to raise awareness about environmental pollution and encourages young people to take an interest in ecology. This hands-on activity can also serve as a fun and educational project for children to learn about the environment and the importance of keeping the air clean.

Takeaways

  • 🌬️ Air pollution is a major concern and affects the quality of air we breathe.
  • 🎨 Making a pollution catcher is a fun DIY project that raises environmental awareness.
  • 🔍 The catcher is simple to make using a plate, yarn, and petroleum jelly.
  • 🪢 Hang the catcher in an open space to collect pollutants from the air.
  • 🕒 Leave the pollution catcher outdoors for up to a month to gather data.
  • 👀 Observe the pollutants gathered on the jelly after the collection period.
  • 👧 This project is child-friendly and a great educational activity.
  • 🌱 Encourages becoming eco-conscious by visibly showing air quality.
  • 🏡 You can make and use these pollution catchers anywhere you live.
  • 🐠 Decorate the catcher with images of clean earth to highlight the purpose.
  • 🎀 Tying the catcher with string or shoelace is a flexible choice.
  • 🧼 Ensure hands are clean after handling petroleum jelly.

Timeline

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    During summer, parents use air conditioners, and sometimes they must clean their filters, which often appear very dirty. This dirt comes from pollutants in the air outside. These tiny particles are harmful, and it’s important to minimize them in our environment. An easy way to check air cleanliness and help purify your environment is by making a pollution catcher using a plate, yarn, and petroleum jelly. By hanging this catcher outside, you can observe how much pollution accumulates over time, helping you to understand and contribute to cleaner air.

Mind Map

Video Q&A

  • What is the purpose of the pollution catcher?

    The pollution catcher helps determine how dirty the air is by capturing pollutants.

  • What materials do I need to create a pollution catcher?

    You need a plate, yarn or string, a hole punch or pencil, petroleum jelly, and optionally, a drawing of clean Earth for decoration.

  • How does the pollution catcher work?

    The petroleum jelly on the plate captures airborne pollutants when hung outside.

  • Where should I hang the pollution catcher?

    Hang it on a tree, in your backyard, out a window, or any place exposed to the air.

  • How long should the pollution catcher be left outside?

    Leave it outside for two weeks to a month before checking the pollutants collected.

  • What is used to capture the pollutants on the plate?

    Petroleum jelly is used because it stays sticky and can catch particles from the air.

  • How can this activity benefit the environment?

    It raises awareness about air pollution and gives a visual representation of pollutants.

  • Can children participate in making the pollution catcher?

    Yes, it is designed for children to make with guidance and assistance from adults.

  • What should you do after removing the pollution catcher?

    Check the particles collected on the petroleum jelly to see the amount of pollution.

  • What message is conveyed through this activity?

    Pollution is harmful and everyone should take steps to understand and reduce it.

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    During the summer time your parents probably put on air conditioners.
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    And if you ever noticed, sometimes they have to clean the filters inside the air conditioners.
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    And when you take out the filter you're going to notice something I think is pretty startling.
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    The filter is beyond dirty.
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    Where did the dirt come from?
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    If the air conditioner is just sucking in air from the outside, does that mean that
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    the air outside that we're breathing is filled with all that pollution?
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    You see, little tiny particles that are floating through the air are called pollutants.
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    And the fact of the matter is, pollution's bad.
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    We do not want it in the water.
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    We do not want it in the land.
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    And boys and girls, we do not want it in the air.
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    And I actually came up with a really cool experiment.
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    And it's a little way for you to test to see how dirty your air is in your environment.
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    Ad it doesn't matter where you live you can make these pollution catchers anywhere.
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    And we're actually going to help 1, clean the air and 2, see how dirty the air is in
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    your environment.
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    And look, a plate, all I need.
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    And yarn.
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    Step one is get a hole punch.
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    You don't have a hole punch, get a pencil.
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    And you're just going to make two holes.
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    One and two.
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    So now I made two holes.
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    Because I'm going to want to hang this pollution catcher.
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    Maybe on a tree.
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    Maybe in your backyard.
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    Maybe out your window with Mommy and Daddy's help.
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    Put your yarn through or your string.
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    You don't have yarn or string, could be a shoe lace.
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    The point of these science experiments is you can make these at home with anything you
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    have and then, make a tie, make a knot.
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    This pollution catcher is almost done.
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    Now I'm going to hang it somewhere.
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    Now what I'm going to do is, on this side where I'm going to put the letter, no, you
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    know what I'm going to do?
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    I'm going to draw some water.
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    You know what else I'm going to do?
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    I'm going to draw a picture of, I'll show you.
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    I'm not a good artist but, a fish.
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    You see, when people outside look at this I kind of want to tell them what I'm doing.
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    So I'm going to draw a beautiful scene of the earth.
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    Clean earth.
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    Not a polluted earth.
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    And on this side, I do nothing but add something to help me catch the pollutants that are polluting
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    our air.
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    I'm going to add petroleum jelly but you probably know it as Vaseline.
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    We use it for our lips, we use it for our skin.
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    I'm using it to help my air pollution catcher.
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    So I'm going to take just a couple fingers and I'm going to take a bunch of this petroleum
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    jelly.
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    Smells good.
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    I'm going to put it on the part of the plate that doesn't have my design and I'm just going
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    to start to smear it all around the plate.
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    I want the entire plate, every inch of this plate to be covered in this petroleum jelly.
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    And the cool part of this petroleum jelly is, this plates can stay outside for a month
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    and they will remain sticky.
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    And now, believe it or not, my pollution catcher is done.
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    Clean your hands.
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    Take your pollution catcher, and the next step is figure out where you want to catch
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    your pollution.
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    Tree.
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    Outside.
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    In a park.
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    Out your window.
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    Maybe you want to hang it on your dinosaur tail.
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    It's up to you.
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    Leave it there.
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    Come back two weeks later, come back one month later.
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    And then you take it off and you're going to look.
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    And you know what you're going to notice?
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    Little black pollutants.
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    And every one you caught came out of the air.
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    And you guys helped clean our air.
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    Pollution is not cool.
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    Go become an ecologist and go protect your earth.
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    See you soon.
Tags
  • pollution
  • air quality
  • environment
  • DIY project
  • science experiment
  • ecology
  • petroleum jelly
  • household items
  • awareness
  • children