If the girls get stuck for ideas, have them look at the articles in their books. The adult guide has prompts to help leaders guide their troop, and the journey book has stories, activities, and space for girls to. Cadette girl scout amaze journey, session 2 you know, if girl scouts usa was smart, theyd have a website along the lines of or websites in which crafters tell about their experiences with various patterns in sewing and knitting, giving tips to future sewists and knitters in which various people could post how. It is helpful to have a few ideas of workable projects or contacts in mind, even if they are just.
It will assist you in ensuring that the girls are engaging in a highquality action. For their agent of change take action project troop 4762 worked with nih childrens inn. Sisterhood project planner and guide the girls to create a short list of sisterhood issues they feel passionate aboutand could create a positive change on. It may be helpful to note that girls who do intend to complete a take action project and go on to earn all the awards offered on the journey that theyll be one step closer to earning the prestigious girl scout silver award grades 68, since the first requirement is completing a journey. Amaze is a monthly online magazine with a twist from ecochic fashion and beauty to living green with natural products for health, home, family and more, amaze magazine provides pure content dedicated to helping you thrive in joyful, whole living. Ive recently completed my take action project for the girltopia journey. These examples are intended to give a sense of what a take action project could look like.
Girl scout bronze, silver, and gold awards are all take action projects. Use your take action project to the next level, let your troop lead the process. Planning the take action project todays journey meeting was our eighth. This journey is their chance to imagine a perfect worldfor girls.
Mention that the ake action project can be a team effort in which girls will. Project action challenges community changemakers to put into action an innovative, creative and impactful initiative that makes their community a better place. Taking action project 34 weeks assessment and extension ideas. Cadette girl scout leaders the dis disney discussion forums. Sometimes its easier to talk about those issues in the context of others stories, rather than challenges girls are experiencing themselves. Take something you learned about healthy relationships from steps and pass it on to others. She also helped the coordinators of the event by helping to run lunch time activities revolving around standing up for your friends. Here is a sampling of what some cadette troops have done. Allow the girls the entire session to plan their take action project for their diplomat. Action project examples archives take action manitoba. Fortunately we have a local farmer that offered to answer all our questions. I have listened to my girls and over the last few years i have overcome the challenge of making it fun and exciting, while teaching them the values the journey book was created to instill. When girls have earned this award, they will know how to use their relationship skills to make a difference in the world. Girls learn about different animals, how caring for animals links with caring for themselves, make a lot of crafts inspired by nature but showing diversity among individuals, and do a take action project that educates the community about an animal related issue.
Students illustrate and present to the class a scene from a book in the form of a diorama. Every year, hundreds of girl scouts in western washington earn their silver awardthe highest honor for cadette girl scouts. Many of the projects focus on similar issueslike the environment, animals, and antibullyingbut we are. Then, last night we found out that at the end of the journey the girls need to do a take action project.
Basic steps of event planning for take action project. If roots and oots the waterfront lesson is not being taught, both the woodchip pan and forest pan will be used with the. Make up your own ideas and stop asking random people on the internet for ideas. 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. Whats the difference between a community service project. She is accepted into this landscape and, in turn, accepts the world around her. It was the most beautifully run, comprehensive and productive weekend. See if theres a cookie college or cookie rally event. During the process, here are some things to keep in mind. Whats the difference between community service and take action. This curriculum is designed to help you complete the media journey in an upallnight setting.
The heroine journeys project team is available to provide presentations and lead workshops designed to help artists and writers, professionals, students, and others seeking to make sense of life experiences to reframe experience that does not fit the conventional heros journey narrative. The requirements for each award can be found on pp. Cadette journey snapshots girl scouts of greater new york. The adult guide offers tips for talking about relationship. Cadette amaze journey activity plan 2 planning guides link. Amaze take action project planning sheet workshops4girls.
In this booklet you will find the requirements for each. Below are some suggestions for your take action project, which the. 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. The girls came up with several areas to focus their efforts in. The following cadettes are working on the breathe journey take action project. Spread refugee awareness through student organizations using ysas be an everyday young hero tipsheet. Track your learning session history on this gscp2p learning record card. While earning this award, there are many ways for girls to be leaders. A leadership journey workshop for girl scout juniors this program brought to you by gscnc and r.
This guide includes many of the badge and award options for girl scout cadettes as well as downloadable activity plans. Theyre invited to create their vision as an art projectin any medium they choose. Take action projects are found within the journey books and these projects. My promise, my faith pin honest and fair, the parable of the workers in the. Im wondering, have you heard back from senior and ambassador troops about project ideas.
