35: Snack friends: Peanut butter and apples, carrots and yogurt, etc.

40-45: What is peer pressure; dealing with stress.

46-47: Balancing friends, family, boys.

48-49: Dealing with jealousy.

50: Create your own no-pressure zone.

52: For your peacemaker kit: dealing with conflict and pressure.

54-59: What are cliques; how to recognize and deal with them.

60-62: Gossip and how it hurts; a pledge not to gossip.

63-69: Steps and strategies for conflict resolution (compromise, seek help, etc.).

70: When it’s time to let go of a friendship.

74-93: What is bullying, how it hurts people, and how to deal with the anxiety, loneliness and stress.

94: Take a martial arts class, do yoga, play sports, etc., to improve your mood and confidence; make a Zen garden to combat stress.

99-111: What is cyberbullying, what to do about it, how to stay safe online.

118-119: How a skit taught antibullying skills.

19: Description of instinctive, spontaneous reactions.

22: Facts about stereotypes and how they become part of thinking.

23: Exercise to determine characteristics vs. stereotypes.

34: Study friendships and determine what’s healthy and what’s not.

38: Create a friendship Bill of Rights; think about what situations are important to your friendship.

53: How Jane Goodall studied chimps.

12: Design your own note cards.

25: Create a peacemaker kit.

36-7: Paste photos of your friends in photo frames and write down their qualities.

117: Create a skit about the difference between friendship circles and cliques.

127-8: Come up with ads or publicity for your project: Write an article or post a blog, create posters and fliers, etc.

129: Creating signs to mark "No Ridicule Zones."

133: Write a cinquain about what you learned.

15: Ideas for local experts who can offer expertise with relationship issues.

21: Amazing Snacks: Experiment with snacks that are festive and uplifting: lowfat cheese on wheat crackers, herbal iced tea, hummus on pita.

28: Team-building activities build trust; retreats encourage relaxation.

39: How stereotypes impact relationships; healthy friendships.

44: Qualities important in a friend; how girls choose friends; why friendships are important.

45: How to make sure girls feel safe in their environment so they can talk freely.

49: Girls identify various types of peer pressure and practice managing peer pressure, conflict resolution.

50: What are cliques and what is peer pressure; guide girls to explore hurtful dynamics.

52: Taking a stand against peer pressure.

54: Is your group cliquish or inclusive? How to change group dynamics.

55: Keys to resolving conflicts, using "I Statements."

59: Girls identify and learn to address bullying behavior; develop strategies for building safe online relationships.

60-61: What bullying is, how to take back the power, strategies to disarm bullies.

64: Recognizing bullying in cyberspace.

81: To celebrate, create an obstacle-course-like maze with jump rope, race, etc.)

86: How to "increase the peace" in your life and the world around you.

85: Plant a peace garden.

29: Encourage girls to share their favorite to-do’s with each other: crafts, foods, DIY projects. Encourage them to create a visual record of their activities and record their thoughts in journal pages in the book.

32: Draw a maze of your own.

33: Think of a phrase or slogan about why our lives are like a maze. Encourage girls to create "life is a maze" poems, drawings or song lyrics.

35: Create a team poster with pictures from magazines.

39: Create a peacemaker kit.

41: Encourage girls to make peacemaker souvenirs for their journey.

47: Create and decorate a mask showing inner and outer feelings.

63: Act out "flipping the script" ways to deal with bullies.

69: Develop a mini-series or awareness campaign for your project.

81: Create a new team poem together.

85: Create a group "peace" poem by using the word’s five letters to start each line; create a maze that shows the start (us) and the end (world peace), and draw what goes in between.

9: Make some space for yourself to improve your mood.

27: Secure breathing room for yourself (meditation): Light a candle and watch the flame, lie in the grass and look at the trees, etc.

29: Exercise: Achieving Focus.

44: How you can improve air pollution in your community.

45: Activities to do outside in the air.

50-51: Recipe for éclairs—put some healthful fruit inside.

64-5: What’s in your air, what it can do to you.

66-7: Increase in asthma rates due to pollutants.

76-9: Why smoking is bad; how to persuade people not to smoke.

81: Form an air care team; designate no-smoking areas; focus on deep breathing.

82-3: How plants improve a room’s air quality.

85: Why exercise is good for your lungs and health.

6: What air does.

11-13: Science and engineering/air-related jobs you might consider.

16-26: What is sound; what is has to do with air; think like an engineer; how

sound is measured; noise pollution.

28: How technology is changing people.

33: What is air and what is it made of; greenhouse gases; facts about planets.

34: Global warming and climate change; layers of atmosphere.

35: Fossil fuels and what they do.

36-37: Elements in air and what they do.

38: CFCs and the ozone hole; what people did to stop it.

