 Good to have all of you with us. Welcome. I wanted to ask you your favorite constellation. And while we're waiting for folks to arrive just, you could either put the number in the chat, or you can, some of you might have the annotations option. So you go along if you just hover along the top. You'll see a gray bar that comes up. And if it's a zoom bar. And then if you scroll down on the view options button, you'll find the annotate in the menu below. And then you can draw and pick your colors and have some fun. This one often doesn't work on a mobile devices, a phone or a tablet, and some computers also won't have it but many do. So let us know if it's works really well in meetings. In the meeting setting but this is a webinar setting so you might not have as many options today. You can also put the number in the chat you don't have to. You don't have to annotate it. I have a Ryan and Ursa major. Oh yeah, big dipper is mine and it's number one. Yeah it's it's sometimes we've seen it available in the webinar format but also sometimes it isn't. So we'd like to give options for both, because then everybody can participate even the folks that don't have annotation. I know Chromebooks have a hard time as well as living was mentioning if you're using mobile devices. Well, there you go. It's difficult to choose. Yes, it sure is. There's so many favorite constellations and Yeah, these are just nice. Sorry, go ahead. Oh, I was just gonna say I think mine Sagittarius I like the hunt that it looks like a teapot to me. Yeah, I love that it's the steam of the Milky Way going up into this guy. Coming out of the teapot. Okay. So that's an activity you can do while you're with the girls either virtually or in person. I want to welcome you because we have been doing this workshop for a while but it's mainly been with amateur astronomers and museum educators. And this session is specifically for people who are working with Girl Scouts, either as staff volunteers or girls who are working with younger girls. And we're happy to have anyone who is here. But we also want to specifically talk about some more astronomy activities you can do. And we're going to be talking about some outreach techniques that will be more girl friendly and make your outreach more accessible. This is part of a grant from NASA called reaching for the star stars, NASA science for Girl Scouts. And we already created new space science badges for all levels of Girl Scouts from kindergarteners, five and 60 way up to seniors in high school. And we are still in the process of connecting Girl Scouts and an astronomers and building great girl experiences in astronomy so it's been a really wonderful grant and we're happy that we can do this towards the end is just meet with you and explore some of these ideas. Hi, I'm Teresa summer and my colleague is Vivian White, and we work at the ASP, which is an organization that's dedicated to sharing astronomy with the public. We've been around 130 years, but not that many of the public know us so we are always getting the word out about our astronomy activities, you might have gotten a kit. If you're in the night sky network, or know some of our resources that we share there. Vivian, would you like to say anything more. That's okay we do all sorts of informal astronomy outreach as well as formal astronomy outreach at the Astronomical Society of the Pacific so you may see us around. It's true. Yeah. I'm going to share what we are going to be working on today. So, we hope that you take some of the information we have today will be exploring some facilitation techniques that work well both virtually and in person so we know that we've got lots of different types of outreach happening right now because of the pandemic, and maybe some of your outreach will continue virtually. So we'll be looking at techniques for both in person and virtual and then we're also going to get familiar with some of these activities that are part of the space science badges. For Daisy and brownie in particular the youngest of the Girl Scouts. We'd love if you take this information and then get to do an event with it we hope you have lots of time to do that and if you're not already connected with the council connect with a local council near you it sounds like a lot of you are already here from council so welcome. I wanted to give you a little bit of information about the night sky network. Teresa I think there's a something in front of your screen on the left. Thanks. So the night sky network is a group of amateur astronomers across the US and we are there about 400 clubs so there's very likely an astronomy club near you and each of these badges that we've created we created six all the way from kindergarten through till high school. Each of them have a step that connects you with either your local planetarium or a science center or an astronomy club astronomy clubs can be a great resource for doing astronomy outreach especially the places where you want to do observing. So they often bring telescopes and and such to either you can go to an event of theirs or maybe they'll be at a local school and your troop can join them. So I'll be sharing all of the URLs for every resource that we give at the end you'll get an email tomorrow with lots more information with all of those URLs linked to a place with all of the URLs but the night sky network also has tips for doing great outreach so how to