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Girls Guide to Girl Scouting! They're Here!

The new Girl's Guide to Girl Scouting is a handbook and includes badges, other award requirements, a section that can be customized called "My Girl Scouting" and more! Click here to learn all about it.

National Program Portfolio

The National Program Portfolio are the program resources we use to deliver the Girl Scout Leadership Experience. Girls start by choosing a journey, and then add in fun badges, trips, camping, product sales activities and more.

NOTE: Badges have not gone away. ALL Try-its, Badges, IP’s and various other awards are NOW officially discontinued, however. Many items are already OUT-OF-STOCK nationwide. Any of the "old" Try-Its, Badges, or IPs purchased after June 1^st may NOT be RETURNED or EXCHANGED. New badges will be released with the Girl's Guide to Girl Scouting this fall.

Click here for more information about Leadership Journeys
Click here for more information about The Girl's Guide to Girl Scouting

Click on your level below to see what girls do at that grade level:

The Girl Scout Journeys

Jump to Journeys Patch

The Jump to Journeys patch is designed to give you, as the leader/advisor of a troop/group, a taste of the activities offered in the journeys for the grade level you are working with. By doing the activities and earning this patch with your troop/group you and the girls will have the information you need to decide which journey to dive into. When your troop/group finishes the requirements the patch is available for purchase in your local Girl Scouts of Northern California retail store.

Click here to download the Jump to Journeys patch requirements.

Click here for Daisy Taster Activities
Click here for Brownie Taster Activities
Click here for Junior Taster Activities
Click here for Cadette Taster Activities
Click here for Senior Taster Activities
Click here for Ambassador Taster Activities

journey_with_me_150 Each Journey offers girls a new adventure, allowing them to Discover, Connect and Take Action with fun activities, discussions, projects and more! Currently, Girl Scouts offers three unique Journey series - all covering a wide variety of topics.

Journeys are the core framework to the GSLE, and they're available for each Girl Scout grade level. And, they can be customized for each girl! Each Journey comes as a set, providing the adult leaders with a handbook full of fun ideas, useful activities, discussion topics and more. At the end of each Journey, girls will also have the chance to earn their Journey awards and patches to display on their uniforms. Leadership_Keys

The journeys offer girls all the leadership benefits that we’ve promised them and the badges offer them the chance to build specific skills. When a girl goes on a journey, she gets to explore leadership from all different angles. How does a leader identify a problem that needs to be solved? How does she dig deeper to find the root causes of that issue? How does she research solutions that go beyond the surface level of the problem? And how does she team with others on all of the above, multiplying efforts to make the world a better place? That’s what the journeys are all about! The journeys aim at all three keys to leadership: Discover, Connect and Take Action.

To learn about how to use journeys, take the Leadership Essentials course.

Watch this video to see the big impact the journeys have on girls and volunteers:

Journey1_Books It's Your World - Change It! is the first Girl Scout Journey series, helping girls learn more about what it means to be a leader who can make a difference in the world.
Learn more about each grade level book and download resources and handouts here.
Purchase It's Your World - Change It Journey books here!

Here are some snapshots of the It's Your World - Change It journeys to help you and your troop make plans. Click on the journey to download the snapshot. These are merely snapshots. Details on how to earn journey leadership awards are in the Adult How-To Guide for each journey.
Daisy Flower Garden
Brownie Quest
Junior Agent of Change
Cadette aMAZE
Senior Girltopia
Ambassador Your Voice, Your World

Journey2_Books It's Your Planet - Love It! is an eco-friendly Journey exposes girls to ideas and discussion on the environment. Girls learn to tackle environmental issues such as clean water and air, noise pollution, global warming, soil contamination, and agricultural processes.
Learn more about each grade level book and download resources and handouts here.
Purchase It's Your Planet - Love It Journey books here!

Here are some snapshots of the It's Your Planet - Love It journeys to help you and your troop make plans. Click on the journey to download the snapshot. These are merely snapshots. Details on how to earn journey leadership awards are in the Adult How-To Guide for each journey.
Daisy Between Earth and Sky
Brownie Wonders of Water
Junior Get Moving
Cadette Breathe
Senior Sow What?
Ambassador Justice

It's Your Story - Tell It! teaches girls all about the importance of self-esteem, a balanced diet and physical activity, healthy relationships and confidence. If you liked Uniquely ME! you'll love this new journey!
Learn more about each grade level book and download resources and handouts here.
Purchase It's Your Story - Tell It Journey books here!

Here are some snapshots of the It's Your Story - Tell It journeys to help you and your troop make plans. Click on the journey to download the snapshot. These are merely snapshots. Details on how to earn journey leadership awards are in the Adult How-To Guide for each journey.
Daisy 5 Flowers, 4 Stories, 3 Cheers for Animals
Brownie A World of Girls
Junior aMUSE
Cadette MEdia
Senior Mission: Sisterhood
Ambassador Bliss: Live it

To watch a video about each of the It's Your World and It's Your Planet journeys, click on the journey tab after you click here.

The Ladder of Leadership below shows the awards girls will earn on each journey. Click on it for a pdf version you can share with girls.

The journey maps show how each journey fits in with different badges, awards and other activities such as camping and product sales activities. Click on the journey maps icon on the left to check them out!

Check out the planning guides from these two councils for additional ideas and help in working with journeys:

Girl Scouts of Eastern Pennsylvania
Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas

Girl's Guide to Girl Scouting - is Here!

The Girl’s Guide to Girl Scouting, (or GGGS) a brand-new girl handbook, has one book for each program level - Daisy through Ambassador. Although described as a book for girls, this book is considered to be a sufficient leader resource as well.

This book has three main sections:

Girl Scout Traditions
Cookie Sale Program Activities
Earned Awards (badges, religious awards, Bronze, Silver, Gold)

Each girl will want her own copy since the “Girl’s Guide” will contain information such as:

Girl Scout history
Girl Scout traditions
What’s special about being a Girl Scout
List of emblems and awards
(i.e. membership stars, GSUSA strip, council strip, etc.)
Awards log
Diagram of sash/vest with badge placement
Bridging award requirements for relevant program level
Bronze, Silver, Gold Award requirements for relevant program levels
Additional program information for each level such as Program Aide or Counselor in Training info
Journey map for relevant program level
Map showing all the councils and special Girl Scout places (i.e., the Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace, World Centers, etc.)

They're Here!

Journey Badge Activity Sets for Brownies, Juniors, Cadettes and Seniors have arrived and are available for purchase in your local Girl Scout shop or on line at www.girlscoutsnorcal.org/shop

Each Badge Activity Set consists of five badges that are linked to a specific journey. Each badge has five steps to earn it and within each step are three choices. The girls may choose one or they may do all three of them. That will depend on their interest and the time they have to complete the badge. It is not necessary for the girls to be working on a journey to earn any of these skill-building badges.

To help you and the girls in your troop make informed decisions about which Badge Activity Sets or individual badges they would like to work on here are some summaries of each. Click on the title, download, and print the summary.

These are merely summaries. To get details of how to earn each badge you must purchase the Badge Activity Set from your local Girl Scout Shop or shop on line at www.girlscoutsnorcal.org/shop.

Now that this new resource is available, existing resources are still valid and available to use. If you have questions about which resources are being discontinued, click here. Here are some handouts to ponder:

NOTE: ALL Try-its, Badges, IP’s and various other awards are NOW officially discontinued. Many items are already OUT-OF-STOCK nationwide. Any of the "old" Try-Its, Badges, or IPs purchased after June 1^st may NOT be RETURNED or EXCHANGED.