Becoming a Naturalist

For school, I have to research a job that might be a good fit for me. I like children, sports, animals, and singing. I think I want to be a Naturalist. Naturalists have to LOVE nature and sharing that LOVE with others. I need to go to college and study wildlife biology or environmental science.

Geocaching and Earth Day as a Daisy Scout

Geocaching is where you get clues and find a small tube that has been hidden outside by other geocachers. First, we learned about map coordinates, which are numbers that you put into a GPS unit. Map coordinates are points on a map. All the way to the Nashville Dog Restaurant, we picked up trash because we are celebrating Earth Day so the Earth would be better. At The Dog there was a small purple geocache hanging from a string, and I found it. It told us some new coordinates, and we had to go all the way back to my school. Acori, my friend, found the second cache. It had my first patch, an Earth Day patch, for the back of my Daisy Vest. Then we put seeds inside a container and we tried to find a place to hide our own geocache. I found the perfect place under a rock. A big rock. We collected more rocks and made it look like a big rock pile.

To find out more about geocaching you can go here: http://www.geocaching.com/ 

Gift of Trees Patch

I have to do 6 activities to earn this patch.

1. Philanthropists in Action: I learned about Eliza Skidmore's dream to plant Cherry Trees in Washington, D.C. It took her a long time, but we are now having the 100 year celebration. I also drew a picture of my dream. This is my dream:

2. Honoring International Friendships: make a paper crane to share with a new friend and learn the "Make New Friends" Girl Scout song. Here I am singing this new song...

3. Cultural Connections: Eat Sushi and learn Japanese letters for Sakura (the Japanese word for Cherry Blossom). Here they are:

4. Spring Into Art: Write a Haiku about  the beauty of the cherry tree and draw a picture.

5. Discover your Environment: Learn about photosynthesis and plant seeds to watch grow. I planted watermelon seeds

6. History Activities: Changes in girl scouts since mommy was a girl scout and geocaching with my troop where we hid a new geocache with seeds in it.