GSCNC Girl Scout Juniors
Girl Scouts Nation's Capital Juniors can participate in our HPE
Cybersecurity Patch program! Juniors can earn the patch and a gift
(while supplies last).
HPE
Cybersecurity Patch
Girl Scouts at Home is our way to deliver programming to girls, volunteers, and families virtually at-home. These unique Girl Scout sisterhood experiences will help us stay connected during these unprecedented times. Check-in daily as we will add badge activities, programs, and more resources.
| Girl Scout Activities and Programs | Camping At Home | Service Opportunities |
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Check out GSUSA's national Girl Scouts at Home resources!
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HPE Cybersecurity Patch Program
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The Gift of Trees
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The Gift of Trees
This program commemorates the gift of 3,020 cherry blossom trees from Mayor Yukio Ozaki of Tokyo to the city of Washington, D.C. in 1912 – the same year Juliette Gordon Low founded the Girl Scout movement in Savannah, Georgia! The Gift of Trees Patch Program focuses on three key themes—international friendship, arts and culture, and the environment.
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Trefoil Scavenger Hunt
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Trefoil Scavenger Hunt
Display this Trefoil in your window and post a picture to Facebook! -
Women's Suffrage Virtual Scavenger Hunt
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Women’s Suffrage VIRTUAL Scavenger Hunt
Get your favorite snack and flex your fingers for this virtual scavenger hunt! Explore the Women’s Suffrage Movement by solving clues to learn about the 19th Amendment and the people who helped bring women the right to vote. PowerPoint version is available on Rallyhood.
Troop 2739's Bronze Award Bee Hotel Tutorial
Check out how you can make a bee hotel for some of the Brownie Bugs Badge or Junior Animal Habitats Badge requirements here!
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Girl Scouts Go the Distance Challenge
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Get moving with our NEW Girl Scouts Go the Distance Challenge! Pick from a variety of distance/step challenges to complete with a team of your choosing. Your team can be your family, your troop, or anyone else, and there is no maximum team size. You don’t need to live in the same house as your teammates or be physically together to complete the challenge. Use the tracking sheets to record your team’s progress!
On October 1, share photos of your team completing the challenge with us on Facebook!Girl Scouts Go the Distance Flyer
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Activities
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Try out one of these self-paced outdoor-themed activities!Try your hand at making a firestarter while also completing one of the activities in the Explore Camp Main Patch.
A favorite camp craft is paracord survival bracelets! Make your own using this guide.
Print out these fortune tellers to learn more about first aid and Leave No Trace. First Aid Fortune Teller and Leave No Trace Fortune Teller.
Want to learn more about hiking? Check out this Hiking Safety Video and Activities made by a Silver Award Girl Scout.
Looking to get out and about outdoors in your neighborhood or at a local park? Try the Urban Scavenger Hunt or the Nature Scavenger Hunt.
Discover what’s in the sky this summer with the June 2020 Star Map, July 2020 Star Map, and August Sky Map.
Need help looking for your favorite constellation? Make Your Own Planisphere with this template!
Feeling hungry? Make some nut-free granola bars, ice cream in a bag, or Camp Staff’s Recipes from Around the World.
Challenge yourself to get outdoors and explore with the GSUSA: Girl Scouts Love the Outdoors CHALLENGE!
Looking for some high adventure at home? Try this guide to Make Your Own Slingshot.
Did you miss our Council-Wide Virtual Campout? Use the Guide and Activities to design your own campout.
Love nature and journaling, try creating a Camp Journal.
Too hot outside? Try out one of these water-themed activities Cloud in a Bottle Project, Pythagoras Cup Activity Video | Instructions, How Melting Ice Causes Sea Level Rise Project, Bleach Tie-Dye, Make Your Own Water Filter, or a Wow! Wonders of Water Escape Room created by a Girl Scout Brownie!
Experience a little bit of summer camp with these activities DIY Fairy Wings, Camp May Flather Plants, or Camp Home Sweet Home Created by Bronze Award Girl Scouts.
Love Bugs? Us Too! Use this Bug Bingo to identify bugs in your yard, or make a Bee Hotel, Bug Bath, or Bug Box to help out our local pollinators.
How about flowers? Learn more about how flowers grow with these activities Color-Changing Celery and Flower Dissection.
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Videos
As we learn of additional service opportunities we will add them to this section. Make sure you check the Community Service Rallyhood too!
