Scout Badge Programs
Find the right experience for your troop at our Urban Sanctuary! From guided trail walks and workshops to self-guided options, there are plenty of badge opportunities to explore!
Please note: A variety of badges may be fully or partially filled through one scout experience!
A private scout program is a minimum of 15 scouts at $5 each or a minimum of $75 for a reservation made in advance.
Interested in visiting with your scout group? Please fill the Field Trip Inquiry Form
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GIRL SCOUTS
Daisy – Kinder and 1st Grade Girl Scouts
- • Daisy STEM Career Exploration
- ▪ Find out what STEM is and how to use STEM to help other people, animals and the planet
- ▪ Discover Women in STEM
- ▪ Have fun with Biomimicry
- ▪ Dream your Future
- ▪ Requirements Fulfilled at QM: 3/3
- Eco Learner
- ▪ Nature gives us many gifts – learn some ways to give back by protecting nature
- ▪ Explore Reciprocity through creating Native Seed Bombs
- ▪ Practice Leave No Trace Principles along a trail walk
- ▪ Understand human impact on the environment and how you can help protect nature
- ▪ Requirements Fulfilled at QM: 3/3
- • Math in Nature 3: Design with Nature
- ▪ Observe what you know about the outdoor to make and do thing in nature
- ▪ Count with birds
- ▪ Identify parts of nature
- ▪ Create and design a map
- ▪ Requirements Fulfilled at QM: 3/3
- • Outdoor Art Maker
- ▪ Daisies explore the outdoors and use what they see and hear to make art unique to the Tamaulipan Thorn Forest
- ▪ See the colors of nature
- ▪ Hear the sounds of nature
- ▪ Share your outdoor art
- ▪ Requirements Fulfilled at QM: 3/3
Brownie – 2nd and 3rd Grade Girl Scouts
- • Outdoor Art Creator
- • Discover nature through different forms of creative expression
- ▪ Design with Nature
- ▪ Become a Nature Photographer
- ▪ Create nature-inspired art
- ▪ Requirements Fulfilled at QM: 3/5
- • Brownie STEM Career Exploration
- • Discover how to use STEM to help others and plan you dream career
- ▪ Explore your interests in STEM ▪ Discover the possibilities: Women in STEM
- ▪ Brainstorm next steps and share your goal
- ▪ Requirements Fulfilled at QM: 5/5
Junior- 4th and 5th Grade Girl Scouts
- • Animal Habitats
- ▪ Learn about where and how animals live, how they play, and how we can help them.
- ▪ Investigate animal habitat
- ▪ Build a bird’s nest!
- ▪ Help protect animal habitats
- ▪ Requirements Fulfilled at QM: 4/5
- • Flowers
- ▪ Discover there’s more to flowers than just good looks
- ▪ Flower Dissection
- ▪ Find out how flowers help people
- ▪ Flower pressing and Haiku Workshop
- ▪ Requirements Fulfilled at QM: 5/5
- • Math in Nature1: Shapes in Nature
- ▪ Explore patterns found in nature and use math to create your own
- ▪ Patterns in nature Scavenger hunt: Symmetry and Fractals
- ▪ Create nature-inspired are with circular symmetry
- ▪ Explore the Fibonacci sequence
- ▪ Requirements Fulfilled at QM: 5/5
- • Digital Photographer
- ▪ Learn how to explore nature though photography and create one of-a kind photos
- ▪ Learn about digital cameras from a guide
- ▪ Take photographs of the natural world
- ▪ Share your photos
- ▪ Requirements Fulfilled at QM: 3/5
Cadette- 6th -8th Grade Girl Scouts
- • Cadette STEM Career Exploration
- • Explore STEM careers and how you can make the world a better place
- ▪ Discover Women in STEM
- ▪ Explore your interests in STEM
- ▪ Brainstorm different ways to make the world a better place
- ▪ Requirements Fulfilled at QM: 5/5
- • Trees
- • Find out all about trees: from the shade to the science, the fruit to the forest, and the legends to the lumber
- ▪ Tree stories: Explore the connection between trees and people
- ▪ Dig into the amazing science of trees
- ▪ Tree inspired creative project
- ▪ Requirements Fulfilled at QM: 5/5
- • Outdoor Art Apprentice
- • Observe nature through the lens and other forms of creative expression.
- ▪ Discover sounds in nature
- ▪ Design with nature
- ▪ Be a nature photographer
- ▪ Requirements Fulfilled at QM: 4/5
Senior – 9th and 10th Grade Girl Scouts
- • Collage Artist
- ▪ No matter what you do with your collage, there won’t be another just like it in the world. Learn how to create collages using upcycled and natural materials
- ▪ Focus on composition
- ▪ Create with nature’s colors
- ▪ Share a message through creative expression
- ▪ Requirements Fulfilled at QM: 5/5
- • Senior STEM Career Explorations
- ▪ Explore how you might want to impact the world and how STEM can help you do it.
