Saturday, July 21, 2007

Troop 1: Meeting 6

Coordinators:
Ash, Yati, Izhana, Azha

Activities:
- Circle of Energy:
  • This is an energiser activity to foster team cohesiveness and to encourage bonding.

- Sense-sational Science:
  • This is an adaptation of an early childhood program conducted by Izhana for children to identify the five senses and the part of the body linked with each sense : say that they use their eyes to see; ears to hear; nose to smell; tongue to taste and skin to touch and feel.

  • i) Smell, Memories and Emotions
    This activity will give them opportunity to experience how the brain associates smells with memories and emotions.

  • ii) Guessing Game
    This activity will give them opportunity to sample different sounds produced by different type of materials and be able to make predictions based on their ‘observation’ with their sense of hearing.

- Jumping Frog!:
  • This is an active game which can help them in recognizing numbers and practicing counting the numbers in a fun way. Through this game, they will be able to arrange numbers from 0 to 10, count on in ones, count back in ones, count on from a given number and count back from the given number.

Saturday, July 7, 2007

Troop 1: Meeting 5

Coordinators:
Daniel, Ash, Yati, Izhana, Azni

Activities:
- Circle of Energy:
  • This is an energiser activity to foster team cohesiveness and to encourage bonding.

- Leafy Day, An Environmental Awareness Program:
  • This is an adaptation of an early childhood program conducted by Izhana for children to identify and classify which leaf belongs to which plant and to learn the function of the leaf. Science scouts then create an artwork from the assortment of leaves.



The Science Scouts showed their artistic side as they composed 'green' messages for their t-shirt using leaf prints.

- Ring in the sky:
  • This is a program tailored for the Space exhibition and is conducted by Azni. Its goal is to explore the positions of the 8 planets in our Solar System and to investigate the composition of the rings of Saturn.



The Science Scouts in the midst of doing the activity with guidance by Azni.