39: How NASA studies air.

40-42: Scientists combat air pollution.

43: Other effects of rising CO2 levels.

48: Naturalist Rachel Carson inspired the environmental movement.

52-55: How trees clean the air; how scientists are measuring CO2 to combat global warming; facts about clear cutting; encouraging selective cutting.

56-7: Profile of a Girl Scout who created an illustrated list of birds to encourage people to protect the environment.

58-61: Environmental scientist studies lichens; how lichens are air monitors.

63: Studying deforestation; reducing paper use.

64-5: What’s in your air and what it can do to you.

68: Experiment: Measure the particles and dust in your air.

69: Quiz: What’s in the air?

70: Investigate what products are in the air around you.

75: How to do research.

82-3: How plants improve a room’s air quality.

85: How exercise improves lung capacity.

91-3: Sustainable wind energy.

94-5: What a wind engineer does.

96-7: How a wind turbine lights a billboard in Times Square.

98: Air-related jobs like astronaut, atmospheric scientist, etc.

103: Identify experts who can help: meteorologists, biologists, etc.

109: Facts about animals and insects.

46: Profile of a playwright who writes about air pollution.

47: Write jingles, poems, etc. about air.

49: Make a playlist of songs about air.

56-7: Profile of a Girl Scout who created an illustrated list of birds to encourage people to protect the environment.

62: Write down the names of animals that rhyme with air.

87: Draw a green roof on your home or school.

99: Write an air haiku.

105: Create a play, slide show, performance art, etc., to urge people to act on your issue.

108: Create a mascot for your project; make a short film about the project.

13: Make snacks that are airy and uplifting: whipped yogurt cheese on wheat crackers, etc.

21: Inspire Brownies to try a healthy habit—watery treat, exercises, etc.

27: Girls develop strong sense of self, practice healthy living, develop healthy relationships.

33: Retreats give girls a chance to breathe.

41: Girls explore relaxation and breathing techniques.

42: Have experts lead girls in yoga or meditation, aromatherapy.

44: Put together an aromatherapy bath bag.

45: Make rose-scented lotion.

50: Share some deep breathing and moments of silence; enjoy some cardio fun together.

65: Health effects of pollution, smoking, noise pollution, etc.

71: Meditate as the meeting starts, or spend a few minutes exercising.

10: Identify experts who can guide you: meteorologists, astronauts, etc.; record what you see and smell in the air.

11: Research an air issue, follow steps to reach your Air Care Team goals, gather proof of progress, share the impact.

14: Exposing girls to science in daily life, encouraging them to continue interest in science careers.

15: Science in life: Sirens in the night are a chance to discuss decibels, cell phones beeping = distraction, smog = atmosphere, etc.; women working at NASA.

16: Visit a wind farm to discuss sustainability.

20: Lead younger girls through experiments: flying kites, making rainbows, etc.

22: Girls learn to explore questions, discover answers, share ideas and observations, etc.

23: Ask critical questions, challenge girls to think deeply, experiment with ways to solve real problems.

38: Study sense of sound; listen to nature sounds.

43: Study sense of smell.

44: Start a Compare Air log.

46: What are particulates; measure particulates in air.

47: Brainstorm air experts who could help the team.

49: What’s in the air, do airy science experiments

50: Observe the air and add to compare air logs, check particulates.

51: Experiment: Turn on the fan and observe air flow.

52: Balloon experiment/air has weight; pitcher experiment/air has mass.

53: Experiment: How much oxygen is in air, what rust is.

54: Experiment: Collapsing milk jug/air pressure.

55: Experiment: Cup and lid/air pressure.

56: Field observation and interviews on smoking, noise, etc.

57: Have an expert share with girls.

60: Tips for observation and fieldwork.

68: Research chemicals used in your school, positive effects of plants on air quality.

69: Brainstorm and choose an ALERT project.

77: Continue making the most of experts: aromatherapy, cooking skills, etc.

85: Gather and assess evidence of impact.

86: Think like an engineer: design a gadget; check out airy careers.

20: Make a puppet show or act out a scene from the ELF adventure with younger girls.

33: Encourage girls to share their favorite to-do’s and DIY projects; encourage them to create a visual record of their journey.

57: Ask girls how they might creatively document their observations.

67: Girls decide on how to reach out to an Air Care Team: create a mascot, poem, song, etc.

72: Create a flier, web page, newsletter article.

73: Hold a workshop or panel discussion; create a short play, video or PSA, mascot, etc.

74: Create a Powerpoint presentation, posters, signs, a skit, etc. Brainstorm short, pithy phrases for bumper stickers, a jingle, etc.

79: Brainstorm advertising strategies; make funny signs, a video, a Facebook page, etc.

86: Write down words with air sounds.