%PDF-1.4 % The 7 steps to a Take Action Project as they are addressed in the aMUSE journey. Support Girl Scouts by donating nationally or to your local council, becoming a lifetime member, and advocating for girls. To earn this badge, your Junior Girl Scouts will need to plan and prepare for their adventure, gather all the necessary gear, set a goal to allow them to train, and go on their outdoor climbing or snow adventure. It could also pair with the blind obstacle course. To earn this Junior Girl Scout Badge, simply plan and prepare for your hike, gather all your gear, set your goal, and then go on your hike. The scouts will be able to determine how much uphill and downhill hiking they will do on this trail. Through this journey, your scouts will discover themselves, learn about teams and leadership, and how they can impact their community and world. Allow the girls to brainstorm what these words mean to them. Sometimes these traits are looked at individually and other times they are all used together to describe a persons moxie. Thanks for sharing! Your Juniors could create these stuffed animals and maybe even include it with other comfort items. Theyre designed to change something for the betterforever. So it is especially important to help our Junior Girl Scouts to take steps to set up a campsite that is environmentally friendly. What will you do while camping: hike, explore, rock climb, archery, etc? Then these badges can be displayed proudly on the front girls left side of their vest (or the right side when looking at the vest). What will you need to bring? Each Take Action Project involves the outdoors or educating people about outdoors. Create a vision board to share your cookie business goals. Thus, the scouts will learn about consensus and majority votes. They'll learn something new and grow their leadership skills. Instead this is a project that continues to give back to the community year after year. The Its Your World Change It! This begins with the location of your campsite. How are peoplel trying to help the habitat? Then play the leave no trace game Eco Friend or Eco Foe found in the Girl Scout Volunteer Toolkit or Surface Hopscotch found on page 9 in the Eco Camper packet. <>stream 0000003737 00000 n 2) Your girls will explore the strengths of women in their past and present, including heroines, community members, and family members. Next, the girls create a short story, which works well with their Power of Team Comic. While exploring, take a moment to measure the circumference (or distance around the tree trunk) to determine the age of a few trees. With any hiking or camping adventure, your scouts will need some basic first aid. It will take some time to gather enough wood, but this will help to protect the environment. 0000007986 00000 n Opening Activity 10 minutes. While on the geocaching site, be sure to find a Travel Bug and follow its trip on a map. What is happening to the animals? Explore your surroundings by looking for examples of symmetry, including bilateral symmetry which means the two halves are the same on both sides. I especially appreciate the emphasis on taking care of the environment. Remember, a campsite is more than just your tent too! Spanish and English Family Names Easy Readers, Spanish and English School Supplies Easy Reader, Dual Language Early Kindergarten Beginning Letter Sound Bundle, Spanish and English Beginning Letter Sound Places in my School, Spanish and English Beginning Letter Sound Position Words. They can also combine their strengths with others to inspire even more change for better. The entertainment technology badge begins with animating your artwork. Enjoy a Campfire any amount of time desired. Remember, a Take Action Project is not a community service project, but a project that is supposed to continue giving back to the community for years. Here at Creatingbutterflies we provide families with practical solutions to real life problems for everything parenting, scouting, dual language, and enjoying time outdoors. Step 4 and 5 look at writing an article and essay. Be sure to provide some time for sharing, you can schedule that now or at the ceremony to present the award. We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. The Junior Simple Meals badge fits perfectly with any camping trip with your girl scouts since they will need to eat during their adventure. Look at the key or legend to discover landmarks and the scale to determine the length of the hike. A 501(c)(3) Organization. Shortcuts through the land can trample plants and flowers destroying local habitats for animals. They have confidence in themselves to make the action come to fruition. The scouts will decide on an issue in their community that they care about changing and will help their community. Ceremony a special way to celebrate an important event, experience, or feeling. Then prepare your meals while on the trip. It can be nice to brush up on these skills right before your camping trip or during the trip. Created Date: 10/10/2017 9:44:50 AM . Ask the scouts to brainstorm community issues at a prior meeting and decide on a Take Action Project. The girls may see this in pineapples, cut open apples or bananas, sunflowers, and pinecones. Step 3 definitely fits better with the mechanical engineering bages. