JUNIOR GIRL SCOUTS

WILDLIFE Badge

Page 226-227, Badges and Signs Book Girl Scout’s Name: ______

SUMMARY:

This badge requires 5 of the below activities. Activities 4 and 5 are required.

Circle below the activities completed.

No. / Activity / Date Completed / Adult Helper
1. / Find the bird, tree, and flower to represent your state. Are there other wildlife symbols? Why were they chosen?
2. / Learn how to identify poisonous plants in your area. What should you do if you find poisonous plants or animals ?
3. / Visit a wildlife refuge or management area, nature center. Learn how it’s providing habitat for wildlife.
4.* / Are there endangered plants and animals in your state? Learn what’s being and participate in a project to help.
5.* / Focus on at least 1 wildlife group and learn how to identify 5 species and describe their characteristics.
6. / Observe a species from your wildlife group. See how it interacts with the environment and other creatures.
7. / Learn about careers related to wildlife by talking to someone in that field.

Activity 1. Which bird, tree, and flower represent our state? Why were they selected?

State: / What is it? / Why was it selected?
Bird
Tree
Flower
Are there other state wildlife symbols?

WILDLIFE Badge

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Activity 2.

a) List at least 3 poisonous plants in your area or state, where they’re found, and what to do if eaten or touched.

Name of Plant: / Where is it found? / What does it look like? (describe it or include a picture of it) / What happens if you’re exposed to it and what should you do?
1.
2.
3.

b). Are there any poisonous animals or insects in your area? If so, what are they what should you do if you see them?

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Activity 3. Visit a wildlife refuge or management area, nature center, or sanctuary.

a) Where did you visit? ______

b) What plants or animals are being protected here?

c) How is this area providing habitat for wildlife?

Activity 4.* Learn about endangered wildlife in your state and participate in a project to help.

a) What are some endangered species in our state? For each one you list below, say what’s being done to protect them.

List the species: / What’s being done to help protect them?

b) List some organizations that work to protect endangered species.

c) Participate in a project that improves or establishes wildlife habitat. Describe what you did here.

Activity 5. * a) Learn about a wildlife group. Circle the wildlife group you studied:

amphibians / birds / fish / insects / mammals / reptiles

b) Learn to identify at least five species of this group by behavior, sound, how they look (field marks), or habitat. Complete the chart:

Name of Species / Behavior / Sound / Field marks / Habitat
1
2
3
4
5

c) Are there any species in this group protected by law? What are they?

WILDLIFE Badge

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Activity 6. Observe a species of wildlife in your backyard,

a park, zoo, stream, aquarium, or wildlife preserve.

a) What species did you observe?

b) How does it interact with the environment? (For example, did you watch it find food there, build a nest or dig a hole?)

c) How does it interact with other creatures?

d) Does it have any special adaptations (for example, color) that help it survive?

e) How does it interact with other animals of its own species? (For example, did you see cooperative behavior, fighting, etc.?)

Activity 7. Learn about careers related to wildlife.

a) List some careers that people can have related to wildlife:

b) Talk to someone who works in a wildlife career.

I talked with (list their name and what they do) ______.

Why did they choose this job?

What training or education did they need to do the job?

What do they like about this career?

Is there anything they dislike about the job? What is it?