example for example if you haven't been doing them already how to do online events also outreach events like great ways to talk to children how to answer when you don't know something if you have any reservations about doing outreach with kids this is a great resource. So we encourage you to connect with your local astronomy club who's already doing all this great outreach. And so we'll just give you additional tools there if you need it has in addition tons and tons of astronomy outreach activities so if there's something that's not covered today that you want to do it. Some sort of event around say aliens. We have lots of things on extra solar planets for example lots of activities you can use. So I encourage you to check that out afterwards. Thank you so much Vivian and I'm going to share a technique that we use often when we're doing outreach. It's a good communication tool for girls boys and everyone basically mindset is this idea of an established set of attitudes and beliefs. It's something we don't even realize that we have but it's kind of a guideline for how we live our lives. And today I'm going to be talking about two mindsets growth and fixed. Let's start with fixed, right. And the mindset is where you believe that your intelligence and your abilities are in born right and they're fixed traits. What this looks like is someone who knows all the facts, right, or believes that they're a science person, especially in this definition that's by Carol Dweck. It's about documenting your intelligence or talents instead of developing them. Some ways that this might play out in the world is the sage on the stage who knows it all, or someone who sticks to what you know because that's just who I am. If the success had made meant that they were intelligent than the less that successful were not intelligent, and it can be a little bit of a trap. Let's talk about some of the phrases we might have heard growing up like you're so smart, or I guess you aren't a math person or this could be an art person, or a, you could be a natural born soccer player. These are ideas that what you are and what you do is based on your inherent nature, right. It turns out that our abilities are a lot more flexible than we think. Based on research that's been going on since the 1980s I mentioned Dr Carol Dweck but also Joe Baller had this idea that we can learn and grow. So just let's spend a minute more with the fixed mindset. How do people with fixed mindset responds to life's challenges right. If you've been told you're a math person your whole life and then you have to struggle with math, you might kind of go away from it because if you fail, then you can't show people how smart you are right so it doesn't give you a lot of room to try and fail and then succeed so you basically avoid challenges. And if you fail something you're stuck there that's the limit of what you can do. This different approach is the idea that you can always learn something new. This came about because they gave kids a test, and they told them the children, half of them are told that this is for smart people. And half were told that this is for people who really try hard. And the test, unbeknownst to the kids was actually a lot harder than their grade level was. But the kids that were told that it was for people who worked hard, kept working at it and did very well on the test whereas the kids who were told that this is for smart people. They actually did worse, even when they were the kids that the teachers would say oh this is the smart kid in my class right so the growth mindset can really be an interesting idea. It's just the idea that you can learn anything with effort. So you work on things you try hard and you build on your growing body of knowledge or talents right. So, in the chat right now I'd like you to write one thing that you could do now that you can't, you couldn't do as an infant. Something you can do that you learn how to do as either an adult or a toddler. Tiffany says read Ashley says hand-built ceramics that's so cool. Walk, read and use a telescope says Aaron. This is great. Yeah. It takes a while, especially for us in astronomy we know that you don't learn the sky in one day. You need to use a telescope and figure out how it works and find things in the sky right. So, what you do is you build a body of knowledge right. Myself switching from a fixed mindset to a growth mindset has been really challenging because I was told I was smart I was a science person. But those things can really be a trap right so we'll talk about that in a minute but what I want to say is that there's two benefits for presenting yourself as a person who's growing and learning. It shows that there's not science people right anyone can learn science if they are interested and put in the effort. And it also shows that girls can fail right they can still be courageous and scientific and failure can be a wonderful tool to grow. So, I really want to encourage you to try to use some growth mindset language so let's take a look at some of this language. I just also wanted to, before you go on the practice makes progress part I think a lot of us grew up with practice makes perfect. And as the leaders of some of these activities we're about to do in a minute. So, it's important to show that we are also learning. I think that's a really important piece to show the girls that we don't come knowing everything. And