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); This post may contain affiliate links. Build a campfire with your scouts. Planning Cadette Girl Scout Year: Animal Helpers Cadette Badge, Planning Tiger Year: April Tiger Cub Scouts Meetings, Spanish April Activities for Kids from a Dual Language Family, Planning Junior Girl Scout Year: Junior Crane Design Challenge. They will need to strategically back to fit all their necessary supplies in their suitcase or backpack. Great initiative! This pairs nicely with the Conservation Hike if you plan your hike where geocaches are available or ask each scout to create and hide one. We found that Im being framed was a great place to ask the girls to turn their representation into a poem, while sharing who they are. While Power, Moxie and Leader are the main vocabulary for the Agent of Change Junior journey, there are a few additional words that can help the scouts while learning on this journey. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); This post may contain affiliate links. Your scouts could explore their photos to see which examples of symmetry they have captured. What worked well for you? Learn about the animals near your campsite. We planned out camping trip a few weeks before our actually trip. To earn the Animal Habitats Junior badge, the scouts will learn more about wild animals and their habitats. Step 4 asks the girls to create their own special effects. Leaders can introduce any skills needed into the Junior Outdoor Journey. Then look at your list of issues within the community and decide as a group which issue your troop would like to focus on, practicing building a consensus together. Provide time for the scouts to set up their campsite including a sleeping area, campfire ring, and kitchen area. Juniors plan an overnight camping trip, including items to bring, activities to enjoy, and meals to prepare. 1) Power of One Messages or Theme Days for School, 3) Meet New Friends Theme Days for Lunch or Recess at School, 4) Building Buddy Benches for the School or local park, 5) Week or Month of Announcement Statements to Help Others Discover their Powers, 7) Building Bat Houses to help with the endangered bats in the area, 8) Beautifying their School with a Rock Garden, 9) Creating a Community Garden at their School or Community, 10) Create an Outdoor Classroom or Lunch Space at their School. En la tarde de hoy, recibimos nuevas imgenes y videos del aparatoso accidente en la autopista Duarte en la entrada de Falconbridge Dominciana "FALCONDO" provincia Monseor Nouel. Keep It Girl-Led: These examples are intended to give a sense of what a Take Action project could look like. They can play around with a blue or green screen with their photos or even try being a make up artist. Your troop learns different ways to prepare a campsite with minimal impact to the environment. As you may expect, these projects have a far-reaching influence. Finally, end with creating a piece of art, a skit, song, or short story about space. They took pictures of each other for the center of their poster. What would you have tried differently? To earn the Power of One award, the scouts will work to discover their own strengths, or individual powers, by keeping track of their daily activities throughout a day. The most important part is to allow your girls the opportunity to plan the celebrations throughout the journey or the celebration at the end of the journey. Take Action projects, along with the Gold, Silver, and Bronze Awards, address the root cause of an issue, and come up with sustainable, longer-lasting solutions. As you enjoy a hike, look for natural clues of the changing weather. Find out how to buy Girl Scout Cookies, explore Girl Scout Cookie flavors, see how girls learn essential life skills, and more. This includes all your trash and food scraps. Juniors earn their Outdoor Journey by completing their three outdoor badges and then doing a "Take Action Project". Thank you Rachel. 0000001723 00000 n These may include thick fur, wings for migrating, special claws for digging, protection features, etc. Then walked through the obstacle course together, describing each section and how you move through the course. Highly Recommended: Much needed in todays world. We did not complete this at this meeting, but instead planned a different time to explore this option. The Agent of Change Junior Journey specifically focuses on exploring the talents of your girl scouts as well as important women in their family, community, and world. If you're a Girl Scout volunteer, go to Volunteer Toolkit for complete meeting plans and activity instructions. These are often skills that you use often or love about yourself that you can share with others. If you plan to complete a drawing, you can pair this with the Junior Drawing Badge. We will present both methods below for leaders to choose the best way to meet the Girl Scout Junior Agent of Change journey requirements for their troop. - Energy takes place in all different shapes and forms. I am glad we have programs like to