Brownie numbers in nature badge

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Cristin Creates - Brownie Badge: Numbers in Nature - Have fun using math and gardening skills together! Think outside the box and get messy!

This year GSUSA came out with a new set of progressive badges, Math in Nature for Daisies, Brownies and Juniors. I've taken a look at Brownie Shapes in Nature, Brownie Numbers in Nature and Junior Shapes in Nature. This post will review Junior Numbers in Nature. Requirements According to Badge Explorer, here are the requirements for Junior Numbers in Nature Explore how math can be used to tell us all kinds of information about nature, from how tall or old a tree is to the weather, season, or…

*All posts have been updated in April 2023 to ensure that all of the links are still viable for leaders to use. I have been my younger daughter’s Girl Scout leader since 2008, when I started my troop of six little Daisy Scouts. Like many leaders, I felt a bit overwhelmed when I first started, even though I had been an elementary school and preschool teacher since 1987. My leadership training was practically non-existent, and the internet did not have many resources available. Every time I…

*This post contains affiliate links. Updated April 2023 Insects may creep some people out, but there are millions of them out there. If you plan on doing any kind of outdoor activities with your girls, then they are going to encounter several of them, especially if you take them camping! The Bugs Try It can easily be earned with a trip to the zoo or a science museum with an insect exhibit or program. It can also be earned if you have a local person who does school assemblies and teaches…

This year GSUSA's new badges included a Shapes in Nature badge for Brownies. This post will take a look at and summarize the VTK plans. ...

The third badge in the Math in Nature series is Design With Nature. This post takes a look at the Brownie Version. According to Badge Explorer, girl will use math to do things in the natural world, like find the age of natural objects, build a honeycomb, design a bird feeder, and go bird-watching. The five short requirements are: 1. Calculate the age of a natural object 2. Explore the shape of beehives 3. Measure and build a bird feeder 4. Use ratios to make bird food 5. Graph data about…

This year GSUSA came out with a new set of progressive badges, Math in Nature for Daisies, Brownies and Juniors. I've taken a look at Brown...

My girls like art projects so I thought the new Shapes in Nature badges would be a good fit. Earlier I wrote posts giving the requirements and VTK activities for both the Brownie and Junior badges. This post is about how we went about doing the badges and the results. I had all the girls (Brownies and Juniors) do all the activities. Requirements for Juniors According to Badge Explorer, Juniors 1. Identify symmetry in nature 2. Explore bilateral symmetry in nature 3. Create nature-inspired…

What’s spookier than the sights and sounds of Halloween? Here are 5 great ways (plus a few bonus ideas) on how your Brownies can earn their Senses badge and celebrate Halloween.