T o complete the amaze journey, girls plan and carry out a take action project that addresses the root cause of a community issue in a sustainable way. Each girl picked a grade level on which to focus and. Our girls are ready to start their gold award so we have to do another journey. Overview of take action take action is designed to elevate traditional girl scout community service projects from meeting an immediate need to advocacy projects that make change. Additional programming ideas for troop meetings visit a maze corn, labyrinth, or other. Girl scout bronze, silver, and gold awards are all take action projects. Year outline on how to guide girl scout cadettes through. For their agent of change take action project troop 4762 worked with nih childrens inn. Have the girls open their journey books to pages 72 and 73. When girls have earned this award, they will know how to use their relationship skills to make a difference in the world. Have the girls complete the quiz on pages 2629 of the girl journey books and complete what. Girls learn about environmental topics, such as clean water and air, noise pollution, global warming, soil contamination, and agriculture.
Lots of teambuilding activities here to add to the list. To earn the golden honey bee award, girls will take action through a gardening project. Ultimately, girls emerge from this maze to amaze the world with take action projects that mobilize ever wider circles of people in positive and peaceful interaction. Girls will create and carrying out a take action project with every journey that they complete. Public take action ideas girl scout service unit 660. Given all of the challenges associated with navigating relationships in middle school, it was no surprise that our troop chose to take the its your world, change it. A take action project the final step in all girls scout journeys is the sustainable project that a girl or group of girls can do that deals with the subject matter of the journey. Are there any topics in their book that they want to talk more about during this time. If youre a girl scout volunteer, go to volunteer toolkit for. Apr 22, 2014 this video is all about good and bad relationships. The amuse take action project takes the form of an artistic performance or presentation busting a stereotype. Below are some suggestions for your take action project, which the girls must complete in order to finish their journey. Welcome to the daisy flower garden girl scout tool box.
For their take action project, our girls decided to create a talk show called gs. We also took a different twist on the take action project for our breathe journey. Places where girls can do their take action project additional programming ideas for troop meetings. This overnight allows you to focus on the earning a journey for cadettes, without the distractions of our busy. Fortunately we have a local farmer that offered to answer all our questions. They keep the other two ideas on the backup list in case their first idea doesnt work out. It is recommended that each girl have her own copy of the journey book and girl guide to girl scouting for. It is different from the lia received in the its your world, change it journey. To be clear, this is not an outline for a journey in a weekend. To prepare girls for brainstorming ideas, read chapter 4 in amazing daisy and the daisy flower garden. Recognizing that there is a lot of wait time and sitting around time while waiting for appointments or recovering from procedures, the girls came up with the idea to create activity books for patients and sibling family members at the nih childrens inn.
Life is a maze of relationships and this journey has girl scout cadettes maneuvering through. Find out how to develop true friendships, navigate cliques, and move beyond stereotypes, with the ultimate goal of peace in your interpersonal relationships. Cadette amaze journey activity plan 2 planning guides link. Life is a maze of relationships and this journey will have girls maneuvering through all its twists and turns to find true friendships and plenty of confidence. Take action projects for the breathe journey girls have taken to the internet to share with their sister scouts what they have done to take action for the breathe journey. The outcomes of take action projects get girls motivated and excited about making an impact in their community that can be felt in the long term. The final steps of the award s are earned by completing a take action project that will be completed after the workshop series. Plan a take action project that shares your new friendshipbuilding skills. Amaze take action project planning sheet workshops4girls. Whats the difference between a community service project. Girls can chose plays, murals, comic strips, paintings, songs, whatever medium they choose. Encourage the girls to write things they would enjoy doingand that often is the first few things that come to mind. Places where girls can do their take action project invite a professional to talk with the girls about dating violence visit a local domestic violence shelter to work and play with the children there. See more ideas about cadette badges, girl scouts and girl scout patches.
Instead, guide them to brainstorm ideas, get feedback, and come up with a plan. We did the get moving journey right about the same time as cookie sales. Explore energy and how to use it wisely by interviewing poweruse experts and conducting an energy audits of a building in your community. During the process, here are some things to keep in mind. Planning the take action project todays journey meeting was our eighth. Review steps to awards as given on page 9 of girls book. Completing a cadette journey is a prerequisite for the silver award. Girls guide to girl scouting, its your worldchange it.
Fist to five was incredibly helpful in figuring out what to do for our take action project tap. Please do not choose a project from this list for girls to do. Cadette girl scout leaders the dis disney discussion. Create a window box full of flowers to be hung somewhere at school. To earn, complete two activity plans and one take action project. Cadette planning guide girl scouts river valleys volunteers. You can follow pages 1140 in the girls book as a guide, or to get some ideas. We read pages 120129 in the girl book and brainstormed ideas for the take action project. Remind girls that peer pressure is a form of bullying and relational aggression.