neither should they so so showing as we're doing things, what it looks like to learn something new is also very valuable. True. Thank you. I was just gonna, I'll take us on the group activity if you'd like Teresa. Okay, so this is an activity that we put together. When we originally started this grant. It was in person we did these with astronomy clubs but we also have an online version and Teresa is going to pull up a poll in a minute what we're going to do is we're going to look at some different phrases. And we're going to decide together. It's an anonymous poll so if you go to the next slide will show you a phrase and you will get to vote in the poll on whether you'd like, whether you think it's a fixed mindset or a growth mindset, or whether you're not sure. All right. Those are the three choices, and I'm going to show you the phrase now and launch the poll. All right, so we'll start with an easy one because if you were listening you might have heard something about this. You really are a science person. Anybody want to pop in the poll whether you think this is a growth mindset or a fixed mindset. We have some answers coming in. Teresa I think your poll is right in front of the question I know it's going to go like that telling me that worries. All right, you are really, you really are a science person. We have a lot of folks coming things coming in. Yeah. And most of it is saying that there's a fixed mindset, some growth mindset so I'm not sure here let me show you guys what. Yeah. All right. So about 83% thought fixed mindset right so this is a pretty fixed mindset, even though it's a positive statement right you really are a science person it sounds like, hey that's great you're a science person. Whatever it is putting them in a box and saying you are a science person so as soon as science something in science does not come easily to them. It can be they can feel like oh I thought I was a science person but maybe I'm not a science person. So, just a few suggestions for something you could say instead of you really are a science person you can say like, I can tell you have a passion for science or even better praise the process. So instead of praising the person you can say you're thinking like a scientist, right, praise what they're doing that makes them look like a scientist or I really love how you're trying all those tactics until you get the solution. All right, let's try another one. Here's another phrase. Thanks. It can be challenging to learn the night sky so after tonight you'll be even better than had it. Yeah, we're going to reset the pole, and you'll get to try again. Okay, there we go can be challenging to learn the night sky so after tonight you're going to be even better at it. A lot of people coming in. Yeah, and most of them are saying it's a growth mindset. Wow you all are learning a lot today. I can tell you're getting the hang of this. Yeah, it is a growth mindset. Talking about challenges is not going to dissuade someone from doing it. So that's it that's a very growth mindset statement well done after tonight you're going to be even better at it. Let's try one or two more. Here's one more. Your practice is paying off. All right. Let me just launch the pole. Awesome. I think this crew practices paying off. Yeah, well done. Exactly. This is much better than saying that you're naturally talented at something. Because the truth is like, we all have both mindsets. I certainly hear myself saying, oh, I am not a cook. When I'm looking at what to make for dinner tonight right and I have to think about that. That's not a growth mindset. I can certainly learn to cook. So you can feel confident in one area more. Sure. Absolutely. Okay. Yeah. It's because adjusting the telescope is hard. Let me find that for you. All right, let's try that. Adjusting the telescope is hard. Let me find that for you. You I was just going to say you can feel confident and experienced in one area and you're still learning and having trouble in another area so. This is a little bit harder, right? Because there's some that are coming in, not sure some fixed mindset, some growth mindset. Let me share the results with you. Right. Right. So yeah, this is a tricky one because yes, adjusting the telescope is hard. But you're what you're saying is let me find that for you. You can't do it, but I can do it for you. And so sometimes with telescopes, we do want to take care of them and make sure that they don't go to a different area of the sky. But also, if we can, if you have a different telescope, you can bring an extra one. You can say something like, you know, this might take you a little while but I bet if you put in the time and effort, you can learn this. You can handle the frustration or you could say something like it was hard for me at first too. So I know you're going to be able to get this. A lot of girls are actually in astronomy clubs now and doing the sharing and so we hope that the people who are on this poll will also be doing that kind of thing. Great. This one's another one that's pretty easy. So we do it real quick. Let's go ahead and skip that one. Oh yeah, you got it. Yeah, I mean this is again a growth is a fixed mindset phrase right because it's saying somebody is smart, even though it's a favorable thing to be smart. You also want to say that smart takes effort right so you could say something like I put love that you put so much effort into