Girl Scout Programs and Merit Badges

All Ages

ISTEP Patch

Learn how recycling and energy efficiency can help your environment by playing games and creating recycled crafts. You can also earn your ISTEP (Illinois Sustainability Patch). We usually offer this as a one day event in the fall.

Water Drop

Learn about the importance of protecting and maintaining our watersheds. Participate in activities designed to demonstrate the water cycle, the effects of water pollution, and how to identify important characteristics of a watershed. We offer this as a one day event in the spring.

Daisy Programs

Conservations Kids

Ten ways kids can save the earth. Discuss recycling and conservation of our precious natural resources. Learn all about the three R’s: Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle.

Brownie Try-Its

Earth and Sky

Perform experiments to learn about air, water, and soil pollution, and then build a bird feeder for your backyard.

The Earth is Our Home

Take a walk and observe plants and animals in their natural environments. Explore the woods and learn what the animals eat and where they live.

Science in Action

Science is a part of our daily lives. Special activities show how you use science everyday. Learn about the kinds of energy you use and find out ways to conserve this natural resource.

Junior Badges

Earth Connections

Take a walk to examine the nature around you, learn about trees and how to identify them, learn about food chains and the importance of animal adaptations, and perform an experiment to understand the effects of pollution on the natural world.

Eco-Action

Learn about energy use and how you can help conserve this natural resource. Learn about air and water pollution. Do a service project to help clean up your local environment and create a list of personal eco-action goals.

Wildlife

Learn about our Illinois state bird, tree, and flower. Find out about poisonous plants, learn their importance and how to identify them. Talk about endangered plants and animals in Illinois and learn how you can help save them.

Cadet / Senior Interest Award

All About Birds

Learn all about birds (What makes a bird a bird? What resources does a bird need to survive?) Learn to identify birds by sight and sound and do a conservation project.

Planet Power

Learn about where energy comes from and how to conserve energy at home. Find out how a power plant works and build your own battery.

Program Fees – Per Person:

• One-Hour Program $5.00
• There is No Charge for adults.