Innovate: As a team, you will create and put in place a plan for how your community can conserve energy and use energy wisely. Investigating is something all good leaders do! Leaders investigate issues and ideas in order to accomplish their goals. You’ll come up with recommendations for how to improve its energy efficiency. Investigate: As a team, you will investigate energy at home and in this building. Leaders are full energy! The know how to energize themselves and everyone around them! That’s what this journey is all about. If no one knows, say something like “Energy-efficient means using less energy to do the work needed.” Have the girls go around the circle again giving examples of ways to be energy efficient.Įxplain 3 badges: energize, investigate, innovateĮnergize: To earn this award, you will explore what personal energy is, and all the ways you can use your personal energy to its fullest. Next, ask the girls if they know the terms “energy efficiency” or “energy-efficient” and explain what they mean. Have the girls sit in a circle and see if they can go around two more times naming ways they’ve used energy.
Ask: Did you take a shower, play with the cat, text a friend? Did you toss a ball? Figure out a math problem? Have the girls look in their books page 10-11 to see examples of different types of energy. Get Moving Journey in a Sleepover Session 1 33Īsk the girls to think of all the ways they’ve used energy or seen energy being used in the past 24 hours. If sharing online, please give me credit. Created by: Lora Brinkman, GSMH SU 738, Troop 70258, Columbia, MO This outline may be used for Girl Scout Troops and modified as necessary. Make A Team Decision on an Innovate Project
Innovate Puzzle Risk and Impact Team Choice Innovate Project Brainstorm Role-play !Vamos Ya (girl book 85-101) Sketch an animal, insect creating energy (show spider video)ĭraft checks Hot drink cozies from blue jeansīuilding Audit (condense list to checklist/questions) Communication Maze (copies for girls on pg 66&67) Communicate like an advocate Writing a letter for change Word for my energy to pick nickname for journey Team Energy Pledge Recycled paper bead earrings Recycle Artists discussion (girl book 40-43) How do you use energy? Explain 3 badges: energize, investigate, innovate Make recycled notebooks The girls presented their $200 gift to Manley and enjoyed a family picnic in Larkey Park.Ī copy of their book is available to view through the Lafayette Service Unit of Girl Scouts.Get Moving Journey in a Sleepover Session 1 33 34 35 They celebrated in June with a trip to the Alexander Lindsay Wildlife Experience where Dawn Manley, director of Animal Encounters, arranged a private tour and encounter with "Fire," a red tailed hawk. Diablo State Park and dedicated $200 of their fundraising money to benefit the Alexander Lindsay Wildlife Experience, experts in helping local native animals in need.īy the end of their journey, they had earned their Animal Habitat, Digital Photography, Outdoor Cooking, Camping, and First Aid skills badges as well as all components of their "Get Moving" Journey and their certificate for their Bronze Award.
They became advocates for animals native to Mt. They met with park rangers and learned about the local geology and biology and even wrote a book detailing advice on camping and hiking spots as well as the fauna and flora of the park. They practiced setting up tents and cooking over a fire. They researched and planned two field trips and a two-day camping trip to Mt. The girls raised funds by selling nuts, magazines and cookies so they were able to buy their camping needs as well as their journey books and skills patches. Troop 33544 changed that for themselves while earning the highest award a Junior Girl Scout can receive, the Bronze Award, creating a model for other girls to follow.
With the distractions of electronics and the stereotype that real camping and hiking is tough and scary and is a better suited for boys, girls don't get out in nature and get dirty. While following their "Get Moving" Girl Scout journey, this group of fifth-grade girls from Happy Valley and Springhill schools decided something important: Girls don't get outdoors as much as they should. From left, Sasha Krigel, Allison Curletto, Bettina Curletto, Ava Curletto, Andreya Cox, Dawn Manley and "Fire"įor the past year, Junior Girl Scout Troop 33544 of Lafayette has been learning a lot about the outdoors.
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