KISS Notes on WOW! - Girl Scouts of Eastern Missouri

KISS Notes for Brownie WOW! Wonders of Water
Planning to guide your troop on a Brownie Journey? KISS (Keep It Short and Sweet) Notes for the Girl Scout Brownies WOW! Wonders of Water! Journey is a helpful
resource. Through this Journey, Brownies will earn four awards: LOVE Water, SAVE Water, SHARE Water and WOW! Brownies earn these awards when they engage the
community to understand the importance of water and how to protect it.
The purpose of KISS Notes is to provide an overview of the Journey your girls have chosen. On the following pages you will find a snapshot of the Journey sessions
corresponding with each award in this Journey. There are three types of activities for each session: Active Discussion, Hands-on Activity and Guest Speaker/Side Trip.
Choose one or more activity from each category to achieve the session goal. As girls successfully meet the session goals, they will earn the Journey Awards and benefit
from the Girl Scout Leadership Experience. At the end of the booklet you will find some helpful hints for planning the SAVE Project.* Look in the Adult How-To Guide and
the Girl Book and Wow! Wonders of Water with Healthy Habits booklet for in-depth details on the Journey, more ideas for activities and more information on how each
award is earned.
Remember:
1. Use your imagination! It’s your Journey! Customize it with input from your girls
2. If you haven’t already, watch this six-minute video that takes a lighthearted approach to showing how adults partner with girls during the Girl Scout Leadership
Experience: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnStDynsIng&feature=youtu.be
3. The sample sessions in the Adult How-To Guide provide a framework for exploring the Journey. Troops are free to modify or substitute activities
4. It is not necessary to do every suggested activity in a session, but the leader is responsible for ensuring that girls achieve the session goals
5. You may wish to use the same sample session over the course of two or more meetings. “Session” does not equal “meeting”
6. You do NOT have to do everything yourself! Connect with parents, other community members and older Girl Scouts for help
7. Girl Scout Journeys come to life when troops make the Journey experience their own. Girls and Adults customize Journeys by taking advantage of a variety of resources:
a. Trips and Tours 2009: a great resource Girl Scouts can use to find ideas for trips and tours in and around the state of Missouri. Ask for a copy of this book in the Emerson Resource Center
b. Local experts or organizations who can build on the Journey theme
8. During the Journey, you can supplement activities using the Brownie Girl’s Guide to Girl Scouting skill-building badges such as:
a. Potter - girls create their own projects out of clay
b. Household Elf - girls maintain a clean and green home
c. Senses - girls practice using their five senses to explore the world
d. Hiker - girls hit the trail for a hike
e. My Great Day - girls learn to be organized to have a great day every day
9. Use the Journey Session Worksheet at the end of the KISS Notes to organize and plan your troop meetings
10. The Adult How-To Guide provides helpful discussion prompts, detailed activity descriptions and different options for the Journey
11. The Girls’ Book provides fun, engaging content ranging from fictional tales, games and puzzles to real-life stories about women. Girls can participate and learn from these activities in any Girl Scout Pathway (e.g. troop, event or series)
12. GSUSA provides an interactive map you can use to customize your Journey. The map will provide you with ideas for including your other Girl Scout activities in
your Journey. The map can be found here: http://www.girlscouts.org/program/journeys/maps.asp
Need more help? Contact the Emerson Resource Center. This mini library has all your Journey resource needs.
Award
LOVE
Water
Award
Journey Session
Active Discussions
Hands-on Activities
• Favorite Water Activities - Girls
• Draw a Team WOW! Map to remind
discuss
their
favorite
water
the girls of all the ways they enjoy
Loving Water
activities
water
Goal: Brownies
• Thinking About Water Around the
• Create indoor rainbows by using
express what they
World
Girls
think
about
what
it
Making Rainbows suggestions
love about water and
would
be
like
without
their
favorite
•
Snack
on water-filled food like a
start to understand
watermelon
Brownies earn this water’s importance in water activity
• Protecting Water: Living the Girl
award when they are the world.
Scout Law - Girls discuss why keepaware of the many
ing water safe and clean is
ways they use and
important
enjoy water
• Talking About Rainbows - Girls
discuss the colors of the rainbow
they created
Session 1 (p. 42-51)
Session 2 (p. 52-61)
“Green” Tea for
a Blue Planet
Goal: Girls expand
their knowledge of
the water cycle and
consider what
promise they’ll make
to protect it.
