Key to the Living World: Growing Celery and Onions

Here are three gardening projects for regrowing veggies from the root from www.17apart.com Growing Celery; Growing Onions, and Growing Bok Choy.  This would be great at camp or a good start it at Brownies, but watch it at home thing for Key to the Living World.

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Fun Meetings: Backwards Day with a bit of Leap Year thrown in

Some meetings you just have to have fun.  One of our favourite fun meetings – aside from Ice Cream – is Backwards Day.  The purpose?  By switching up the routine, it sheds light on the different aspects of our meetings that has become routine.  This year we’ll also celebrate a bit of Leap Year too.  Thanks to [...]

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Key to STEM: Ketchup Experiment

I just found www.sciencebob.com and, in particular, this post about a Ketchup Experiment that could be useful the next time we do STEM.  Cool!

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Key to STEM: Reach for the Stars

Our original plan was to meet at the home of a Guiding and outdoorsy family who lives south of the city so that our urbanite girls could get a real look at the stars.  Because of cloud last week, and now rain this week, we weren’t able to go.  Darn!  The “Be Prepared” backup plan had [...]

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Key to STEM: Communications

We’re trucking along with STEM and tonight is all about communication (well, mostly). 6:30 arrival – Game is Quiet.  Update: the game sounded cool, but I misunderstood and wasnt’ able to communcate it clearly.  This devolved into Line Tag. 6:40 Inspection 6:50 Circle 7:00 Program. Talk about different ways we communicate.  Technology – phone, computer, [...]

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Key to STEM: People in Science and Building Up

How many girls do you have in your units?  We have 20 – other years we had 15.  We’re finding that 20 is a lot of girls (and most of them are in year two).  I think we’ll go back to 15 next year.  But I wonder how other groups do it? Tonight’s meeting should be pretty [...]

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Remembrance Day Resources

In years that we do Key to my Community, we aim to have the Canada meeting around Remembrance Day.  Here is the meeting plan for November 2010.  You may also find the Simple Flag Ceremony Script useful. In opposite years (like this year) we are usually in the middle of Key to STEM so we do a [...]

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Key to STEM: Power of Power

We start STEM tonight – Science, Technology, Engineering and Math.  Here’s the plan: 6:30 Arrival – Captain’s Coming (the regular one) 6:40 Inspection (we have two new girls tonight) 6:50 Brownie Circle 7:00 Program Part 1: Talk about Badges – Keys are badges that we earn together.  Interest Badges are ones you can earn on [...]

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Key to STEM: Make your OWN Shrink Art!

It turns out that you can use Clean #6 Plastic instead of purchasing Shrink Art sheets…Follow the link to Curbly.com for instructions.  Super cool - and a lot cheaper than the $20 package of blanks I was looking at the other day.  We have no oven access our meetings, so we would likely use this as a camp [...]

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Key to STEM: CD Hovercraft Craft

Have you ever made your own hovercraft!?  The folks at http://www.thechocolatemuffintree.com/2011/06/cd-hovercraft.html have posted a neat tutorial for one that looks like loads of fun.  It probably would fit into STEM Caboosh, or Building up.   As well as Key to the Living World: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle! The big thing will be to give the girls balloons that they can [...]

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