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It's Your Planet—Love It!
Introducing the Summer 2009 Journeys

 
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Get Moving!

  • 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.

Junior Journey 2 Award Patch Set
   

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

Please note: typographical errors have been identified and are being corrected in the second edition. Certain corrections that may affect the understanding of content are: Adult book (first edition Aug. 2009) Page 15 – bottom of the page – words cut off: the night lights.. Page 22 – First line should read "processes and leadership outcomes." Page 51 – Correct term is CFLs. Page 53 – Observation chart page number should read 56 not 52. Page -- – Sample Letter should both ask for contact with an adult volunteer. Page 74 – Para 6 – to contact an adult volunteer from your group. Page 75 – Para 5 – can call (adult's name) at (phone number) to let me know…
 
ALSO SEE:
New Girl Scout Leadership Experience
Transforming Leadership

RESOURCES:
Junior Journey Book
Junior Facilitator Set "How To Guide"
Junior Journey Award Patch Set
Junior Journey Keepsake Necklace

DOWNLOADS:
Friends and Family (PDF)
What's My Wattage (PDF)
Drafts and Insulation (PDF)
Communicate with Style (PDF)
Say It Like An Advocate (PDF)
Communication Mazes (PDF)
Hello I'm an Engineer (PDF)
The Big Questions (PDF)
Building Stack Up (PDF)
Advocate for Change (PDF)
Letter Writing (PDF)
Lightbulbs (PDF)
Conduct an Interview (PDF)
Planning Time: Innovate! (PDF)
Walkability Bikeability (PDF)
My Building Bio (PDF)
My Building Audit (PDF)

Junior Journey Assets (PDF)

 
         
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