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Junior Troop 446 hosted a Field Day about the BP Oil Spill - One Year Later. More than 80 Daisy, Brownie, and Junior Girl Scouts attended and cycled through seven stations:

A dress-up game about what the people who work in the industry or clean up oil spills wear
A Survivor quiz and puzzle challenge about what products have oil in them
An activity where the girls made up a play about the lief cycle of an oil drop
An experiment to try different ways to clean up a mini oil spill with different materials
Another experiment to try to clean up a mini oil spill on a little beach
A session talking about and identifying countries with the most oil reserves, who produce the most oil, who use the most oil, and where some of the biggest oil spills happened
Snack - Eating an oil spill? (chocolate puddling to represent the dirty water, crumbled Oreos representing the tar balls, gummy fish stuck in the oil and pretzel sticks to represent the booms)

The troop also set up a display up with pamphlets/reports on the BP Oil Spill and showed video clips about what different organizations did or are continuing to do during the response/recovery effort.

This event was a key part of the Bronze Award program which also included creating a website to inform the community about the spill and an informational handout which the troop distributed to more the 700 students at our elementary school. Photographer: Carrie L. McNamara

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