Learning/Work/Documentation

 

Learning Goals

• Develop a better understanding of how to educate and keep older students engaged in learning.
• Develop a better understanding of how to make activities that balance engagement, fun, and learning crucial life skills.
• Uphold the Girl Scout Law in all of my work

General Work Plan

Ongoing:

• Reach out to experts on badge topics for interviews, live events, ect.
• Document badge guides on blog
• Post on social media
• Working out ideas in badge binder

Week 1: 

• Preliminary emails/research/setup
  • Copyright email to Girl Scouts
  • Reaching out/interviewing older Girl Scouts (inside and outside my troop)
  • Reading about teaching older students, in and outside of a Girl Scout setting
  • Creating my ideas/work binder for badges
  • Start creating blog
    • Talking to people who have the types of blog I want to create
    • Research into creating a safe but open comment feature
  • Create social media accounts

Week 2:

• Preliminary research on badges
  • Write down my initial ideas for activities
  • Look at other badge guides for some inspiration
• Start creating/using a template for my badge guides

Week 3:

• Continue making badge guides
• Go into more depth with badges that need more explanation 
  • (making videos of changing tires and wiper blades for the Car Care badge, ect.)

Week 4:

• Continue making badge guides, and continue updating blog

• Possibly start live events?
  • Interviews/guest speakers on Zoom webinars
  • More interactive events on Zoom for badges like Outdoor Art Master, The Girl Scout Way

Week 5:

• Continue making badge guides, continue updating blog
• Continue live events if they work well

Week 6:

• Finalize badge guides
• Finalize organizing blog]

What a Day Might Look Like:

• Check email, send emails to experts, Girl Scouts, etc.
• Work through ideas/look at what I was thinking in the Badge Binder
• Look for inspiration for badge guides/read articles about educating or keeping older students engaged
• Split badge work up throughout the day
  • I don’t want to just be working on one badge per day, maybe choose 2-3 to work on per day
• Possible live event (webinar, interactive Zoom, etc.)
• Update blog
• Reflection of the day

Documentation/Products

Documentation Plan/Products: Most of my project will be happening through my Girl Scout blog and social media accounts. They will house all the badge guides I make, as well as announcements and recordings of live events. Since this blog is more catered to the actual Girl Scouts for them to use, I will also be keeping a time table of all of my hours, explaining what I do each day, so I can keep track of everything on my end. This will help me when I do my Text Focus reflections. I like keeping journals, so that is pretty much what I will do each day of my project. I will summarize what I did, accompanied by visuals if possible, and reflect on how it will move my project forward, and what I learned from it.