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Global Action Award 2023 Activity Guide for Daisies, Brownies, and Juniors
Global Action Award
In 2015, leaders around the world agreed to work together to accomplish
17 goals by 2030. These are called the Sustainable Development Goals—
”SDGs” or “global goals” for short. The goals focus on things like taking
care of the environment, making sure all people have enough to eat, and
improving people’s health. They’re big goals, but Girl Scouts know a thing
or two about changing the world!
The Girl Scout Global Action award calls for girls to address the global
goals by discovering, connecting, and taking action in their communities
and the world. In 2023, the award focuses on SDG 12: Responsible
Consumption (how we use things) and Production (how we make things).
Learning About the Global Goals
If the global goals are new to you, start by teaming up with an adult to go
online and learn about the SDGs at www.globalgoals.org.1 You can also
read a short booklet about the goals called The World We Want: A Guide
to the Goals for Children and Young People, available for free at World’s
Largest Lesson.2
Once you know what the goals are, you’re ready to move on to the
activities you can do to earn your Girl Scout Global Action award.
Note: Some of the targets that the United Nations created for the
Sustainable Development Goals refer to sensitive issues. Volunteers should
talk with parents and guardians and obtain parental/caregiver permission
before discussing this topic with troop members. Choose the issues or
targets that are appropriate for your group and context. Your council may
have a “sensitive issues” form that you can use. Please consult with your
council before discussing content of a sensitive or controversial nature to
ensure that appropriate training, planning, and permission is established.
Girl Scouts of the USA understands that parents or guardians are the
primary decision makers for their children, and therefore does not expect
or require troop members to participate in any activities relating to the
Sustainable Development Goals that may be inconsistent with their
family’s faith or beliefs.
The 17 Sustainable Development
Goals established by the
United Nations in 2015
1. GSUSA acknowledges the Global Goals Campaign. For more, see https://www.globalgoals.org/asset- 2
licence (accessed April 14, 2021)
2. Arenas, Paola, and Dora Bardales, The World We Want: A Guide to the Goals for Children and Young
People, August 2015, Global Movement for Children of Latin America and Caribbean – MMI-LAC, PDF.
Earning Your Global Action Award
This year, the Global Action Award focuses on Goal 12: Responsible
Consumption and Production. By exploring this goal, you’ll think twice
about the waste we create and how it impacts us and our planet. The goal
is to improve the quality of life of all people everywhere on the planet.
You’ll also find out about your responsibilities for being a global citizen!
Every Girl Scout must complete five steps to earn her Global Action award.
The first, second, and fourth steps have three activities to choose from.
You only need to do one activity in each of those steps to earn the award,
but don’t let that stop you—you can do as many as you’d like!
Steps:
1. Explore the Global Goals and Global Action Award.
2. Explore what it means to be a global citizen.
3. Create a global citizen challenge.
4. Explore what responsible consumption means.
5. Create a responsible consumption challenge.
When you’ve earned this award, you’ll understand what it means to be a
global citizen. You’ll also explore how the things we use and the waste we
create impacts our planet. You’ll create two separate challenges: one for
being a global citizen and one for SDG 12: Responsible Consumption and
Production.
STEP 1. Explore
the Global Goals and
Global Action Award
Choice 1. Make a global goals paper chain.
With an adult, watch this video.3
Then, look at the Global Goals Icon Grid included in this packet. These
are the goals that the United Nations wants to make happen by 2030. Are
there any goals that are particularly important to you?
In this activity, you’ll make a paper chain to represent the 17 global goals.
You will need safety scissors, clear tape, and a pen. With an adult’s help,
cut out the 17 paper chain strips included in this activity pack.
3 GSUSA acknowledges the Global Goals Campaign. For more, see https://www.globalgoals.org/asset- 3
licence (accessed June 1, 2022)
Before you tape your goals together in a chain, pick one or two of the goals you
might have an idea about reaching. Then write what you would do on the back
of the paper chain. For example, for “climate action,” you might write, “I will turn
off the faucet when I’m brushing my teeth to help save water.”
When you are done making your paper chain, you can share it with your Girl Scout
friends to add your chains together. See how long a paper chain you can make!
You can also hang the chain in your room to remind you of your commitments!
Choice 2. Imagine your superpower.
In this activity, you’ll learn more about the
United Nations Global Goals by imagining What Would Your Superhero Do?
your superpower to help solve a problem.
Look at this list of problems and think of ways you
Find out how you can be a hero by shaping might solve them.
the world around you into a better place.
