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My good friend Maureen (a real artist!) suggested that I submit a piece to a local juried art show called "ReMade". Obviously something reclaimed, reused or repurposed. I looked around the house and the most abundant and obvious recyclable material was the New York Times. We get the 7 day discounted Faculty/Professor subscription and the blasted thing covers every horizontal surface of the house. I grabbed a stack of papers and headed out to the studio and sat, and looked, and stared, and folded, and finally, I chopped and spiraled. I kept wrapping the strips of paper around and around itself and the wheel kept getting bigger. I realized I was making a tree ring. I was returning that paper back from whence it came. Home to the mother tree. I wrapped that first ring with some bark I ripped off a fallen log from our back yard. The piece in this pic is comprised of an entire week of the NYT. I marked each day by orienting the margin strips to make a white ring, and then tagged each day with an environmental headline found from within the pages of that days paper. This piece got in the show, and now I just keep making tree rings.
Tessa's troop enjoyed Brownie Quest so much during their first Journey meeting that I was a little afraid to switch over to My Family Story badgework so soon. It seemed a natural break, though...like there should have been a big red arrow in the leader guide pointing to "insert My Family Story badgework here" (that would have been helpful, actually). Maybe our girls aren't picky, but they seemed to enjoy it just as well. Their favorite part was making family trees. It was all I could do to contain their excitement upon seeing my sample. The full requirements for earning the My Family Story Badge can be found in the Brownie It’s Your World - Change It, Skill Building Badge Activity Set. The resources listed below are the ones we used to fulfill these requirements. We spread the work over two meetings. My Family Story Every Family has stories. It's good to share them so you know who helped make you who you are. Do this badge to find out more about the people you love and who love you. That's your family! 1. Explore family stories. There are all kinds of family stories and all kinds of families. As you explore these stories, think about the questions in the box below. Talk about your answers with your family and Brownie friends! Troop completed choice #3 - Share family stories with friends. The girls used their completed Blue House School Discovering Family bags (scroll to bottom of linked page) as visual aids for telling about their families. (The Discovering Family bags I designed for the girls were intended to be twofold. Identifying the special qualities and values of their families at home fulfilled the final step of their Brownie Quest Discover Key. Using the bags as visual aids for sharing what they learned about their families with the rest of the troop fulfilled this step.) Tessa included smiley face stickers, a wooden sunflower cutout (to represent Sunny the Sunflower) and a Playmobil doctor as clues in her Discovering Family bag. She chose "friendly and helpful" from the Girl Scout Law as the value that is important to our family because "being friendly and helpful shows that our family cares about people." 2. Know where your family is from. Find out which different countries, states, or towns your family comes from. Family stories are passed down differently in different cultures. How does your family share its family traditions and history? Troop completed choice #3 - Ask about a family recipe. The girls made troop family recipe books with recipe cards that I sent home for their parents to fill out. I made photocopies of all of the completed cards for the girls to put in their books. (This project ties in with our Step 5 project below.) Quick note: I realized when cutting out the aforementioned completed recipe cards that I messed up when designing them. Some are not correctly sized. And, they are just a funky size, in general. You might be better off searching for free recipe card printables on Pinterest. I'll try to fix this as soon as I can. 3. Make a story tree. Knowing who your family members are is only half the fun! Find a special detail about each person to write on your family tree. Then make your tree in one of these ways. Troop completed choice #2. - Draw or paint your tree. The previously mentioned Discovering Family bags were actually supposed to be threefold, but some girls missed a meeting due to parent-teacher conferences, so I ended up modifying my original idea a bit. Since I already had the girls draw their family members and write their special qualities on their Discovering Family bags, I had planned to collect the bags to scan their