Girl Scout

ProgramServing girls in economically distressed neighborhoods has been part of the Girl Scout landscape for over 50 years. Girl Scouts of Wisconsin Southeast’s (GSWISE) program delivery strategies ensure the Girl Scout Leadership Experience (GSLE) is available to all girls, providing the tools and financial support needed to help them build courage, confidence, and character. GSWISE serves more than 5,000 girls annually through the Girl Scout Promise Program.

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Girl Scouts offers the best leadership development experience for girls in the world—one that is designed with, by, and for girls.

Girl Scouts unleashes the G.I.R.L. (Go-getter,Innovator, Risk-taker, Leader)TM potential in everygirl, preparing her for a lifetime of leadership—from taking a nighttime hike under the stars toaccepting a mission on the International SpaceStation; from lobbying the city council with hertroop to holding a seat in Congress; from runningher own cookie business today to tacklingcybersecurity tomorrow.

Our Girl Scout Leadership Experience is a one-of-a-kind leadership development program for girls, with proven results. It is based on time-testedmethods and research-backed programming that help girls take the lead— in their own lives and in the world.

Girl Scouts is proven to help girls thrive infive key ways as they:

Develop a strong sense of self

Display positive values

Seek challenges and learn from setbacks

Form and maintain healthy relationships

Identify and solve problems in the community

Girl Scouts takes the potential of girls, combines it with robust skill-building programming, and adds caring adult mentors and strong female role models.

Our Program

Everything a Girl Scout does centers around STEM, the outdoors, development of life skills, and entrepreneurship, and is designed to meet her where she is now and to grow along with her.

Whether she’s building a robotic arm, coding her first app, building a shelter in the backcountry, or packing for her first hike, a Girl Scout has an exciting array of choices to suit her interests at every age.

The Girl Scout Difference:

STEM

Outdoors

Life Skills

Entrepreneurship

STEMComputer science, engineering, robotics,outdoor STEM, and more

LIFE SKILLSCivic engagement, healthy living, global citizenship, communication skills

OUTDOORSAdventure and skill building, including through camping experiences for all age levels, from the backyard to thebackcountry

ENTREPRENEURSHIPThe Girl Scout Cookie Program—the largest girl-led entrepreneurial program in the world—teaches goal setting, decision making, moneymanagement, business ethics, and people skills.

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The Girl Scout Promise Program provides girls in low-income and/or underserved neighborhoods in southeastern Wisconsin the opportunity to reach their full leadership potential. Specially-trained Girl Scout staff and volunteers guide and inspire girls to explore new things, gain practical skills, and prepare for a lifetime of leadership in a safe girl-first environment. These early, pivotal experiences prepare them to navigate the challenges and critical decisions that arise in later years.

Girl Scout

Program

The Girl Scout Promise Program encompasses many different pathways of participation in the Girl Scout Leadership Experience (GSLE) curriculum that occur year-round and provides financial assistance, bilingual materials, and customized curriculum. Girls can participate in out-of-school time staff-led Girl Scout troops, middle school series programs, summer workshops, camp experiences, and Girls of Summer Softball. Girls participating in the Girl Scout Promise Program build their courage, confidence, and character and make the world a better place.

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Girl Scouting in the School DayGrades K5-12

Girl Scouting in the School Day serves girls through Girl Scout Leadership Experience (GSLE) series programming in the classroom to develop leadership, STEM, and financial literacy skills. GSWISE partners with Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) and other non-profit youth development organizations to deliver a high-quality learning experience aligned with state curriculum standards, which benefits the girls’ schools as well. All curriculum is grade-level targeted and 2 hours in length, but can be customized for a specific grade level. It is recommended that schools participate a minimum of 2 times per year. See pages 6-7 for more information.