Poverty, some people don’t have enough money
Look at the Global Goals Icon Grid included
__________________________________________________
in this packet. Then read the comic: The
Planet and the 17 Goals4 Dirty water
__________________________________________________
You’ll need paper and coloring materials
People who don’t feel safe
for this activity. First, think of the goals
and pick one that is important to you. How __________________________________________________
could you help? Polluted seas and oceans
Look at the list of problems and write __________________________________________________
down ways you might solve them: Unsafe towns and cities
__________________________________________________
On a blank piece of paper, draw what
you would do as a superhero to help with Poor health and disease
the problem. Add a bubble to write or __________________________________________________
draw what the problem is and how your Violence between people
superpower would help. You can also draw
__________________________________________________
comic panels on your paper and create a
Damaged habitats, where plants and animals live
story. Then share it with friends. You can
collect your troops’ drawings to turn into __________________________________________________
a Global Goals Superhero comic book. Or Lack of education, some children can’t go to school
you can take a picture of your drawings __________________________________________________
and your troop leader can post it on social
Hunger
media.
__________________________________________________
Want more inspiration? Find out how other Too much waste, not enough recycling
kids used their creative superpowers to
__________________________________________________
solve problems by watching this video
with an adult.
4 Credit: Comics Uniting Nations, http://www.comicsunitingnations.org/comics/ 4
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Watch this video how these kids describe global citizenship.5
As a Girl Scout, you understand what it means to value and respect diversity, which
means people from different backgrounds. You fight against social injustice and try to
make the world a better place. That’s also what it means to be a global citizen.
Although people around the world have different backgrounds, native languages, and
cultural norms, we are all connected and share similar experiences, like playing games,
celebrating traditions, and getting excited over our favorite foods.
As global citizens, we look for, learn about, and welcome the uniqueness between people.
We are accepting and inclusive of ideas and values that are different than our own.
Find out more about global citizenship and how you can be a global citizen too.
Choice 1: Act out global citizenship.
What Global Citizens Do
Watch the videos:
What Does It Mean To Be Global?6 ⇨ help others
We are all connected!7 ⇨ try to understand other people
⇨ believe all people are equal
Look at the Girl Scout Promise and Law and ⇨ build relationships with people who are different than them
the box “What Global Citizens Do” What ⇨ celebrate differences
connections can you make between what ⇨ are willing to help
⇨ are curious and want to learn more about the world
you do as a Girl Scout and as a global citizen?
⇨ look after the environment
Circle all the words you think relate to being ⇨ don’t waste things
⇨ believe they can make a positive difference in the world
a global citizen and discuss your picks with
your friends or family.
The Girl Scout Promise The Girl Scout Law
On my honor, I will try: I will do my best to be
To serve God and my country, honest and fair,
To help people at all times, friendly and helpful,
And to live by the Girl Scout Law. considerate and caring,
courageous and strong, and
responsible for what I say and do,
and to
respect myself and others,
respect authority,
use resources wisely,
make the world a better place, and
be a sister to every Girl Scout.
Then, with one friend or a group, act out something that shows what it means to be a
global citizen.
5 Credit: EF Educational Tours 6
6 Credit: Rana DiOrio
7 Credit: Becky Morales, Kid World Citizen, https://kidworldcitizen.org/
Choice 2: Make a global citizenship flower. Watch the videos: What Does it Mean to be Global? By Rana DiOrio8 “We Are All Connected”9 Look at the box “What Global Citizens Do” on the previous page. For this activity, you’ll need colored construction paper, safety scissors, and markers. On your paper, draw and cut out a flower with five petals. In each petal, write what you think a global citizen is. What qualities do you like the best and want to aim for? Accepting others? Caring for the environment? Making a positive difference? Learning about other countries? Share your flower with your family and friends and tell them what global citizenship means to you. Choice 3: Dance for global citizenship. One important way to be a global citizen is to explore other communities and cultures. What better way to get to know another culture than through dance? Look at a map of the world or a globe and pick one country to explore. With an adult’s help, find a dance that comes from that country and learn it! If you have a computer available, with an adult, check out this map that shows dances from around the world.10 Have fun creating the music, whether it’s singing, playing drums, or finding some other fun instrument or sound you can experiment with! If you make instruments in Step 4, Choice 1, use those to play along with your dance. Find out: What does this dance mean in this culture? Why is it important? When is this dance used? Do the people in that culture wear special outfits when a cultural and traditional dance is performed? Do these outfits have a special meaning? Then, with your troop, organize a show for friends and family to perform and talk about the country and the music you selected. 8 Credit: Rana DiOrio 7 9 Credit: Becky Morales, Kid World Citizen, https://kidworldcitizen.org/ 10 Credit: TIME For Kids, https://www.timeforkids.com
STEP 3. Create
a Global Citizenship
Commitment
To share the idea of global citizenship, you might have to show others
what you are doing and encourage them to do the same.
