Design with nature brownie badge

The third Math in Nature badge introduced this year is called "Design With Nature". Here is what Badge Explorer gives as the requirements:...

The third badge in the Math in Nature series is Design With Nature. This post takes a look at the Brownie Version. According to Badge Explorer, girl will use math to do things in the natural world, like find the age of natural objects, build a honeycomb, design a bird feeder, and go bird-watching. The five short requirements are: 1. Calculate the age of a natural object 2. Explore the shape of beehives 3. Measure and build a bird feeder 4. Use ratios to make bird food 5. Graph data about…

This year GSUSA came out with a new set of progressive badges, Math in Nature for Daisies, Brownies and Juniors. I've taken a look at Brownie Shapes in Nature, Brownie Numbers in Nature and Junior Shapes in Nature. This post will review Junior Numbers in Nature. Requirements According to Badge Explorer, here are the requirements for Junior Numbers in Nature Explore how math can be used to tell us all kinds of information about nature, from how tall or old a tree is to the weather, season, or…

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This year GSUSA's new badges included a Shapes in Nature badge for Brownies. This post will take a look at and summarize the VTK plans. The goal is to give leaders an easy way to look at the activities and decide if the badge is right for their troop, without making them read pages upon pages of VTK scripts. However, if you decide to do the badge I do highly recommend reviewing the plans on VTK as they give the terms and concepts you are trying to teach, whereas I'm focusing more on the…

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