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KISS Notes for Brownie WOW! Wonders of Water
Planning to guide your troop on a Brownie Journey? KISS (Keep It Short and Sweet) Notes for the Girl Scout Brownies WOW! Wonders of Water! Journey is a helpful
resource. Through this Journey, Brownies will earn four awards: LOVE Water, SAVE Water, SHARE Water and WOW! Brownies earn these awards when they engage the
community to understand the importance of water and how to protect it.
The purpose of KISS Notes is to provide an overview of the Journey your girls have chosen. On the following pages you will find a snapshot of the Journey sessions
corresponding with each award in this Journey. There are three types of activities for each session: Active Discussion, Hands-on Activity and Guest Speaker/Side Trip.
Choose one or more activity from each category to achieve the session goal. As girls successfully meet the session goals, they will earn the Journey Awards and benefit
from the Girl Scout Leadership Experience. At the end of the booklet you will find some helpful hints for planning the SAVE Project.* Look in the Adult How-To Guide and
the Girl Book and Wow! Wonders of Water with Healthy Habits booklet for in-depth details on the Journey, more ideas for activities and more information on how each
award is earned.
Remember:
1. Use your imagination! It’s your Journey! Customize it with input from your girls
2. If you haven’t already, watch this six-minute video that takes a lighthearted approach to showing how adults partner with girls during the Girl Scout Leadership
Experience: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnStDynsIng&feature=youtu.be
3. The sample sessions in the Adult How-To Guide provide a framework for exploring the Journey. Troops are free to modify or substitute activities
4. It is not necessary to do every suggested activity in a session, but the leader is responsible for ensuring that girls achieve the session goals
5. You may wish to use the same sample session over the course of two or more meetings. “Session” does not equal “meeting”
6. You do NOT have to do everything yourself! Connect with parents, other community members and older Girl Scouts for help
7. Girl Scout Journeys come to life when troops make the Journey experience their own. Girls and Adults customize Journeys by taking advantage of a variety of
resources:
a. Trips and Tours 2009: a great resource Girl Scouts can use to find ideas for trips and tours in and around the state of Missouri. Ask for a copy of this book in
the Emerson Resource Center
b. Local experts or organizations who can build on the Journey theme
8. During the Journey, you can supplement activities using the Brownie Girl’s Guide to Girl Scouting skill-building badges such as:
a. Potter - girls create their own projects out of clay
b. Household Elf - girls maintain a clean and green home
c. Senses - girls practice using their five senses to explore the world
d. Hiker - girls hit the trail for a hike
e. My Great Day - girls learn to be organized to have a great day every day
9. Use the Journey Session Worksheet at the end of the KISS Notes to organize and plan your troop meetings
10. The Adult How-To Guide provides helpful discussion prompts, detailed activity descriptions and different options for the Journey
11. The Girls’ Book provides fun, engaging content ranging from fictional tales, games and puzzles to real-life stories about women. Girls can participate and learn from
these activities in any Girl Scout Pathway (e.g. troop, event or series)
12. GSUSA provides an interactive map you can use to customize your Journey. The map will provide you with ideas for including your other Girl Scout activities in
your Journey. The map can be found here: http://www.girlscouts.org/program/journeys/maps.asp
Need more help? Contact the Emerson Resource Center. This mini library has all your Journey resource needs.Award Journey Session Active Discussions Hands-on Activities Guest National
Speaker Leadership
Outcomes
LOVE Loving Water
• Favorite Water Activities - Girls
Session 1 (p. 42-51)
discuss their favorite water
• Draw a Team WOW! Map to remind
the girls of all the ways they enjoy
• Swimming Pool
Brownies will
Water Goal: Brownies activities
• Thinking About Water Around the
water
• Create indoor rainbows by using
• Ice Skating Discover when
express what they they can apply the
Award love about water and World
would
- Girls
be like
think about
without
what
their
it
favorite •
Making Rainbows suggestions
Snack on water-filled food like a
• Fishing values of the Girl
start to understand Scout Law by
Brownies earn this water’s importance in water activity watermelon providing
• Local Sewer Plant
award when they are the world. • Protecting Water: Living the Girl alternative
aware of the many Scout Law - Girls discuss why keep- choices to actions
• Local Tea Room
ways they use and ing water safe and clean is harmful to the
enjoy water important environment.
