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• The Brownie friends and Brownie ELF enjoy some wonder-filled adventures as they invite the real-life Brownies to explore the Wonders of Water.
• As they dive in, the Brownies realize they can create another big WOW as they try out new Ways of Working as a team.
• Brownies learn about the water cycle through a "Green Tea for the Blue Planet," and enjoy making their own rainbows as they explore the precious resource of water.
• Brownies pledge to LOVE water by protecting it, then team up to advocate for other people to SAVE water, too. As they SHARE what they have learned, they find they can inspire even more people to protect Earth's water.
• Along the way, Brownies experience what it is like to live in places where there is not enough water. They come to understand why the right to clean water is so important to everyone on Earth.
• Along the journey, the Brownies earn their LOVE Water, SAVE Water, and SHARE Water awards. As they celebrate their leadership accomplishments, they add the WOW! award to their vests, too!

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Journey resources.

• Girl Scout Daisy Journey Planner 5 Flowers, 4 Stories, 3 Cheers for Animals! Between Earth and Sky Welcome to the Daisy Flower Garden
• Girl Scout Brownie Journey Planner A World of Girls WOW! Wonders of Water!   Brownie Quest
• Girl Scout Junior Journey Planner aMUSE Get Moving!   Agent of Change
• Girl Scout Cadette Journey Planner MEdia Breathe! aMAZE!

All Brownie Cadette Journey Junior

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All Journeys Lead to One Goal: Empowering Girls

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GSHPA Service Unit 416

Wonders of Water

Visiting lakes, learning about water quality, or hearing from experts are on the agenda for Brownies on the  WOW! Wonders of Water  Journey. They put theory into practice by making informative posters, promoting recycling at school, or planting low-water gardens.

Some activities to help girls learn about the importance of water are:

• Can You Spare A Drop – Measuring the world’s fresh water
• In many developing areas women and children walk an average of 3.7 miles to fetch 5 gallons of water ( Water for the Ages ). Ask your Brownies to see how far they can carry their water.
• Girl Scouts of Colorado has a nice lesson plan for starting the SAVE and SHARE water awards.

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Ideas for Completing Brownie JOURNEYS*

Your JOURNEY* can be Rewarding AND FUN!

We have kits for the three original Brownie* JOURNEY* – the Leadership Quest*, A World of Girls* and the Wonders of Water*. You can do it during meetings or you can make it a weekend or even a day-long event. Many troops are choosing a weekend event. Some councils or service units will host these events and all you have to do is sign up your girls. If you are doing it on your own, we can help! Check out the ideas below. For ideas to make your JOURNEY* girl-led you’ll want to read this blog before you start.

Leadership Quest Adventure  Badge in a Bag® Complete kit makes Quest JOURNEY* easy!

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Water Adventure  Badge in a Bag® Complete kit to make WOW! Wonders of Water JOURNEY* easy!

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Story Adventure  Badge in a Bag® Complete kit makes A World of Girls JOURNEY* easy!

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Saturday, June 16, 2012

• WOW! Wonders of Water - A Brownie Journey Review

40 comments:

Thank you so much for posting this! Found it using Google. My Brownie troop started the WOW journey last fall but had some new recruits come in mid-year and we also discovered how much more fun earning badges is. So, we are going to try to finish up the WOW journey this fall. Thanks for the ideas. Once we are done we are going to resume working on badges. We have done Potter, Senses and Celebrating Community so far but they wanted to do Pets and First Aid next.

My girls are doing Wonders of Water too, and I agree with you. This is NOT the best of the Journeys to take on. We're just trying to get through it at this point.

I completely agree with your assessment. I've been a troop leader for a mixed age troop for 5 years now and I'm so disappointed in the journeys for Brownies, Juniors and Cadettes. And, frankly, my girls are much less interested in the meetings than they were when we did the badge work. I realize the point is to make leaders out of our girls but they don't have to go advocate for every issue that the Girl Scouts have decided merit the journey/attention/etc. I liked you ideas and wish I would have seen this before we completed the journey. I will definitely look for the Girl Guide.

I agree that the reading part is ridiculous. I have a mixed troop, brownies through seniors. It is soo hard to plan for all of the groups and keep their attention when they have to do a lot of reading. The more interactive the stuff is, the more likely we are to retain the girls and for them to get something out of it.I am planning on taking all of my girls together to one of out rivers in town, and teach them how to test water for pollution, water quality, ph balance, and teach them two methods of making water potable. Out service project will hopefully be something along the lines of helping to get some clean water sources to people who don't have them.

You are a terrific leader. I am inspired by your candid observations of the WOW journey, as well as your adventurous spirit and willingness to incorporate science into your activities.

