Objective:

Story of Self - opportunity for girls to use spoken and written stories, poems, shape poems to design themselves. The Girls Scouts will make and upload their creations to websites that we will be constructing over the week.

Purpose:

This will teach the girls to be proud of who they are and not be ashamed of the differences they have. This will be an empowering weak to be strong independent girls who can do anything using STEAM activities.

Ice Breakers:

1. Ice Breakers:
   • “Birthday All Day”
   • “Who Are You?”
   • “I can’t is dead”
   • “Ninja”
   • “Biggest Fan”
   • “Luchadores”

Guest Speaker:

Bandojo

Field Trip:

MeowWolf

Week 1 Curriculum

Day 1

1. Icebreakers (1 Hour)
2. Introductions
   1. I can’t is dead
   2. Who are you?
      1. Pair up and ask each other this question for about 1 minute each. Each response is a one or couple word answer
   3. Rules of Innovate and Create
3. Create a website (1.5 hour)
   1. Create Site Name and user names
   2. How to use wordpress
   3. How to design your site
4. Internet Safety (30 min)
   1. What is the internet
   2. Is it Dangerous and Why?
   3. What is spam, hacking, fraud etc?
5. Lunch (1 Hour)
   1. Play games at the park / Happy Everything to Everyone song feat. Ant Man.
   2. Have cake or Cupcakes! Celebrate BDAYS!
6. EXERCISE: Stream of conscience.
   1. Write about anything for 3 minutes. Then can throw away or keep depending on the girl.
7. Intro to Storytelling. (Victoria)
   1. Discuss different types of mediums that stories are shared on.
      1. Oral Storytelling- Native American Stories, Beowulf, etc.
      2. Pen and Paper, Books, Literature
      3. Art/Digitally
   2. How do we want to express ourselves.
      1. Digitally
      2. Written Words
      3. Typography
      4. Text speech, handwriting, journaling, blogging, taking pictures
   3. How do we see ourselves/ How do we see each other
   4. How can we create ourselves
8. EXERCISE (~30 min): Give the girls a prompt and let them write a story from the prompt.
   1. “And suddenly the 30 strangers in the room felt like the closest of friends.”
9. EXERCISE: Photoshop (1 hour)
   1. Uploading images from the park
   2. Playing with Contrast/Saturation/etc
   3. Creating a shape
   4. Inserting Text
   5. Exporting Image to upload to blog
10. Design Stamp Logos (1 hour)
    1. Cut out stamp logos
    2. Finish up with uploading things to our websites/ reflections
11. Reflections

Day 2

1. Icebreakers (20 mins)
   1. Luchador names and backstories
   2. “Who are you” Switch with someone you haven’t talked to.
2. Spirit Animal, questionnaire
   1. Discover, create and decide on spirit animal.
   2. https://www.buzzfeed.com/juliapugachevsky/these-questions-will-tell-you-everything-you-need-to-know?utm_term=.mheL0Wxg0g#.skJqNldJNJ
3. BLOCK Bresdin - (Groups of 5) EXERCISE: Haikubes (1 hour)
   1. Explain the structure of Haikus
   2. Create your own Haiku with Haikubes
4. BLOCK Victoria (Groups of 5) - Erasure Poetry (1 hour) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T__RD1aDsPY
   1. Find website text
   2. Photoshop your poem
5. Lunch
6. Complete Erasure Poetry
7. Design Stamp Logo (1 hour)
   1. Talk about typography
   2. Finish stamping and cutting things out.
   3. Take a picture and Upload to illustrator
   4. How to vectorize an image
   5. Upload to website
8. Physical Representations:
   1. Think about past experiences and come up with an animal or shape that you feel represents these experiences
   2. Using modeling clay, create your spirit representation
9. Reflections on our blog

Day 3

1. Musical Drawing Ice Breaker http://www.nafme.org/wp-content/files/2014/08/NewsletterList.jpg
2. What is your favorite music?
   1. Show them Bo burnham - Hip Hop
      1. I’m a little teapot 15:34 - 17:32
3. Musical Day with Bandojo
4. Lunch
5. Podcasting - Discuss ideas to put here

1. Create your segment with your group and plan your discussion
2. Create a podcast segment
   1. Record for up to 15 minutes
3. Sound editing - edit segment to 7-10 minutes

Day 4

MEOW WOLF!!

• Leave at 9:30
• Come back at 4:00

Day 5

1. Ice breaker
   1. 9:00 Discussion about what they liked, how they feel about the projects they have been working on, Meow wolf
2. 9:30 Anthony audio editing (Brez and I edit the photos to upload to blog)
3. 10:30 - 11:30  Blog everything w (10 minute snack break)
4. 11:30 Lunch
5. 12:45 Get back from park
   1. (Play like a girl)
6. 1:00 Spirit Animals- everyone does a quiz on their own computer Bresdin leads
   1. Masks, clay
7. 2:00 Finish masks
   1. Haikubes
   2. More Music
   3. More Blogging
   4. Erasure poetry
8. 3:00 Pizza Party

Bresdin:

