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We know that many kids may find it fairly easy to make time for reading, but that they may be less inclined to practice any
sort of math or science skills, especially voluntarily.
The following is a quote from the Internet Service Provider Earthlink:
Girls Go Tech
Life lessons in science and math
Girls: Does science make you shiver? Are you a
math-a-phobe? The Girl Scouts of America have
launched a site to help close the technology gender
gap with terrific tech games for girls. Let the girls
you know (or the girl in you) find science role models,
learn how to record digital music, plan an amusement
park, or decode brainteasers.
Go there now:
Girls Go Tech
Girl Scout Cookies will be on sale again in January, 2007
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Party Safari is a popular place with the girls; we had our first meeting there last year. We also had a picnic at the
Washington Township Park, with pizza from Papa John's.
Coming in September
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2006-2007 Troop Statistics
14 Registered girls: 10 Juniors and 4 Brownies 2
Tagalongs 2 Leaders 2 Do-Dads Lots of registered parents
This year I've made use of a web site called SteveSpanglerScience. It's a retail web site, but I found a lot of cool science-related
stuff that seems more like toys. The girls will be playing, but they'll be learning some science stuff too. Examples include
static electricity, energy and light, and polymers.
I'm also hiding some geometry in some absolutely beautiful preprinted papers the girls can fold into shapes. I found
a site called TheToymaker that offers these - for free- and there's a huge variety of boxes, shapes, and toys the girls can
make by folding the paper templates. The site itself is beautiful - worth a look.
Steve Spangler Science
The Toymaker
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