Amaze Journey for Cadettes - Girl Scouts
The new Girl Scout Journey program is called "It's Your World-Change It!" The Cadette journey is entitled "Amaze: The Twists and Turns of Getting Along" and is basically about relational aggression among girls and how to deal with it. [... more]
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Girl Scouts is about Making Jam - Girl Scouts
This statement has made the rounds on Girl Scout boards and has stirred up a hornet's nest. Like so many of my sister Girl Scout leaders, I firmly disagree. Girl Scouts is about making jam. As Juliette Low insisted, Girl Scouts is about whatever ... [... more]
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2008 National Convention - Girl Scouts
The 51st National GSUSA convention is being held in Indianapolis this year October 30th to November 2nd. As one Girl Scout leader put it, "this could be a major convention in terms of impact on the organization." Somewhat cynically, I also [... more]
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Celebrating Juliette Low's Birthday - Girl Scouts
The birthday of the founder of Girl Scouts, Juliette "Daisy" Gordon Low, falls on the popular American holiday of Halloween. Low was born on October 31st, 1860 in Savannah, Georgia. Her home in Savannah is now owned by GSUSA and is often called [... more]
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Troop Crest History - Girl Scouts
Like so much of US Girl Scout history, the story of troop crests begins in Great Britain. When Juliette Low brought the idea of Girl Scouting to Savannah, she brought along the tradition of patrol crests. Instead of numbers, each patrol chose the ... [... more]
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Studio 2B-- Action for Older Girls - Girl Scouts
I have to admit that I know very very little about Studio 2B except what I hear at neighborhood meetings. What I've heard though is fabulous. One leader of high school girls called it the best thing to hit Scouts in the last 50 years. The intent ... [... more]
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Grade Placement versus Age Placement - Girl Scouts
GSUSA, or rather the National administration of GSUSA, has determined that henceforth all girls will be assigned levels according to their grade not their age. In other words, Daisies will be girls who are in Kindergarten and grade 1. Brownies ... [... more]
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Antarctic Continent Exploration Map: Penetration Routes, ...
 An informative map: This single sided map contains a lot of history and information without being too verly cluttered with facts or notations. It shows the main research facilities on the continent and is useful for school programs and just for [... more]
$9.95
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SweetLeaf SteviaClear Liquid Stevia, Travel-Size, ...
Features: Pack of six 0.2-ounce travel-size bottles of calorie free liquid sweetener (1.2 total ounces) Contains 100% natural ingredients, including purified water and stevia (leaf) extract; 100% alcohol and chemical free; contains no artificial [... more]
$23.91
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Women's Rites, Women's Mysteries: Intuitive Ritual Creation
Offensive to transsexuals: This book includes a segment in which it informs us that it regards transsexual women (which it calls transsexual men) as men. This terminology, conventional in earlier medical texts which regarded lesbians, gay men, and [... more]
$16.95
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This Fine Piece of Water : An Environmental History of ...
Wonderful Book: I came across this book while doing research for a segment that I was going to do for National Public Radio. Since I am only 15 I wasn't really around to witness the battle to save LIS, and I needed to know some history about the area [... more]
$30.00
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Cyprus: A Modern History
Book Description: This narrative history of Cyprus--the most thorough and up-to-date account currently available--examines the modern history of the island during a period of enormous change. Topics covered range from the British acquisition of Cyprus in [... more]
$24.50
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