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Adult/Child CPR/AED with Infant CPR
Standard First Aid
Wilderness & Remote First Aid Training
Adult/Child CPR/AED with Infant CPR
This partially satisfies Level One Training.
Objectives:
-How to respond to breathing and cardiac emergencies
-Adult, Child, Infant CPR
-Conscious & unconscious choking adults, children, and infants
-Understand how and when to use an AED
Certification:
-Must attend all class hours and pass written and practical exams with at
least an 80%. CPR/AED certification valid 2 year, First Aid certification
valid 2 years. The epinephrine auto injector certification is 1 year,
and the asthma inhaler training certification has no expiration.
Ages: 12 and up.
Note: Those ages 12-15 must attend the class with a parent.
Price: Includes manual and certification for full classes. Certification only for challenges.
-Adult/Child CPR/AED & Infant CPR with Standard First Aid: $75; After July 1, $105
-Adult/Child CPR/AED & Infant CPR: $60; After July 1, $85
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Current class schedule:
June 28: 9-12:30pm Colorado Springs
July 16: 9-1pm Wheat Ridge
September 17: 9-1pm Wheat Ridge
November 19: 9-1pm Wheat Ridge
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Notes: If you would like to mix and match CPR/AED and First Aid locations, please indicate in comments section.
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Standard First Aid
This class partially satisfies Level One Training.
Objectives:
-How to respond to emergency situations and activate the emergency
action plan and EMS effectively
-Determine if a victim is conscious or unconscious and how to move a
victim in an emergency situation.
-Situations covered: shock, soft tissue and musculoskeletal injuries, sudden
illness, poisoning, bites and stings, heat and cold emergencies
Ages: 12 and up.
Note: Those ages 12-15 must enroll in the class with a parent.
Price: $40; After July 1, $65 includes participant's manual and certification card.
Certification:
- Must attend all class hours and pass written and practical exams with at
least an 80%. First Aid certification valid 2 years.
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Current class schedule:
June 28: 12:30-3pm Colorado Springs
July 10: 8:30am-12pm Aurora
July 16: 1-5pm Wheat Ridge
September 17: 1-5pm Wheat Ridge
November 19: 1-5pm Wheat Ridge
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Wilderness and Remote First Aid Training
This satisfies Level Two First Aid Training.
Objectives:
-Define wilderness first aid & the difference from standard first aid, & materials for a WFA kit
-Learn how to do a primary assessment & secondary assessment
-Discuss calling for help from a delayed-help perspective and evacuation considerations
-Demonstrate a field assessment for injuries to the head, chest injuries, & bone/joint injuries
-Other situations covered: abdominal pain, severe bleeding, lightining incidents, drowning incidents, heat-related illnesses, shock, heart attack, burn injuries, drowning, altitude illnesses, allergic responses
Ages: 14 and up.
Pre-requisites: Must have a current Adult CPR/AED certification.
Price: $165 includes participant’s manual & CPR/AED certification
Certification: Must attend all class hours and pass written and practical exams with at least an 80%. Wilderness and Remote First Aid certification valid 2 years. The epinephrine auto injector certification is 1 year, and the asthma inhaler training certification has no expiration.
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Brownie Badges
Safety Sense
Safety Sense:
Design a fire escape plan
Learn what to do if choking
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Current class schedule:
June 21 & 23: 11am-5pm Eco-Politan, Lakewood
July 26 & 28: 9am-3pm Aurora
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Junior Badges
Caring for Children
First Aid
Safety First
Swimming
Water Fun
Safety Award
Caring for Children:
To satisfy the following requirements and complete the badge, enroll in Basic Babysitter Training:
1. Safety First
Make a booklet of babysitter safety measures, include first aid tips and things to do if a child becomes, ill, as well as a list of emergency phone numbers. Leave room to
fill in specific family information, such as the doctor's name and number, or the number of an emergency contact person.
2. The Danger Zone
Find out what household items can be dangerous for a young child. Make a list of those items and then find out how they are stored in your home. If possible, make a
safety check in a home where there is a young child.
3. Telling Tales
Children love hearing a good story. Write your own stories to read to children.
5. Basic Skills with Infants
Learn & practice the proper way to hold, feed, and dress an infant.
7. Planning Ahead
Decide what eight supplies you would need if you were taking a preschooler on an all-day outing.
9. The Toy Test
Go through a toy store catalog and check for toys that would be safe and those that might be dangerous for children under three years old.
10. What, When?
Children go through different stages. At each age children develop different skills and interests and are capable of different things. Create a chart that shows what kids can do at each of the following ages: newborn through six months, six through 12 months; 12 through 18 months; 18 months through two years, two years through four years. Then add a section on what types of things you can do with children at each age.
Ages: 11 - 15
Certification:
-Certificate of completion issued when the class is successfully completed
that has no expiration date.
Price:
-$60; After July 1, $65 includes participant's manual, pocket sized book, cd-rom,
face shield, and a certificate of completion.
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Current class schedule:
June 21: 11am-5pm Eco-Politan, Lakewood
July 26: 9am-3pm Aurora
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First Aid:
To satisfy the following requirements and complete the badge, enroll in Advanced Babysitter Training:
2. Ouch!
Learn and practice first aid for cuts, sprains, and fractures. Ask a medical professional - nurse, doctor, emergency medical technician (EMT) - to show you and your troop the right way to treat these injuries. Or ask your family and friends to learn with you.
3. Oooh
How would you treat a nosebleed? What would you do if a friend became faint? Ask a medical professional - nurse, doctor, EMT - to show you and your troop the right ways to treat these conditions. Or ask your family members and friends to learn these treatments with you.
4. Get Help
Do you know how to get help quickly in your community? should you dial 911, or some other emergency number? What information would the operator need to know? Read that section in your Junior Girl Scout Handbook and practice placing am emergency call. However, do not actually dial the emergency number.
5. Until Help Arrives
What can you do while you're waiting for help to come? Learn the first aid procedures for a child or adult who: stopped breathing, is breathing heavily, is in shock, has been poisoned, or is choking. Ask a medical professional to show you what to do.
9. Survivor
With a group of friends, list the top five survival tips you need for very hot or cold weather. Learn about hypothermia and hyperthermia and how to treat each. What can happen if you aren't prepared? How do you treat those conditions? Use your tips to role-play how you would survive outdoors in extreme weather.