• Canoeing at a
• Talking About Rainbows - Girls
GSEM Camp
discuss the colors of the rainbow Brownies
they created Connect when
they recognize
the importance of
Session 2 (p. 52-61) • Our Favorite Water Places - Girls • Draw on the Team WOW! Map
being a part of a
discuss a favorite water place • Hold a “Green” Tea for a Blue
“Green” Tea for bigger community
• Talking about Tea - Girls compare Planet Tea Party!
a Blue Planet different ways tea is used around • Experiment with forms of water in
and give examples
Goal: Girls expand of how
the world From Hot to Cold, and Vapor to
their knowledge of communities help
• Loving and Protecting Water: Solid or States of Water Stations
the water cycle and and support each
Continuing the Conversation - Girls • Role-play: The Water Cycle
consider what other.
consider what they can do to pro-
promise they’ll make tect water and make personal
to protect it. Brownies Take
promises to do so
Action
• My Water Promise - Girls ask their
becoming
families to participate in their
resourceful
promise to protect water
problem solvers
Session 3 (p. 62-73) • Loving Water - Girls share two • Draw on the Team WOW! Map by identifying the
Water for All reasons why they love water • Role-play: Gathering Water - Girls steps and
Goal: Girls • Building Awareness of Water in the discover the effort and time it takes resources needed
understand why it’s World - Girls discuss world access to find and carry fresh water to reach a goal or
important to respect to clean water solve a problem.
people’s right to water • Rationing Water - Girls consider
and make sure they ways to ration water and reflect on
have access to clean their decisions
water.Award Journey Session Active Discussions Hands-on Activities National
Leadership
Outcomes
SAVE Session 4 (p. 68-75)
Teaming Up as
• Heroines for Water - Girls name and • Role-play: Love, Save, Share
discuss their favorite heroine of • Add the SAVE Vision on the Team’s
Brownie will Discover they become
more open to trying new activities and
Water Advocates to water
• Choosing a SAVE Project* - Girls
WOW Map
recognize they can learn from their
Award SAVE Water
Goal: Girls take on a
discuss how they will reach out to
mistakes.
their community
Brownies Connect through
Brownies earn this challenge of saving
cooperation and team-building when
award when they water by creating a
they understand the strengths and
become aware of the plan to advocate
talents each girl brings to group
many ways they love saving water.
projects.
and use water
Brownies Take Action when they
Session 5 (p. 76-81) • Brownies Around the World - Girls • Role-play: Communicate It & Play begin to apply advocacy skills to create
Advocates discuss what it is like to be It Out - Girls practice the commun- change or themselves and others.
connected with girls all over the ication skills they will need for
Communicate! world
Goal: Girls prepare their SAVE Project*
for their SAVE effort, • Prepare SAVE Project* materials
making visual aids and • Role-play: Water and Animals -
practicing key Girls imitate the ways animals use
speaking points. water
Session 6 (p. 82-85) • Make a Difference - Girls discuss • SAVE Project* - Girls carry out
why their SAVE Project* is impor- their plan
SAVE!
tant to them • The Watery World of Watercolor -
Goal: Girls carry out
Girls create with water-based
the challenge they
crafts
have set for
themselves with the
SAVE project.Award Journey Session Active Discussions Hands-on Activities National
Leadership
Outcomes
SHARE Session 7 (p. 86-89)
Planning to
• Earning the SAVE Award!
• Pass It On - Girls choose the aud-
• Get Creative - Girls practice what
they will say to their chosen guests
Brownie Discover when they have
increased confidence in their abilities
Water SHARE ience they will present their SAVE
Project* to
• Chant Drop to River, River to
Ocean
and can express pride in their accom-
Award Goal: Girls SHARE
what they have
plishments when speaking with others.
Brownies earn this learned, to educate Brownies Connect when they are
award when they and inspire other better able to understand the
share their efforts people to protect strengths and talents each girl brings to
with others, educat- clean water. the team projects.
ing and inspiring
Session 8 (p. 90-93) • River to Ocean - Girls teach their • Share Treats and Wonders with
others to join them Brownies Take Action when they can
and commit to a SHARE! audience the Girl Scout Law the audience explain why they shose their
Goal: Girls educate • Educate and Inspire - Girls share
water promise community action project and show
others about what with their audience what they have
learned along the Journey their project made the community a
they have done to better place.