pictures into my computer, play around with them a bit in Photoshop and then print them in color on cardstock at appropriate sizes. Afterward, I had planned to use a circle punch to create ornaments the trees. Here's what I ended up with instead. To save time, I made up kits for the girls that we completed one step at a time. It took about half an hour for the them to complete their family trees. I have included a quick rundown of the project below. For the most part, the only steps some girls needed physical assistance with were tying knots and gluing wiggle eyes and feathers on the bird. I was a little surprised how well they did and how well they turned out. Sample family tree I created for Brownie Elf. My Family Story Tree Kit Small tree limb with many branches, which each girl selected from a table Small tin pail with floral block cut to fit snuggly in the bottom half of the pail School glue Pre-measured pebbles in small plastic zipper bag, enough to fill to the top embossed line of the pail when poured on top of the floral block (pebbles were originally purchased from Lowe's for another project) Excelsior grass (handed out in small clumps when we got to the appropriate step) "Family" sign created with Going Places Cricut cartridge, 2 inches at actual size 6-in. piece of orange ribbon (color matches the bird's beak) Fifteen cardstock leaves (three each of red, orange, brown, green and yellow), which I cut from 2-in. circles with the pre-mentioned Cricut cartridge, folded, trimmed to shape and then punched with a teeny hole for hanging Fifteen small metal Christmas ornament hangers Large pre-threaded (and knotted) needle with a small eraser over the point for safety Orange felt beak cut to size Two small wiggle eyes Two pompoms, which the girls selected from a bag Feather, which the girls selected from a bag Black, non-smear pen Scissors Believe it or not, I had most of this on hand. The only things I had to buy were the tin pails from Dollar Tree and a cheap pack of small Christmas ornament hangers from Wal-Mart. My Family Story Tree Instructions Complete Pom-pom Songbirds as directed, except substitute wiggle eyes and use smaller pompoms (set aside to dry) Carefully center and push selected tree limb into floral block in pail (make sure the handle of the pail faces the front) Cover floral block in pail completely with school glue, pour in half the small bag of pebbles, cover again with school glue, pour in the rest of the pebbles, cover one more time with school glue Run a line of glue along the bottom of the "Family" sign and nestle into the pebbles in front of the tree Press a clump of excelsior grass in the front of the pail, repeat for the back (add a bit more glue before or after, if needed) Write names of family members (limited to those that live in the girl's house; I also allowed pets) on leaves, hang on tree; hang any number of extra leaves, if desired Glue pompom bird into a study forked branch (test fork before gluing) Knot ribbon around handle as shown, trim ends Another potentially cheaper, simpler option I considered was to have the girls make paper bag trees and glue on the leaves. Birds could be made and added as well. Alternatively, birds could be purchased from a craft store or made by a troop leader ahead of time. Tessa and her troop crafted family trees from real tree limbs for part of their My Family Story badges. Tessa's completed My Family Story tree. A couple of other family trees created by girls in Tessa's troop. 4. Find an object that means something to your family. Objects like photos, jewelry, and books can mean a lot. They can be favorite things from old times, or things that make people feel special. This means that objects can have their own stories. Troop completed choice #1 - Ask about an old photo, or #2 - Talk about an object that has been handed down. (Each girl chose which of the two to bring to share in show and tell fashion.) 5. Share your family story. You've heard so many amazing family stories. Now it's time to share them with others! Pick one of these activities to help you tell your story. Troop completed choice #2 - Make a family crest. The girls completed contemporary "family crests" for the covers of their troop family recipe books. (This project ties in with Step 2.) Tessa's troop created contemporary family crests for the covers of their family recipe books from patterned and plain cardstock, paper flowers, jeweled brads, shaped brads and pipe cleaners. Each girl chose from an assortment of papers, colors, shapes and brads to symbolize various aspects of their family. Purpose When I've earned his badge, I'll know how to tell my family story. Looking for more My Family Story badge ideas? Check out my My Family Story Memory Book - Girl Scout Brownies - All 5 Steps! printable scouting helper.