10. First Aid Challenge
In a group, ask each person to come up with one or more first aid situations. Write them on pieces of paper and place them in a bag or a box. Select a piece of paper and use a first aid kit to demonstrate how to handle the situation. You could create a relay game in which teams take turns acting out the situations that are picked by the team members.
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Safety First:
1. Safe at Home
Conduct a safety check of your home with your family. Do you have the proper number of smoke detectors? Are they all working? Are all electrical wires safe and out of the way/ correct any hazards that might be dangerous for an infant, a toddler, someone who has a disability, or an elderly person. Then list the following information and post it in a handy spot: pone numbers for the fire department, police, poison control center, doctor, and an ambulance.
2. Safe at Any Age
Do an informal survey to find out the most common types of injuries for people your age. Are they from bicycle falls, sports, or just plain carelessness? Write a 30 second or 60 second public safety announcement about how to help prevent these injuries and see if it can be aired at your school.
3. Sports Safety
Create a large cardboard cutout of a person wearing a variety of protective gear and equipment for a particular sport or activity. If you created an in-line skater, for example, include kneepads, elbow pads, wrist pads, and a helmet. Use this figure to teach sports safety to your troop, group, or family.
4. Create a car safety poster, videotape, or some other form of media. Include information about ht importance of using a seat belt every time people ride in a car, the proper way for infants and toddlers to be buckled into car safety seats, and why children should not ride in the front seat of a car equipped with airbags.
5. Fall Safe
Help prevent one of the most common causes of injuries and deaths in the United States: falls. Point out where falls can happen easily, such as in bathrooms or on stairs, and show how they can be prevented.
6. Look Out!
Take a “hazard identification hike” along a bike path, foot trail, horse trail, compass course, or similar place. As you go along:
1. Identify places where you could get hurt or that could cause you trouble.
2. Set up some way to warn others of the hazards, or work to remove them.
7. Out and About in Public
The 4th. of July – and holiday celebrations like it – can be loads of fun. But don’t forget about safety. Choose an upcoming holiday or event, such as a parade, a trip to the state fair, or a local carnival. Talk to the adult you are going with and make a safety plan. What should you do if you get separated? What are the hazards you might prepare for ahead of time, such as: doing activities on water, being in unfamiliar places, being around strangers, having no clean drinking water or shade, being in a sudden storm, traveling in cars or other vehicles, being in crowded places, or being out in the dark.
8. It’s Not Just a Ride
Learn the basics of bike safety and develop a bike safety checklist. Include topics such as protective gear, how to see if your bike is in proper working order, and rules for riding on the road. Talk to a local bike shop employee, police officer, or other resource person for help.
9. Show the Way
With your troop, friends or family; plan a way to help younger children learn about safety. Include topics like crossing the street, safety in the kitchen, and getting help in an emergency. You can use the “Safety Sense” Brownie Girl Scout Try-It to help you plan.
10. Fire Safety
Knowing what to do in case of a fire saves lives. Plan, talk about, and practice fire escape routes fro your home, troop meeting place, or school. Learn what to do by checking out the information in your Junior Girl Scout Handbook, going online to find resources about fire safety, or talking with a firefighter.
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Swimming:
1. Know Water Safety
Show that you know when and how to:
* Select and wear a PFD (personal floating device)
* Keep afloat using clothing and other flotation devices
* Cooperate with someone who is trying to rescue you
* Use good sense in cold water, in deep water, in a current, and in rough water
* Thread water
2. My Buddy and Me
Swimming with a buddy is more fun than swimming alone, and it helps keep you safe. Create and practice a “buddy check call” so that you and your buddy know if either of you need help. Use it every time you swim.
3. Like a Fish
Learn to snorkel. Show that you can choose a mask that fits your face, put it on so it won’t fog, breathe through it, and clear the mask. Practice your snorkeling skills by swimming 25 yards along the surface parallel to the shore. Show that you can surface – dive, swim 15 feet underwater, resurface and clear your snorkel and mask.
4. Go Swim!
Show that you can swim by doing each of the following:
* Glide six feet
* Kick 25 yards
* Swim the crawl 25 yards
* Do two of these strokes for 50 yards: crawl, elementary backstroke, sidestroke, or breaststroke
5. Helpful Swimmer
Show that you can help another swimmer who:
* Has a cramp
* Is shivering with hypothermia
* Has a sunburn or heat exhaustion
* Is tired
Read the first aid section in the “How to stay safe” Chapter of your Junior Girl Scout Handbook for more information.
6. Check it Off
Make a water safety checklist that includes ways to avoid:
* Underwater hazards
* Falling through ice
* Falling in water accidentally
* Overestimating your swimming ability
* Polluting the water that you swim in
* Swift currents
7. Underwater Swimmer
Swim under the surface of the water. Show that you can do a surface dive, a deep dive, or a jump, and then swim underwater and bring up something from the bottom.
8. Diver
Perform two different dives from a low board, platform, or deck. First, be sure an adult who is present has checked the water depth and hazards, and they have said it is safe to dive.
9. Going for the Gold!
Get involved in a swimming competition.
* Join a swim team to build your speed and endurance.
* Learn about swimming stars and their records
* Be able to follow the rules in competitive swimming for starting, turning, timing, and scoring.
10. Water Moves
Look at ways other living things move through the water. Watch for creatures that have tails that act as rudders, feet that paddle, or finds that flutter. Imitate animal actions in a water game you make up.
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Water Fun:
TO EARN THIS BADGE, YOU MUST COMPLETE ACTIVITY 1.
1. Safety First
Show how to use a PFD (personal flotation device). Refer to the American Red Cross Web site www.redcross.org.
· Put it on, adjust it to fit, and fasten it securely.
· Jump into the water with a PFD on.
· Float and swim with a PFD on.
· Practice the HELP (Heat Escape Lessening Position) and the huddle position to keep warm.
2. Picture It
Increase your awareness of different water habitats by doing three or more of these activities:
· Listen to the sounds of moving water by the ocean, along the shores of a lake, or by a swiftly funning stream.
· Watch waves in salt or fresh water.
· Watch a leaf float in running water.
· Smell the air near salt water, running water, or a swamp or bog.
· Look for signs of life on a beach walk.
· Feel a breeze while on the water or fly a kite along the shoreline.
· Watch a sunset or sunrise reflected in a large body of water.
Find a way to express your feelings about your experience through the arts or participate in a Girl Scout’s Own ceremony that celebrates water as your theme.
