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Requirements
- Daisy Girl Scouts select one requirement from 3 different subjects
of your choice;
- Brownie Girl Scouts select one requirement from 4 different subjects
including one from community service.
- Junior Girl Scouts select one requirement from each of 6 different
subjects, including one from community service.
- Teen Girl Scouts select one requirement from each of the
seven different subjects, including one from community service, and
an additional one from any subject you choose.
Building “U” Nutrition:
101: Sample 2 or 3 foods that are new to you. Learn about the
nutritional information on each. Would you classify each as
“healthy” or “unhealthy” and why? Based on your decision and taste
test, would you recommend these choices to another girl your age?
Share your findings with your troop or family.
201: Make a commitment as a troop to serve only healthy snacks at
troop meetings for the next few months. As a group, brainstorm a
list of acceptable healthy options. Evaluate your successes and
challenges at least monthly. How is your troop feeling about the
snack choices you are making? Can you do better?
 301: Develop a booklet of recipes for “healthy snacks” that kids
your age would enjoy. Share the recipes with other troops in your
service unit and/or send a copy in to the council to share with
others.
401: Participate in a program that teaches about the importance of
healthy nutrition such as Folic Acid Woman (page 7), Fit for a
Princess (page 11), Five a Day (page 14) or other educational
program.
Building “U” Psychology:
101: List 10 things that you like about yourself on note cards or
slips of paper. Put them away in a safe place. When you are feeling
down or stressed, take one out and read it. Make these same type of
cards for someone special in your life to use when they are feeling
blue.
201: Learn about the physical effects of stress on your body and
some techniques for managing stress. Share what you learned with
others.
301: Participate in a program designed to improve self-esteem and
self-confidence such as self-defense, skin care, Girls’ Circle (Body
Image, see page 14), When Dating Turns Dangerous or other program
that you choose.
Building “U” Physical Education:
 101: Get at least 30 minutes of exercise 3x weekly. Keep a record of
your activities for at least 2 months. You may choose to participate
in the Lt. Governors Fitness Challenge (page 10) or Walking in Juliette’s Shoes (see page 7) or develop a plan of your own.
201: Participate in a council, service unit or community sponsored
“play day.” Try out some new games or activities that require
physical activity. Share one of the new activities you experienced
with your family, a younger troop, a senior center or other
community group.
301: Host a service unit or community health and fitness event: a
play day; mini Olympics; sports skills clinic; self defense class;
healthy cooking class; anti-drug, anti-alcohol, or anti-tobacco
rally; or other event of your choosing.
Building “U”
Language:
101: Watch television for 1 hour. Keep a record of the number
of commercials that advertised “fast food” or snacks. In your
opinion, how many of those commercials promoted healthy eating and
how many did not. Discuss your findings with your troop or family.
Develop your own commercial for a healthy snack and share it with
your troop or family.
201: Learn more about your favorite woman athlete or the
history of women in a sport that
 you
enjoy. You might go online, read a book or magazine, watch a movie,
or interview a woman athlete. Create a display or poster to share
what you learned. What obstacles had to be overcome for the woman or
women that you learned about to be successful? What character traits
did they display that helped to make them successful?
301: Write a short story or poem about sports, exercise,
healthy eating, etc.. Share your work with your troop, school,
church, family or service unit.
Building “U”
Community Service:
101: Collect gently used sports and games equipment for
donation to a local organization that serves youth.
201: Organize a food drive to collect non-perishable
groceries for a local food pantry or shelter.
301: Organize an informational health related event or
campaign (see the Biden Breast Health Initiative Patch on page 7) or
support a local health related event by volunteering (remember, Girl
Scouts may not solicit funds) such as Relay for Life (see patch
program on page 14) or other event of your choosing.
401: Develop a health related service project of your own.
Share your project with others so that they might consider something
similar in their community.
Building “U”
Science:
101: Washing your hands is a good way to help stop the spread
of germs and stay healthy. Learn and practice good hand-washing
techniques.
201: Compare nutrition labels on some of your favorite snack
foods. Check the calorie content, sugar and fat grams per serving.
Which of the snack foods that you compared were the highest in
calories, sugar and fat? Which were lowest? Decide which ones would
be the healthiest choice. Discuss your findings with your troop or
family.
301: How do your food serving sizes measure up? Using a few
of your favorite
 snack
foods, place the amount that you would normally eat on a plate. Then
check the label for the recommended serving size. Using a measuring
cup, measure out the recommended serving size. How does that compare
to the amount that you normally eat? Remember that the nutrition
information on the label is only for the recommended serving size,
so you may actually be eating more or less calories, sugar, etc…
than the label states.
Building “U”
Arts:
101: Write a song about health or fitness and teach it to
another troop. Send it in to the council to be included in our
resource section on the web or other publication.
201: Perform a skit or short play about health or fitness for
a troop, day care, senior center or other group in your community.
You could write your own script or you might want to consider the
“Fit For A Princess” program.
301: Create a piece of art or display about health and/or
fitness. Share your creation with others at a council or service
unit event or in a public area in your community.
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