GS Ideas with Miss Heather

  Chloe, Kyra, and Amber provide some helpful tips for how to practice excellent trail etiquette.  Check it out!

To help you not waste when you are having fun! Facts for the Beach: 1 in 3 mammal species get entangled in litter. By 2050, the pollution of fish will be outnumbered by out dumped plastic. There are 5.25 trillion pieces of plastic waste  estimated to be in our oceans. 269,000 tons float and 4 billion microfibers per km2 dwell below the surface. 70% of our debris sinks into the ocean’s ecosystem, 15% floats, and 15% lands in our beaches. 100 million marine animals die each year from plastic waste alone. 12-14,000 of plastic are ingested by North Pacific Fish yearly. How we can Help Here is a list of things that would help us reduce plastic waste: Stop using plastic straws, if a straw is a must, than purchase a reusable stainless steel or or a glass straw. Use a reusable produce bag. A single plastic bag can take 1,000 years to degrade. A Girl Scout always leaves a place better than she found it! The Junior Girl Scouts in Troop 548 are completing their Bronze award project, which is ...

    Logan and her mom have been participating in a series of park clean ups this spring.  Based on what they have found, Logan has put together some tips that you should follow when you are visiting your local parks.  Following these tips will help everyone enjoy themselves while keeping the parks clean. Logan's Tips:  On a picnic, bring Tupperware, not one-use plastic.  Pick up your dog's poop.  Bring a reusable water bottle.  If you do bring plastic, bring a trash bag with you.  Always bring reusable straws, spoons, forks, knives, and cups. Cleaning up before you leave the park helps protect the local wildlife and also ensures that the next visitors find a clean space to enjoy. A Girl Scout always leaves a place better than she found it! The Junior Girl Scouts in Troop 548 are completing their Bronze award project, which is focused on reducing waste in common spaces.

In this video, Amber reviews  the steps to completing the Junior Trail Adventure badge.  Check it out!

Like many of you, I'm looking for ways to keep my kids engaged during the Covid quarantine and also trying to get outside (while keeping a 6 feet distance from others, of course). To make a daily walk a little more fun, I designed this scavenger hunt for one of my daughters who was working on a GS badge that included a hiking element.  She used this card on a "hike" through our neighborhood and then made another for her little sister which we used the next day.  It was a fun way to keep the kids engaged... while getting a little exercise! P.S. Forgive the spelling error on the card!