Girls Learning Environment and Energy, Home Energy
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• • • • Girl Scout Journeys & Girls Learning Environment and Energy (GLEE): Working together to build Girl Scout Leaders with Home Energy Home Energy Description Three Keys Girl Girl Scout Session to Scout Program Skill Activity Leadership Journey Action Jar At the start of every session, the Action Jar Game gives Juniors discover the ways It’s your Storytelling Juniors the opportunity to assess their own individual energy that they are engaging in world – Healthy Living saving actions and to see how much energy they are saving as energy saving and connect Change it! a troop. It also gives Juniors a space to brainstorm solutions with their troop as they look for any challenges they or their peers have run up against at how much energy they’ve It’s your Do it yourself when trying to save energy. saved together. Juniors also planet – Craft take action by engaging in Love it! the energy saving behaviors they’re learning about. Energy Activity Juniors keep track of the energy saving behaviors in It’s your Healthy living Log between sessions with their Energy Activities Log. world – Change it! It’s your Investigation planet – Love it! Pledge At the end of each session, Juniors pledge to engage in a new Juniors discover the ways It’s your Healthy living home energy saving behavior they learned about during they feel they can impact the world – GLEE for a week. environment when coming Change it! up with their pledges, inspire their fellow troop It’s your Practical life members by committing to planet – skills energy saving, and follow Love it! Do it yourself through on their pledge by taking action. Scavenger Hunt The Scavenger Hunt introduces Juniors to common energy Juniors discover how much It’s your Science and users in the home while teaching them actions they can energy various household world – Tech take to conserve energy. appliances consume as well Change it! as ways they can take action to conserve energy It’s your Practical life planet – skills Love it! Investigation Vampire Energy The Vampire Energy Game introduces Juniors to the concept Juniors discover what It’s your Performance Game of vampire energy –the energy used even when devices are vampire energy is and world – Storytelling off – and act out the process. connect with their troop to Change it! Science and understand the process. Tech It’s your planet – Do it yourself Love it! Energy Relay The Energy Relay Race is a timed competition that asks Juniors discover the ways It’s your Performance Race Juniors to identify the most energy efficient way to interact they can conserve energy in world – Science & Tech with different household appliances. Juniors compete as their home by practicing Change it! teams to practice scenarios dealing with energy use in the some of these behaviors and home. connect with their troop by It’s your Practical life working as a team to planet – skills complete these behaviors as Love it! Do it yourself quickly as possible. By practicing these behaviors as a group, Juniors are more likely to take action. Role Play The Role Playing Activity gives Juniors a chance to practice Juniors discover ways of It’s your Performance Activity having conversations with others about saving energy. communicating about world – Healthy living energy issues, connect with Change it! Storytelling Juniors work in pairs to come up with responses for situations troop members to practice Science and in which someone else wants to take an action that wastes these conversations, and Tech energy. take action by trying out Pairs perform their skits for the whole troop. their new skills with the adults around them. The Role Playing Activity provides Juniors with scripts for It’s your Practical life starting and having real life conversations with their peers planet – skills and the adults around them (like their principal). Juniors are Love it! Do it yourself encouraged to have these conversations to make change in Investigation their community. Newscast Towards the end of every session, Juniors film a GLEE Juniors discover their voice It’s your Performance Newscast on the topic they learned about that day. in front of a camera and world – Digital Arts Juniors take turns being the interviewed energy experts, field learn how to make a Change it! Storytelling reporters, newscasters, film crew, and director(s). newscast. Juniors connect with their troop to create Practical life the newscast as a team. It’s your skills Juniors take action by planet – Do it yourself producing their newscast Love it! Investigation and sharing with their families. Patch Ceremony Patch Ceremony and Video Screening allow girls to reflect It’s your Performance and celebrate their accomplishments. world – Digital Arts Change it! Storytelling Practical life It’s your skills planet – Do it yourself Love it! Investigation Please contact June Flora ([email protected]), Victoria Rodriguez ([email protected]), or Jackie Mogensen ([email protected]) for more information. GLEE content retrieved from: https://sites.stanford.edu/glee/ Journeys content retrieved from: http://www.girlscouts.org/program/journeys/ How to guide Girl Scout Juniors on Agent of change (2008), Girl Scouts of the USA How to guide Girl Scout Juniors on Get moving! (2009), Girl Scouts of the USA http://www.girlscouts.org/gsle Introduce your Girl Scouts to STEAM with Girls Learning Environment and Energy (GLEE)! GLEE is a scientifically-proven effective curriculum that teaches Junior Girl Scouts how to save energy. GLEE Patches Learn more on our website! glee.stanford .edu 3 Ways to Teach GLEE: 1. Manual – available on the GS online store 2. Online Course – sign up on our website 3. Teaching Videos – on our website.