Elizabeth's Guiding Corner

These are worksheets that lay out the steps for earning a discovery badge. You can use them with your Unit, or send them to families for girls to complete on their own. I made a version of these when the discovery badges first came out, and I have now updated them with the new branch name and changed the Girl Champion badge to Change Champion. Ember Discovery Badge Worksheets Guide Discovery Badge Worksheets

 This week we finally got around to introducing the Discovery Badges to our Brownies. We decided that the best way to teach them how to earn a badge at home was to earn one as a group. As we did the activities I shared my screen and filled out the Maker badge activity sheet (from the  Discovery Badge activity sheets ) so that the Brownies knew which activities went where. Here's what we did: Connect:  For the connect section we learned about NASA aerospace engineer Tiera Fletcher. We also learned a bit about what aerospace engineers do, and how the things they make help us in our daily lives (like the satellites that make our car GPS work).  Here's the slide deck I used. Create: For the  create section we made paper airplanes. We made two different designs and compared how well they flew ( Here's the instructions for the planes we made ). The plan was that the Brownies would make a modification to one of the planes and see if their modification made it fly bette...

This weekend we had our virtual camp! We decided to keep it to one night, since it was our first time, but it was a success and I would definitely be open to planning a two-night virtual camp in the future if our Brownies are interested.  A week before we sent out the activity book for camp. The first half is activities that they could do during the week to prepare for camp (Making a bedroll, learning about Leave No Trace, etc). If they sent us pictures of these activities completed, then they earned their Camper Discovery Badge. The second part of the activity book was the schedule for the virtual camp, and what supplies they would need. Here is the activity book, you can use it as inspiration for your own virtual camp: 193rd Mississauga Brownies Virtual Camp Activity Books We opened camp on Friday at 6:30pm for our first activity: giving each other tours of our tents and blanket forts. It was a bit cooler than usual on Friday, but almost half of them slept outside. I was impresse...

Most units have completely switched over to the Girls First program by now. I love the new program and being able to access it from any device, but I find that without the program book, the younger girls are much less aware of the badges that they can earn.  I've created this resource for girls and parents to explain the girls first program, as well as how to access the Girls First platform.  Girls Fist Program Platform Introduction I am always looking for feedback, so if you have any ideas or changes you would like to see, please leave a comment on this post!

These are worksheets for Brownies and Guides to work on the Discovery Badges at home. This blog is mostly Brownie-focused, but since all the badges have the same name and all I had to do was change the pictures, I decided to make a Guide version as well. Brownie Discovery Badge Worksheets Guide Discovery Badge Worksheets