help prepare the leaders of tomorrow. The girls will write one truth about themselves on the True card, one false piece of information about them on the False card, and one wish they have on the Wish card. If you choose to make a geocache, you could create a special time capsule of Girl Scouts. Trail mix can make an amazing conservation hike snack. Learn what Girl Scouts do; about our history, research and data; and about family involvement, or try Girl Scout activities! What worked well for you? For Parents & Families. Amazon and the Amazon logo are trademarks of Amazon.com, Inc or its affiliates. To earn the Agent of Change Girl Scout Junior Journey, the girls will need to earn three different awards. Then discuss the words as a group. The choice is really up to your troop and your time restraints. Opening Activity 15 minutes: Brainstorm a variety of issues within the community. The Herstory trading cards would work best as an article as these are facts about someone else. This is so thorough! Go outside to a local animal habitat, this is easy if you are camping. They have the know-how and expertise, either individually or collectively with those they motivate, to push for positive change for their community and world. 549 0 obj The sequence is as follows 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, . Create nature inspired art using circular symmetry. Take Action and community service projects are different, but both are essential to Girl Scouting. We find it best to complete them together; however, that is not a requirement. febrero 28, 2023. Buying handbooks, badge guides, journey books, and badges can be very costly, so the Volunteer Toolkit is a great free resource. Then count the boxes inside the leaf. trailer Mom is an educator and dad is a firefighter/paramedic. Did your girls love the journey as much as ours? Girl Scout Law Flower Board large sheets of paper, 5 large sheets of paper 3 for the vocabulary activity and 1 for leader brainstorm and 1 for Take Action brainstorm, Sheet of paper for Im Being Framed or Page 13 and Power of Team Comic or Comic Strip and Creating Take Action Plan, Materials to make an obstacle course (we mostly used large items in the room), 3 Notecards per scout labeled True, False, and Wish. Amazon and the Amazon logo are trademarks of Amazon.com, Inc or its affiliates. Create algorithms and rapid prototypes to teach others what theyre good at. Pairs nicely with the Outdoor Art Explorer Junior Badge and Junior Girl Scout Way Badge, Total Time: 1 hour and 25 minutes plus length of campfire. This will let you begin the plan prior to putting it into place. The square knot is great for joining two different ropes that are the same thickness, while a clove hitch helps to fasten a rope to a tree or post. Then allow the girls to take turns sharing their cards and see if their friends can guess if the statement they share is their Truth, False, or Wish statement. Join our newsletter to receive family freebies and tips in your inbox. Scouts learn new camping skills such as reading a map, tying knots, building a campfire, cooking or hiking. Keep It Girl-Led: These examples are intended to give a sense of what a Take Action project could look like. Be sure to add information about using the garden and caring for the herbs. that raises awareness in an interesting and emotionally triggering way. Your Juniors will need at least 8 glasses of water per day of the trip and probably more since they will be active. 0000003173 00000 n Well done! For many people these may include a species of bird, bat, or insect. We had so much fun that we planned a few more journey in a day agendas for our troop. Explore Endangered Animals 20 minutes. Instead of buying a separate handbook and leaders guide, you will need the badge packets for Junior Animal Habitats, Junior Camper, and Junior Eco Camper. Then provide each girl or team of girls a blank paper, or use our comic book template, to create their own supergirl comic-book story, script, or visual story to show taking action in their community. The girls can either search for the boxes together or individually. When earning the Junior Camper badge, your girls will learn all about planning a camping adventure including preparing food when camping, tying knots, building a fire, and hiking. We like to bring along hydration packs with at least 2 liters of water per person, sunscreen and a hat for sun protection, a snack, the trail map, and a whistle at a minimum. Complete a Take Action Project The capstone "Take Action Project" should focus on making the outdoor world a better place. As your troop enjoys hiking or observing wildlife, create art inspired by wildlife. Keep it up. While the Girl Scout Outdoor Journeys build upon the skills learned at the previous level, it is not required to have completed any previous outdoor journey. Before beginning a hike, take a moment to look at the trail map. We found that a Saturday or Sunday morning through lunch or lunch and the afternoon worked best for a journey in a day. The most important part is to allow your girls the opportunity to plan the celebrations throughout the journey or the celebration at the end of