This year's new badges include a series of Art and Design badges at the Daisy, Brownie and Junior levels. I have reviewed the Daisy badge and the Brownie badge already. This post will look at the Junior badge. Requirements According to Badge Explorer, the requirements for the Junior badge are: Examine and explore different styles and elements of art and design. Discover art and design around you Make art about a subject Experiment with the elements Explore composition Design an art display When you've earned this badge, you'll know how to turn ideas into art and design projects Opening Activity, Meeting One VTK recommends having the girls choose an animal and create a piece of art about it, and then sketch something they could build to help the animal. These are to be quick projects. During the opening discussion you cover some of the vocabulary words. Discover Art and Design Around You The first VTK suggestion is to "Examine Makers in Art and Design". The talking points for the leader include the vocabulary words and then the girls either do research on a maker (artist) or talk to one (guest speaker). As an alternative, girls can "Get Insired by a Medium or Style" After a discussion of various mediums and artists, girls are given some medium to work with and they are supposed to pick a person, place or thing and either create art about it or design something for it. The third choice is to "Search for Art and Design". After using pretty much the same talking points as in the first two choices, girls search their surrounding s in person or virtually for examples of art and design. Experiment with the Elements To Experiment with the Elements, girls can "Explore Line and Texture". After a discussion covering such words as elements, line, and texture, the troop plays "I spy" with the leader spying things with different design elements "I spy something green, rough, fluffy etc. Girls review a provided handout and talk about the elements seen. Then the girls use the materials provided to create a piece of art focusing on lines and textures. Suggested project ideas are string art, contour drawings, sculpting clay or creating a collage with different textures. The second option is to "Explore Color and Saturation". The initial discussion is the same as above, with the addition of talking about primary and secondary colors and adding white and black to change the saturation. Then the girls do an art project focusing on color choices. Suggested projects are painting a sunset, knitting or crocheting an item using three colors of yarn or taking photos and editing them to adjust the colors. The third choice is "Explore Shape and Form" and this time the discussion and art project focuses on the use of shape and form. Suggested projects are sculptures made from found materials, doing a design consisting of overlapping circles painted various colors, designing and building a model home using boxes or blocks (wonder if legos would qualify) and making a mosaic. Opening Activity: Meeting Two The opening activity for meeting two is to trace some objects and then create a drawing or design made from shapes. In the opening discussion they share their drawing and talk about how they incorporated texture, color, line and other elements. Explore Composition The first suggested activity is "Get Some Perspective". Leaders discuss some more new words, with a particular emphasis on perspective. Then the girls create a piece of art showing a landscape. Suggested activities are creating a collage of things cut from magazines, photographing things from different perspectives and sketching buildings from different perspectives. "Experiment with Light and Shading" begins with a similar discussion, of course this time focusing on light and shading. Before the meeting the leader is supposed to set up several different still life arrangements in the room and have the ability to light each from different directions. The girls then sketch on of the arrangements, and then, after five minutes or so, the light is moved and the girls sketch it again. After they have three sketches, the girls talk about how lighting made a difference and then turn one into a piece of art. The third choice is "Size It Up with Scale" The opening discussion is much the same, but focuses on scale and how artists use it. Then the girls thing of a subject such as an animal, object or place. They use provided materials to create either a miniature or large version of their object. A suggested project is drawing an outline of your miniature or enlarged object and using it as a pattern to cut fabric for a pillow, which you then embellish. Another suggestion is creating a diorama. Finally you can draw, paint or photograph an object as if it was huge and you were small, looking up or down at it. Design an Art Display For the final requirement, Juniors come up with a way to share their artwork. They either host and event, create a portfolio or make some merch. For the event, the girls can design invitations, make frames, arrange the artwork, create a guide and more. To create the portfolio, they make something in which to keep their artwork and talk about sharing it. For creating merch, they sketch what they want and talk about design elements. VTK Resources VTK includes these resources for leaders:' Make it with Style: A sheet showing four different types of art which gives the girls the words for the style and describes it. Words to Know: A vocabulary list of nineteen words plus definitions Project Idea: Make String Art. Directions for string art project Making for Families: Handout on this year's new badges Get Making with Girl Scouts: Seven page handout on Makers, Making and Makerspaces Badge Overview (four printed pages) Meeting plan for each meeting (8 pages each) My Comments: We meet for an hour so it would probably take me four or five meetings to get through these projects, but in general I like this badge. There are a variety of projects offered and yet you aren't limited to them. I like the way it is designed in a similar manner to the Daisy and Brownie badges so that multi-level troops can all do the same projects. You could do this series of badges every other year, using different mediums each time. I like the way the VTK scripts lead the leader into teaching about art and design--they don't just give a list of projects. My main criticism of GSUSA's badge program overall is that its outcomes and goals are so vague and there are no clear indicators that a goal has been reached, so the usual procedure is to do five activities and call it good. While I realize leader Facebook groups may not be a random sample of Girl Scout leaders, VTK still does not seem to be popular planning option so I wonder how many of the troops that do this badge will actually have any exposure to the vocabulary, and how many will just do four art projects and go on a field trip/have a guest speaker. I just wish the series extended to the older girls. Well, maybe next year.
