Cadette Girl Scout Handbook Badge Sampler

1963

Conservation
Purpose: To nd out how our countrys natural resourcesplants, animals, soil, waterare protected and what you can do to help. 1. With your patrol or troop, plan and carry out one of the following outdoor citizenship projects: conduct an anti-litter campaign. Make an animal feeding station and maintain it for one year, recording the wildlife that use the station. Set up a soil conservation project at camp, school, meeting place, or home. Help with a reforestation project. 2. Find out how community, state, and national parks and forests contribute to conservation, including prevention of re and soil erosion. If possible, visit a conservation agent, forest ranger, or re warden tower. 3. Explain how plants and wildlife depend on each other and the relation of soil and water conservation to each. Find out what state and federal laws protect wildlife and combat water pollution. 4. Know which plants and owers in your state may never be picked. Be able to identify them. 5. List the birds and fur-bearing animals that are protected by laws in your state. OR Visit a sh hatchery and nd out how state and federal laws protect sh. 6. Work on a conservation project with a local conservation group. OR With other members of the troop, develop and set up a conservation exhibit. 7. Learn the Conservation Pledge and be able to explain what it means. 8. Service _____. 9. Health and safety _____. 10. Promise and Laws _____.

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Explorer
Purpose: To plan and carry out varied types of camping trips. 1. Help to plan and carry out three weekend camping trips, using varied forms of transportationfoot, bicycle, canoe, horse, or carby working with a group on activities in No. 2 through 9. 2. Decide where and how to go. Using road or topographical maps, indicate routes and overnight stops. Arrange for permits, reservations, emergency measures. 3. Considering weather expected, activities, and types of trip, decide what group gear and personal gear to take, Plan how to obtain, pack,and carry it. Demonstrate you know how to handle, care for, and make minor repairs on equipment used. 4. Plan menus some of which include concentrated and dehydrated foods. Help to obtain, pack, carry, store, prepare and serve food. 5. Set up and strike overnight camps, including sanitation, cooking, and sleeping areas. Demonstrate good outdoor living skills, good outdoor citizenship, emergency preparations. 6. Demonstrate two advanced campcraft skills such as use of knots, compass, maps, tools; ability to judge distances, to signal. 7. Find out about things to do and points of natural or historic interest to visit. Include some of these in the itinerary. 8. Begin or continue an outdoor hobby, such as rock collecting, star study, sketching. 9. After each trip, talk over how it went and what could be improved on your next trip. 10. Service _____. 11. Health and safety _____. 12. Promise and Laws _____.

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Folk Dancer
Purpose: To explore the story of folk dances around the world and to be able to dance some well enough to give pleasure to yourself and others. 1. Be able to teach ve dances traditional in this country (other than squares) and ve folk dances from other countries. 2. Know how to call four American square dances. 3. Prepare a balanced repertory of singing games, using three different formations, that you could teach to children. 4. Discover how collectors of folk music nd and record their tunes. Know the names and compilations of several folklorists whose books you can use for source material. 5. Take part in a community or intercommunity barn dance. OR Help plan and take part in an international dance festival. 6. Play at least four tunes on an instrument to which your troop may dance. OR Help make costumes for a folk dance demonstration. 7. With others, plan a basic library of folk dance records for your troop, camp, school, or community. Start to collect records for the library. OR Share your folk dance fun with a group that normally has no folk dancing opportunities. 8. Find out about the activities of several famous folk dance groups from this country or from other lands. See at least one performance on TV or elsewhere. OR With the help of a qualied adult, make a study of the dances of one particular nationality and give a performance at which you tell the audience some of the background information. 9. Service _____. 10. Health and safety _____. 11. Promise and Laws _____.

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Games Leader
Purpose: To be able to teach a variety of games to children. 1. After clearing with your leader or other adults involved, select a group of childrena neighborhood group, a Brownie troop, handicapped children. Make a plan to work with your group. 2. Teach your group two games from each of the following types: Dramatic and singing games. Circle and line games. Relay team games. Nature games. Guessing games. Games from other countries. 3. Show your group how to make up a game or to make some games equipment. 4. Keep a card le which indicates the games the children liked best, where to nd rules for the games, comments which would be helpful to others working with same age group. Share this information with others. 5. Be able to give simple rst aid for: Floor burns. A splinter. Twisted ankle. Scraped knee. Know where rst aid kit is kept and which adult(s) you need to notify before and after treatment. 6. Plan some festive activity for the last day you work with the group. Evaluate how well you carried out your plan. 7. Service _____. 8. Health and safety _____. 9. Promise and Laws _____.

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Science
Purpose: To use a scientic method to solve problems in the physical and biological sciences. 1. Collect water from a stream or pond and, under a microscope, compare its animal and plant life with the life in water from your tap. Explain why they are different. 2. Make a chemical garden; explain what happens and why. 3. Add one chemical to water of each of several plants potted in sand. Tell what has happened to each plant after a week or so, and why. Use chemicals which the plant ordinarily needs. Plant one in an ordinary garden soil for comparison. Describe the connection between the results of the experiment with you and your diet. 4. Explain and demonstrate how three classes of levers work. 5. Collect newspaper reports of space exploration and peacetime uses of atomic energy and share them with your troop. 6. Show in a simple diagram the composition of an atom (not hydrogen), lettering the electron orbits if possible. OR Demonstrate a simple experiment in a chemistry for your patrol or troop. 7. Explain how we know the length of a year on each of the planets in our solar system. 8. Tell how to determine the distance between you and a ash of lightning. During an electrical storm, record the distances of ve ashes of lightning. Explain why this method is accurate. 9. Design and develop a scientic project. Display it at a Junior Science Fair. OR Help organize and set up a troop science exhibit to be displayed at a Cadette gathering. 10. Compare the steps in planning with the scientic method you used. 11. Service _____. 12. Health and safety _____. 13. Promise and Laws _____.

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