LOVE and SAVE • Making a Promise - Girls encourage
water, and inspire their guests to join them in their
others to join the water protection promise
effort too. • Earn SHARE Water Award
WOW! Session 9 (p. 94-99) • It’s the Law! - Girls discuss ways the • Celebrate the end of the Journey!
Girl Scout Law was reflected during
WOW!
Award Goal: Girls take pride
their Journey
• Gifts of Leadership - Girls
in the ways they have
Brownies earn this commend each other on the ways
challenged them-
award when they can they have shown leadership on
selves to learn an
describe how their their Journey
dgrow as advocates
efforts relate to the • WOW! Awards
who speak and act
Girl Scout Law
on behalf of water
and people - and in
how they worked as a
team.Working on a Successful SAVE Project
Girls Will:
• Do the planning
• Have the opportunity to work as a team
• Meet new people
• Share the fun information they’ve learned along their Journey
• Develop one, or more, creative ways to tell express what they’ve learned during the Journey (song, dance, mural)
• Be empowered to advocate by talking to, educating and inspiring others
*Examples of a SAVE Project:
The following examples are found in the Adult How-To Guide (p. 74):
• Shut Off the Faucet: Brownies get permission to create and post signs, at school, home, library or Girl Scout properties, that encourage people to turn off the
faucet, and use a clever slogan like “Put a stop- to the Drop!”; Brownies learn how much water they SAVE and then SHARE what they’ve done with the owners
they have helped
• Ban Plastic Water Bottles: Brownies ask others to use reusable containers instead of plastic water bottles, and girls can ask classmates, schools, sports teams,
neighbors or the whole community; they SHARE their effort by educating others on wasteful water habits and get them thinking about how to SAVE water
• Choose a Broom, Not a Hose: Brownies encourage neighbors, schools and businesses to stop hosing down sidewalks and driveways and start sweeping
instead; girls can spread the word to get others to join in the promise
• Project Search: Great ideas for a SAVE Project can be found through an Internet search, for example, pinterest.com, www.makingfriends.com/ or
forgirls.girlscouts.org
• Interactive Map: This interactive map is a great way for you and your girls to find inspiration for your Take Action Project. The map allows you to see what other
girls, all over the world, are doing to make a difference. You can also contribute your own Take Action Project. Find the map at
forgirls.girlscouts.org/map-it-girls-changing-the-world/
• Reach out through social meda: Join the Eastern Missouri Facebook Group, “Our Journeys Journal.” Through this group you can connect with other leaders,
share Journey ideas and use teamwork to develop new and exciting Journey projects. Request to join the Facebook group at
www.facebook.com/groups/ourjourneysjournal.Use this worksheet to organize and plan each of your Journey Sessions
Journey Session Worksheet
Daisy (K-1) Brownie (2-3) Junior (4-5) Cadette (6-8) Senior (9-10) Ambassador (11-12)
(Circle appropriate grade level)
Activity/Event/Award The 3 Leadership Key - Girl Scout Processes Ways to Expand this
Outcomes Circle processes girls will Activity
Circle outcomes girls will achieve experience Field trips, research,
community service, etc.
Discover 1. Girl Led
1. Girls develop a strong sense of self 2. Learning by Doing
2. Girls develop positive values
3. Cooperative Learning
3. Girls gain practical life skills
4. Girls seek challenges in the world
5. Girls develop critical thinking
Connect Journey Helpers
1. Girls develop healthy relationships Family/Friends Network
2. Girls promote cooperation and
team-building 1.
3. Girls can resolve conflicts
4. Girls advance diversity in a multi- 2.
cultural world
5. Girls feel connected to their 3.
communities locally and globally Materials/Supplies
Energy Break Needed
Take Action
1. Girls can identify community needs Snack & Stretches
2. Girls are resourceful problem
solvers
3. Girls advocate for themselves and
others, locally and globally
4. Girls educate and inspire others to
act
5. Girls feel empowered to make a dif-
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