- ▪ Discover Women in STEM
- ▪ Nature writing and Stewardship
- ▪ Explore Biomimicry and Sustainable practices
- ▪ Requirements Fulfilled at QM: 4/5
GIRL SCOUTS - Self Guided Trail Walks
Daisy – Kinder and 1st Grade Girl Scouts
- ▪Math in Nature 1: Shapes in Nature
- ▪ Identify Shapes and Patterns in Natural objects, like flowers, leaves, and other natural formations
- ▪ Patterns in Nature Scavenger Hunt
- ▪ Temporary Land Art Building Station
- ▪ Requirements Fulfilled at QM: 3/3
Brownie – 2nd and 3rd Grade Girl Scout
- • Math in Nature 1: Shapes in Nature
- • Explore the forest carefully and track what patterns and shapes you see, then create art inspired by nature.
- • Patterns in Nature Scavenger Hunt
- • Spider web and Symmetry design station
- • Requirements Fulfilled at QM: 4/5
Junior- 4th and 5th Grade Girl Scouts
- • Math in Nature 1: Shapes in Nature
- • Explore patterns found in nature and use math to create your own
- ▪ Patterns in Nature Scavenger Hunt
- ▪ Fibonacci art design station
- ▪ Requirements Fulfilled at QM: 5/5
Cadette- 6th -8th Grade Girl Scouts
- • Trees
- • Find out all about Native trees of south Texas: from shade to science, the fruit to the forest
- ▪ South Texas Tree Scavenger hunt
- ▪ Trees and Friendship: Tree Craft and friendship letter Station
- • Requirements Fulfilled at QM: 5/5
CUB SCOUTS
Tiger - 1ST Grade Scouts
- • In the Wild
- • Tigers and adult partners will take a walk to explore the outdoors, learning about wild animals along the way.
- ▪ Meet a tree and make a leaf and bark rubbing
- ▪ Identify and sketch native wildlife
- ▪ 5 Step Seek: What clues reveal what is natural or manmade?
- ▪ Requirement’s Fulfilled at QM: 5/5
Wolf - 2nd Grade Scouts
- • Paws on the Path
- • Take a walk at our Urban Sanctuary and explore signs of nature in different forms!
- ▪ Be prepared! – Learn about the essentials
- ▪ Explore nature with a Wildlife Scavenger hunt
- ▪ Requirement’s Fulfilled at QM: 3/5
Bear – 2nd – 3rd Grade Scouts
- • Fur, Feathers and Ferns
- • Bear Cubs will get a closer look at native flora and fauna through practicing leave no trace principles and gaining a better understanding of how nature works
- ▪ Plant Identification and character study
- ▪ Explore Composting with nature’s recyclers
- ▪ Identify birds, insects, and reptiles
- ▪ Requirement’s Fulfilled at QM: 6/7
Webelos – 4th -5th Grade Scouts
- • Into the Wild
- • Learn about some of the mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and insect that lie with us day and night and how they contribute to the world in which we live!
- ▪ Web of Life: Explore how wildlife is connected within an ecosystem
- ▪ Explore Human Interaction to an animal’s ecosystem
- ▪ Requirement’s Fulfilled at QM: 3/5
- • Into the Woods
- • As scouts journey through the woods, they will learn what trees and plants do for people and animals and understand why it’s important to care for native flora.
- ▪ Native Tree Scavenger Hunt
- ▪ Differentiate native and invasive plants
- ▪ Explore the relationships between trees and wildlife
- ▪ Requirement’s Fulfilled at QM: 4/5
BOY SCOUTS
Badges for Scouts Ages 11-17
- • Bird Study Merit Badge
- • The practice of birding has revealed some of the most important discoveries about birds: form how they live to their valuable contribution to the natural world. Explore one of the most fascinating creatures on earth!
- ▪ Demonstrate proper use of birding tools
- ▪ Show you re familiar with terms to describe birds
- ▪ Explore the function of a bird’s song
- ▪ Requirement’s Fulfilled at QM: 9/12
- • Sustainability Merit Badge
- • Learn to reduce waste and teach sustainable practices to others so you can help conserve Earth’s resources!
- ▪ Explore how human activities may contribute to species decline.
- ▪ Learn the importance of what sustainability means for future generations
- ▪ Explore product lifecycles and the process of Composting
- ▪ Requirements Fulfilled at QM: 3/9
- • Insect Merit Badge
- • Meet tiny creatures with tremendous strength and speed and discover how insects undergo surprising changes in habits and form as they grow.
- ▪ Insect Hunt: Explore Insect Habitat and character
- ▪ Explore how insects differ from other animals
- ▪ Explain and discover symbiotic relationships between insects and humankind
- ▪ Requirements Fulfilled at QM: 9/13
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