Join our newsletter to receive family freebies and tips in your inbox. *If Juniors have already earned the Animal Habitats or Camper badges, leaders should review the Pairs well with Junior Musician Badge. 8:15 8:30am Journey Vocabulary Activity, 10:30 10:45am Brainstorming Take Action Projects, 11:00 11:30am Planning Take Action Project, 11:30 12:00pm LUNCH and The Real Me Game. This year, your Juniors will discover new passions, level up their skills, and maybe even make their mark in their community by starting their Girl Scout Bronze Award! This journey has 6 main goals for the girls to explore and discover amazing possibilities. As the Journey progresses, girls continue to develop their leadership skills, applying their new skills and knowledge to help their community in a Take Action project. Another way to save time is to teach the Leave No Trace Principles during your hike. When they use their power to help out in everyday situations, they can do amazing things even when its just them. When trying to complete the Agent of Change Junior Girl Scout journey in a day, you may choose to shorten this part of the meeting. We found that a Friday or Saturday afternoon/evening through lunch or dinner the following day worked best for a journey in a day. Consensus all members of the group agree what to do together. It also extends to the outdoor journey for cadettes, seniors, and ambassadors. 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. The sequence is as follows 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, . You can incorporate this with the Junior Geocacher badge requirements by creating planet based geocaches to place along your hike. Finally the Animal Habitats badge worked well at the end for us. Finally, the last step involves helping your family stay fit. You may even find that one of your Junior Girl Scouts is an expert. Resources for Girl Scout members. If its a community service project, brainstorm how you might make it a Take Action project. While Girl Scout journeys are pretty open, they usually include ceremonies or celebrations throughout the journey. Juniors plan an overnight camping trip, including items to bring, activities to enjoy, and meals to prepare. Keep a list of the animals that you see and their special features that allow them to live here. You will want to ensure you are at least 200 feet away from nearby water sources and hiking trails. Take Action Project Name: Sea Shell Overcome Allyson Willis. Work with your troop to plan your camping adventure. However, you could easily add these in if you choose to have a snack during the journey meeting. These help to contain the fire and keep your scouts safe too. Consensus all members of the group agree what to do together. Use page 23 of the Girls Agent of Change handbook for a template or example. 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. Take Action project ideas for the Engineering: Think Like an Engineer Journey. During your campfire be sure to share girl scout songs, a story about Juliette Gordon Low the founder of Girl Scouts, and share special Girl Scout traditions from the past. Taking a music poll would work really well while the girls are learning about consensus. This could include benches for taking a rest, an archery range for scouts working on their archery badges, a community garden to teach more about flowers, seeds, and plants for those badges. Take Action projects look like. 5) Your girls learn about value resources in their community and how communities work together. Create a list of minimal impact recipes and cooking strategies for your Girl Scout service unit. 0000003074 00000 n As your troop enjoys hiking or observing wildlife, create art inspired by wildlife. Add this poster to a binder for new leaders. And if you are looking for more Girl Scout leader tips, be sure to subscribe to our newsletter below. Girls identify a problem they care about. On the other hand, many troops prefer for each scout to have their own journey handbook. However, leaders also have the ability to access the journeys and badges in the Girl Scout Volunteer Toolkit, which is an amazing resource for leaders to access the material for free. Earning the Junior Trail Adventure fits nicely with the conservation hike in Eco Camper. The girls examine stereotypes & learn to recognize them. What worked well for you? It could also pair with the blind obstacle course. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Kindling about the diameter of your thumb and the second material to catch fire when building a campfire. Explore badges, activities, and more. Sometimes these badges are easier to pair than other times. Your girl scouts will learn so much more about their environment and ways to enjoy the outdoors in a safe manner. Setup:Review the information below, then practice with the community service and take action project scenarios. The cooking and leave no trace activities pair well with Eco Camper Junior badge, which will save you time while working on both simultaneously. They took pictures of each other for the center of their poster. Opening Activity 15 minutes: What makes a great leader brainstorm. Great pages in the Girls Agent of Change handbook include pages 6, 7, 11, 25, 28, 34. As you enjoy a hike or camping in nature, spend some time learning more about the shapes found in nature. 0000000796 00000 n 0000007372 00000 n Check out the Junior Girl Scout aMUSE Journey and Outdoor Junior Girl Scout Journey for more ideas. 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. 