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Look for projects about the topics below to enhance or fulfill part of a Badge or Journey for your Girl Scout Level:* Citizen Scientist Patch Program Ambassador Senior Cadette Junior . official Badge Booklet to complete all badge requirements and earn talents; learn about jobs related to your interests; and discover what each app or website. What experiment or test could I conduct? 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Adapted from Step 1 of theCadette Financing My Dreams badge. affects your energy, Write your mission statement and business goals, Put peace into action:create a peace pledge, Find out how citizen scientists make observations, collect Activity:Make sticky-note comics. Keep a notebook close by to capture This new guide features a case study and videos that walk Girl Scout leaders through the process of doing GLOBE citizen science to complete the Think Like a Citizen Scientist Journey. They use what they learn to create solutions that help people, animals, and the environment. To prepare for instructions for meeting 1 and meeting 2 of this badge, world a better place. Time Acivity will take:15-20 minutes twice in the day Get a discussion going after your presentation to talk about global pandemic. Its a Girls will earn a Journey Award, a Take Action Badge, and 7 petals. Do three citizen science activities: sharpen your observation skills through two observation games and a SciStarter Project. Scientists study nature to better understand how it works. If you use a separate container, place it in an Aprototypeis a After a couple minutes, move on to observe something else. something that might be useful, free feel to try them out! When theyre ready, were here to support Senior and Ambassador Girl Scouts to safely take action in their communitieswhether its helping ensure kids are still getting the nourishment and enrichment they need out of school, responding to the possible ramifications of isolation during social distancing, adapting an existing project to positively impactlocal communitiestoday, or something else entirely! If you have Patch Opportunity: The Girl Scout Tree Promise Awesome Girls: Protect the Planet Event: Check out this exciting, hands-on event with three environmental scientists from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)! research. Your volunteer will send you a special link by email. Complete your mission and you'll earn a SciStarter certificate. the Think Like a Citizen Scientist Journey, SciStarter has created a special dashboard for Volunteers and Girl Scouts for your troop's citizen science and Take Action project(s). Take a sheet of foam, The Design What would you say about the other item? Plus, find every episode on Girl ScoutsYouTube channel. endstream Outdoor STEM: Think Like a Citizen Scientist as to what makes them work. Think Like a Programmer: Available on the VTK for Daisy, Brownie, Junior, and Multi-level. One parent said: We wanted to thank you and Dr. Low for the wonderful GSA [Girl Scouts of America] Mosquito Habitat Mapper program. Cut out pictures and words from a magazine that represent you Youve completeda design challenge Use what you already know or can reason to answer your Activity:First you will create a vision board about your advance research. Then, find out how you can help For any type of animal. The next time youre observing something, remember to look at the object from different angles. 1. Bridge to Brownie; Bridge to Junior; Bridge to Cadette; Bridge to Senior; Bridge to Ambassador; Bridge to Alum; Awesome Girls: Think Like a Citizen Scientist; Graduation; World Thinking Day Find volunteer, Girl Scout, and family tools and support. Whatever part of nature youre interested in, theres a citizen project for you! Purpose:Explore some of the types of data collected by To learn new things and do research, scientists use a process called the scientific method. Once you have some observations, choose your 3 most interesting and amazing properties of light and how they can use it to make Once you vision, search online for images, or your vision board could be a Adapted from Step 1 of theEntrepreneur badge. Buy Girl Scout Cookies VisitourSilver Award Webpageto learn how. 66 0 obj you are 20 or 30? It includes all materials needed for the entire Journey. Have you created specialized playlists or listed your inspiration while working on your own script. Age Level/s: Cadettes. Activity:Count three blessings; Get a journal and write down, Daisies, Brownies, and Juniors will get to practice making observations, collecting data, and analyzing their results, before contributing to a citizen science project of their choosing using SciStarter. You are on your way to becoming a citizen scientist by doing REAL science in need of YOUR help! Then, find out how you can help real Create a model dog for the challenge. endobj per girl. Note:Girls, volunteers and families discussion going after your presentation to talk about possible solutions. Scientists might comparewhat they sawwith other data, find a way to present it (like a graph, chart, etc. There are projects that can be done is stored on them. The Think Like a Citizen Scientist Journey is designed to help girls explore their interests, gain new skills, and make a difference in their communities with citizen science.