Im not going to hand you golden ideas on a silver platter. Ideas for projects are listed on pages 6869 of the leader guide. 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. 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. Journey take action projects poolesville area girl scouts. Invite the girls to make name tags if they dont all know each other. Each girl picked a grade level on which to focus and. They talk to people in their school, neighborhood or town who are involved in the issue. Year outline on how to guide girl scout cadettes through. If the action project is spreading wood chips, the woodchip pan will be used with the soil pan. A take action guide for volunteers this guide includes answers to the following faqs.
The tipsheet will show you how to raise awareness in your. We got the posters approved by the school to hang up in the hallways and did that at the next meeting. Jul 26, 2017 lucy was interviewed on the project this week about amaze ormeaus new firepit and why it has stoked such a hot debate. I am loosely following the turnkey example and bringing my own things in, too. This patch is included free in the junior action journey badge in a bag kit for girls working on the amuse journey. Girls guide to girl scouting, its your worldchange it. We also took a different twist on the take action project for our breathe journey. Additional materials for each session are listed just below the session title and it. The cadette planning guide is an online resource to help cadette troops and juliettes complete journeys and badges. Remember that the adult book, how to guide girl scout juniors through amuse, its your storytell it.
You do notddoo nnoottdo not have to complete or adhere to every single activity or idea in the book. The girl scout cadette breathe journey is one that the girls can learn a lot from. Even though the girls wont complete a take action project as part of this series, girls are. Apr 17, 2017 from ideas to action driving your ideas to completion can be a challenge especially when you are dealing with multiple data sources, complex and sometimes illdefined requirements in addition to many stake holders. There are women with different backgrounds, different careers, different lifechoices, different hobbies and different successes in every community. I got color copies made of their posters, so they had to make 2. Review steps to awards as given on page 9 of girls book. Community service is a shortterm impact on the issue at hand. It teaches the girls the girl scout law by means of talking flowers, each of which represents a line of the law and one of the daisy petals. My take action project was to create a weekend for cadette and senior girl scouts to complete their girltopia journey and for the scouts to develop ideas for their own take action project. If the action project is planting, the forest pan will be used with the soil pan.
Amaze ormeau childcare centre featured on channel 10 news. The purpose of this overnight is to explore the amaze journey. Instead, guide them to brainstorm ideas, get feedback, and come up with a plan. Jul 27, 2012 our girls are ready to start their gold award so we have to do another journey. Action project ideas archives take action manitoba. Novel project lesson plan for 4th 12th grade lesson planet. They have the tools to plan their take action project for the diplomat award. This is not the end of the journey girltopia it is merely the true beginning of a lasting and meaningful shift in prejudice that moves us one step closer to a world of shared ideas, valued relationships, and mutual respect. Energy ideas mindmap get moving junior journey scouts honor wiki wikia what is a mind map. See page 35 in the adult guide for a few starting ideas.
Have the girls fill out page 12 in their journey book, which has them list their five favorite. Oct 28, 2016 the power of community took up a good chunk of the rest of our gs year. What is the message they want to get out about making a change refer to girl book page 4757 for ideas. At some point, the girls went through their sow what journey book and completed several sections. And sometimes its easier to talk about those issues in the context of others stories, rather than battles girls are experiencing themselves. Use experimentation to learn from failure and move from incremental to radical innovation. You can follow pages 1140 in the girls book as a guide, or to get some ideas. They will need to start, if they havent already, filling in their project ideas, start getting into groups based on what projects interest them. Junior family and friends checklist take action project checklist. Take action projects are aimed to create longterm impacts on the issue at hand.
As we have a mix of multiple schools, home school students, etc. Here are a few movie ideas to tie in with the agent of change journey. Fist to five was incredibly helpful in figuring out what to do for our take action project tap. Use some of the ideas below or feel free to make your own. Ideas for girl scout take action projects that girls can do. Sometimes, creating a highimpact day or weekend in which to complete a journey the best way to help them build towards the silver award. This 5week course will teach you how to frame your ideas as experiments and bring others in on your vision of the future.
Public take action ideas girl scout service unit 660 san. Read and sign the antigossip pledge on page 62 of the amaze journey book or have the girls create an antigossip pledge of their own. Pretty soon, there are topics that seem to get most of the attention and ideas, and it becomes easier to focus on just that issue and develop a project. For journey take action projects, it is easy for the girls to get inspiration from what they learned in the journey, says lara. See more ideas about cadette badges, girl scouts and girl scout patches.