In this activity, you will create a personal pledge for how you will be a
global citizen. Do this by drawing a poster to show all the qualities of
global citizenship and how we are all connected. Then share your poster
with your friends and family to encourage them to act as global citizens
too!
What will you tell your family about your pledge and poster? How will you
teach others about the new things you learned and encourage them to be
global citizens? Where can you hang your poster to remind you about your
global citizenship pledge?
STEP 4. Explore
What Responsible
Consumption Means
Consumption means to use up something. Responsible means taking
care of something or being able to make the right decisions. If you put the
two words together, responsible consumption means making the right
decisions about how you use and take care of things. By doing this, we
reduce the pollution we cause from producing items.
Goal 12 wants to make us think twice about the things
we use, the waste we create, and how that impacts
our planet. Changing our behavior to include more
sustainable actions, such as recycling, really makes a
difference when everyone—that includes individuals,
companies, governments—contributes. There are
many little things we can all do to achieve this goal.
Goal 12 aims to improve the quality of life of all people,
not just a few, everywhere on the planet.
First, watch these videos to learn more:
Responsible Consumption for Kids - The 3R
Principle: Reduce, Reuse and Recycle 11
Thomas & Friends on Responsible
Consumption - Goal #1212
11 Credit: Smile and Learn – English, https://smileandlearn.com/ 8
12 Credit: United Nations, https://www.un.org/
Choice 1. Create a band with recycled instruments.
In the videos, you found out that responsible consumption means reusing,
repairing, and recycling. In this activity, you’ll reuse items and have fun
doing it!
First, you’ll need to collect anything that might make sounds.
For example, tie rubber bands around a tissue box to make a guitar. Use
an empty coffee can and stick for a drum. Or drum on an empty cereal
box. Strike two pot covers together for cymbals. Fill glass jars with
different levels of water and gently strike with a mixing spoon. Put tissue
paper over the tooth edge of a comb and hum through the tissue. Make
a didgeridoo out of wrapping paper tubes. Put pebbles in an empty milk
carton to shake for a rhythm. Remember, the idea is to
make an instrument by reusing things you already
have, rather than buying something new.
Easy to
Once you’ve collected some items, with friends,
Make Musical
have a Girl Scout sing-along and play your DIY
Instruments
instruments.
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Show your audience what instrument you made lessons/crafts/easy-make-
and what was recycled (if anything). Is there musical-instruments/
anything else that you recycle that you can reuse
as a do-it-yourself instrument?
Choice 2. Learn how to pack a waste-free lunch.
Every year, we waste one-third of all the food produced in the world.
Responsible consumption means doing everything you can not to waste
food—this is called achieving “zero waste” or becoming waste-free!
too good to waste!
First, look at the activity in this packet called “Food is too good to Food is
waste!”13
Then check out the poster “Pack a Waste-Free Lunch.”14
In this activity, you’ll come up with ideas for how to pack a lunch for
Apple
other kids that won’t create waste. You’ll need a paper and pen.
See the menus in the worksheet included here. If you take lunch
to school, “Pack Waste-Free and Healthy” for Monday, Tuesday,
and Wednesday. Then create what you would pack for Thursday
and Friday. You can pack sandwiches, leftovers from dinner, fruits,
vegetables, or anything you think is healthy and waste-free. Make sure
ds learn
er frien
to pack only what you can eat, reuse, or compost. Compost means le and h y day…
Help App te less food ever
as
how to w
creating a mixture of decaying organic matter, such as the scraps from
fruits and veggies that can be used as fertilizer to grow plants.