3. A Balancing Act
Show how to get in and out of a small craft safely. Keep the boat in trim (balance) as you:
· Load gear
· Stow things
· Sit down and stand up
· Move around and change places
NOTE: This can be done in a small boat, sailboat, canoe, or two-person kayak.
4. Get in the Swim of Things
On a swimming trip to a pool, pond, or lake, show an adult how you can:
· Float on your back for one minute.
· Tread water for two minutes.
· Do two different swim strokes.
· Use your best stroke and swim 50 Yards.
REMEMBER: Use the buddy system at all times.
5. Water Games
Make up and play a game in the water to show you understand and can use the buddy system.
6. A Sailor’s Life
Do at least two of the following:
· Tie a fancy knot.
· Sail a model boat.
· Learn a song about the sea and sing it.
· Learn something about life on the water or under it.
7. Precious Water
Brainstorm ways that you can conserve water. Also think of how not to add to water pollution in your communit
y, or in an unit
that you are visiting with your family or group. Then, start the habit of being a clean water saver.
8. Look Closely
Plan a discovery trip to a lake, stream, or salt-water environment. See how many exciting discoveries you can make about this aquatic habitat. Find out:
· What plants and animals live in the water and on the land nearby.
· Whether the water is warm or cold, clear or murky.
· What the bottom surface is like under the water.
9. Let the Games Begin
With a friend or family member, attend a water event, such as a canoe or kayak race, swim meet, surfing competition, fishing derby, parade of sail, synchronized swimming event, or water polo game. Learn the rules of the event.
10. Jobs on the Water
Tour a place where people go to have fun on the water, such as a marina, pool, cruise ship, party boat dock, or boat landing. Talk to someone who works there and find out what they do that helps others enjoy and be safe on the water.
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Safety Award:
http://www.girlscouts.org/program/gs_central/insignia/online/safety/junior_safety_award.asp
Safety Award for Junior Girl Scouts. © GSUSA. All rights reserved.Safety is a vital part of being a Girl Scout, and girls have to learn to think about safety in all the things they do.
Girls learn about safety as they work toward this award. After completing the activities, they can wear the award on their uniform vest or sash.
This award, which also appears in Safety-Wise, has been adapted for the Web. The links after each activity go to pages helpful for completing it. Girls should review the Internet Safety Pledge before starting. After visiting the other sites, girls should discuss what they've learned and how those sites relate to the activity.
Complete eight activities showing that you know how to:
1. Inspect your meeting place for safety hazards and find ways to make everything as safe as possible.
* "How Not To" Photos, StarGroup. With pictures of conditions not to have at your home or meeting place
* Family Fire Safety Plan, Los Angeles Fire Department. You don't have to live in Los Angeles to use this fire safety plan.
2. Find out about 911 or the emergency service in your area. Role-play what you would say and do to report an emergency in your home or meeting place.
* When to Call EMS, The American National Red Cross, Northwest North Carolina Chapter. This will help determine when and how to call Emergency Medical Services (EMS).
3. Conduct an emergency evacuation drill of your meeting place.
* Disaster Services, American Red Cross.
* Family Disaster Plan, Federal Emergency Management Agency.
4. Give first aid for a cut, burn, or sprain.
* Everyday Illnesses & Injuries, KidsHealth.
* Rescue 411, ThinkQuest. A first-aid site by students.
5. Treat a child who is choking.
* Essential Skills: Choking, British Broadcasting Corporation. Click "interactive test" for a lesson on how to treat a choking child.
6. Give a reaching assist to someone in the water from the deck of a pool, a dock, or the shoreline.
* Safe Passage, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. On all aspects of water safety.
* Interactive Zone: Quizzes, American Red Cross. Take the water safety quiz.
7. Prepare for a storm or natural disaster that might occur in your area.
* FEMA for Kids, Federal Emergency Management Agency. Find out how to become a Disaster Action Kid.
* Disaster Preparedness for Pets, Humane Society of the United States.
8. Read weather signs to learn when to go indoors (types of clouds, wind shift, thunder, etc.).
* Severe Weather Awareness, National Weather Service.
9. Check out the safety features of a car that will be used for a group trip.
* Staying Safe in the Car and on the Bus, KidsHealth.
10. Plan a group trip, using the trip-planning materials on page 45 of Safety-Wise.
11. Choose appropriate toys and make a room safe for a young child.
* For Kids' Sake, Think Toy Safety, KidSource Online.
12. Care for yourself and your friends if a stranger approaches you in a public place.
* Do You Know How to Be Street Smart?, KidsHealth.
13. Choose the right clothing and equipment for three favorite Girl Scout activities.
* "Let's Get Outdoors," Junior Girl Scout Handbook, pages 129–135.
14. Help people who disagree to resolve a problem.
* Dealing with Bullies, KidsHealth.
* Out on a Limb: A Guide to Getting Along, University of Illinois Extension.
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Cadette Badges
To earn an interest project award, you must complete at least seven activities as follows:
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Two Skill Builders activities
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One Technology activity
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One Service Project activity
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One Career Exploration activity
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Two activities from any category that you choose
OR NEW VERSION of earning IPP's:
* Do the one REQUIRED activity (or Sill Builder)
* Do ONE activity of your choice for each of the THREE categories (LEARN, DO, SHARE)
* Design and do ONE activity of YOUR OWN
* Create a short REFLECTION after you've completed all of the activities
Backpacking
Camping
Child Care
Emergency Preparedness
Outdoor Survival
Water Sports
Safety Award
Backpacking:
Backpacking
Skill Builders (the 2 starred Skill Builders are required activities)
1. Make a list of equipment and clothing needed for a back-packing trip. Add specialized items to this list for the following environments: desert, mountain, and beach. Learn ways to take care of yourself by the use of appropriate clothing, food, and water. To learn ways to reduce the size and weight of the items you carry, talk with an experienced backpacker or read a book about lightweight backpacking. Pages 163 - 164 in Outdoor Education in Girl Scouting will be helpful.
* 2. Get into shape from the ground up. Choose and break in hiking shoes or boots appropriate to terrain you will be hiking on. Learn proper foot care, including what socks to wear. Develop a plan for conditioning your legs and increasing cardiovascular strength to meet the demands of the terrain and altitude. Take a practice hike with your backpack loaded and make any needed adjustments. Learn to spot signs of fatigue and dehydration and what you can do to avoid them. See pages 34, 39, and 159 - 160 in Outdoor Education in Girl Scouting.