• Our Favorite Water Places - Girls
discuss a favorite water place
• Talking about Tea - Girls compare
different ways tea is used around
the world
• Loving and Protecting Water:
Continuing the Conversation - Girls
consider what they can do to protect water and make personal
promises to do so
• My Water Promise - Girls ask their
families to participate in their
promise to protect water
• Loving Water - Girls share two
reasons why they love water
Water for All
•
Building
Awareness of Water in the
Goal: Girls
World
Girls
discuss world access
understand why it’s
to
clean
water
important to respect
people’s right to water • Rationing Water - Girls consider
ways to ration water and reflect on
and make sure they
their decisions
have access to clean
water.
Session 3 (p. 62-73)
• Draw on the Team WOW! Map
• Hold a “Green” Tea for a Blue
Planet Tea Party!
• Experiment with forms of water in
From Hot to Cold, and Vapor to
Solid or States of Water Stations
• Role-play: The Water Cycle
• Draw on the Team WOW! Map
• Role-play: Gathering Water - Girls
discover the effort and time it takes
to find and carry fresh water
Guest
Speaker
• Swimming Pool
• Ice Skating
• Fishing
• Local Sewer Plant
• Local Tea Room
• Canoeing at a
GSEM Camp
National
Leadership
Outcomes
Brownies will
Discover when
they can apply the
values of the Girl
Scout Law by
providing
alternative
choices to actions
harmful to the
environment.
Brownies
Connect when
they recognize
the importance of
being a part of a
bigger community
and give examples
of how
communities help
and support each
other.
Brownies Take
Action
becoming
resourceful
problem solvers
by identifying the
steps and
resources needed
to reach a goal or
solve a problem.
Award
SAVE
Water
Award
Journey Session
Session 4 (p. 68-75)
Teaming Up as
Advocates to
SAVE Water
Goal: Girls take on a
Brownies earn this challenge of saving
award when they water by creating a
become aware of the plan to advocate
many ways they love saving water.
and use water
Session 5 (p. 76-81)
Advocates
Communicate!
Goal: Girls prepare
for their SAVE effort,
making visual aids and
practicing key
speaking points.
Session 6 (p. 82-85)
SAVE!
Goal: Girls carry out
the challenge they
have set for
themselves with the
SAVE project.
Active Discussions
Hands-on Activities
• Heroines for Water - Girls name and • Role-play: Love, Save, Share
discuss their favorite heroine of
• Add the SAVE Vision on the Team’s
water
WOW Map
• Choosing a SAVE Project* - Girls
discuss how they will reach out to
their community
• Brownies Around the World - Girls
discuss what it is like to be
connected with girls all over the
world
• Make a Difference - Girls discuss
why their SAVE Project* is important to them
National
Leadership
Outcomes
Brownie will Discover they become
more open to trying new activities and
recognize they can learn from their
mistakes.
Brownies Connect through
cooperation and team-building when
they understand the strengths and
talents each girl brings to group
projects.
Brownies Take Action when they
• Role-play: Communicate It & Play
begin to apply advocacy skills to create
It Out - Girls practice the commun- change or themselves and others.
ication skills they will need for
their SAVE Project*
• Prepare SAVE Project* materials
• Role-play: Water and Animals Girls imitate the ways animals use
water
• SAVE Project* - Girls carry out
their plan
• The Watery World of Watercolor Girls create with water-based
crafts
Award
SHARE
Water
Award
Journey Session
Session 7 (p. 86-89)
Planning to
SHARE
Goal: Girls SHARE
what they have
Brownies earn this learned, to educate
award when they and inspire other
share their efforts people to protect
with others, educat- clean water.
ing and inspiring
Session 8 (p. 90-93)
others to join them
SHARE!
and commit to a
Goal: Girls educate
water promise
others about what
they have done to
LOVE and SAVE
water, and inspire
others to join the
effort too.
WOW!
Award
Active Discussions
• Earning the SAVE Award!
• Pass It On - Girls choose the audience they will present their SAVE
Project* to
Hands-on Activities
• Get Creative - Girls practice what
they will say to their chosen guests
• Chant Drop to River, River to
Ocean
Brownie Discover when they have
increased confidence in their abilities
and can express pride in their accomplishments when speaking with others.