G.I.R.L. Discovery DaysGrades K5-12This experience provides girls with a one-day opportunity to explore Girl Scouts through age-appropriate activities that promote, educate, and involve participants in the Girl Scout Leadership Experience (GSLE). GSWISE Community Outreach staff travel to selected sites and conduct a fun introductory and educationally-infused engagement activity focused on STEM, life-skills, and entrepreneurship. Recommended participation is a minimum of 2-4 events (1-2 hours each).

Out-of-School Time Troops/High School ClubsGrades K5-12

Out-of-School Time is a GSWISE staff-led troop program for girls in partnership with MPS and other non-profit youth development agencies. Girl Scouts are engaged in bi-weekly activities that align with the Girl Scout Leadership Experience (GSLE) curriculum (STEM, outdoors, entrepreneurship, life-skills). Sessions can range from 1-3 hours and can be tailored to group size, age range and special needs. Troops generally meet October-May, twice a month. Schools are selected annually to participate in field trip and camping days.

Girl Scout Promise Program: School Year Pathways

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Girl Scout Promise Program: Summer Pathways

Girl Scouts stay engaged during the summer discovering and exploring the great outdoors while building healthy relationships, and skills related to teamwork, healthy living and leadership.

Girl Scout Day at Camp Girls entering grades K5-8

Girl members from our partner-based youth development program sites can participate in a day of outdoor exploration at various Girl Scout camp locations. Outdoor experiences are designed to educate girls on nature, their responsibility to care for the environment, and engage them in adventure-based activities that allow them to discover the great outdoors in a safe girl-led environment.

Summer G.I.R.L. Discovery DaysGirls entering grades K5-6

G.I.R.L. Discovery Days are infused with exciting hands-on educational and team building activities designed to bring out her inner go-getter, innovator, risk-taker, and leader. GSWISE workshops focused around STEM, outdoors, enterpreneurship, and life-skills are provided at partner-based sites. Girl Scout Leadership Experience (GSLE) programs are customizable for morning or afternoon sessions and typically last 2-3 hours. It is recommended that girls participate in a minimum of 2 G.I.R.L. Discovery Days.

Girls of Summer SoftballGrades 3-5

Girls of Summer Softball is for girls who have completed grades 3-5 who want to participate in a non-competitive softball league. Girls have fun on the field while developing self-confidence, teamwork, leadership, and healthy living skills. The program meets twice per week for four weeks and the end-of-season event, Girls of Summer All-Star Day, is held at Helfaer Field at Miller Park. It is a chance for the girls to show their spirit and newfound skills. Girls of Summer Softball is a collaborative program with GSWISE, Brewers Community Foundation, Inc., and MPS’ Recreational Division.

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Girl Scouting in the School Day (GSISD)K5-8th Grade Curriculum

(can be customized for High Schools)

The content of all Girl Scout national proficiency badges and curriculum journeys have been correlated by grade level to national Common Core Standards, 21st Century Skills standards, Financial Literacy education standards, and curriculum such as Health and PE, Language Arts, Math, Science, and Social Studies learning objectives for all 50 states and the District of Columbia. All GSISD curriculum is grade-level targeted and is two hours in length, but can be customized to meet the needs of the site.

Life Skills (Healthy Relationships)Girl Scout Leadership Experience (GSLE) Activity

Targeted Grade Level

Wisconsin Common Core Standards (WCCS) GSLE Alignment with WCCS

Flowers and Friends to the EndGirls explore the 10 different points of the Girl Scout Law and what it means to be a “sister to every Girl Scout”.

K5 – 5th Grade

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.1.1. AFollow agreed-upon rules for discussions (e.g., listening to others with care, speaking one at a time about the topics and texts under discussion).

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.1.1. BBuild on others’ talk in conversations by responding to the comments of others through multiple exchanges.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.1.1.CAsk questions to clear up any confusion about the topics and texts under discussion.

Girls develop interpersonal, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills through team- building activities. Every girl seeking inclusion and acceptance will benefit from the curriculum as it helps participants become better involved with their peers while learning anti bullying techniques and advocacy approaches.

Positively Me Girls learn what it means to be healthy in mind, body, and spirit.