I did purchase each of the girls journey books but we do not use them in meetings at all. It is time consuming and the girls get bored reading. I copy the work pages and some of the interesting tidbits, but I find the book is very repetitious. I know repetition helps them learn, but to read the same thing over and over again bores them. I find lots of ideas that go along with the subject of the journey and use those to engaged the girls so they will have a fun learning experience. It is difficult for some of the girls to attend 10 sessions to earn the set of journey badges, so we try to combine as many sessions into one as possible to ensure the girls earn the badge for their work. We are a multi-level troop meeting on the same night but in 4 separate meetings so that each level can do their level's activities to earn their journeys. We have several in all four levels that have earned all 3 journeys before the bridge to the next level. I am always very proud of those girls because it takes commitment to do that--also on the parents' part to get them to the meetings and field trips! It took me a year or two to decide to do the journeys but once we did, I find that the girls enjoy them as long as we find interesting activities to keep them engaged. 2013-2014 begins my 22 year as a Girl Scout leader, so I think by now I understand how to stay true to the program without sticking everything that is written in a journey. Let's hope so!

My troop is now currently about 2/3 of the way through the WOW Journey right now this spring. We are also about to finish the Take Action Project for Brownie Quest that we started last fall. Last year as Daisies I found out that www.makingfriends.com sells Journey kits with everything you need to complete them. I used all 3 kits for Daisies and loved them. This year I tried Brownie Quest without purchasing the kits and the bottom line is that it takes much longer and is much more time consuming on the leader's part as well. When I made the decision that we would do WOW this spring, I immediately purchased the kits and so far so good. All the materials are provided and they give you 2 options to complete the Journey. One leader guide if you want to take your time with the Journey and a separate on if you want to speed it up and possibly complete it over a weekend or more like a workshop. My girls even enjoy reading from the book. Now we don't spend as much time on the extras in the book, but I do try to make a concerted effort to summarize what these extra articles are all about and why they are important. The kit comes with its own crafts, supplies for experiments, posters to use during group discussions, a scrapbook for the girls to keep journey memories, a certificate of completion, a small patch and a leader guide. Well worth the money. Next year we will complete the Brownie series when we do World of Girls and I will again be purchasing the kits. Another thing we did this year, is make sure we were still working on and earning badges. We just couldn't do Journey work at every meeting. I had the girls vote and we came up with a pretty good list of badges that we wanted to try this year. A few of them were earned at an event or Brownie Core Camp, but we got most of them completed. I just knew from the get go that we would have to periodically take breaks from the Journey to do badge work. I suppose though that is what is the purpose of the badge add-ons. Really I cannot wait for next year because since we only have one Journey left, we will have much more time for badge work and service projects.

My girls love the brownie journeys. You don't need to follow the books or the sample meeting plans/activities. There are 4 badges and each badge has 1-2 requirements. It's easy to earn 1-2 badges in 1 90 minute meetings. For example, Love Water - do something fun with water to show you love it - have a snowball fight, go ice skating, go swimming, do water science experiments, have a water fight, etc. Share Water - learn about facts and share them with others... make posters for school, church or local GS camp cabins, get permission from school principal to have a girl read a water trivia/fact over the morning announcements everyday for a week (ours said yes since it was the week before Earth Day when we did it). Save Water is just coming up with ways to Save Water and planning your project. Easy and fun! It can be done in an afternoon or spread out over months - it's up to you. Journeys are very versatile but too many leaders confuse the 'sample' meeting ideas with 'mandatory' meetings. I'd go crazy trying to follow those sample ideas!

Choosing a WOW take action is proving difficult, I must admit. It's one thing to have the girls conserve water at home, another altogether to have them hang signs at a local business, asking customers to turn off the faucet all the way after using it. I'm stuck on what to do.

We just finished our WOW journey and loved it! During our journey, we discovered how much trash (specifically plastic shop bags) goes into the ocean every day. Our girls were so appalled, they found their passion to help prevent the problem. For our service project we went on a hike near a water source and collected trash. In addition to the hike, we purchased 175 reusable shopping bags and handed them out at a local store front. It cost us roughly $200 to have them made with our troop number and logo. The girls loved the journey and felt like they did well to bring awareness to our community. Hope this helps for those struggling to come up with ideas!

We "melted" down the journeys to make them more fun, and completed badges that went with the journeys instead of just doing the journeys. I don;t think we used their books at all. I quit buying them just because there wasn't much in them. Now they are Cadettes and are leading Brownies in a Journey in a day - Keeping it simple and making it fun. They are just covering the points needed for the journey though fun activities and group discussion, and leaving the rest out. So the Brownies get their journey done in a day and not take up valuable meeting time.

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WOW Wonders of Water (Brownie Journey)

WOW! Wonders of Water is a Brownie Scouts journey part of It's Your Planet-Love It.

Visiting lakes, learning about water quality, and hearing from experts are on the agenda for Brownies in WOW! Wonders of Water. They put theory into practice by making informative posters, promoting recycling at school, and planting low-water gardens.

In this Journey, you will: [ ]

1. Explore the wonders of water by find out more about its importance and how it's used around the world.

2. Plan a Take Action project, such as making informative posters, promoting recycling at school, or planting low-water gardens.

3. Earn 4 leadership awards: The LOVE Water Award, the SAVE Water Award, the SHARE Water Award, and the WOW! Award.

If you're a Girl Scout volunteer, go to Volunteer Toolkit for complete meeting plans and activity instructions.