GIRL SCOUT SENIOR – SOW WHAT? SESSION 1: So What About ...

GIRL SCOUT SENIOR – SOW WHAT? SESSION 1: So What About Sow What?
Goal – Girls become aware of their place in the global food network as they start to think about where their food really comes from and how their
choices about food impact Planet Earth. They begin to customize their Sow What? journey in order to truly make a difference.
Session 1
Activity
Opening
Ceremony
The Real Food
Network
Icon Description Girl
Book
Pg
Contact each girl in
advance to bring an
example of her favorite
food. (actual food,
picture, or label)
Each girl shares her
favorite food with the
group
Girls create a web and
timeline of where their
food came from –
everything in nature and
human work that took to
get the food grown,
made, and to the table
Food Prints Create a chart of the foot
print of the foods. Where
they came from. Hold a
discussion on how to
take control of their own
“food print” to benefit the
environment
Plan It: Food
Forage Sow
What?
Make It Your
Own
Girls plan how they
would like to accomplish
the food forage, plan
transportation and
groups
Pg 12-
21
Pg 12-
21
Pg 15-
21
Pg 18-
20
Est. Min
Time
Materials
Needed
30 Min Food
samples from
each girl
30 Min Paper and
pencils or
markers
30 Min Big pieces of
paper,
markers
Paper,
pencils,
phones for
setting up
transportation
if needed
Outcomes/
The Purpose
Girls are better
able to recognize
the opinions of
others while
establishing their
own individuality
Girls begin to
have a greater
understanding of
how the
decisions and
policies of
various
institutions have
effects in their
lives and the lives
of others
Girls strengthen
their own &
others’
commitment to
being socially &
environmentally
engaged citizens
Girls demonstrate
increased
enthusiasm for
learning new
skills and ideas
and expanding
existing ones
Alternate Activities
Create a story about
the creation of the food
to tell to the group. Put
it together in a book
with illustrations to
share
Use a big map of the
worked and m ark
where the foods in
your pantry come
from. Connect with a
string to your house
Explore where people
can have food shipped
from directly and
compare if they can
get the same thing
locally. Make a plan for
their household to
purchase foods only
from local sources
within 100 miles of
home
Possible Side
Trips
Take a field trip
to your favorite
restaurant and
find out where
they shop for
the ingredients
to your favorite
dish
Visit a local
farm or food
processing
plant to
interview the
workers in
person on what
they do and try
your hand at
being a part of
the food web
Hold a
competition in
the troop to
have everyone
make the same
dish with the
winner being
the person who
can make it
with the
smallest food
print
Hold a contest
to bring in the
food with the
smallest food
print.

Closing
Ceremony
Share the memory of a
favorite meal & what
made it special. Ask one
of the girls to capture
key phrases about what
makes a meal special on
a piece of paper for later
use
Pg 12-
21
20 Min Paper and
pencil or pen
Girls strengthen
their commitment
to being socially
engaged citizens
of their
communities
Take a moment to
express thanks for all
of the resources- of
Earth and people –
that brought their
favorite foods to them
Host a potluck
celebration
using only
locally grown
and produced
foods

SOW WHAT? – It’s Your Planet – Love It!
SESSION #2: Foraging For Food!
Goal: ____________________________________________
Session
Activity
Icon Description Girl
Book
Pages
Food Forage Girls will be out
implementing the details
of their Food Forage
that they planned
Gather Up Girls will come together
to share what they
discovered, learned,
etc.
Est.
Min
Time
1 hr 20
Min (or
longer if
planned
as a
part
day
field trip
event)
Materials Needed
Safety Wise,
Contact Sheets,
Permission Slips,
Safety Supplies
and rules for each
adult assistant and
team leader, Food
Forage
Worksheets and
any other materials
that were deemed
necessary during
planning
20 Min Evidence of what
was found, data
collected, notes,
pictures, etc.
Outcomes/
The Purpose
For girls to get
out explore,
discover and
connect within
their community
Girls will
collaborate and
begin to connect
how the food
network impacts
the environment
and how people
or advertising
may or may not
influence our
food choices.
This will help the
girls begin to
think about how
they can take
action to
improve our food
network and
planet’s use of
resources.
Alternate or
Supplemental
Activities
Possible
Side Trips