the journey. Pairs well with the Junior Digital Photographer Badge and Junior Scribe Badge, Total Time: 1 hour and 55 minutes (or longer, depending on your Take Action Project). Plan to use a set distance, such as a quarter mile. *If Juniors have already earned the Animal Habitats or Camper badges, leaders should review the Speck with a campsite host to learn about the best ways to protect the locale wildlife while hiking and camping safely. To complete this journey, Juniors should: Earn Animal Habitats badge Earn Camper badge Earn Eco Camper badge. Each Girl Scout journey has key takeaways for the girls who complete it. We appreciate your kind words. Encourage them to go the distance with these fun and easy badges, Journeys, and activities, adapted for both virtual and safe in-person meetings. Community a group of people living in the same general area, share a common background or interest, or have a common history or goal. Be sure to teach them how to do this in a way that minimally impacts the environment. The Outdoor Junior Journey makes this easy and builds on the outdoor journeys from daisies and brownies. Make a no-trash meal either using one pot or cooking on a stick to meet both the Eco Camper and Camper badge requirements. Some troops love to celebrate after earning each award, while others would rather have one big celebration after the completion of the entire journey. Write down Power, Moxie, and Leader on three different large sheets of paper. Review the, Reflect on what worked, what didnt, and what youve learned, Educate and inspire others to be part of the change. endobj Its important to note that a leader can be anyone, from any place in the world, at any age. How are the homes different when they are babies? You can also ensure that you have the proper safety items for building a campfire. Mar 30, 2017 - Explore Amy Soddy's board "Juniors Take Action Project", followed by 112 people on Pinterest. Planning Tiger Year: December Tiger Cub Scouts Meetings, Spanish January Activities for Kids from a Dual Language Family. Allyson began her quest for a state seashell for Delaware in October 2012. Your troop learns different ways to prepare a campsite with minimal impact to the environment. look at the root of the problem in order to find long-term solutions. (They also come up with a couple of backup ideas in case the first one doesn't work out.) Throughout this project, they will need to learn to work as a team. Leave a comment below and let us know if youve tried the Agent of Change Junior journey. The Outdoor Junior Journey specifically focuses on combining learning the skills necessary for camping in the outdoors, especially camping in a way that is environmentally friendly. CreatingButterflies is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com. You could allow the girls to create their own ringtone to use with their Power of Team comic presentation or their Im Being Framed sharing. Such a great opportunity to young girls to grow into the leaders they will be one day. Since your Junior Girl Scouts love taking pictures and sharing memories, this is a perfect badge to add to any camping trip. Consensus all members of the group agree what to do together. Instead, guide them to brainstorm ideas, get feedback, and come up with a plan. Deciding on a Take Action Project (30 min) Opening Ceremony: Why Is Our Project Important? While Girl Scout journeys are pretty open, they usually include ceremonies or celebrations throughout the journey. Same goes for the journey award badges. Thank you for your kind words. 4) Juniors uncover different ways they can combine their powers to form an unstoppable team who can accomplish anything. Take Action projects look like. This is so impressive, very detailed. This will allow the scouts to follow the leave no trace principles while capturing the beauty of nature. Create a Leave No Trace Printable Poster for each troop in your Girl Scout service unit. While planning for your camping trip, speak with an expert or tour your kitchen to learn about which tools you will need to prepare your food and clean up. If your girls can handle a full weekend of Girl Scouts, you may plan to start early in the evening on Friday and continue through the afternoon on Sunday to include the entire Take Action Project or additional badge work. Pairs well with Junior Musician Badge, Junior Entertainment Technology Badge, and Junior Scribe Badge. Ramn Antonio Do y una mujer que lo acompaaba sufrieron este accidente, donde ambos perdieron la vida. 0000137155 00000 n Endangered Animals any animal or plant species that is in danger of extinction or no longer existing. Pairs well with Junior Scribe Badge. As your scouts are planning their meals for the camping trip, determine how much water each scout will need. This helps the scouts learn to keep animal and plant habitats save while sharing the wonders of the outdoors with others. The Girl Scout Agent of Change Journey defines power as the way you act in everyday amazing ways. The Outdoor Junior Journey requirements can be met over a few different meetings or in just one day. This is a great step to include when planning out your activities