Breathe Journey Take Action Project & Award Patches - Aware, Alert Affirm
The descriptions of the Award patches & Take Action Project are a bit confusing. The following is a clarification of what the steps mean. Following that is an explanation of what parts they will complete in our session & what parts will be done afterwards.
AWARE AWARD
· Keep an Air Log throughout the journey
(4 days worth of observation of the outdoor environment)
· Identify two experts who can guide you to greater air awareness. (Our interview guests)
· Increase your AWAREness about the issues that impact Earth's air. (Explore the issues in the book & ones we covered in our sessions)
· Decide the most important, personal reason you care about Earth's air. (Choose the issue from the topics we covered that YOU care about the most)
ALERT AWARD
· With your Cadette team, choose an air issue to act on together. (Choose a team or go solo)
Decide whom to educate and inspire—this is your Air Care Team (ACT)! (Who can help you ? adults, experts ? AND Who you want to educate ?)
•Decide what you will ask your Air Care Team to do. (How will you use your adult helpers or other kids to help you?)
•Decide how to reach your Air Care Team to inspire them to act on your air issue. (What is your project ?)
•Educate and inspire! Give your ACT its call to action. (Get out there & do your project !)
AFFIRM AWARD
•Gather proof of progress or improvement through your efforts to educate and inspire. (For example - do surveys, count number of people you educated)
•Share the impact with your ACT and maybe even go further. (Tell other people what you did – school announcements, talk to other scouts, local paper)
•Get with your Cadette team and reflect on your efforts and their impact. (What worked ? What didn’t? What would you change ?)
•Affirm your commitment to strive to be an heir apparent of air and all of Planet Earth's elements.
(Commit to continue to fight for the environment!)
PROGRESS ON THE AWARDS BY THE END OF THE SESSION
The Breathe Journey is complete when they earn their Aware, Alert & Affirm awards. Part of this is done during the sessions but part involves completing a Journey Take Action Project, which reaches out to the community, therefore it has to be completed after the sessions. I will give the patch set to the leader/parent to be given out when this step is complete.
If girls have attend all sessions (or turned in makeup activities for missed session). This is the progress they will have made towards completing the Awards by the end of session 4.
Aware Award –.. They will have earned this award if they were present for our two guest speakers.
Alert Award –They will have earned the portions of this award that involve planning, but will still need to complete the parts that involve getting their Take action project out into the community. It is complete once the goals they set for their Take Action Project are met. The girl’s preliminary plan will be made at session # 3 (ask them about it that night) & you will be meeting with them on the last day to hear their finalized plan. (see FINAL SESSION above)
Affirm Award – This award is earned by having things you can measure in your project plan.
By reflecting upon the project after they complete it and making note of what you may have done to improve it
Finally the girls make a commitment to keep spreading the word about the issue addressed in the project or continuing to help the environment.
AWARE AWARD
· Keep an Air Log throughout the journey
(4 days worth of observation of the outdoor environment)
· Identify two experts who can guide you to greater air awareness. (Our interview guests)
· Increase your AWAREness about the issues that impact Earth's air. (Explore the issues in the book & ones we covered in our sessions)
· Decide the most important, personal reason you care about Earth's air. (Choose the issue from the topics we covered that YOU care about the most)
ALERT AWARD
· With your Cadette team, choose an air issue to act on together. (Choose a team or go solo)
Decide whom to educate and inspire—this is your Air Care Team (ACT)! (Who can help you ? adults, experts ? AND Who you want to educate ?)
•Decide what you will ask your Air Care Team to do. (How will you use your adult helpers or other kids to help you?)
•Decide how to reach your Air Care Team to inspire them to act on your air issue. (What is your project ?)
•Educate and inspire! Give your ACT its call to action. (Get out there & do your project !)
AFFIRM AWARD
•Gather proof of progress or improvement through your efforts to educate and inspire. (For example - do surveys, count number of people you educated)
•Share the impact with your ACT and maybe even go further. (Tell other people what you did – school announcements, talk to other scouts, local paper)
•Get with your Cadette team and reflect on your efforts and their impact. (What worked ? What didn’t? What would you change ?)
•Affirm your commitment to strive to be an heir apparent of air and all of Planet Earth's elements.
(Commit to continue to fight for the environment!)
PROGRESS ON THE AWARDS BY THE END OF THE SESSION
The Breathe Journey is complete when they earn their Aware, Alert & Affirm awards. Part of this is done during the sessions but part involves completing a Journey Take Action Project, which reaches out to the community, therefore it has to be completed after the sessions. I will give the patch set to the leader/parent to be given out when this step is complete.
If girls have attend all sessions (or turned in makeup activities for missed session). This is the progress they will have made towards completing the Awards by the end of session 4.
Aware Award –.. They will have earned this award if they were present for our two guest speakers.
Alert Award –They will have earned the portions of this award that involve planning, but will still need to complete the parts that involve getting their Take action project out into the community. It is complete once the goals they set for their Take Action Project are met. The girl’s preliminary plan will be made at session # 3 (ask them about it that night) & you will be meeting with them on the last day to hear their finalized plan. (see FINAL SESSION above)
Affirm Award – This award is earned by having things you can measure in your project plan.
By reflecting upon the project after they complete it and making note of what you may have done to improve it
Finally the girls make a commitment to keep spreading the word about the issue addressed in the project or continuing to help the environment.