Check out the full list of interact challenges on page 12 of your book and. Oct 28, 2016 the power of community took up a good chunk of the rest of our gs year. Following this session, the team will proceed to the next station. You will earn, the peace maker and interact journey awards, and begin to think about planning for diplomat award which includes a take actionservice learning project. Public take action ideas girl scout service unit 660 san. Then have the girls share their top two choices and compile a list of them on the. Take action projects are found within the journey books and these projects will prepare girls. While earning this award, there are many ways for girls to be leaders. Action project examples specific examples of action projects to help guide students, teachers, and others in what sustainable action might look like. This award is earned when girls complete a girltopia art project and share it, guide other through a girltopia topic, and complete the 12 stages of the take action process. The journey tap is a project the girls design that follows all the steps they will need to do when they tackle their bronze award, so that when they approach the bronze award, the steps will be familiar. Girls and their families take deliberate notice of the. You will earn, the peace maker and interact journey awards, and begin to think about planning for diplomat award which includes a take action service learning project. Movies for the cadette amaze journey use resources wisely see more.
Amaze journey take action project planning worksheet in the girls amaze book, you will find overview of the journey take action project p ages 114 for our sessions, i compress the info from book into a one page format. Jul 27, 2012 our girls are ready to start their gold award so we have to do another journey. Let these girls help guide your ideas or help spark some new ones. The girls came up with several areas to focus their efforts in. When girls have earned this award, they will better understand the complexities of friendship and getting along with others. Just share these cool eagle scout project ideas and tell others about your most favorite. Many of the projects focus on similar issueslike the environment, animals, and antibullyingbut we are always excited to see the unique twists that girls think up. Identifying, classifying, and analyzing stereotypes. Whats the difference between a community service project and a. For the older girls i do 2 34 hours meetings followed by a sleep over where we complete the journey up through brainstorming for the take action project.
Every year, hundreds of girl scouts in western washington earn their silver awardthe highest honor for cadette girl scouts. Since an essential component of a take action project is that the girls take it. Take action projects are found within the journey books. A take action guide for volunteers girl scouts of the usa. The books are full of ideas, but are not requirements. Mention that the take action project can be a team effort in which girls will. Interact award, diplomat award and peacemaker award. As we have a mix of multiple schools, home school students, etc. Take action encourages girls to think bigger and to address problems in such a way that those problems do not reoccur. Then, last night we found out that at the end of the journey the girls need to do a take action project.
A take action project picks up from where a shortterm service project leaves off. If your gs troop did choose a take action project, continue on. T o complete the amaze journey, girls plan and carry out. I think it takes time to come up with a formula that works for your troop. May 15, 2018 amaze cadette journey take action project. Each journey is packed with current environmental information and offers ways to improve life for everyone on the planet through a take action project. Plan a take action project to fix an energy problem in your community. Requirements for earning can be found on pages 2021 of the cadette leader guide for breathe.
Take something you learned about healthy relationships from steps and pass it on to others. Girls learn more about the issue, then work together to come up with a plan. Journey is all about energy conservation and innovating to save energy. In a recent session, a number of the girls decided to create. They have the tools to take action on a topic that impacts interpersonal relationships moving to take action. Life is a maze of relationships and this journey for sixth, seventh and eighth.
Ideas for a take action project can be found on pp. Basic steps of event planning for take action project. Journey take action projects poolesville area girl scouts. Follow the activity on page 5253 of the amaze journey adult guide for approximately 15 minutes. An essential component of a take action project is that the girls take it out to the community. See more ideas about girl scouts, service projects and daisy scouts. Mar 10, 2017 helpful ideas for working on the amuse journey see more ideas about amuse journey, girl scout juniors and girl scout badges. The journeys are a prerequisite for the higher awards because each journey includes a take action project tap. Cadette amaze girl scouts of northeastern new york. We have 15 girl that are currently working on their amaze journey take action projects. Cadette journey amaze part 2 girl scouts of gateway council. They talk to people in their school, neighborhood or town who are involved in the issue.
However, because i am also old school, i like to hold a book and have a hands on resource that i can pull of the shelf without having to turn on the computer. For her amaze journey take action project, this cadette created a bookmark to distribute to all the students at her school during red ribbon week the theme for the week was yolo. Girls will complete the amaze journey and can earn three awards at the completion of the series. Having internet resources is a good thingi wish we had them back when i was a full time elementary school teacher back in the day. This video is all about good and bad relationships. This adult leader guide for breathe can be paid for with troop funds, since the girls are benefiting from it. I have taken many of requirements in the amazing journey book and added a new fun twist to the activities to reinforce what they read or completed in their books.
Troop leaders share the take action project their girl. I know there are more and more councils offering these types of programs, and there is a probably a way this could be adapted to fit that need, but we also did some journey activities in meetings leading up to the campout, as well as the take action project later in the year. The power of community took up a good chunk of the rest of our gs year. The purpose of this overnight is to explore the amaze journey. Mention that the ake action project can be a team effort in which girls will. I have 3 different troops daisies, cadettes, seniorambassador. I am so glad to have come across your get moving as an overnighter. She also helped the coordinators of the event by helping to run lunch time activities revolving around standing up for your friends.
Get moving junior journey scouts honor wiki fandom. This activity gives girls a chance to take a stance on peer pressure, clarifying their own values in the process. As a cadette leader working on the journey books with your troop can be a challenge. These examples are intended to give a sense of what a take action project could look like. Part of one of the notsolatest trends is upcycling, too. It is recommended that each girl have her own copy of the journey book and girl guide to girl scouting for a keepsake and to use when she chooses to apply for a summer job. Includes example take action projects from manitoba as well as organizations who are leading in sustainable action.
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