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JUNIOR GIRL'S GUIDE TO GIRL SCOUTING BINDER
This is a pre-order item! Coming September 2011
In September 2011, GSUSA will debut The Girls Guide to Girl Scouting.
Girls at each grade level will have their own Girls Guide so there will
be six publications. The Girls Guide to Girl Scouting will include: a
variety of badge offerings, handbook sections covering traditions and
history, Cookie badges, an awards log, and much more.
For More information on Girl's Guide to Girl Scouting publications and badges click here:
It's Your World—Change It!
Introducing the First Series of Journeys
Agent of Change
Power. In this journey, there’s a whole spiral of it waiting for Girl Scout Juniors. The journey is filled with ceremonies and circles, real-life heroines, and special new characters, including the fashion-savvy spider named Dez. Along the way, girls learn how their own power combines into team power and then moves out to become community power (kind of like how Dez weaves her web from the inside out). The journey’s centerpiece is a comic story of girl heroines who will inspire the Juniors as they take action to improve their own community.
Journey Awards
This Junior journey is filled with fun and friendship. From its start to its closing celebration, the girls will move from a deeper understanding of themselves to exploring how powerful they are as a team, to realizing the added strength they gain by reaching out in the wider community to take action with its members. Agent of Change offers girls a chance to earn three awards and record progress throughout the journey in their own ''Award Tracker.''
To earn The Power of One Award, girls will discover and share the powerful story of a forgotten woman or girl from around the world who mobilized others and made a difference, discover all the ways their own strengths and powers help them create change in the world, and discover what the Girl Scout Law and true ''heroines'' have in common- To earn The Power of Team Award, girls connect with their Girl Scout crew to create a ''super girl'' story in which the characters take one small situation they care about and strive for long-lasting community change. Girls will also make a team decision and write their team hopes for a Take Action Project that reaches into a community network to solve a problem together with community members
- To earn The Power of Community Award, girls take action on their plan, reach out, join others and get them involved, and start something that snowballs into a change in their world. Girls join in their Girl Scout Junior circle to reflect on what they accomplished and celebrate it.
It's Your Planet—Love It!
Introducing the Summer 2009 Journeys
Juniors build their skills as leaders who Energize, Investigate, and Innovate.- They earn these three prestigious new leadership awards as they explore their own energy, the energy in their places and spaces (buildings), and the energy of getting from here to there (transportation)
- Juniors have a new comic story, "Vamos Ya!" to inspire their action (walking school bus anyone?)
- Dez, the fashionista spider, is also back to add some wit to the journey as she tries to figure out life "off the grid." "How does this carbon footprint thing work?" she asks. "Do I get eight?"
- From their own paper-making experiment to making beads from newspapers and magazines to forming a "perpetual human motion machine," Juniors will find that GET MOVING! is crammed full of energizing stuff to make and do!
Journey Awards
This journey offers Juniors a chance to earn three Girl Scout leadership awards—Energize, Investigate, and Innovate. The girls can choose to earn one, two, or all three. If they earn all three, they'll see how the awards join together to create an energizing effect on their vest or sash.
To earn the Energize Award, girls:
- Make an Energy Pledge to reduce their energy use in one or more ways
- Try at least two other Energize activities suggested along the journey
- Check out how other people are tackling energy issues
To earn the Investigate Award, girls connect with their Girl Scout crew to:
- Learn about energy use in their buildings
- Work with their families to make an energy improvement at home
- Investigate energy use in a community building and suggest ways to make it more energy-efficient
To earn the Innovate Award, girls:
- Identify an energy issue in the community, research it, create a plan, and carry it out, all the while reaching out to others to join in, too
- Share the news, reflect on what they accomplished, and celebrate it
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Juniors learn just how many roles are open to them in the world and the possibilities those roles open for them.