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The third badge in the Math in Nature series is Design With Nature. This post takes a look at the Brownie Version. According to Badge Explorer, girl will use math to do things in the natural world, like find the age of natural objects, build a honeycomb, design a bird feeder, and go bird-watching. The five short requirements are: 1. Calculate the age of a natural object 2. Explore the shape of beehives 3. Measure and build a bird feeder 4. Use ratios to make bird food 5. Graph data about birds When you've earned this badge, you will know about natural objects. You’ll know how to measure, use scale and ratio, and make a graph. Opening Activity For an opening activity at the first meeting, girls work together to put together a jigsaw puzzle. The leader compares the way puzzle pieces fit together to tessellations, which are where repeating patterns fit together. There is also a discussion about how it was easier to put the puzzle together when girls work together. Calculating the Age of a Natural Object The first choice for this activity is to use a tree stump, or tree cookies (cross sections of a tree trunk) or photos of of tree cookies and to discuss the meanings of the annual rings. The girls then count the rings to determine the age of the tree and subtract the age of the tree from the current year to determine when it was planted. During the discussion the leader is supposed to use the word concentric to describe the rings and is to have the girls brainstorm about why some rings are thicker than others (better growing conditions=thicker rings). The second option is to compute your age in "dog years" or "cat years". The VTK scripts talk about how animals age at different rates and gives says that dogs age 7 years for every human year, so a human 3 year old is like a seven year old dog. The final option is to calculate the age of a snake. Girls are supposed to use field guides or the internet to learn about the size of different types of snakes but the VTK script gives the measurements needed for the activity. The girls look at given photos of three different types of snake and estimate the age of each. The leader then passes out strings cut to the size of the discussed snakes. The girls measure the strings and decide which snake they go with. Explore the Shape of Beehives After a discussion about bees and pollination, the leader talks about how beehives are tessellations--when shapes fit together without gaps or overlaps. Then she leads the girls in drawing hexagons with one inch sides in a tessellation. Then she uses words like "scale" and "ratio" to point out that to build a tessellation big enough for humans, you increase the scale and use a foot for every inch in the drawing. Then using pieces of balsa wood the girls assemble a honeycomb pattern. The second choice is to make a bee hotel. Again the leader discusses bees, pollination and tessellation, but then points out that not all bees live in hives; some are solitary and do not make honey, but to help with pollination. She shows the girls the provided pictures of bee hotels, which people put out to attract pollinators. The girls then use paper tubes and other materials to make their own bee hotel with tessellations. The leader talking points include discussions of scale. The final choice is to calculate the amount of honey (actually VTK says money) in a beehive. After a discussion about bees, pollination and tessellations, the girls use masking tape to "draw" a beehive, the honey boxes inside and the honey boxes into frames. Then the girls calculate the number of frames. Next, they are told that each frame holds five pounds of honey and using either counters or multiplication, they figure out how many pounds of honey are in the honey box. For the next exercise, the girls are told that each bee only makes 1/12 teaspoon of honey in her lifetime, and are then asked to calculate how many bees it took to fill one frame with honey at a rate of 96 teaspoons in a pound. Its a good thing the leader goes through this as a group exercise because I can't see this as a second or third grade problem. The answer is 5,760 bees. Measure and Build a Bird Feeder Use Ratios to Make Bird Food The first option is to build a bird seed feeder. After a discussion about what birds eat, the leader teaches the girls to use measuring cups to measure liquids and solids. Then they make a feeder (directions given) and either look on the label of the thing used to find its volume or compute it. (definitely not a second grade skill). From there, the girls use ratio and proportion to change the given recipe into one that fits their feeder. The other two options are to make a nectar bird feeder or to make a bird feeder for unusual food. With both there is a discussion about what birds eat and then the girls make a bird feeder and figure its volume. They then use ratios make enough of the provided recipe to fill their feeders. Graph Data About Birds This requirement is about bar graphs. Two of the options have the girls observing their bird feeders for six days and gathering data about the amount of food eaten--one option leaves the feeder in one location, the other moves it around to try to determine the best place for it. The third option is to go bird watching and to record how many birds of each type your see, and whether they are eating. Once the data has been gathered, the leader shows them how to make a bar graph to display the data. A fourth option is to use data supplied in VTK to draw a bar graph. The leader talking points include the words "data", "ornithologist", "data set" and "bar graph" VTK Resources Resources for this badge that are located on VTK are: Bee Hotel Photos Honey Box Photo How Old Am I? Worksheet to figure the age of snakes Sample Nectar Feeder Data How to Build a Seed Feeder (includes recipe for seed feed) How to Make a Nectar Feeder (includes recipe for nectar) Tree Cookie Photo How To Build a Bird Feeder for Unusual Food My Bird Data Honeycomb Photo Girl Scout STEM survey Materials List for all Brownie