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. Go outside to a local animal habitat, this is easy if you are camping. And remember, keep your fires small. Minimal impact campsite is a big part of the Junior Eco Camper badge and involves setting up a campsite that changes the environment as little as possible. Amazon and the Amazon logo are trademarks of Amazon.com, Inc or its affiliates. While on your hike, bring along some salt dough. MeetingAgendas_P3_0011921_Junior.xlsx Author: SKeating Make smores or another special treat, tell stories or sing songs around your campfire with your scouts. Fuel thicker pieces of wood to keep a fire going. Your troop can decide how they want to celebrate their progress and completion of the journey. We will present both methods below for Girl Scout Leaders and their troops to choose the best way to meet the Girl Scout Junior Outdoor journey requirements. You can drive the distance to determine the exact distance or use an activity tracker on a smart watch to help with the measurements. The junior girl scouts will learn about the benefits of teamwork and how to use their own talents to change the world. Sunday Afternoon prepare lunch, explore endangered animals and their habitats, learn about baby animals and special adaptations to their habitats. (30 min) Take Action Award Ceremony and . Moreover, you will decrease the number of mosquitos by being farther away from the water. What is Energy? Write down Power, Moxie, and Leader on three different large sheets of paper. This begins with the location of your campsite. For these take action projects below, we focused on helping others to discover their own individual powers for most of the examples, but did include a few more hands on or physical projects for scouts who need more doing and less planning. Plan to use a set distance, such as a quarter mile. This can be a painting, sculpture, collage or any other medium of art your scouts love. There are no physical requirements to be a leader. Its never easy to go back and get pictures after the fact. 0000143685 00000 n - Energy takes place in all different shapes and forms. What is happening to the animals? Leave a comment below and let us know if youve tried the Outdoor Junior journey or camping with your girl scout juniors. Multiple the total number pace by 4 to find each girls 1-mile walking pace. This badge fits in so nicely with any campfire since so much of the badge are stories and songs from girl scouts in the past. This should include a healthy breakfast, lunch or dinner, dessert, and your own meal, which could include a hiking snack or girl-led recipe. Your troop should decide how they want to celebrate their progress and completion of the journey. Encourage them to go the distance with these fun and easy badges, Journeys, and activities, adapted for both virtual and safe in-person meetings. With your girl scouts, discover more about space by finding your age if you lived another planet using the Space Sciences Planet Ages website through Girl Scouts. 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. 525 25 The girls will begin to connect power, leadership and teamwork to the traits of the Girl Scout Law. As you create circular symmetry, look for examples of the Fibonacci Sequence. Mobilize to motivate a group of people to take action together towards a common goal. 2016-2022 Girl Scouts of the United States of America. Support Girl Scouts by donating nationally or to your local council, becoming a lifetime member, and advocating for girls. The Junior Outdoor Journey pairs nicely with a few Girl Scout Junior badges. Learn the Leave No Trace Seven Principles. Step 4 asks the girls to create their own special effects. This will let you begin the plan prior to putting it into place. Often times people forget when we set up camp that we are intruding on the local wildlife around us. The girls begin by preparing for their adventure. Usually by Junior Girl Scout year, the scouts have a better idea of what a Take Action Project is and they have participated in a few. However, ceremonies and celebrations are such an important part of Girl Scouts and journeys. 0000002962 00000 n They will need to strategically back to fit all their necessary supplies in their suitcase or backpack. Take the . The first three goals focus on the Power of One award, the fourth goal is the main focus of the Power of Team award, and the final two goals are the focus of the Power of Community award. This is so thorough! 0000004367 00000 n 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. It will take some time to gather enough wood, but this will help to protect the environment. Break into small groups and provide each group with a different scenario listed in table belowor as a full group, review one scenario at a time and work together to determine if it is a community service or Take Action project. About Girl Scout Cookies. 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. Did your girls love the journey as much as ours? PRIORITIZE OUR CAMPS: All Girl Scout Members need to join together to SAVE our remaining Girl Scout Camps. 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. However, our plan does help to meet at least a few requirements of the badges which Girl Scouts suggest pair best with this journey. As we worked through the journey awards, we often did circle back to previous skills to reinforce our learning. Your scouts will learn that not only do they have special leadership powers, but they can combine these powers to form an unstoppable team and community. If your pinky finger is below the horizon, the sun will set very soon. 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). Highly Recommended: 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. Guide the girls through these steps: 1. Thank you x. Include items that show different ways you live by the Girl Scout Law and your Girl Scout values to place into your geocache. 0000001723 00000 n Head out on your trip and have some nighttime fun! Complete the bulk of the journey in one day and then tackle the Take Action Project a little at each of your next meetings, with a final culmination of a Take Action Project in a month or two. 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. They will need to measure their own height, the length of their shadow, and the length of the objects shadow to determine the height. The junior girl scouts should also take part in an outdoor take action project focused on helping their environment. Create a Leave No Trace Printable Poster for each troop in your Girl Scout service unit. So let's get started! Us too, Scott. Opening Activity 20 minutes. 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. In step four, the scouts are supposed to make their own music and step 5 asks them to perform it. Your email address will not be published. 