Day 1 6/13/16

My first day of camp as well as some of the Girls Scouts was overwhelming as well as extremely fun. In the end I am just happy that I survived but also learned the girls names and a little bit about them. I was pleasantly surprised with how well many of the activities went - especially the Stream of Consciousness exercise. Originally we decided to have them continually write for 3 minutes however we tried 10 minutes and all most all of the girls diligently wrote the entire time and complained that it was not enough time after words. I was thrilled to see so many budding writers in class. We even allowed them to continue writing and they did so without any push or help. This was shocking to me because I have always imagined being met with resistance for writing. Many of the girls, even the ones that refused to write came up with unique ideas during the 10 minutes. I would like to have the girls do a 5 minute stream of consciousness everyday to get the creativity flowing. I am very excited to see what they create tomorrow when we discuss poetry more in depth. One thing that I felt could have been better was the use and creation of emails so that the girls could have websites. The girls could get it, however it was a lengthy process as well as frustrating. Another thing I noticed was that once we changed the lesson plan, it was impossible to get back on track. It was very well organized in the morning and then the afternoon we were trying to figure out where to pick up ect… We had planned to give them a writing prompt: “And suddenly the 30 strangers in the room felt like the closest of friends.” Instead we went to Start - Up exhibit which was fun but then we were unable to follow our curriculum afterwards. In the end this did not matter as all the girls wrote stories without the prompt or worked on their website. The problem was that it created a time crunch and we ended up not doing the last activity either which was to learn photoshop. We instead created pixel art logos that we will digitize tomorrow. In the end we did not lose anything important and in fact covered well with the pixel activity.

Day 2 6/14/16

Today was extremely successful and fun for me, although I know that Victoria had a rough time at one point. We started the day off with designing a personalized Luchador mask, which started with a name, then draw your mask and thus extended into creating the mask physically. We then split into two groups and one group focused on doing Haiku while the other did erasure poetry. After that we finished up the day with sharing our poetry to the entire group and then cleaning the classroom. For our icebreaker we decided to talk about Luchador masks. We found a fun website that would generate a Luchador name. This was extremely hilarious and fun. The girls all picked out a name and wrote it on their Kleenslate board. Then they drew what they would want their masks to look like. They were having so much fun we decided to extend the activity and brought out Art supplies so that they could create physical representations of their masks. After this, we split the girls into two groups and I took half and Victoria took the other half. We needed to do this because the Erasure Poetry required photoshop and we did not have enough computers with that application. In my group, we talked about Haiku and how to create it. Then we played with Haikucubes to help us create them. I came up with multiple challenges for them using the cubes. They had so much fun. Some of the challenges: Create a group Haiku Make a Haiku with only the words on the blocks Choose one word and that is your Title Choose three words and each word starts each line of the Haiku Each girl takes turns and chooses one word until we make a Haiku The first group excelled with this activity and Anthony did interpretive readings of their haikus. I did have one girl who told me she will not participate and as hard as I tried I could not get her to join the activity. Unfortunately, while this activity was going on, Victoria had a very frustrating time with her group during the Erasure poetry because MOST of the girls refused to participate in the activity. They just flat out said “We refuse to participate.” They acted silly and played games behind Victoria’s back. After lunch we switched groups and I also had a very hard time with the group. They participated but refused to follow directions and just screamed and acted wild. We still accomplished haikus however which I was happy for. They also performed interpretive readings at least. We decided to be more careful with which girls get grouped together.

Day 3 6/15/16

Today was Bandojo day. We started the day off with updating their blogs from poetry day. Then our guest speaker taught them how to use Bandojo until lunch time. After that we introduced podcasting to the girls and then split them into 3 groups and had them facilitate a podcast. After this we had them make and record their own music in Bandojo in groups of two. Bandojo was a very fun experience for the girls and the software was easy and fun for them to pick up. I was very proud of them and learned that MOST of them are in band and understand music far better than myself. In the afternoon they made and recorded their own music in Bandojo and uploaded them to their blog. A few of the girls REALLY took to the software and figured out a lot of neat tricks to using it that was not taught to them. They are so intuitive and it is exciting to seem them advance in such a small time period. After that we started a podcast by splitting the girls into 3 groups. One went with me, one with Victoria and the last with Anthony. We assigned a facilitator in each group and each podcast session came out uniquely different. Podcasting was a huge success and I can not wait to hear Anthony’s edited version (all three groups in one podcast) in the future. This will be an activity we do each week to gain valuable insight to how the girls are enjoying camp!

Day 4 6/16/16

Today we rented two vans from Enterprise and drove the girls to Santa Fe to visit Meow Wolf! After we let them explore the space for 2 hours we ate lunch and then Meow Wolf put on a workshop for the girls to use a clay molding product named “Skratch.” The girls did not seem to enjoy this activity as the women leading it was harsh and demanding towards them. They quickly lost interest and started to mess around. The women was even very rude to our girl who has Cerebral Palsy. She told her: “It is obvious you can not use the tools I gave you so stop trying!” It was awful and I told all of the girls we were done (only 30 minutes into the hour workshop) and to clean up. We left after that but all of the girls said they had a very great time regardless.