Plan It and Do
It Up
Healthy
Relationships
Closing
Girls will plan their next
meeting regarding
“What Makes a Meal
Really Happy?” Girls
could have a cooking
contest or invite a guest
speaker from within
their food community.
Together the girls will
plan a meal and
determine its food
mileage and print
Girls will consider how
relationships can
nourish or sabotage
them like food. What is
considered a healthy
relationship?
Ideas
on Pgs
23, 32,
63, 75,
77, 81
26 5 – 10
Min
25 – 30 Paper and pencil
Someone to record
everyone’s
suggestions, ideas
and tasks
Girls will spend
time together
enjoying a meal
or snack that
they prepared
themselves
One that’s
healthy and has
the lowest food
print possible
Identify types of
healthy/unhealthy
relationships &
things that affect
them
Girls can have fun
and make the
meal as if they
were chef’s
competing to win
an ultimate
challenge. Could
have judges, invite
family members to
attend as an
audience, etc.
In a closing circle
girls can share
what they like
about their
meetings, or troop
Go to a
culinary school,
or cooking
class and have
the instructor
be a guest
speaker and
record the
meeting like a
“show”

SOW WHAT
SESSION #3 What Makes a Meal Really Happy: Goal of the Local Harvest
Goal: Girls explore the pleasures of the local harvest
Session
Activity
Opening and
Guests
Introduce Guest
From Soil Born
Farms
Making
Fruit/Vegetables
into centerpiece
Icon Description Girl
Book
Leaders
Guide
Girls have brought
ingredients for a snack they
have planned. They open
by telling why they have
brought to share this food
sampling and why it has
been a favorite in their
life/family. All local food
items are the goal
This guest comes to tell
about the farm he started in
Sacramento that uses all
organic seed and organic
procedures. Soil Born
Farms now provides
produce for most of the top
restaurants in Sacramento
– Water Boy, Biba’s, The
Grange, Sunshine Drive In
Making Snack: Working
with each other, they create
a bouquet of local foods as
well as cut up their offerings
for the snack
LG pg
55
GB pg
22
Est.
Min
Time
10
Min
G pg 62 15
Min
pg 52 20
Min
Materials
Needed
Ingredients, bowls,
napkins, candles
Cutting boards,
bowls, knives,
kitchen shears, chop
sticks for stems
Outcomes/
The Purpose
Discovering the
abundance of
local food
stuffs. Sense of
self seeing how
tastes differ
Speaker
explains
process of the
organic farm
and how to
make it work,
how distribution
works,
marketing, etc.
Girls connect to
community and
begin to
understand
community
food needs
They learn a
new skill in
making
garnishes and
they work
together as a
team making
the bouquet. It
promotes team
building skills
and
cooperation
Alternate
Or
Supplemental
Activities
The Guest from
Soil Born
Farms shows
how to make
radish roses
and fruit
flowers
Some girls
could be
working on
making a dip to
go with the
snack. This
could be made
of local diary
products
Possible
Side Trips
Visit Soil Born
Farm at later
date
Create and
take bouquets
to local senior
center or other
location to
brighten lives
Visit one of the
restaurants
served by Soil
Born Farms

Mapping Your
Snack while
partaking of snack
Using a map that they have
for this journey, the girls
identify where the
ingredients they brought
came from in the local area
Discussion Talking about having
healthy eating habits and
having happy meals.
Relationship to food and
family and to self
LG pg 5
GB pg
16
15
Min
pg 57 10
Min
Map, pushpins
Slips of paper with
questions
They see all
the food outlet
options in the
area – farms,
markets,
roadside
stands,
backyard trees,
neighbor’s
gardens
Discuss plans
for improved
eating
Girls learn the
“Food print”
Learning
healthy
relationship
with food