3. Learn the first-aid treatment for burns, cuts, blisters, sunburn, heat exhaustion, heatstroke, hypothermia, shock, insect stings, ticks, contact with poisonous plants, and a bite by any poisonous animal common to the unit
s where you plan to travel. Assemble a light-weight first-aid kit. Review how you can put a first-aid plan into action. See pages 83-94 in Outdoor Education in Girl Scouting, and complete the activities in each section.
4. Learn to use a compass and read a topographical map. Read pages 103 - 111 in Outdoor Education in Girl Scouting or pages 123 - 124 in the Cadette Girl Scout handbook. Then trace out a hiking route on a topographical map. Describe what you would see along the way by visualizing the terrain from the map symbols.
* 5. Put your minimal impact skills to the test by planning and carrying out a backpacking trip of at least two days. Follow Safety-Wise guidelines, obtaining permission for each trip and the unit
where you plan to camp. Submit a written plan that describes the route, emergency procedures, group safety rules, equipment, menus, and names of participants. Develop a plan for building teamwork and sharing leadership among the individuals going on each trip. Before taking the first trip:
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Be able to explain why a group of four to ten people is most appropriate in a backcountry setting.
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Know ways to avoid and prevent encounters with wildlife when on the trail or when storing food overnight.
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Know how to avoid insect and tick bites.
Upon your return, evaluate the trip. Make appropriate changes in procedures, teamwork strategies, and gear before your next outing.
Technology
1. Visit an outdoor store to find out about the variety of back-packs and frames available. Learn about the materials and design components of internal and external frame back-packs. Try on a pack that adjust to fit you. Make sure that it includes padded shoulder straps and a hip belt. Compare the kinds of sleeping bags and tents on the market, and ask for recommendations for ones most appropriate for the type of backpacking that you plan to do.
2. Learn about the most common water pollutants in the unit
where you will be hiking. Find out about methods of purifying water on trips to the backcountry, including at least one "high-tech" way. Practice purifying water by using one method.
3. Compare backpacking stoves operated by butane, propane, blended fuel (propane and butane), and gasoline. Compare ease of use, weight of stoves, cooking times, suitability for different altitudes, and recommended temperature range. Arrange to try out at least two different kinds of stoves. Which stove(s) would be best for general use? Which would work best when back-packing at high altitude or in cold weather? See pages 49 - 50 in Outdoor Education in Girl Scouting.
4. Plan the food for at least one backpacking trip. Learn about lightweight foods as well as those that pack best and last without refrigeration. What's the difference between freeze-dried and dehydrated foods? With your group, consider the cost and size per serving, the efficiency of the packaging, and which foods will provide the maximum energy. If needed, repackage food to eliminate excess weight.
5. On the Internet, search for information on backpacking, hiking, or outdoor adventures. Look for Web sites with backcountry weather reports, maps, or information on wilderness unit
s. If possible, use the Web to help plan a trip.
6> Draw your own design for a piece of equipment or clothing that would be useful on a back-packing trip or improve on a current mode. If possible, construct and use it on a trip.
Service Projects
1. Teach younger girls skills such as campsite selection, safe use of a backpacking stove, equipment selection, proper backcountry hygiene, food selection and repackaging.
2. Join a trail maintenance or campsite cleanup effort.
3. Contact a search and rescue group. Train to become a member of a search and rescue team.
4. Work with an environmental organization to complete such tasks as replacing natural resources, collecting and planting native seeds, and protecting wilderness and park unit
s.
Career Exploration
1. Visit a store that sells camping and backpacking equipment. Learn about job opportunit
ies in this retail business. Ask someone what kinds of skills and experience are necessary for different levels of jobs.
2. Shadow a wildlife biologist, geologist, botanist, or other natural resource professionals for a day. Or interview at least two people who work in outdoor recreation. Find out what they do in their jobs, what challenges they enjoy and don't enjoy. Ask them to trace their career paths for you.
3. Contact by phone or in writing two manufactures of camping of camping and backpacking equipment for information about careers in designing and manufacturing outdoor equipment.
4. Talk with trip leaders or outfitters of various high adventure programs such as backpacking, white-water rafting, or horseback packing. Ask questions about what they must do to plan trios, provide meals, and offer a safe but challenging program. What kinds of training, permits, and insurance are necessary to run an adventure-based business?
5. Investigate career opportunit
ies related to backpacking such as working with recreational, outdoor, or environmental clubs and organizations.
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Camping:
Skill Builders
1. Learn how to select a site and a route for a camping trip appropriate to the skills of your troop or group. Determine how your group can minimize its impact on a site by considering the following:
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Time of year and the size of the group.
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Clothing and equipment.
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Food preparation and use of portable cooking stoves.
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Camping and traveling on durable surfaces.
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Proper disposal methods and plans to pack out waste and trash.
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Leaving the site in a natural condition.
2. Collect 10 recipes for outdoor meals that will minimize food preparation time and the use of cooking fuel. Be careful to select foods that will not spoil. For a three0day6 camping trip, plan a well0balanced menu. Learn the proper procedures for setting up, fueling, and cooking on the stove you will be using. Show how to keep food and cooking supplies safely away from animals.
3. Develop emergency procedures for a camping trip.. Know what to do in case of fire, flood, and injured or lost campers. Learn the procedures to follow if you become separated from your group. Show that you can set up and recognize international distress signals. Demonstrate how to be prepared for weather emergencies and find out about methods for obtaining water and shelter. Assemble a first-aid kit. Know how to treat for shock, bleeding, sprains, burns, bites, hypothermia, frostbite, sunburn, heat exhaustion, and heatstroke.
4. Demonstrate two ways to build group readiness and spirit for a camping trip. Keep in touch with the feelings that come from living and working together in the outdoors by writing a song or poem, recording your thoughts in a journal, or sharing them with a friend or at a Girl Scouts' Own ceremony.
5. Plan a trip to challenge your skills. Create maps, plans, and checklists. Backpack, bicycle, ride horseback, canoe, sail, ski cross-country, or find some new, exciting way to get to your campsite (perhaps an extended scavenger hunt or mystery ride).
Technology
1. Learn to use a base plate compass and to read a topographical map. Sketch a map of your neighborhood or camp unit
from field notes you have taken. Measure the length of your pace and show that you can judge distance. Demonstrate your navigational ability by planning and, with an adult, co-leading a hike for a group.