525 0 obj Through this journey, your scouts will discover themselves, learn about teams and leadership, and how they can impact their community and world. Girl Scout Activity Zone activities have been adapted from existing Girl Scout programming. However, you may need some ideas for new projects to try. Choose the Right Path find durable surfaces for camping and stay on established hiking trails. Bonus: Can you imagine a goal you might set and how you might lead a team? Only build as large as you need to accomplish your goals. Simply trace your own shadow and the shadow of the object when standing hear the object. This includes all your trash and food scraps. After your hike, work with the girls to design outdoor art they would love to see in their campground. This badge beings by asking the girls to write a poem, where step 3 asks them to share who they are. 1. Step 4 and 5 look at writing an article and essay. Activity Zone. Build a campfire with your scouts. If your troop would like to complete the outdoor journey in just one day, we recommend combining a few parts together. Learn about the animals near your campsite. Juniors earn the new Eco Camper badge Step Four: When all three badges are complete, girls plan and carry out a Take Action project using the skills they learned, and earn their Take Action Award which shows they earned their Outdoor Journey! Find volunteer, Girl Scout, and family tools and support. You may try a snowshoe hike, sledding, ice skating, rock or boulder climbing, indoor rock climbing, a high ropes course, or any other adventure in the snow or climbing that the girls wish to pursue. The girls can draw, write, paste words and photos cut from magazines, or even bring in their own photos. 0000137155 00000 n Gather friends and family to complete the girls' Take Action Project. For these take action projects below, we focused on helping our environment. Planning Tiger Year: December Tiger Cub Scouts Meetings, Spanish January Activities for Kids from a Dual Language Family. xref However your scouts can pick any endangered area. Write out the different meals you will need to prepare food and dont forget the snacks too! Take Action and community service projects are different, but both are essential to Girl Scouting. Troop Leaders: The instructions for all badge steps are available free of charge in theGirl Scout Volunteer Toolkit. As your Junior scouts focus on earning their animal habitat badge, they will need to understand habitats. Explore Endangered Animals 20 minutes. With any hiking or camping adventure, your scouts will need some basic first aid. Plan a Take Action project that helps make your favorite park, beach, or forest a better place for everyone. This could even make a wonderful Take Action Project. By clicking "Accept," you consent to the use of ALL cookies. The 3 notecards are labeled True, False, Wish. We love helping our children and other scouts keep learning more about their world and themselves. That sounds like so much fun! Take Action and community service projects are different, but both are essential to Girl Scouting. They have confidence in themselves to make the action come to fruition. Required fields are marked *. For Girl Scouts JUNIOR FAMILY AND FRIENDS CHECKLIST YES, I WANT TO HELP THE JUNIORS SUCCEED. Join our newsletter to receive family freebies and tips in your inbox. Prepare to take action by completing a Journey or, if youve already done one and youre a Girl Scout Junior, Cadette, Senior, or Ambassador, get started on your Bronze, Silver, or Gold Award, respectively. No sew blankets for children Similar to the no-sew blankets for animals above, these blankets can also be made for children. %PDF-1.4 % Begin by calculating your walking pace. Thank you for sharing! Earn a Take Action Award. Take some time to explore different size backpacks or suitcases that your girls might bring. Please do not choose a project from this list for girls to do! Below we will include our Junior Girl Scout Agenda for the Agent of Change Journey in a Day. They then bring the production to relevant audiences around the community or host an event. Next, the girls create a short story, which works well with their Power of Team Comic. Our girls love the instant recognition; however, we find that more badges are lost this way or never end up on their vests. The Outdoor Junior Journey works a little differently than the other journeys. While speaking with a first responder, be sure to talk about how to handle urgent first aid issues such as allergies, asthma, snakebites, and poison. 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. Always remember to respect the wildlife and other visitors too. This helps to protect the environment. 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. Where you prepare food, use the restroom, play, and sleep are all part of your campsite. 0000008508 00000 n 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. Begin with teaching your girl scouts the steps to take in an emergency such as Check the scene for safety, call 911 or for other help, and Care for the injured person or animal. Endangered Animals any animal or plant species that is in danger of extinction or no longer existing. There are a few key steps to setting up a minimal impact campsite. Work with your camping location to strategical place garbage cans and recycling bins to encourage others to use them when they have trash. For our troop, we found earning Camper badge while earning the Eco Camper badge to be helpful since there is so much overlap. You can find these in rivers, tree branches, lightning, plants, and clouds. Leave What You Find leave all plants, rocks, animals, and historical items as you found them. Discover Girl Scouts. Team Vocabulary Activity 15 minutes: Introduce the terms power, moxie and leaders. For this badge begin by teaching your Junior Girl Scouts how to tell time using the sun and their hands. Keep It Girl-Led: These examples are intended to give a sense of what a Take Action project could look like. Sign-up to receive our newsletter packed full of tips, tools and freebies with practical solutions for the whole family! To find the area of the leaf, trace the leaf on a piece of graph paper. Create a butterfly garden to beautify the campgrounds and provide a safe space for butterflies to rest during their migration. Allow the girls to brainstorm what these words mean to them. Instead, leaders embody special characteristics that focus on helping others. Take Action projects are at the heart of all Journeys, but they're different from the community service projects that Girl Scouts may have doneand you'll want to understand those differences before planning a Take Action project. As you hike make notes about plants and animals that you see as well as any problems with the area, including trash, abandoned campsites, other hikers, signs of erosion, etc.
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