Leadership Awards
- Reach Out! Award - Juniors understand the many roles women and girls play in the world around them and the leadership skills used to play them
- Speak Out! Award - Juniors are aware of how stereotypes could hold themselves, and others back from trying on roles, and they Take Action to help stop stereotypes
- Try Out! Award - Juniors have the courage, and confidence to
try out new roles
Girl Scout Bridging Awards
Bridge to Girl Scout Cadette Award
The Bridge to Girl Scout Cadette Award Patch (UPC # 09711, suggested retail price $1.25).
Climb Up to Cadette!
When you climb up to Girl Scout Cadette, get ready to lead! Organize a basketball league for girls in your community, help plan a badge workshop for younger Girl Scouts, or volunteer with Habitat for Humanity.
Try a destination or getaway to California and visit a marine mammal center. Soak up the atmosphere at a majestic national park as you wander through the woods at Yosemite. Strap on your backpack and explore the Grand Canyon or hike the Appalachian Trail. It's up to you!
As a Girl Scout Cadette you can choose from three different Journeys: Explore the twists and turn of friendship in aMAZE; investigate what's really in the air with Breathe; or channel your creativity into an awesome project through Media (available December 2010).
You don't have to stop there. Once you've done a journey, you can embrace an issue you care deeply about and change your community for the better by completing a project to earn your Girl Scout Silver Award—the highest award a Cadette can earn.
If you like working with younger girls, you can help your Brownie sisters on their journey and earn the Leadership in Action award in the process.
Earning the Award
To earn the Bridge to Girl Scout Cadette Award, complete two
bridging steps. These steps will help you pass down something you
learned to a younger Girl Scout and look forward to what's waiting for
you at the next level.
Bridging Step One: Pass It On!
Share your talents and skills by teaching younger Girl Scouts something you learned to do as a Junior.
As a Cadette, you'll have the power to create an amazing impact on the world around you! Here are some ideas for taking everything you've learned and energizing younger girls to jump up to Junior. Use one of these ideas to start you off, or come up with your own. You only have to do one to complete the step.
- Show your Brownie sisters why being a Junior is so great. Make short videos of everyone in your group speaking for one minute about your favorite memory from your time as a Junior and screen them for a group of Brownies. Don't forget to tell them why you can't wait to climb up to Cadette!
- Invite Brownies to attend one of your meetings and demonstrate a skill that will make them look forward to being a Girl Scout Junior. For example, you could show them photos from your group's favorite camping or canoe adventure and demonstrate how pack a backpack for a longer trip. Get them excited to spend time outdoors with their Girl Scout sisters!
- Invite girls your age who aren't Girl Scouts to join you in a fun activity – learning martial arts, sign language or building a parade float. If you're doing a Take Action project, ask your buddies to tag along! Maybe you'll inspire them to pitch in.
- Team up with the girls in your group that earned a Bronze Award and hold a question and answer session for interested Brownies. Describe how you chose your project, your planning process and how you overcame obstacles along the way. Inspire them to go for the Bronze too!
Bridging Step Two: Look Ahead!
Find out What Girl Scout Cadettes Do
As a Cadette, you'll set your sights on the world outside your local area. Find out what lies beyond your neighborhood. Make a list of all the places in you'd like to visit. But, there's no better way to find out what you have to look forward to than to talk with your Cadette sisters.
Use one of the ideas below to get you started, or come up with your own. You only have to do one to complete the step.
- Ask a Cadette to talk to you about her experiences so you know what you can expect. Does she have a favorite experience from her time as a Cadette? If she mentions a special activity or new skill she learned as a Cadette, ask her to teach you how to do it.
- Do you want to work on your Girl Scout Silver Award? Find the Cadettes that earned this honor and ask them for tips. Find out how they formed their teams, how they selected a project and what they learned along the way. If you have some ideas for your own project, be sure to ask them for advice.
- What journeys did Cadettes go on? What did they enjoy about the experience? Ask them how they helped their community and to share their best moments from their journey with you.
Plan a Ceremony
Congratulations! You've earned your Bridge to Girl Scout Cadette
Award! Celebrate with a favorite ceremony you learned on your Junior
journey—or make up a new one. Then add your Bridging patch to your
Cadette sash or vest. For more ideas, visit Bridging Ceremonies.
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