2. Be prepared for changing weather conditions. Show that you understand the significance of a barometer reading, wind direction and speed, and patterns of weather movements typical of your region. Before leaving, check the current forecast to make sure you have the proper clothing and equipment. Record weather observations for two days before your trip and make your own weather predication. Record the conditions during the trip and compare them with your predication.
3. Find out about new types of materials and fibers used to create camping equipment. What makes something waterproof? Or lightweight? Heat or cold resistant? Visit a local outdoor store and examine the latest products. Read through catalogs and comparison shop for several items. Find out about the types of insulation in sleeping bags and which is best for you r unit
and the type of trip you are planning.
4. Surf the Internet and find out which camping organizations and clubs are represented in cyber-space. Do a Web search and find sites on camping gear, travel destinations, and safe outdoor practices and minimal impact (for the last topic, see the National Outdoor Leadership School's Web site).
Service Projects
1. Look into how to make a camping experience more accessible to people with disabilities. Together with your troop leader, you may wish to consult Focus on Ability: Serving Girls with Special Needs. Then, using the assessment tools from the book, determine which of your campsites are most suitable for people with disabilities, and how you can improve any existing conditions at them.
2. Offer your service to maintain a hiking or nature trail. Or, create a new trail at a local Girl Scout camp or park. Learn the proper ways to cut unwanted growth, control erosion, and divert water off the trail.
3. Teach camping skills such as selecting proper equipment, meal planning, or pitching a tent, to a group of younger Girl Scouts. Visit their troop meeting, demonstrate the skills, and help them practice.
4. Volunteer to plan and conduct a weekend compare, a habitat improvement project, or an outdoor skills day. Or collaborate on a camping-related service project with another group.
Career Exploration
1. Learn about jobs in the outdoors such as lifeguard, camp counselor, camp director, camp administrator, program specialist, site manager, or food services manager in the recreation industry. Interview someone who has one of these jobs and report back to your troop or group on your findings.
2. Look through several magazines about camping and out-door activities. Use the ideas to make a list of outdoor careers. Find out about the skills, education, and experience needed for three of the careers you listed.
3. Interview someone with a career related to safeguarding the environment. What does it take to be an educator, a lawyer, an engineer, a lobbyist, or a scientist devoted to environmental issues?
4. Come up with an idea to start your own business in the unit
of outdoor recreation. For example, some people have started up outdoor-clothes and equipment catalog businesses or ecotourism companies. What product or service could you sell? What would you do to make sure your business could contribute to preserving the environment and still make money for you.
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Child Care:
Skill Builders
1. Pick a particular developmental level, such as infancy, childhood, or adolescence, and learn about either the physical, emotional, intellectual, or social growth that takes place during that stage.
2. Learn how to care for children in an emergency situation. Take a course such as fire safety, lifesaving, or baby sitting at your local Girl Scout council, the American Red Cross, or your local fire department. Share your information with at least three friends.
3. Become familiar with local, state, and federal laws that protect children. Review and clip related articles from newspapers and magazines. Hold a discussion, debate, or lecture on a topic of interest such as children’s television, discipline, sibling rivalry, or fostering creativity. Invite people interested in child are to attend.
4. What were you like when you were a baby? When you were two, three, or four years old? When you started school? What do you remember about yourself? Talk to people who knew you at different ages. Do they have pictures of you, stories about you, information about your health, where you lived, or who took care of you? Ask yourself, “What are those things in my life that make me the special person I am today?” Record what you find in a story about yourself, a poem, a song, a tape recording, a diary, a play, or a picture.
5. Keep a file of games, songs, finger plays, and stories that children like. Include such things as recipes for play dough and finger paints. Talk to parents, teachers, day-care workers, or librarians for suggestions. Keep adding to your file and use these ideas when you take care of your own younger brothers or sisters, baby-sit, or do volunteer work with children.
Technology
1. Visit a computer store and find out about software and video games for children. Focus on resources for a specific age group. Evaluate the software. Some key questions to consider:
· Are the graphics exciting for the child?
· Are the activities fun? Are the activities designed to teach or merely entertain?
· If the video or software is designed to be educational, is there a better way to learn the subject?
· Do the images send negative messages?
2. Visit a store where educational toys and games are sold. What is the educational value of some of the items? Write down the names of two or three items you would recommend for a child of a certain age. Then, observe a child at play in one of the following age groups: birth to two years, three to five years, six to ten years. Do you still agree with the choices you made in the store? If not, adjust your choices to accommodate what you have learned. Based on your findings, make recommendations about age-appropriate toys to a child’s family.
3. Compare two types of toys that a child might typically use today with similar toys available 20 or more years ago. Have the toys changed because of technological advances?
4. Familiarize yourself with some toys and games available for children. With that in mind, design your own game or toy for a specific age group. Or modify one already on the market. Present your toy (actual or model) to an adult who spends time with children of that age group. Ask the adult to critique your design.
5. Create television viewing guidelines for your family or a family with young children. Create a time sheet to monitor the number of viewing hours, a tip sheet suggesting appropriate programs for children of particular ages, and a list of programs to avoid viewing.
Service Projects
1. Work with a local school, religious center, library, or other site where parents and children gather. Volunteer to organize a child-care event or program. Determine what your responsibilities will be for example, leading activities or registration.
2. Determine a service you can provide for a local day-care or after-school facility. Arrange a meeting with the director to find out which service or resource is needed. You might organize a toy drive to provide new or slightly used toys and games for the facility, or volunteer to read stories to the children. Determine your goals, and work on a plan for reaching them. Recruit others to help you with the plan.
3. Become involved in tutoring a student after school. For example, you can devise a “home-work help” program to use at home with a younger sibling. Keep a note-book or log of the skills you are emphasizing and of your student’s progress. Share it with the parents or guardians.
4. Create a “baby-sitter’s club” with girls in your troop or with friends. Advertise your group’s services in a brochure. Or create a newsletter for the club. The baby-sitter’s newsletter can include such features as do’s and don’ts while baby sitting and first-aid tips. Meet regularly with other baby sitters to exchange ideas and tips.
5. Where can children in your communit
y play and have fun? Locate the playgrounds and other recreational facilities in your unit
. Find out what ages can use them. Are they safe? What equipment do they provide? Create a recreation guidebook to share in your communit
y.