for your Outdoor Junior Journey. Your email address will not be published. In addition, the outdoor journey often focuses on learning first aid skills and gaining knowledge about animals in our world. What is Energy? The first and second step look at exploring how music is made and music from around the world. Get Moving Journey in a Day for Juniors During this Journey in a Day program for Juniors you will explore what energy is, the importance of being energy efficient, and steps to take action towards living an energy efficient lifestyle. Junior Girl Scout Leaders can extends their scouts new exploration and leadership skills to the outdoors. Many leaders have moxie. Add these to a binder for new leaders. Buying handbooks, badge guides, journey books, and badges can be very costly, so the Volunteer Toolkit is a great free resource. Basically this means that you will leave no trace that you were there besides your footprints. For your Girl Scouts this is easier to understand by explaining the Fibonacci Sequence forms in spirals. Troop Leaders: The instructions for all badge steps are available free of charge in theGirl Scout Volunteer Toolkit. Object Height = (Girls Height x Objects Shadow) / Girls Shadow. Finally, the last step involves helping your family stay fit. No sew blankets for children Similar to the no-sew blankets for animals above, these blankets can also be made for children. Next, challenge each girl to attempt the obstacle course wearing a blind fold while their girl scout sisters guide them through the course with their voices and gentle touch guidance. These strengths are their power. Add this poster to a binder for new leaders. For Juniors, endangered animals may seem like a very removed idea, however, if you do a little research, you might just find a few endangered species in your community. 0000148981 00000 n Some troops love to celebrate after earning each award, while others would rather have one big celebration after the completion of the entire journey. Step three focuses on knowing how to stress less. Explore badges, activities, and more. 0000009691 00000 n The Power of Community award requirements focus on the take action project. Step four asks the scouts to learn the truth about health. Since you are planning to have a bonfire later in the evening, you could skip the knot tying and instead teach the scouts how to build a fire as their new skill. Make a meal plan for your camping trip. Allyson was doing a project in school on states and the items used to represent them and realized through her research that Delaware was the only state on the east coast without a state shell. Next, the scouts should check out the music in their life. Total Time: 1 hour and 55 minutes (or longer, depending on your Take Action Project) . When you take action, you work as a team to: Here are three ways to create sustainable change: A short-term effort that helps something or someone fulfill an immediate need, A long-term project with sustainable and ongoing influence that addresses a root cause of an issue, Joining an existing effort to solve a problem, Creating a unique initiative to address an issue, Done as part of an existing team (usually as a volunteer), Creating and leading your own team of volunteers, Working toward a goal thats set by others, Setting the goals and leading a team to achieve them. Once the girls complete their Take Action Project, they can share it with others by writing an essay to highlight their accomplishments. Then share the Dream Team trading cards on pages 20 -22 of the Girls Agent of Change handbook. Have the Juniors count the spirals going in each direction to recognize the Fibonacci Sequence in nature. Simply enlarge the pattern and fleece material to cover a twin-sized bed and you've got a great gift for kids. Girls The opening activity is not required and could be eliminated. 0000001294 00000 n We hope you loved our Agent of Change plans as much as our girls and the best part, the troop was excited to tackle another Junior Girl Scout Journey! To find the height of the object (such as a tall tree or building), simply multiply the girls height by the length of the objects shadow. In todays world, this can be done in person, via a zoom meeting, or even at a studio. Yes, I learned a lot from my Girl Scout experience back then, my daughter too. If you ask the girls to include a song in their Power of Team comic and allow them time to share their comics, you could meet both of these steps for Musician. For each width of your hand you can place under your pinky finger is about 1 hour left before the sun sets, each finger width below your pinky finger is about 15 minutes until the sun sets. 0000002848 00000 n This journey has 6 main goals for the girls to explore and discover amazing possibilities. You could also skip the Real Me game, thus saving yourself 30 minutes. A very interesting and informative post. This requirement can tie nicely with the Outdoor Art Creator Junior Girl Scout badge.
$58,000 A Year Is How Much Biweekly After Taxes, Dave Ramsey Financial Coach Training, Rwj Somerset Family Medicine Residency, Dr Steinberg Psychiatrist, Hills At Boerne Stage Ii, Articles T