Math in Nature badges, broken down by activity Glossary for all Brownie Math in Nature badges Overview of Brownie Math in Nature badges My Comments I review badges as they are written. I read all the VTK materials and try to determine where the badge authors are going. I do not try to figure out what the badge could be, or whether I should leave out A, or add B. If a major part of the VTK script for an activity is leading the girls through a math problem, I consider that problem to be important to earning the badge. I try to determine whether my girls, given what I know about them, would enjoy the badge as written, and whether I would enjoy leading it. For this badge, I think calculating the volume of the bird feeder, learning to measure liquid and dry ingredients, doing some math to calculate age, using ratios to calculate the proper amount of bird food to make, and creating a bar graph are a necessary part of the badge--it is a math badge after all. However, I do not think most of those activities are appropriate for most girls in second grade or early third grade. While making the bird feeder and bee hotel and watching the birds briefly sound like fun, and while I might take on one of the math problems, I don't think my girls are capable of most of that math, and I know that doing all that math would lose them quickly. One thing I found that I did like was the last resource listed above--the overview of the badge. It contained a summary of each activity, similar to what I've written here--in other words a lesson plan without talking points. I think a lot of people would like a resource like this rather than the scripts in VTK. 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New badges this year (2021) include a series of Math in Nature badges sponsored by Johnson & Johnson. This post is taking a look at the activities for the Junior version with the idea of giving leaders a quick resource they can review to decide whether to do the badge. If you decide to do the badge I highly recommend that you review the VTK plans as the given talking points are what connect the activities and math. Requirements According to Badge Explorer: Juniors explore patterns found in nature and use math to create their own. Steps 1. Identify symmetry in nature 2. Explore bilateral symmetry in nature 3. Create nature-inspired art with circular symmetry 4. Find fractals in nature 5. Search for the Fibonacci sequence Purpose When Juniors have earned this badge, they'll know about symmetry, fractals, and the Fibonacci sequence. They'll have identified patterns and shapes in nature. Activities Identify symmetry in nature After a discussion about symmetry and lines of symmetry, the girls either make a symmetrical paper snowflake with six lines of symmetry, find and draw or photograph symmetrical things in nature or team up and follow each other's actions in a symmetrical manner. Explore bilateral symmetry in nature The troop discusses the concept of bilateral symmetry and then does one of the following: Using roll paper, girls team up to trace halfway around each other's bodies. Each girl then finishes her body and fills it in. Discuss what is and isn't symmetrical. Create a butterfly out of wire coat hangers and decorate Take a leaf and fold it in half down the middle and either trace/rub half on paper or press half into clay. Then draw or sculpt the other half Create nature-inspired art with circular symmetry Using materials provided, the troop talks about circular symmetry and then does one of these projects: Using nut butter and birdseed, create a bird feeder with circular symmetry Using items found in nature create an outdoor design that has circular symmetry Using art supplies, create a work of art with circular symmetry Make a tetrahedron This is isn't a badge requirement, but is given as an opening activity. The leader makes a tetrahedron with toothpicks and clay (photo given) and challenges the girls to make the pyramid bigger by adding more triangles. They discuss how this is a never-ending pattern and how nature has never ending patterns. Find Fractals in nature After discussing what fractals are and showing examples like leaves, rivers and lightning bolts, the girls go outside and look for fractals. They then draw them or photograph them. Another option is to talk about fractal flowers and then to make fractal flowers out of pipe cleaners and beads and then to put them together in a bouquet. The final choice is to give each girl a piece of clay and a twig. The clay is pressed flat and the twig pressed in the center of it, flat against the clay. Girls then use a tool to create the tree branches as fractals. Search for the Fibonacci sequence The troop discusses the Fibonacci sequence (talking points given, not hard to follow even if you have no clue what it is) and then girls create a Golden Rectangle (directions given). Then they look for the Fibonacci sequence/spiral in either fruit, flowers or animals. Resources VTK provides several resources for leaders to use with this badge. They include photos of symmetry in nature, photo of a snowflake, photos of butterflies, a page on designing with circular symmetry, photos of art with symmetry, photos of natural fractals, photos showing Fibonacci in nature and directions on how to make a golden rectangle (with illustrations). My Comments My girls wanted more art badges. Well, I just found one, and it teaches some math concepts too. Seriously, don't let the awful design of VTK scare you away. Look at this post, pick out what you want to do. Then go to VTK and, if you haven't done so, create a year plan and add the two meeting plans for this badge to the year plan. Then click on the first meeting and scroll all the way to the bottom. Find the activity you selected and click on it and read the script. You can teach this even if you had no idea that Fibonacci was a thing ten minutes ago.
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Tessa's troop enjoyed Brownie Quest so much during their first Journey meeting that I was a little afraid to switch over to My Family Story ...