figuring out how to solve that problem. The other issue is that you're so smart can kind of become a trap as I was mentioning earlier. It makes people not want to try because when it gets hard. They, the, the hardness contradicts the way they think about themselves if they struggle, then maybe they aren't so smart. Right. You always have to be the smart one if you're a smart person. A lot of people respond to this when we have these workshops because they were that smart one, right. Also if you're having a connection with a girl at the telescope there's usually a line behind, and all the other girls are wondering, oh am I going to get told I'm so smart it's like a special plum that you gave that girl and are they going to do that too or are you going to just be like oh yeah move on you know. Another thing is that it's really vague and children don't know they're very sensitive to criticism and praise, but they don't know what that means. So using something that talks about the process that they're doing like what their actions are really can make a girl notice how she's improving and working so you can say you worked really hard on getting that telescope focus and your effort really shows or look at this beautiful star chart you made, you did work so hard on that. So you really want to talk about what they're doing and especially if you can notice some of the scientific things that they're doing. I want you to call out the specific skills like I like the way you focus that telescope or it's interesting that you bring that up. And also what I mentioned is that somebody who might seem to be smart, and there are many people who are smart in many, many different ways. But they might just have had exposure to astronomy before and people have different access to different resources. And somebody whose parents work all weekend long might not be able to go to a museum on the weekends with them. And so it's just about looking at their interests looking at what's going on, rather than knowing if they know specific knowledge. One last thing right with growth mindset. Vivian mentioned she's not good at cooking that you can always say you're not good at cooking yet. You can improve you can get better at cooking you just don't put yourself down don't let girls put themselves down. Just add this word yet. The learning to use a growth mindset is a challenging process, especially if you grew up hearing lots of gross mindset of fixed mindset phrases. So, this word yet can be very magical. Okay, so now we're going to talk about the space science badges and we're going to review two badges each session so this is the first session of three, and they're all independent you don't need to come to them all but you will get the YouTube link for all of the recordings. So today we're going to talk about the youngest girl scouts, the daisies and the brownies and their badges. So, the youngest girl scouts are very young right they are in kindergarten and first grade if they're a daisy, or in second and third grade if they're brownies so with kindergarten they might be four or five years old for brownies, they are seven to nine. So these are very young, right. And so we're going to talk about the ages and stages that they are in and what you can do to make them feel more comfortable. The slides are taken from someone else who was on the grant, partially her name was Jessica Henry since she was formerly of Girl Scouts NorCal and she's an amazing stem and steam educator. And so, some of these slides are from her because she was part of our grant and has great Girl Scout knowledge. So we're going to start with the daisy space science explorer badge, right and exploring is what tiny kids can do right they are going to explore and observe the sun the moon and the stars. Girls are five to seven years old right so they are wiggly, they are want to move around they like imagining and being creative so you really want to be animated, speak clearly and directly to them, if you can get some of those wiggles out. Another thing is that some of them might not be so good at zoom or at reading. They're just learning those things. So, think about where they're at and expect that there's going to be maybe a mom or dad or or troop leader with them. Also, when you're talking about astronomy concepts make sure you're using fun graphics these are from NASA space place and use simple words like oh the moon always keeps the same face towards earth, you can still use cartoons or words to get across scientific examples. With the brownies, they're a little bit older they mostly know how to read by now, and they're writing and they're exploring and so they are investigating the sun the moon planets and stars sound kind of familiar. Here's some listing of different act age appropriate activities using emojis and thumb polls ups and downs. You really don't want to type too much but it's okay to use some of that they will have learned that by now as most of us have during this pandemic. Here's something you can do with graphics. Right. This is something you can do that's pretty simple and because brownies know how to use the chat. You can ask them to either annotate or put things in the chat like what planet are you today how are you like Mars and happy and very excited, or are you like Neptune, all cold and worried. If you all want to put that in the chat yourselves you can tell us how you're feeling what planet