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13 Credit: Environmental Protection Agency, https://www.epa.gov
14 Credit: Environmental Protection Agency, https://www.epa.govShare your menus with friends to see what they came up with. Discuss with your friends: ⇨ What are some things you can do to make your lunch waste-free? For instance, if you usually don’t eat a whole piece of fruit, you can cut it in half or pieces and save the rest for later. ⇨ What things can you avoid? Think about single-use plastic or paper bags, drink boxes, plastic spoons, forks, and knives as well as paper napkins and packaged snacks. What would you replace these with? (Some suggestions: reusable lunch containers, reusable water bottle, washable utensils, cloth napkins, reusable food container or thermos, and snacks in reusable zip bags) Choice 3. Investigate the life of a soccer ball. Have you ever wondered what happens with the things you use or toys you play with after you’ve finished using them? Every product we use requires natural resources that we take from the earth. Products also take energy to make, which uses our air, land, and water. To find out more, follow the life of a soccer ball to learn how it is made and how you can help reduce its impact on the environment. Look at the “The Life of a Soccer Ball” included in this activity packet.15 If you can, find a soccer ball to look at while doing this activity. Find these materials on the soccer ball: plastic, rubber, cotton, and animal leather. Draw a poster to show how to take care of the soccer ball. With an adult and friends, talk about each stage of a product’s life from the poster. Then pick a favorite thing you own. Think about your favorite item: 1. How far did it travel to get to you? 2. What is it made from? 3. What else was needed to make this item? 4. How often and for how long do you expect to use this item? 5. How much does it cost to purchase? 6. How much does that mean each use costs? 7. When you no longer need this item, where does it go? 8. What will happen to it then? 9. How is this a problem? 10. What else could be done? 15 Credit: Environmental Protection Agency, https://www.epa.gov 10
STEP 5. Create
a Responsible
Consumption Challenge
To create responsible consumption, everyone needs to act!
One way you can inspire others to act is to show them what
you are doing and encourage them to do the same.
What’s cool is that sometimes we no longer use an item but
someone else really wants it! When we pass on an item we no
longer use, we are both extending the “life” of the item (the
time before it goes in the trash), and we are helping someone
else because they don’t have to buy a new one! With your
friends, troop, family, or community, have an adult help you
host a swap party where you can exchange something you no
longer want or use for something else.
First, find other swappers. Decide on what you will swap. It
can be a toy, an article of clothing, a book, or anything else
you think of.
Share with your friend how swapping or donating things is
important to help the environment.
Then, get the message out about everything you learned
about responsible consumption.
⇨ What will you tell your family about your message for
responsible consumption?
⇨ What else can you do to get your message out? For
example, you might put up flyers or a poster at your town
hall or community bulletin board.
When you are finished with all five steps, make sure you
celebrate! By earning your Global Action Award you’ve helped
the world get one step closer to achieving the Global Goals!
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Glossary
Biodegradable: When something can be broken Natural resources: Things we take from the
down naturally by living organisms, such as earth to make food, fuel, and products, such as
bacteria coal, natural gas, metal, wood, and water
Citizenship: When you belong to a community of Pollution: Anything that causes harm to the
people environment like the smoke from a factory that
causes pollution
Compost: To create a mixture of decaying organic
matter, such as dead leaves or kitchen scraps that Recycle: Taking materials ready to be thrown
can be used as fertilizer to grow plants away and changing them into materials we can
use again
Consumption: To use up something
Responsible consumption: Making the right
Environment: The air, water, and land in or on decisions about how we use or take care of things
which people, animals, and plants live
Sustainable: When something can last or
Global: When something includes the whole continue for a long time
world
United Nations: Organization formed to promote
Global Citizenship: When you consider the international peace, security, and cooperation
whole world as your community among countries in the world (Fun fact: The
United Nations headquarters is in New York
Goal: A result you want to see happen for change City, the same city as Girl Scouts of the USA
or to make a difference headquarters!)
Habitat: Where plants and wildlife live Waste: Unwanted or unusable materials
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Global Goals Icon Grid and
One-Sentence Global Goal Descriptions
Goal 1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere.
Goal 2: End hunger and ensure everyone has access to
healthy and nutritious food.
Goal 3: E
nsure healthy lives and promote well-being for
all at all ages.
Goal 4: Ensure inclusive and good education for all
people.
Goal 5: A
chieve gender equality and empower all women
and girls.
Goal 6: Make sure everyone has access to safe and clean
water.
Goal 7: Make sure everyone has access to safe and clean
energy.
Goal 8: Promote inclusive and sustainable economic
growth so that everyone is able to have decent
work prospects.
Goal 9: Build resilient infrastructure and ensure these
do not harm the environment or people, and help
companies to design and create new technologies
and innovations.
Goal 10: Reduce inequality within and among countries.
Goal 11: Make cities and human settlements inclusive,
safe, resilient, and sustainable.
Goal 12: Ensure sustainable consumption and help stop
food waste.
Goal 13: Take urgent action to combat climate change
and its impacts.
Goal 14. Conserve and protect the oceans and marine life.
Goal 15: Protect, restore, and promote nature and the
animals that live in it.
Goal 16: Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for
sustainable development; provide access to
justice for all; and build effective, accountable,
and inclusive institutions at all levels.
Goal 17: Create new partnerships around the world for
the SDGs.
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