K5 – 8th Grade

WI HE. Students will comprehend concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention to enhance health.

1:1A. Understand and describe healthy behaviors that impact personal health.

2:1. Students will analyze the influence of family, peers, culture, media, technology, and other factors on health behavior. Then describe how family, peers, and emotions can influence health behaviors.

H.4.3 Show how science has contributed to meeting personal needs, including hygiene, nutrition, exercise, safety, and health care.

4:1. Students will learn and demonstrate the ability to use interpersonal communication skills to enhance health and avoid or reduce health risks.

Girls engage through interactive games about healthy eating and physical activity, as well as learning about stress. They explore creative ways to relieve stress through art, meditation and movement. This method will help girls understand the importance of self-esteem and help them use critical thinking and problem-solving skills.

Entrepreneurship (Financial Literacy)Girl Scout Leadership Experience (GSLE) Activity

Targeted Grade Level

Wisconsin Common Core Standards (WCCS) GSLE Alignment with WCCS

Money MattersStudents will develop a sense of value of money and how to manage finances as they develop and/or enhance critical thinking skills.

K5 – 8th Grade

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.NBT. A.1 Work with numbers to gain foundations for place value.

Advancing grade levels from 1st-8th will be able to extend counting sequence, understand place value, properties of operations to add and subtract, perform multi-digit arithmetic, as well as perform operations with multi-digit whole numbers and with decimals to hundredths.

Girls will engage in hands-on activities using mathematical methods or design thinking processes which will foster critical thinking and problem solving skills, as the learner develops a sense of cost association, short and long term goal setting, and financial management.

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STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math)Girl Scout Leadership Experience (GSLE) Activity

Targeted Grade Level

Wisconsin Common Core Standards (WCCS) GSLE Alignment with WCCS

Wonders of WaterGirls will discover how important water is to the environment and their role in conserving this natural resource.

K5 – 6th Grade

WI: SCI. Students will learn to understand that there are unifying themes: systems, order, organization, and interactions; evidence, models and explanations; constancy, change, and measurement; evolution, equilibrium, and energy; form and function among scientific disciplines.

C.4.6 Communicate the results of their investigations in ways their audiences will understand by using charts, graphs, drawings, written descriptions, and various other means, to display their answers.

C.4.2 Use the science content being learned to ask questions, plan investigations, make observations, make predictions, and offer explanations.

E.4.6 Using the science themes, find patterns and cycles in the earth’s daily, yearly, and long-term changes.

E.4.7 Using the science themes, describe resources used in the home, community, and nation as a whole.

Girls will become empowered to educate to their community as they advocate for others to get involved in water conservation and become environmental stewards.

InventHER LEGO AdventuresGirls learn about female inventors and discover engineering by using LEGOS to design and build inventions. Sessions include the LEGO Vehicle Challenge (physics) and LEGO Land (geography).

2nd – 8th Grade

A.4.1 When conducting science investigations, ask and answer questions that will help decide the general areas of science being addressed.

C.4.5 Use data they have collected to develop explanations and answer questions generated by investigations.

D.4.7 Observe and describe physical events involving objects and develop record-keeping systems to follow these events by measuring and describing changes in their properties, including:

• position relative to another object• motion over time

MPS CCS GeographyStudents in Wisconsin will learn about geography through the study of the relationships among people, places, and environments. They will identify latitude, longitude, equator, hemispheres, grid, key and scale on maps and globes, develop a mental map of Wisconsin and the U.S., describe the movement of people, ideas and goods within Wisconsin and across regions and explain how people adapt to their environment, as well as use natural resources.

Students will create inventions using the scientific method and design thinking processes and math skills to develop critical thinking and problem solving skills.

Girls will reflect on their findings, suggest improvements, and redesign, if time allows.

Girls will learn the geography of their state and the United States, and develop collaboration and team-building skills. Students will use their mathematical skills and apply them in measuring and constructing aspects.

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