you're feeling like today, which you can just put it by the number, and you don't even have to talk about which planets these are these are more of just a feeling kind of temperature gauge. I'm feeling a little sideways. Yeah, I think of that as like doofy, which the girls might really enjoy. I see a few different ones. And you could put if you know the names put them in yeah Saturn or Mars or one or three. That's another way you can use graphics. So today we're going to look at the moon planets and star activities. When I was saying do they sound familiar a lot of these activities. Kind of overlap, and that was intentional because a lot of the girls are in families or multiple level troops, meaning that they might have somebody who's a brownie who has a daisy sister who's also going to be in the meeting with them. So a troop might not be just one level. So these three areas are topics we can talk about for both badges just a little bit different levels. I think I'll kick us off with the moon to get started with. So we'll, we'll look at the moon first and then planets and then stars and we'll show you how to use them for both daisies and brownies so we don't have to cover the same material twice. With the moon a lot of what we do is observing right so each of these badges has a basic observe the moon step. But of course brownies are a little more advanced so we're going to get into a little bit more information but first, I have a joke for you. Hey Teresa. Why did the moon put down its fork. Oh, sorry. There you go. Okay, well tell me Vivian, why did the moon put down its fork. Because it was full. Yeah, so I love starting with jokes and incorporating silliness into the outreach with younger girls it's especially fun because they are so lovely and often quite goofy. So, when we are talking about the moon besides starting with jokes. Of course one of those things that we were talking about, starting with opening open ended questions we can just ask a question, like what moon phase did you all see last so if you want to I'm going to ask that question actually of you all. What moon phase do you remember seeing last. When was the last time you looked up at the moon and what did it look like. And, of course, if you're in person if you're interactive. This can be very exciting and they will tell you all about what it looked like whether it was a banana or you know what kind of fruit it looked like or third quarter. Okay, number four, right, we've got a lot of quarter moon so they're not going to know necessarily all the phase names. And it's okay if they don't remember at all. You can all ask them, right, Tiffany, it's been totally cloudy here in the Bay Area so we also have not seen the moon in a while, totally fine. Okay if they don't know. And we can start with just this and then when the girls are a little bit older that observing pieces actually really great at both ages but when you get to be a brownie when you're in second and third grade you can start to make predictions about what comes next predictions are just guesses and you want girls to feel comfortable guessing so we have a moon guessing game. Now, with daisies who are the young ones they're just mostly observing and making note of patterns. So the badge book has a moon book within it as well, where they can draw the moon every time they see it which is really fun. Brownies get to do a little bit more thoughtful prediction, as well as make some observations to test out their predictions which is great. So those are two of the moon activities you can do I wanted to give you a few cool gifts. This is a neat one from NASA you can just let them watch it it's really lovely and soothing, you can find today's moon phase. I want to encourage you especially at this young age, not to begin teaching why the moon has phases they are simply not ready for a 3D model that works in that way. This is too young for their brains to think in that way we are able to process different kinds of information at different ages and they're not ready for most of the girls are not going to be ready for comprehending why the moon has phases. What they are ready for stories. So this is one of my favorite activities. It's called moon myths from around the world. This is on the night sky network and we'll give you that link. This has, I think about seven or eight different cards from legends around the world of what people see in the moon. I'll just tell you this one quickly. You don't have to memorize any of these they're all written on the cards. But here you go. This one is one from Mexico, from the ancient as techs. You know in long, long ago and as tech God chose to set himself on fire and jump into the sky in order to light up this cold dark world, and he became the sun. But a second God jealous of the praise that the new sun was getting he did the same thing. All of that light was too bright and it angered a third God who threw a rabbit at that second son's face to dim his light, making him the moon. So the Aztec saw a rabbit on the moon and many of the current myths in Mexico still see a rabbit on the moon. Many people in general see a rabbit on the moon. So these are some of the myths from around the world that you can talk to the girls about yeah go ahead to the next slide. So you can create your own moon story. Right so look at these dark and light parts of the moon, and use your imagination to create stories of