Check out these amazing websites and earn Badges as you explore!
Space enthusiasts look no further! 100,000 Stars offers a 360-degree, immersive exploration of our galaxy, the Milky Way! Girls working on their Space Science Badges or studying astronomy in school will appreciate what this site has to offer!
Girls, are you working on your Space Science Badges? Take a virtual field trip to the surface of Mars! You may also download any star gazing app to find Mars in your own night sky!
Explore the Sonoran Desert by visiting the Arizona Sonoran Desert Museum online! Girls can earn our Council's Own, Getting to Know the Desert Patch by learning about the plants and animals living in the Sonoran Desert. Watch videos, and play a food web game!
Visit the Bowers Museum and take a virtual tour with full audio in multiple languages! Bowers Museum offers virtual tours in English, Spanish, and Mandarin. Learn about the history and the variety of exhibits they have from across the globe, celebrating world cultures through their arts!
Working on your Brownie Bugs Badge? Interested in a career studying insects? The Bug Chicks is a free resource and also offers live online workshops for $5 per household!
Junior Girl Scouts working on the Musician Badge, and any girls who just love music, should visit Carnegie Hall's Listening Adventures! Please know this site requires Adobe Flash and the creation of a free account.
For families looking for activities and ideas to keep their girls connected with nature, the Children and Nature Network have shared a great article with numerous ideas, such as Got Dirt?
Take a home safari with the Cincinnati Zoo! Daily live animal interactions and many fun activities! Visiting the Cincinnati Zoo will support girls earning the Daisy Journey: 5 Flowers, 4 Stories, 3 Cheers for Animals, Junior Animal Habitats, and Senior Voice for Animals Girl Scout badges and awards. Girls may also complete all the Art Badges by visiting Rico, the Prickly Porcupine!
CodeSpark is an online platform designed to support Girl Scouts working on their Coding for Good Badges. Girls can sign-up for free 24-hour access, and there is no limit to the number of times the site can be visited.
Take a virtual trip to Curiodyssey and learn how to make a gravity painting, take water for a walk, or make a hoopster! Curiodyssey offers many online STEAM activities that are perfect for girls working towards any of the Girl Scout Art Badges or Mechanical Engineering Badges.
Take a Virtual Fieldtrip with Discovery Education. Visit the frozen tundra, learn about mining and metals, and boost your financial literacy! There are many options to choose from.
Cold ocean waters teem with fish and marine mammals! Beneath our waves, curious animals like Australian weedy sea dragons, garibaldi damselfish, and Japanese spider crabs hang among rocky ledges and kelp forests. These live webcams and galleries are home to some of the world’s coldest ocean animals, including sea otters, penguins, and more. When girls view this page and webcams, think about future Take Action projects that may support oceanic conservation!
Take a trip to the Great Wall of China! This virtual field trip gives girls a chance to explore one of the wonders of the world! Did you know that girls can earn the World Thinking Day Award all year? Visiting the Great Wall of China is a great way to work towards earning the World Thinking Day Award!
Visit the Houston Zoo Webcams and enjoy a live look at animals that call the Houston Zoo home! See the herd of Asian elephants wander through their enormous habitat, watch as giraffes nibble lettuce, see the rhinos roll in their mud puddle, and the flamingos float next to a waterfall!
Learning about history and art? Travel to Paris, France, and visit the Louvre virtually! Girl Scout Brownies can work on their Painting Badge, while Juniors can work on their Drawing Badge, and Cadettes can work on their Comic Artist Badge using some of the most famous pieces of art in the world!
Do you love music? The Met is offering free live web streams of various performances nightly! Experience professional opera from the comfort of your own home! Visiting the Metropolitan Opera will support Junior Girl Scouts working on their Musician Badge.
NASA Space Place is launching an art challenge! NASA Space Place readers will be given a new drawing prompt each month, and each month, NASA Space Place will select a few of the drawings submitted to feature on the website! NASA Space Place hopes this will be a fun way to encourage learning and creativity.
Explore the opportunities National Geographic Kids has to offer, including videos to learn about animals, history, space, culture, planets, and more! Take their personality quizzes and play online games! Learn about how to reduce plastic use at home, plus download activity sheets from the NatGeo Kids books section.
The New York Academy of Medicine has transformed its entire collection of illustrations into coloring pages. If girls are looking for special and unique coloring pages while working on drawing and painting Badges, this is a great resource!
The NAAEE is offering multiple resources that support learning at home. Sections include virtual field trips plus grade-level resources and activities.
Who doesn't want to explore the ocean?!? Learn all about the sea, dolphins, whales, and more! Cadettes, Seniors, and Ambassadors can earn their Eco-Advocate Badges by learning from these biologists.
Check out the Giant Panda live webcam at Zoo Atlanta for a fun-filled experience! If you are interested in learning more about Giant Panda Conservation, you can visit Pandas International and check out all of the global efforts to support these incredible animals! Visiting these sites may support all animal and conservation-focused Badge and Journey awards.
Need some help with schoolwork? PhET is part of the University of Colorado and offers nearly 700 simulations in math, chemistry, physics, earth science, and biology! If you have trouble with fractions, understanding how genes work, or how electricity moves, this is the site for you! This site will also support both the Robotics and Mechanical Engineering Badges.
Learn about aeronautics and experience aviation from home with our expert teacher. Redbird will be offering weekly classes on a range of topics to help Middle and High School students stay engaged with aviation during this trying time. The STEM+ Lab is free and open to the public.
Scholastic has excellent literacy resources for Daisy through Cadette girls. Daisies can read all about rabbits and learn about the weather. Brownies can read about sound and learn why zebras have stripes. Juniors can read about edible insects and learn how other kids from all around the world get to school. Cadettes can learn about the chemistry behind our favorite candies! Each section also includes a variety of different at-home activities!
SciStarter is a national partner that supports girls earning their Citizen Science Journey! SciStarter is an online database of thousands of Citizen Scientist projects that can be completed individually, by family, and by troops. If you are a troop leader, you can set up a troop account via the Girl Scout Volunteer Toolkit (VTK). If you are a family, feel free to jump right in and select a project that appeals to your girl!
Have you ever made a sound map or studied nature? Sharing Nature Worldwide offers immersive nature activities you can do from your own backyard. You can earn all the Art in the Outdoors Badges this way!
Skill Share is a pretty cool place! If you are feeling crafty, want to learn a new skill, or are working on your Junior Jeweler Badge, you don't want to miss this.
Attention Cadettes, Seniors, and Ambassadors! Virtually Badges offers 21 Cadette, 9 Senior, and 3 Ambassador Badges online! Interested in completing your Animal Helpers, Book Artist, or Budgeting Badges? You can earn them all online by visiting Virtually Badges.
Ready to explore Yellowstone? You don't have to wait for your trip out here. You can start exploring now by virtually touring some of the main attractions around the park.
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