Career Exploration
1. Discover how many colleges or agencies in your unit
offer courses for day-care providers. Contact a local child-care referral agency or college and learn what you need to do to become a professional day-care provider. Find out what courses you need to take, if any, for certification. Visit a college that offers day care and talk with the students/child-care providers about their work experiences.
2. Learn from a child-care provider, teacher, or parent the special needs of caring for a child with a disability. Read the poem “Building Your Character Up with Down’s” on page 67 of the Cadette Girl Scout Handbook. Describe the poet’s relationship with her brother. How has her brother influenced her personal goals?
3. Invite four professionals who work with children, such as a pediatric dentist, nurse, teacher, psychologist, or pediatrician, to speak at a troop or group meeting about their work. How does each professional help and work with parents and with children? Ask questions about their training and experience.
4. Interview a mother who works for pay outside the home full-time, one who works for pay outside the home part-time, and one who does not work outside the home. Find out their child-care arrangements. What are the roles played in child-rearing by fathers, grandparents, other family members, and professional child-care workers? What did the mothers tell you about the advantages and disadvantages of each arrangement?
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Emergency Preparedness:
Emergency Preparedness
* ACTIVITIES WITH AN ASTERISK MUST BE COMPLETED TO EARN THIS INTEREST PROJECT PATCH *
Skill Builders
* 1. Complete a basic first-aid course offered by the Red Cross, a local hospital, fire station, or school. Know how to stop bleeding, give artificial resuscitation, do the Heimlich maneuver, and treat for shock.
* 2. Complete a certified cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) course offered by the Red Cross, American Heart Association, a local hospital, fire department, or other certifying agency. Know how to administer CPR to an adult as well as a child whose breathing and pulse have stopped. Keep your certification up to date.
3. Read "Life Success Skill #4: Staying Safe" in the Cadette Girl Scout Handbook or pages 56-57 in A Resource Book for Senior Girl Scouts. Complete a personal safety course offered by a women's group or your local police. Learn basic principles of self-defense and how to avoid situations that might put yourself in danger.
4. Evaluate your home or apartment for fire hazards and help to remove any that you find. Prepare evacuation plans for all units of your house to be adopted and practiced by your family. Know how to test doors prior to opening them. Establish meeting units outside of the home in case of a fire. Make sure that your home has sufficient and charged smoke detectors, as well as recommended fire extinguishers for the kitchen and other units. Know when, how, and where to use a fire extinguisher.
5. Make up first-aid and emergency preparedness kit(s) for your home and family car. Include items that are recommended by your local emergency managers or the Red Cross for disasters. Discuss with your family what to do in case of a crisis: if you are all at home and if you are separated. Choose and make plans for three different disasters that might happen in your community, such as a forest fire, tornado, hurricane, lightning storm, toxic spill, power failure, flooding, water contamination or drought, tsunami (Tidal wave), earthquake, snowstorm, or ice storm. Practice disaster plans at home. Include one disasters that would require evacuation from your home.
Technology
1. Visit a local or state command center (police station, hospital, fire station, U.S. Forest Service, Emergency manager, military) to learn about different technologies used for communication and handling emergencies in your community. Find out what back-up technologies are available for use in case of a disaster.
2. Learn about ham or CB radio operation through a club meeting, special training, or by spending time with an active member. Learn basic radio procedures and take part in a conversation, drill, or actual emergency communication operation for your community, state, or another part of the world.
3. Know how to turn off the utilities where you live. Ask your parents or the building superintendent to show you how to locate the electrical control panel or fuse box and the water and gas turnoff valves. Learn how to reset a circuit breaker or change a fuse. Know what to do if there is a gas leak. Learn how to test and change smoke alarm batteries. Know what to do in case o a downed electrical wire. See that you have easy access to candles, matches, and flashlights in an emergency.
4. Make an emergency plan for how you , your family, and your community would deal with a severe oil shortage. Which services and products do you use that are oil dependent? For example, electricity from power companies is often generated by using oil. Does your community have an emergency plan? If not, discuss ways that your family and neighbors can cut back on oil use and how your community can still provide basic services.
5. What if your hoe was without electricity for between three and five days? How would you and your family keep warm or cool, cook food and keep it fresh, and keep water pipes from freezing? How would you do your homework? Think about ways to work cooperatively with neighbors. How could neighborhood cooperation improve the situation for everyone?
6. Learn how to operate an electric generator, propane or gaslight, and propane or gas stove for use in an emergency. Know how to store and handle fuel and where to place equipment safely. Know fire-safety procedures to use with each piece of equipment.
Service Projects
1. Become a trained emergency volunteer for your community. For example, work in developing a community disaster plan, on a search and rescue team, for a crisis "hot line", at a community or women's shelter, as a lifeguard, or as a member of a ski patrol.
2. Learn about the mission of disaster relief agencies such as the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Red Cross. Help collect or pack items for a disaster relief effort in your community, state, country, or abroad or distribute disaster relief information in your community.
3. Organize or facilitate an event for young children that focuses on home safety, first aid, fire prevention, person safety, and emergency response. Consider using the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Disaster Dudes video as a part of your program.
4. Help develop a plan for assisting wildlife or domestic animals affected by an environmental disaster, such as a wildfire, flood, oil spill, severe storm, or drought, or assist in the aftermath of a disaster with wildlife or domestic animals.
Career Exploration
1. Interview and, if possible, job-shadow someone responsible for community safety, such as a police officer, firefighter, safety manager, emergency medical technician (EMT), state or local emergency manager, or health department official. Find out what kind of education, training, and/or experience is needed for her position.
2. Interview or invite health department worker or public health nurse to speak on control of health emergencies in your community find out what you can do to assist in preventing or controlling a health emergency such as food poisoning, contaminated water supplies, outbreak of a communicable disease, or severe air pollution.
3. Interview four parents of school-age children. What are some of the emergency situations that they have had to handle with young children? Based on the information you have collected, prepare a "Tips for Baby-Sitters" sheet and distribute it to your friends.
4. Develop and/or disseminate information on common household emergencies for parents of small children. This could be a collection of fliers, a news column, awareness posters, or a video.
5. Read a book about someone surviving a natural disaster. Determine what knowledge, preparation, and attitude are needed to survive a natural disaster, based on the survivor's experience.
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Outdoor Survival:
Outdoor Survival
Skill Builders
1. Read books or view videos about survival experiences and adventures involving physical and mental endurance. Talk about ways to deal with hunger, thirst, pain, and panic in crisis situations. Discuss the importance of the determinations to survive. Agree on way to make decisions, such as when to turn back, to stay put, or to change plans.
