Enjoy and feel free to use this or any part of it. Please be aware that your council and geographic unit may have their own unique policies.
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| If you have stumbled onto this page, welcome. I am using this page as a repository for things I've developed over the years as a Girl Scout Cadette/Senior Advisor, a Trainer, and a Service Unit Manager. None of this is "official GSUSA" -- it's my own, and while you are welcome to copy, use and edit it, please do so knowing that you always need to check to make sure what I have is in sync with your own Council's and area's policies and procedures. If you want to give me any feedback or comments, feel free - I'm at BDHunter@aol.com | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| **Last Updated January 13, 2004** | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Service Unit-level Leader Guide | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| This is a guide we use in our Service Unit for leaders each year. It explains basic terms and organization, plus we hope it gives some helpful hints and information. We have omitted the names, phone numbers and email addresses that normally go in this document to protect privacy. Enjoy and feel free to use this or any part of it. Please be aware that your council and geographic unit may have their own unique policies. |
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| Click here to read our Service Unit's "Leader Guide" | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Troop Letter | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The best way to describe this is to call it our "Troop Policy Letter". It lays out how our troop runs, what expectations are in terms of money, badges, etc. It's basically the way I run my troop. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Click here to read my troop's "Everything You Wanted to Know" letter | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Who Wants to Be A Girl Scout? | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| I asked for some help on the WAGGGS-L and other lists, and got a wonderful compilation of questions to use for the "Who Wants to be a Girl Scout" Game. We used it when 3 junior troops camped together, and the troop that had the most right got first pick from a goodie bag of trinkets from Oriental Trading, 2nd place got 2nd pick and 3rd place got what was left. The Girls had a great time with this -- and a group of leaders training for their Outdoor Skills came by our campfire and we even asked them questions. Since I first put this together, I've already had to make 2 changes as program levels have changes, so be aware that quetions could become out of date at any moment! Thanks again to those who submitted questions. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Click here for "Who Wants to be a Girl Scout" | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| "Beyond Ziploc Baggies" -- Creative Ways to Hand Out Badges and Patches | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Our council has regular training enrichments, and at the January 2000 "Leaderfest", 2 of my training buddies and I presented a workshop designed to help leaders get out of a rut of how to physically give out recognitions. Although there are a couple of ceremonies at the end of this handout, it's primarily a compilation of ideas on ways to hand out try-its, badges, IPs., etc, (besides stuffing them in a ziploc baggie!!) Enjoy! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Click here for "Beyond Baggies - Ways to Hand out Badges and Patches" | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Harry Potter Encampment ideas | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Since Harry's all the rage these days, I've collected ideas on ways to run an encampment. There are nice, logical tie-ins to science and nature (owl studies, doing "magical" things with science, etc.) In my council, this was a highly successful summer day camp theme, and some of the inputs came from friends who were volunteers at the camp. Have fun with this! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Click here to see the Harry Potter Encampment Theme ideas | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Encampment Guide | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Due to the size of our Service Unit, we have been going to a National Park for our Encampment for the past 4 years. Our nearby National Park (south of Washington, D.C.) was developed by the Civilian Conservation Corps and has wonderful cabins, bunks and a dining hall. There are two side-by-side campsites. Our "Brownie" side has bigger, nicer cabins and a great covered pavillion. The "Junior" side has smaller cabins and is a little more primitive. If a troop wants to go to encampment, they have to take on an Encampment job, but since we've been doing it the same way for a few years, it's not that hard. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Click here to see our Service Unit Encampment Guide | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Gettysburg Gathering 2000 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| There are some leaders out there who define a great vacation as packing up the kids, tents, lawn chairs, going to a campground, and meeting a bunch of other crazy leaders from other areas of the country, who you've only met via the internet, and who define fun the same way. This is what "Gettysburg Gathering 2000" was -- about 150 of us who met in July 2000 at a wonderful campground in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, to share leader enrichment ideas, dutch oven recipes, hear Lois Seimer as "Juliette on Tour", and of course, sing around a campfire. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Click here if you want to see photos from GG2000 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Links often end up outdated, but everyone always has them, and who am I to buck the trend? Here are just a couple of my favorites -- and if you use these links, you can get to just about anything you want that has to do with Girl Scouting... | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Junior Badge Worksheets (Jenefer's page) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| MacScouter Scouting Resources Online | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Leader's Landing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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