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Face Masks
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Girl Scouts Give Back: Citizen Science
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Girl Scouts Give Back: Letter Writing Service Project
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Sunrise PenPal Program
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Girl Scouts Give Back: Fighting Hunger
Environmental Activities (Earth Day 2020)
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Climate Action
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Ecology
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Water
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Waste
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Wildlife
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Additional Resources
A Girl Scout Message for Those in Isolation
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General Resources
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STEM Resources
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STEM for Scouts- A principle of the Girl Scouts of the USA is to break down barriers. This includes not letting COVID-19 be an obstacle for progress! Our “Earn your Badge from Home” program utilizes online tools such as Google Classroom, to provide a simple step-by-step process your scouts can complete earning their Coding for Good Badges, all on their own! We work with troop leaders, one-on-one, to schedule a convenient time for scouts to log in as a group or individually.
Our pre-recorded online sessions are structured around badge curriculum and include:
- A fun coding project tutorial on Scratch (an online block-based programming website for kids)
- Discussion about computer science principles
- Breaks to watch attached videos to learn about amazing female leaders in the tech space
Videos are carefully designed to be extremely similar to an in-person experience and students can learn at their own pace. A teacher will be available for immediate online assistance for pre-booked programs.
We strongly encourage you to watch a brief video explanation of our program and see just how easy the whole process is! Please visit this link.
Check out https://www.facebook.com/STEM4Scouts or email for more information.Boolean Girl- Full STEM Ahead is a series of FREE, online events with a live instructor teaching kids to Code, Build, Invent, and Animate. Join us each Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 3 PM eastern for a new episode and a new project. Each day we will lead you through a project where we code, or build something new and fun. Girl Scouts can use these porjects to complete coding badges.
Challenger Center- STEM at Home is a collection of Challenger Center lessons and activities that can be modified and completed at home. Each STEM at Home category includes at least one at-home lesson. These activities require common household items or products that are readily available online. All STEM at Home lessons are marked with an asterisk * on the lesson page.
Give Your Girl Scout a STEM Adventure
Classroom Adventures are online experiences that take students on journeys to explore and discover real-world STEM challenges. Designed for 3rd-5th graders. Thanks to Washington Space Business Roundtable's sponsorship, 30 Girl Scout troops from the Nation's Capital region will search for a missing Hawaiian monk seal, identify bones of a ground sloth, and help save the Smoky Mountains from a mysterious plant. Schedule your adventures today! Email adventures@challenger.org or call 202-827-1580.Destination Moon
Students launch Blue Origin’s New Glenn and deploy the Blue Moon lunar lander on a cargo mission to the Moon. Students work in teams to monitor the engines and the structure of the rocket and the lander (including recovery of the reusable first stage on a boat). Students will also monitor and adjust trajectory based on data about space weather and debris and choose an optimal Moon landing siteDestination Mars
The Mission: Researchers are ready to explore Mars, but there’s one glaring problem – more than 40 million miles separate Earth from the Red Planet. This distance makes it impossible to travel back and forth between the two planets while completing our research. We need to build a base on one of the Red Planet’s moons, Deimos or Phobos, that will allow us to send a spacecraft to the surface of Mars and back in the fastest and safest way possible. Student teams will select which moon is best to build a base by analyzing three sets of data collected by rovers on Deimos and Phobos.The team’s research efforts come to a halt when they encounter a critical emergency – a solar storm approaches and all communication signals are lost. To successfully explore Mars’ moons and complete the mission, the students must work together to protect the rovers and restore communication, analyze the data from their experiments, and select a moon to build a base.
Learn about the Moon phases
Calling all Brownies: ever wonder how the Moon looks like a sliver during certain times of the month but, other times looks like a circle? Come learn about the Moon phases with this easy to do activity. In Moon Phases, students will assemble a model from cups and paper that will help them understand the names of the Moon phases, shapes of Moon phases, and how Moon phases occur. This activity would fulfill the Make a Moon art project badge requirement for the Space Science Adventurer badge.Empowerment Lessons -- Are you interested in a career in STEM? The role models in these short videos provide valuable insights and guidance to help you on your way. Watch the videos and then use the Independent Learning Guide to jumpstart a valuable discussion on STEM careers.
Examples:
Why Consider AI
Why Choose STEM
Science Careers
Empowerment Activities -- Use these activities to reinforce the corresponding video topic or theme and build teamwork and community within your group.
