Bringing Dinosaur Science to the Junior Girl Scouts Through a College Service-Learning Project |
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Authors: | Laura A Guertin Edna T Cao Karen A Craig Alice E George Shana T Goldson Shanon P Makatche Brett T Radusevich Charles W Sandor Anya T Takos Ryan Tuller James K Williams Michael A Williams |
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Institution: | (1) Earth Science, Pennsylvania State University Delaware County, Media, Pennsylvania;(2) Earth Science, Penn State Delaware County, 25 Yearsley Mill Road, Media, Pennsylvania, 19063 |
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Abstract: | Undergraduate students in an introductory-level geoscience course successfully designed and conducted a science badge day for the Junior Girl Scouts. With national concerns that girls turn away from science at a young age, a service-learning project was incorporated into a college course with the end result providing a group of girls a positive and fun science-learning experience. A number of science and technology badges exist for the Girl Scouts, yet not many of these badges have been completed because of a lack of confidence the troop leaders have in teaching science and a paucity of scheduled science events for the leaders to take their girls. Junior Girl Scout troops were invited to the Pennsylvania State University Delaware County campus to complete a series of hands-on dinosaur science activities that allowed them to earn the Science in Everyday Life badge. At the conclusion of the badge event, the girls reported a greater interest in science, a desire to learn more science, and a desire to complete additional science-related Girl Scout badges. |
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Keywords: | service learning Girl Scouts dinosaur undergraduate |
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