SUPP_1963_Cadette Girl Scout Badge Sampler

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Cadette Girl Scout Handbook

Badge Sampler

1963

Conservation

Purpose: To find out how our country’s natural resources—plants,

animals, soil, water—are protected and what you can do to help.

1. With your patrol or troop, plan and carry out one o the

ollowing outdoor citizenship projects: conduct an anti-littercampaign. Make an animal eeding station and maintain it or

one year, recording the wildlie that use the station. Set up a

soil conservation project at camp, school, meeting place, or

home. Help with a reorestation project.

2. Find out how community, state, and national parks and orests contribute to conservation,

including prevention o fire and soil erosion. I possible, visit a conservation agent, orest

ranger, or fire warden tower.

3. Explain how plants and wildlie depend on each other and the relation o soil and water

conservation to each. Find out what state and ederal laws protect wildlie and combat

water pollution.

4. Know which plants and flowers in your state may never be picked. Be able to identiy them.

5. List the birds and ur-bearing animals that are protected by laws in your state.

OR

Visit a fish hatchery and find out how state and ederal laws protect fish.

6. Work on a conservation project with a local conservation group.

OR

With other members o the troop, develop and set up a conservation exhibit.

7. Learn the Conservation Pledge and be able to explain what it means.

8. Service _____.

9. Health and saety _____.

10. Promise and Laws _____.

My signature _____

Leader’s signature _____

Date badge completed _____



Explorer

Purpose: To plan and carry out varied types of camping trips.

1. Help to plan and carry out three weekend camping trips,

using varied orms o transportation—oot, bicycle, canoe,

horse, or car—by working with a group on activities in

No. 2 through 9.

2. Decide where and how to go. Using road or topographical

maps, indicate routes and overnight stops. Arrange or

permits, reservations, emergency measures.

3. Considering weather expected, activities, and types o trip, decide what group gear

and personal gear to take, Plan how to obtain, pack,and carry it. Demonstrate you

know how to handle, care or, and make minor repairs on equipment used.

4. Plan menus some o which include concentrated and dehydrated oods. Help to obtain,

pack, carry, store, prepare and serve ood.

5. Set up and strike overnight camps, including sanitation, cooking, and sleeping areas.

Demonstrate good outdoor living skills, good outdoor citizenship, emergency

preparations.

6. Demonstrate two advanced campcrat skills such as use o knots, compass, maps, tools;

ability to judge distances, to signal.

7. Find out about things to do and points o natural or historic interest to visit. Include

some o these in the itinerary.

8. Begin or continue an outdoor hobby, such as rock collecting, star study, sketching.

9. Ater each trip, talk over how it went and what could be improved on your next trip.

10. Service _____.



My signature _____


Date badge completed _____



Folk Dancer

Purpose: To explore the story of folk dances around the world

and to be able to dance some well enough to give pleasure

to yourself and others.

1. Be able to teach five dances traditional in this country (other

than squares) and five olk dances rom other countries.

2. Know how to call our American square dances.

3. Prepare a balanced repertory o singing games, using three

diferent ormations, that you could teach to children.

4. Discover how collectors o olk music find and record their tunes. Know the names

and compilations o several olklorists whose books you can use or source material.

5. Take part in a community or intercommunity barn dance.

OR

Help plan and take part in an international dance estival.

6. Play at least our tunes on an instrument to which your troop may dance.

OR

Help make costumes or a olk dance demonstration.

7. With others, plan a basic library o olk dance records or your troop, camp, school,

or community. Start to collect records or the library. OR Share your olk dance un

with a group that normally has no olk dancing opportunities.

8. Find out about the activities o several amous olk dance groups rom this country

or rom other lands. See at least one perormance on TV or elsewhere.

OR

With the help o a qualified adult, make a study o the dances o one particularnationality and give a perormance at which you tell the audience some o the

background inormation.

9. Service _____.



My signature _____

Date completed _____




Games Leader

Purpose: To be able to teach a variety of games to children.

1. Ater clearing with your leader or other adults involved,

select a group o children—a neighborhood group, a

Brownie troop, handicapped children. Make a plan to work

with your group.

2. Teach your group two games rom each o the ollowing

types: Dramatic and singing games. Circle and line games.

Relay team games. Nature games. Guessing games. Games

rom other countries.

3. Show your group how to make up a game or to make some

games equipment.

4. Keep a card file which indicates the games the children liked

best, where to find rules or the games, comments which

would be helpul to others working with same age group.

Share this inormation with others.

5. Be able to give simple first aid or: Floor burns. A splinter.

Twisted ankle. Scraped knee. Know where first aid kit is kept

and which adult(s) you need to notiy beore and ater treatment.

6. Plan some estive activity or the last day you work with the group.

Evaluate how well you carried out your plan.

7. Service _____.



My signature _____





Science

Purpose: To use a scientific method to solve problems

in the physical and biological sciences.

1. Collect water rom a stream or pond and, under a

microscope, compare its animal and plant lie with the

lie in water rom your tap. Explain why they are diferent.

2. Make a chemical garden; explain what happens and why.

3. Add one chemical to water o each o several plants potted in sand. Tell what has

happened to each plant ater a week or so, and why. Use chemicals which the plant

ordinarily needs. Plant one in an ordinary garden soil or comparison. Describe the

connection between the results o the experiment with you and your diet.

4. Explain and demonstrate how three classes o levers work.

5. Collect newspaper reports o space exploration and peacetime uses o atomic energy

and share them with your troop.

6. Show in a simple diagram the composition o an atom (not hydrogen), lettering the

electron orbits i possible.

OR

Demonstrate a simple experiment in a chemistry or your patrol or troop.

7. Explain how we know the length o a year on each o the planets in our solar system.

8. Tell how to determine the distance between you and a flash o lightning. During an

electrical storm, record the distances o five flashes o lightning. Explain why this method

is accurate.

9. Design and develop a scientific project. Display it at a Junior Science Fair.OR

Help organize and set up a troop science exhibit to be displayed at a Cadette gathering.

10. Compare the steps in planning with the scientific method you used.

11. Service _____.



My signature _____



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