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World Thinking Day 2012 Activities for Seniors
Girls complete one or more activity to receive the award.1Note
The World Thinking Day award is now an OFFICIAL Award and therefore it may be worn on the front of the Official Uniform sash or vest. To earn the award, girls complete one or more activities below.
The theme for World Thinking Day 2012 is girls worldwide say "we can save our planet." This theme is based on United Nation's Millennium Development Goal 7 focused on environmental sustainability.
- For one week, monitor the amount of packaging that comes into your home. Record types of packaging and what materials are used to make them. Make a sculpture out of the materials to show your group how much waste has been
accumulated. How much of the packaging can be recycled? What can be done
to reduce the amount of packaging? Discuss ways to improve the situation.
Learn to sew, repair and adapt clothing and hold a fashion show with clothes made from items you can recycle.
- Research ways to travel to an environmentally-friendly tourist destination (see ecotourism, geotourism or sustainable tourism) Share with others how such tourism can contribute to the prevention of climate change.
- How can a change in weather patterns affect food production? Learn about the impacts of climate change on farming, forestry, livestock, fisheries and aquaculture. Find out who is especially vulnerable to climate change. Where do they live? Share these facts with your class, group or friends.
- Find out about the possible impacts of climate change on your area, town or village. Share your results with your peers and discuss ways you can prepare for the changes.
- Investigate how much energy, water, or other recourses are needed to produce the food you like to eat. How can you change the food you eat so that you have a nutritious diet that has a smaller impact on the environment? Then, create informational posters which show how many resources are needed to produce each type of food like these examples: www.fao.org/nr/water/promotional.html. If you would like to do more things like this, take the Sow What? leadership journey.
- Take action by joining with other girls in Girl Scout Forever Green Community Take Action Project and take the Girl Scouts Forever Green Pledge.
1. Some of the activities listed here have been adapted from the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts Food Security and Climate Change Challenge badge.