Examples:
Inflate a Balloon - Science
Marshmallow Structures - Architecture and Construction
Four Wheel Balloon Car - Engineering
Motivational Mini-Posters -- Download these free mini-posters with inspiring quotes from Career Girls Role Models!Humane Rescue Alliance
Brownie Pets Badge
Learn how to choose the pet that's right for you—or find out how to take the best care of a pet you already have.Cadette Animal Helpers Badge
Explore the connection between humans and animals. HRA sees the strength of the human animal bond on a daily basis. Meet the people who care for stray, relinquished, abused, and neglected animals. Learn how the joys of animal adoptions are shared by shelter staff, community members, and animals. Consider ways to help HRA help the animals and support community members whose companion animals brighten their daysFind out how animals help keep people safe. Search and rescue dogs, therapy animals, disease detection animals, and our own companion animals all help keep people safe and secure. Companion animals provide comfort and emotional support enabling people to live fuller, more engaging lives during these times of extreme loneliness and isolation.
Email Debbie Duel, Director of Humane Education to for registration details: dduel@humanerescuealliance.orgInternational Spy Museum
Operation Code Cracker- Junior Detective Badge Workshop
There’s a mole in the operation. Junior Girl Scouts will identify the suspect, examine evidence and uncover the facts to expose the mole’s true identity. After participating in this workshop, Juniors will have completed all requirements for the Detective Badge.
Forensics of Espionage- Special Agent Badge Workshop
Cadettes become forensic scientists and use real FBI forensic techniques to examine evidence, make recommendations, and use the scientific method to attempt to determine the identity of a double agent. After participating in this workshop, Cadettes will have completed all requirements for the Special Agent Badge.This is a sampling of virtual activities, check the International Spy Museum webpage for all Girl Scout opportunities!
Safe Surfin' Foundation - Cyber SWAT
Join us in a virtual classroom where Juniors, Cadettes & Seniors will learn about internet safety and be empowered to make safe choices through an interactive curriculum based program.
-A 1st level patch will be awarded to the girls who complete all of the units and attend a presentation with a Law Enforcement officer.
-A 2nd level patch will be awarded to those girls who choose to become a mentor and teach younger troops what they have learned.Maryland Science Center- has two places where we have been sharing Science activities for people to do at home. The first is on their Website
Let's Science Together.
Additionally, the Maryland Science Center
Facebook is posting challenges and live videos of activities that
kids and families can do at home.Smithsonian’s Lemelson Center Spark!Lab- Spark!Lab is a hands-on invention studio in the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. Spark!Lab activities communicate that invention is a process, rather than a single “Aha!” moment; provide visitors with opportunities to explore the invention process and their own inventiveness; and demonstrate the central role that invention plays in American history—and today.
Virtual Invention Challenges:
Users pick their challenge and are guided through the steps of the invention process - in a style similar to the facilitation approach used in the Spark!Lab. At the "Create it" step, users link over to a related Tinkercard portal where they can build and tweak their virtual inventions using parts provided or by creating their own elements. The five challenges are: Help Clean Up the Ocean, Invent a Musical Instrument, Reinvent the Shopping Cart, Design a Spacecraft, and Design a Stadium.
Spark!Lab's Now What? Invention Game
Unexpected problems often call for inventive solutions. Users create inventions based on random prompts, leading to unpredictable and fun outcomes.Tudor Place Historic House and Garden- Step into the shoes of architect William Thornton and design your own houses. Imagine new ways to use everyday items that are normally thrown away. Create designs for a brand new house. List the things that a person needs in a home. Solve a problem for housing needs. Share with someone how you would use your new idea. Brownies will be able to complete all activities needed for the Inventor badge.
Questions? Contact education@tudorplace.org.Vidcode- Free Unlimited Vidcode Access for troops until June 30th! The 300+ hours of additional tutorials** are creative, including things like filmmaking and off-computer activities, so they are a great supplement during closed summer camps.
** The unlimited Vidcode access is in addition to our GSUSA Coding for Good Badge tutorials, which are always free and can be accessed here anytime.
Here are the steps to get started:
- Sign up for a free educator/guardian account here (which will give troops access to our 10+ hours of free introductory content and the Coding for Good Badge activities).
- Fill out this form to request full unlimited access to the rest of our platform activities (over 300 hours of additional tutorials!).
- Attend our weekly Vidcode 101 Webinar (every Wed. @ 4pm EST) to get started fast and learn more.
Washington Architectural Foundation- remains committed to providing young people in the Washington area with early design education. Whether home from school trying to stay busy or seeking a fun and creative activity as a positive distraction, these challenges will encourage the discovery of the local built environment. Click here to learn more (suggested age group: 10-14, but this activity is for all ages and skill levels). Post your drawings on Instagram and tag us @DistrictArchCenter.
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Life Skills Resources
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Entrepreneurship Resources
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Outdoor Resources
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General Resources
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STEM Resources
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Life Skills Resources
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Entrepreneurship Resources