2. When traveling outdoors, know how and where to report an accident and how to get help. Have a local search-and-rescue group (for example, county sheriff’s office, Civil Air Patrol, ski patrol, Coast Guard, or park security force) provide you with information on signaling methods and symbols, using flares and other devices, and locating help in an emergency. Create a “lost plan” for a group going on an outing. Include emergency numbers and contacts and what each person’s role should be in an emergency. Review appropriate activity checkpoints and “Planning Trips with Girl Scouts”, pages 126-140 in Safety-Wise, if applicable.
3. Take a course with special emphasis on outdoor survival techniques. Put together your own essentials to meet the need for shelter, water, warmth, energy, and signaling to carry in your daypack, backpack, or vehicle.
4. Evaluate what shelter sites and materials can be used most effectively to protect you from wind, cold, heat, lightning, or falling objects. If it is environmentally sound and permission is given, construct a shelter using fallen branches, other found materials, or the natural features of a site; for example, construct a snow cave for winter survival or storm-lash a backpacking tent. Or create an exhibit of small-scale models of improvised shelters.
5. Water is a priority for survival along with air and shelter. Learn two methods of water purification – for example, boiling water, using special chemicals or filters that eliminate Giardia lamblia (water-borne parasites). Learn how to construct and use a simple solar still in the ground to extract water, and above-ground to turn sea water into fresh water. Practice ways to avoid hypothermia. Refer to Outdoor Education in Girl Scouting, pages 36-37.
Technology
1. How do you find out about weather conditions prior to departing on a trip? Use two different technologies to access information about weather.
2. Compare the properties of cotton, wool, and synthetic fabrics for protection from wet, cold, and heat. Interview someone at a store specializing in outdoor equipment for recommendations and, if possible, test different fabrics yourself for warmth and wicking (water traveling by capillary action in fabric) when wet. How does “down” compare with other materials?” How does a “space blanket” work? When might it be needed in a survival situation?”
3. Become confident with a compass. Use a compass to orient a map, to navigate accurately around obstacles, and to back sight to return to your original location. Go on an orienteering course or travel from one point to another cross-country to test your compass skills. Demonstrate two methods to find direction without a compass. Discuss how conditions, such as fog, a sandstorm, or a snow white-out, would complicate directions-finding and what you should do in case of each of those conditions.
4. Know when, where, and how to start a campfire for warming, drying, lighting, cooking, and signaling. Know when and where fires should not be used. Specifically, learn how to: light a fire (find two methods) without using a match; light and maintain a fire under difficult conditions such as on a wet day or in a deep snow; produce a fire without wood fuel; make a fire starter for your survival kit; extinguish fires safely, leaving no trace; and use a backpacking stove to heat water.
5. Consider the safety of staying in a car in a snowstorm, severe lightning storm, or dessert survival situation. Assume that you and another person are stranded in a car. Describe how different parts of the car might be used to ensure survival. Investigate safety precautions (for instance, with a car’s heating system).
Service Projects
1. At a school, campground, or camp, plan and present “what to do if you become lost” program or skit for younger children. Include discussions on how to handle panic; simple equipment to carry (such as a whistle) on outings, dressing for any weather; encountering animals; and what to do if separated from a group. Discuss occurrences common to your unit, such as flash floods, extreme weather conditions, or city safety.
2. Plan and facilitate an outdoor skills game that promotes learning about survival skills for peers or a Junior Girl Scout troop or group.
3. Using the first-aid skills and survival training you already have, plus any special training needed, volunteers your services. Work with a search-and-rescue group, ski patrol, or other emergency rescue group in your community. Participate in an actual search or disaster drill.
4. Develop a survival board game, poster, video, or outdoor game that highlights outdoor safety and survival tips for your council’s resident campsite, program center, or library, or for use in a local elementary school.
Career Exploration
1. Interview someone professionally involved in outdoor survival or search and rescue. This person could be a wilderness guide or instructor, member of a sheriff’s patrol or search-and-rescue team leader, U.S. Coast Guard member, ski patrol coordinator, wilderness ranger, search-and-rescue dog trainer, or mountain rescue paramedic. Find out what training and certification they have for their jobs, and what career paths they would recommend.
2. Tour an outdoor goods store or company that manufactures outdoor gear. Find out about jobs in retail, equipment/clothing design, or manufacturing, that relate to outdoor gear. Learn how equipment is designed and tested to enhance safety.
3. Relate how you might incorporate your interests in survival with a different career path (such as teaching, research, writing, business, medicine, or law) and talk to someone with this experience.
4. Host a panel discussion on a survival topic, such as disaster preparedness, hypothermia, or a local concern.
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Water Sports:
Skill Builders
1. Demonstrate basic self-rescue in the water and without a PFD. Complete a swimming, emergency water safety, lifeguarding, or boating safety course to advance your skills in water safety.
2. Identify how exposure to the sun, wind, and water can be harmful, and which strategies will avoid these harmful effects. Learn how to recognize and administer basic first aid for sunburn, heat stroke, heat cramps, heat exhaustion, hypothermia, frostbite, and seasickness. know when to seek a doctor's help.
3. Demonstrate proper technique in at least three basic swimming strokes. measure your endurance and set a goal to improve it. Or participate in one of the following ways" competitive, synchronized, therapeutic, or lap swimming.
4. Attend a water aerobics class for at least six sessions. Learn proper warm-up and stretching exercises, aerobic exercises, body sculpting exercises, and cool-down exercise.
5. This activity is for very accomplished swimmers only. Learn to use a snorkel, mask, and swim fins in a pool, lake, or ocean, under the guidance of an experienced person. Know what to look for in a mask, snorkel, and fins, and how to they should fit you. Practice defogging the mask and clearing the snorkel, as well as how to avoid ear problems with increased water pressure. Practice entering and leaving the water, surface swimming, and dives. Discuss basic safety and what you should know about the water environment before entering. Take care to leave under-water life and habitats undisturbed.
6. If you are an accomplished ocean swimmer, learn to surf. With an experience instructor or advanced surfer, discuss your knowledge of ocean conditions such as bottom, tides, currents, and wave action. In surf that matches your ability, demonstrate ways to avoid falling off your board, and ways of falling or diving from the board safely. Discuss and demonstrate ways of controlling the board. Be sure to do warm-up exercises and cool-down stretches for legs, arms, and back.