Brownies Connect when they are
better able to understand the
strengths and talents each girl brings to
the team projects.
• River to Ocean - Girls teach their
• Share Treats and Wonders with
audience the Girl Scout Law
the audience
• Educate and Inspire - Girls share
with their audience what they have
learned along the Journey
• Making a Promise - Girls encourage
their guests to join them in their
water protection promise
• Earn SHARE Water Award
• It’s the Law! - Girls discuss ways the • Celebrate the end of the Journey!
Girl Scout Law was reflected during
WOW!
their Journey
Goal: Girls take pride
• Gifts of Leadership - Girls
in the ways they have
Brownies earn this
commend each other on the ways
challenged themaward when they can
they have shown leadership on
selves to learn an
describe how their
their Journey
dgrow as advocates
efforts relate to the
• WOW! Awards
who speak and act
Girl Scout Law
on behalf of water
and people - and in
how they worked as a
team.
Session 9 (p. 94-99)
National
Leadership
Outcomes
Brownies Take Action when they can
explain why they shose their
community action project and show
their project made the community a
better place.
Working on a Successful SAVE Project
Girls Will:
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•
•
•
•
•
Do the planning
Have the opportunity to work as a team
Meet new people
Share the fun information they’ve learned along their Journey
Develop one, or more, creative ways to tell express what they’ve learned during the Journey (song, dance, mural)
Be empowered to advocate by talking to, educating and inspiring others
*Examples of a SAVE Project:
The following examples are found in the Adult How-To Guide (p. 74):
• Shut Off the Faucet: Brownies get permission to create and post signs, at school, home, library or Girl Scout properties, that encourage people to turn off the
faucet, and use a clever slogan like “Put a stop- to the Drop!”; Brownies learn how much water they SAVE and then SHARE what they’ve done with the owners
they have helped
• Ban Plastic Water Bottles: Brownies ask others to use reusable containers instead of plastic water bottles, and girls can ask classmates, schools, sports teams,
neighbors or the whole community; they SHARE their effort by educating others on wasteful water habits and get them thinking about how to SAVE water
• Choose a Broom, Not a Hose: Brownies encourage neighbors, schools and businesses to stop hosing down sidewalks and driveways and start sweeping
instead; girls can spread the word to get others to join in the promise
• Project Search: Great ideas for a SAVE Project can be found through an Internet search, for example, pinterest.com, www.makingfriends.com/ or
forgirls.girlscouts.org
• Interactive Map: This interactive map is a great way for you and your girls to find inspiration for your Take Action Project. The map allows you to see what other
girls, all over the world, are doing to make a difference. You can also contribute your own Take Action Project. Find the map at
forgirls.girlscouts.org/map-it-girls-changing-the-world/
• Reach out through social meda: Join the Eastern Missouri Facebook Group, “Our Journeys Journal.” Through this group you can connect with other leaders, share Journey ideas and use teamwork to develop new and exciting Journey projects. Request to join the Facebook group at
www.facebook.com/groups/ourjourneysjournal.
Use this worksheet to organize and plan each of your Journey Sessions
Journey Session Worksheet
Daisy (K-1) Brownie (2-3) Junior (4-5) Cadette (6-8) Senior (9-10) Ambassador (11-12)
(Circle appropriate grade level)
Activity/Event/Award
The 3 Leadership Key Outcomes
Girl Scout Processes
Discover
1. Girls develop a strong sense of self
2. Girls develop positive values
3. Girls gain practical life skills
4. Girls seek challenges in the world
5. Girls develop critical thinking
1. Girl Led
2. Learning by Doing
3. Cooperative Learning
Connect
1. Girls develop healthy relationships
2. Girls promote cooperation and
team-building
3. Girls can resolve conflicts
4. Girls advance diversity in a multicultural world
5. Girls feel connected to their
communities locally and globally
Journey Helpers
Family/Friends Network
Circle processes girls will
experience
Circle outcomes girls will achieve
Take Action
1. Girls can identify community needs
2. Girls are resourceful problem
solvers
3. Girls advocate for themselves and
others, locally and globally
4. Girls educate and inspire others to
act
5. Girls feel empowered to make a difference in the world
Ways to Expand this
Activity
Field trips, research,
community service, etc.
1.
2.
3.
Energy Break
Snack & Stretches
Materials/Supplies
Needed

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