Strange New Worlds Junior Adventure Day
Welcome to the Strange New Worlds Junior Adventure Day. At
this Junior Adventure Day Girls will meet space travelers
from a distant star system. The crew of the spaceship includes
six different types of creatures who live on different planets
in that star system. At home their star is expanding and getting
very hot. Their home planets are heating up and soon they
will need new places to live. It is our mission to find habitable
planets for the six different types of creatures with different
life requirements.
First note that the ice breaker activity "Search for a Habitable
Planet" is concluded in the closing time. As the girls do
the different activities they learn how scientists find out
about our nearest neighbors. They will discover how the various
planets are similar as well as different from the planet we
call home.
In some of the activities you will find text in italics.
This is for the station leader either to read to the girls
directly or he/she may put in their own words. The text helps
to set the stage for the activity and provide other valuable
information needed for the activity.
All the activities are based on NASA education materials.
The first activity in "Dance of the Solar System" was created
by some of the participants at the "Exploring the solar System
Workshop." Some of the activities have been modified to fit
the Adventure Day time frame and to make them appropriate
for Junior Girl Scouts.
Two activities "Edible Comets" and "Edible Rocks" could be
used as a snack time activity. Have some juice or other beverage
on hand as well as a snack that doesn't have chocolate for
any girls who may not be able to have foods with chocolate,
nuts or milk.
A Junior Adventure Day is set up to run for three hours.
In that time there will be nine - twenty minute segments.
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8:45
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Registration |
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9:00
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Opening - "Search for a Habitable Planet" |
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9:20
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Activity - |
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9:40
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Activity - |
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10:00
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Activity - |
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10:20
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Snack - Or use an edible activity here like "Edible
Comets" |
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10:40
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Activity - |
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11:00
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Activity - |
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11:20
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Activity - |
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11:40
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Closing - “Search for a Habitable Planet” conclusion |
The event director and event team will pick the six activities
to fill in the twenty minute time slots. Put the girls in
groups. If possible make the groups with 12, 18, or 24 girls.
I would have no more than 24 in a group. This makes the maximum
number of girls for this event 144.
Junior Adventure Days can be hosted by Cadette and Senior
girls. In my council a Cadette girl is using a Junior Adventure
day as a Silver Award project.
Marguerite Blodgett
Description of Activities (these link to individual
pdf files. You will need Acrobat Reader to read these files.)
Ice Breaker: Search
for a habitable planet