Technology
1. Visit a university or water sports training center. learn what kinds of equipment and technology are employed to analyze and improve swim strokes or other water sports techniques. If possible, use some of this sports equipment under the guidance of a qualified expert.
2. Visit a sporting goods store, review after sports magazines, view a video, or speak to someone who uses the equipment to find out about the latest advances in equipment for a water sports of your choice. Consider snorkeling, scuba diving, windsurfing, water skiing, or surfing.
3. Use the Internet or World Wide Web to find out what is happening around the world in water sports. Do a key word search and keep a log of the resources you find. Are there any organizations, magazines, or chat groups of interest? Find out if your state or community has an online directory of water sports units.
4. Learn how to monitor the water quality of a swimming are. Find out which tests are needed for the water in which you will swim. what is done when the conditions are not within safety guidelines? What tests are performed to test for water quality in public units? What happens if water quality in a lake or public beach does not meet these standards? Find out about specific laws governing water testing in public swimming units, and who monitors the testing.
5. Learn how to use a shortwave radio, CB radio, or other communications systems on a water-craft. Learn how to navigate by radio signals, landmarks, or the stars.
Service Projects
1.Take part in or organize a waterfront or shoreline cleanup. Use proper safety gear (such as gloves, goggles, flotation devices). Or help address the root of the problem by assisting with a public education program aimed at stopping shoreline littering and pollution.
2. Volunteer to work with an organization sponsoring a swimming meet, regatta, or sailing event. Help in both the planning and implementation stages.
3. Assist in or lead a water aerobics class. Use exercise routines that work all parts of the body. Consult with someone with expertise in this unit.
4. Help promote a backyard pool safety program or water safety program in your community. Learn local laws and water safety tips and find a way to help users become more aware of water safety.
5. Attend a hearing or do a project concerned with use or preservation of waterfront property. Are there landfills or ecological hazards affecting bodies of water in your unit? Research and prepare a report of your findings. Include drawings or photos, if you wish.
6. Create a swimming relay game or water game for young swimmers. Use several different strokes and plan activities with balls, inner tubes, rafts, and ropes. See the chapter "Wide Games and Special Events" in the Girl Scout resource Games for Girl Scouts.
Career Exploration
1. Visit or shadow an aquatics director at a Girl Scout camp, community center, or other recreation facility. Find out what part-time or full-time opportunities are available in aquatic sports facilities as an instructor, coach, manager, massage therapist, or dietitian. Explore education, training, and certification requirements for three of these positions.
2. Volunteer or work as a life-guard for several Girl Scout events or an ongoing program. Or assist in a swimming instruction program for younger girls. In order to do this activity, you must meet all the necessary requirements outlines in Safety-Wise.
3. Hydrotherapy, or water therapy, is useful to both people and animals. Investigate the medical, educational, or engineering fields that provide the therapies and/or design the equipment for hydrotherapy by interviewing two professionals in the field. Learn how hydrotherapy helps people or animals.
4. Combine a curiosity for science and a love of water to find out about jobs in oceanography, marine biology, fish and wildlife, aquarium management, or research. Visit or talk to someone by phone or online at a university marine biology or fisheries program, a fish hatchery, an aquarium or sea park, or a water wildlife preserve to find out how her job combines field work, management, and research.
5. Observe a YMCA or Red Cross baby or toddler swim class. Learn what safety methods are recommended for small children around polls. Discover ways to introduce small children to water so that they enjoy and respect it.
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Safety Award:
For Girl Scouts 11-17
Girl Scouts ages 11-17 are partners in making sure they and their group follow practices outlined in Safety-Wise. Girls learn about safety as they work toward this award. After completing the activities, they can wear the award on their uniform vest or sash.
This award, which also appears in Safety-Wise, has been adapted for the Web. The links after each activity go to pages helpful in completing it. Girls should exercise caution when leaving this site. After visiting other sites, they should discuss what they've learned and how the sites relate to the activity.
Complete three activities.
1. Make a list of your safety responsibilities when you perform your duties as a Program Aide, Leader-in-Training, Counselor-in-Training, or babysitter. Create a card to carry with you as a reminder of these responsibilities. Describe how you carried out your responsibilities.
* Whom do I report to?
* When do I need to be at the meeting or other place?
* How should I be dressed?
* What are the activities?
* What are the activity checkpoints?
* What are my responsibilities?
* Is an adult there at all times?
* Where is the first-aid kit? Is other safety equipment needed?
* Do we need a missing persons plan? An emergency plan?
* Is there a telephone? A medical facility nearby?
* What is the needed Safety-Wise adult-to-girl ratio for the activity?
2. Create a home safety plan with your family members. Look for all types of hazards—electrical, mechanical, chemical, physical—and determine how to make your home as safe as possible. For example, test smoke alarms and change their batteries regularly. Practice a family evacuation plan.
* Citizen Links from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
www.dhs.gov/xcitizens/
3. Pick a safety topic of interest to your group, such as personal safety, domestic violence, sexual abuse, date rape, teen use of drugs and alcohol, safety in a crowd, teen driving, and passenger safety. Hold a conference or forum on the safety issues involved. Create a personal responsibility statement for yourself and your behavior.
* TeensHealth, KidsHealth. A resource for everything from eating disorders to dealing with abusive relationships.
http://kidshealth.org/teen
* National Crime Prevention Council.
http://ncpc.org
4. Pick a sport or outdoor activity you enjoy. Analyze the risks involved in participating in it. Find out how rules, training, and safety equipment are designed to protect players. Discuss with your group why people participate in activities that contain an element of risk. Can you understand why some people seek risky activities and others fear them?
* National Safe Kids Campaign.
www.safekids.org
* Sports and Exercise Safety, TeensHealth.
http://kidshealth.org/teen/food_fitness/exercise/sport_safety.html
5. Plan and conduct a lesson for younger children on how to be safe around pools and bodies of water. Demonstrate the use of personal flotation devices, reaching assists, and ways to call for help in an emergency.
* Health & Safety Tips: Water Safety Tips, American Red Cross.
www.redcross.org/services/hss/tips/healthtips/safetywater.html
6. Take a course in babysitting or first aid and CPR from the American Red Cross, the National Safety Council, or a similar organization.
* Health and Safety Services Courses, American Red Cross. Find courses in first aid and CPR.
www.redcross.org/services/hss/courses
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