what you see on there they can draw on the picture and then also write this kind of gives them something that they're very comfortable withdrawing, as well as for the second and third graders who are writing and practicing writing it gives them something to practice. So the younger the brownies, sorry the daisies will still need a lot of help with the writing piece so you may have to dictate for them, whatever they say but this is one of my favorite activities to send home with girls because it's a great one to keep kind of on the fridge. Yeah. All right, I think I'm going to take it. You want to take it over for planets Teresa. Thanks Vivian for that I really love having kids tell stories and one of my favorite keepsakes from outreach question outreach sessions rather. So, when we're starting something new, like we're just starting the planets, asking a question is a great way to start that so what is one thing you have heard about the planets. Please put that in the chat. I know that some of you might know a lot about planets, and we could talk about planets all day, but just one thing that they you find that's cool. Asking the girls questions. It really helps us find out what they know but it also lets them share proudly their existing knowledge, and it makes the girls learn from each other because they're sharing their interests. And so, just right in the chat, one thing that you've heard about planets, Jupiter is big and gassy. Mars has the most moons Pluto surface is smaller and then Russia. Wow. I did not know that Russia is very big. Mars is red. Yeah. Some are rocky summer gashes different things about different types of planets. Great. So, these are all kinds of information that you guys have already about the planets. And if you start with an open in question you can really get a lot of information. So, when I was just reading out in the chat, I would recommend that you say Aaron says that Jupiter has the most moons. All a girl by their name it's really exciting for them, even if it's virtually right. Also, they might have heard some misinformation right that's out there in the world so something they might have heard about plants might be completely on incorrect. However, this is not the time for that. So, just check them while you're learning about the things. But wait until then. Don't start with saying you're wrong. Let them learn by looking through the telescope and finding out. Oh, Mars is red. So, another goofy thing that we like to do with the youngest girls is this comes from Jean Fahy is another great steam educator worked with the Girl Scouts of Northern California for many, many years and one of my she rose. I'm going to ask everybody to move a little bit and I know that you don't have to because I can't see you, but don't worry nobody else can either so go ahead and move with me because we're going to do a planet pan of mine. We can do this with all of any of the planets but we just made up a few here this or Jean I would just say made up a few we're going to act out one fun fact about each planet. Are you ready. We're going to start with a planet closest to the sun Mercury. It has only two sunrises for every of our Earth years that seems like it would be very big deal to see a sunrise so I want you to act amazed when you see only one of the sunrises for a whole 360 days. So, wow, imagine how rare that would be we get to see one every day how lucky are we. All right, let's go on to Venus. Venus has a very active surface including volcanoes so go ahead. I can't see you nobody can see you act like a volcano. I don't know if you've ever played along with me I appreciate that. Lots of smoke. And let's go last but not least let's try Earth. It's the only planet that I would want to live on because it's the only one that supports life. Just a moment to take a deep breath of this beautiful Earth air. We are so lucky to be here on Earth and have our atmosphere that surrounds us and supports us. So, having them act out fun things can be a great way to give little factoids so they have more information about the different planets you can make it active by acting things out. Perfect. Thank you so much. I love doing those planet pandemines. Yeah, any kind of movement that you can connect with science knowledge is a great thing to do with the girls. I'm going to talk about the stars and the daisies have the step three it's just meet the stars. The daisies have two steps where one is where they're seeing more than before where they can build a simple telescope from a kit or, you know, we have lots of kits that you can build telescopes from, or also being a stargazer so they might go to a stargazing event. You might be having indeed. So these two things are great ways that their badges already connect them with the stars right and they're talking about looking up. So there's a lot of shapes you can see in the sky. I want you to know if you can put any constellations you know or maybe just your favorite constellations since we were talking about that earlier. So when you're introducing new concepts you short clear sentences like and also clear clear, not constellations but asterisms right you want to talk about the summer triangle for daisies, or you could talk about Cassiopeia how it looks like a W or an M, right those, those simple letters they probably are already learning. So that's a fun thing to talk about. That's a fun thing Theresa that