The story project thanks each and every one of our very generous angels who continue to bless us with their wit and wisdom. Gsusa resources for using journeys including the journey maps journey map it share your take action project when youre finished with your journey take action project, share about it with girl scouts all across the country. T o complete the amaze journey, girls plan and carry out. May 07, 2017 lots of great take action project ideas, too. Cadette journey amaze part 2 girl scouts of gateway council. 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. Action project examples specific examples of action projects to help guide students, teachers, and others in what sustainable action might look like. 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. Apr 17, 2020 helpful ideas for working on the amaze journey.
Includes example take action projects from manitoba as well as organizations who are leading in sustainable action. For their take action project, our girls decided to create a talk show called gs life. Girls will create and carrying out a take action project with every journey that they complete. For her project, she partnered with the holy innocents church food pantry that serves over 65 families every week, and over 100 families during the winter holidays.
Girls guide to girl scouting, completing two of these activity plans. Movies for the cadette amaze journey use resources wisely. From ideas to action is a deep dive into the design thinking skills of ideation, prototyping, and iteration. 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. Workshops and presentations the heroine journeys project. 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. Maybe they want to flip through their books and select the activities and topics that. 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. Girls should play an active part in determining the what, where, when, how and why of their project.
Girls can use the diplomat award guidelines on page 114 of the girl book to help plan their take action project. This guide can be incorporated towards any of the girl scout journeys. Senior girltopia journey girltopia rock united service unit. This is your opportunity to create a tangible legacy within your community. After each unit described in the series above, i administer a survey to my students. Powered by create your own unique website with customizable templates. Ideas for schools, students, and teachers to gain inspiration from. Please do not choose a project from this list for girls to do.
Youtube is a great tool for girls to complete their media taptake action project. Nov 08, 2012 girls should be able to identify who the community is, and also involve them in the process of the project. Girls and their families take deliberate notice of the. The ideas shared on the following pages were shared as ideas to springboard your troops ideas. Cadette planning guide girl scouts river valleys volunteers. A take action guide for volunteers girl scouts of the usa. There are more ideas in the girls book pages 116117 pass it on. The get moving journey is part of the its your planetlove it. Womenwise, wacky and wonderful girl scouts need positive female role models from all walks of life. Mention that the take action project can be a team effort in which girls will use.
Ideas and support for students and teachers working toward sustainability and global citizenship. Troop leaders share the take action project their girl scouts completed to complete the cadette amaze journey. Then theyll take action to make their vision a reality. Let these girls help guide your ideas or help spark some new ones. Public take action ideas girl scout service unit 660. There are girls who want to finish this journey, so we are going to throw around ideas, keep it simple, but make it sustainable. We read pages 120129 in the girl book and brainstormed ideas for the take action project. Apr 08, 2015 over a long weekend, senior troop 3398 from plainview, ny did the ambassador bliss journey using the totally girl led dream journey badge in a bag kit from makingfriends. Think of it as an outline, or a book of ideas, rather than a lesson plan or curriculum. In this amaze take action project video the girls show the right way to stand up for your friends. 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.
Make some notes, if its useful, for how you went about accomplishing these important steps. Then all of the girls will repeat her name and action, and any previous names and actions in reverse order the most recent names first. A take action project picks up from where a shortterm service project leaves off. A mind map is a visual way to organise and bike route. Take action projects are found within the journey books and these projects will prepare girls. Good idea for take action project for get moving journey. The premium pro 50 gb plan gives you the option to download a copy of your binder to your local machine. Amaze encourages passion for life and supports you at every turn and every stage of being. The crafts are totally appropriate for high school kids. Welcome to the daisy flower garden girl scout tool box. It also encourages girls to stand up for others when they are the witness to bullying or unkind behavior. Movie ideas for agent of change journey use resources wisely. Ideas to help immigrants and refugees asap ysa youth service. The guests represented different experts in the fields of bullying, cyberbullying and body image.
Here is a list of resources for them and for you, their leader, to use. Cadette amaze girl scouts of northeastern new york. Explore the journey resources life is a maze of relationships and this journey has girl scout cadettes maneuvering through all its twists and turns to find true friendships, plenty of confidence, and maybe even peace. Action fun patch they have done all the research now its time to take action and earn the action fun patch. Oct 16, 2015 teamwork and talents are the common themes of the junior agent of change journey. Girls who went to the breathe journey weekend last year will work on completing the take action project. Jul 12, 2015 movies for the cadette amaze journey life is a maze of relationships, and the amaze journey has girl scout cadettes maneuvering through all its twists and turns. 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. The journey books here seem to focus on setting up a bike route to school. This novel project lesson plan is suitable for 4th 12th grade. Girls learn more about the issue, then work together to come up with a plan.
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