there is in the badge booklet it shows some of the constellations so you don't have to know them yourself or you can always look it up online to see what's going to be up in the night sky tonight so don't feel like you have to know all of them. Yeah, and for the, for the daisies they have the big dipper, which is up a lot of the year, and they have, I think Orion so really big constellations that are up for a while. Okay, there. So constellations you can talk about the name with the daisies but really it's in the brownies right that their patterns in the sky sort of like connecting the dots and a lot of them will have done those types of things right. And they might not know that astronomers agree to use the same constellations as a grid so if you're studying a black hole in Cygnus, that is an area where they'll know to look it's. So, a lot of people will find that interesting that we kind of use the sky as a map for learning for talking about the research we're doing. So you might know those 88 constellations that we use to map the sky or mainly from the ancient Greeks but people from all around the world have used stories about the stars, pretty much since there's been people. So this is the image of Orion, but also has many other cultures put in there. If you go to this website it's figures in the sky, and they have different cultures interpretations of the same stars. So different people see different things depending on what is important to them. For example, let's look at this image of the sky, these are an area of the sky that have stars in there. And I just want you to take a moment to imagine and see how you could connect those dots. This is a resource that is on the night sky network. And it has not only these pages that you can share with the girls but you can also see some of the constellations that different cultures have for example, the ancient Greeks saw Scorpio the scorpion in there and maybe some of you can see that scorpion. Others of you might see the Hawaiian fish hook in there, or you might see something completely different. So it's fun to kind of look at the stars without the constellations and with the constellations. Ashley got it someone said that last time it looked like a high heel shoe. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, let me go back so everybody could see that shoe. I know I thought that was just amazing as an astronomer it's very hard to unsee what we what we know this constellation to be that I love the idea of a high heel shoe and and kids come up with wonderful interpretations so you can also have the kids make a story, and you can look at the stars in the sky and talk about that story. With what's important to them like, you can different, there's different legends that each family has that each story. That's told that you can match to things in the sky and maybe you can't see your aunt who's a famous author in the sky but you can see a pen and talk about how she's a famous author. There's a lot of short stories that the kids can make up are really great and fun activity and it's a bad step so these are activities that that really make fun fun experiences for your girls. There's one activity that's part of the badges well called constellation viewers and this has been really fun. So a page in the badge booklet looks something like this on the left and all you need is just a pair of scissors. You can cut out each of these circles or the girls can cut them out themselves, and you apply it with a glue stick to the end of a paper cup. Sure to write their name on it I love these these are also from Jessica Hendricks, and you poke a dot where each of the stars are, and then shine a light you can even just use yourself on light through the cup to project an image of the dark wall. So this is a very fun way for them to take home their own constellation get to know it and then look at when to find it in the sky so getting used to coming up with those patterns is seeing those patterns and recognizing them. It's a nice step at this stage. If you're going to do these in large groups there's a picture in the middle there of a great tool that cuts out the appropriate sized circle and you might just want to take one of these pages to a craft store and for sure they will have them, but we've done these in large conventions and Girl Scout events, and it's nice to have something that punches them out so they can just start with the circle already. Yeah. All right. Oh, we're actually sort of running towards the top of our hour, but we want to end with a joke. So. Hey Teresa. Yes. How do you throw a space party. You have to plan it. Yeah. Again jokes are a fun way to connect with your audience, but we also give you lots of different activity tips that we talked about today with growth mindset and open ended questions and I'm going to be talking about all of these things, but mostly keep it playful keep it fun. And that's going to have them have positive associations with doing astronomy activities. Another thing that is part of every Girl Scout gathering is the reflection piece. And so this usually is at the end of a meeting that you take time to reconnect with each other and reflect on the things you've done. And maybe what was one thing you've learned. What is one thing you still want to learn more about. And so we actually love to get that feedback from you. 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