Senses (Brownie Try-it)

The Senses badge is part of "It's Your Planet-Love It" series set introduced in 2011. It replaces the retired Senses badge.

Step 1: Look around
Try your hand at the following interactives located on the 3rd floor of the Museum in School for Spies:
 * Observe and Analyze • Disguise and Identify
 * Threat Analysis • Imagery Analysis

Look closely at the spy gadgets on display (don’t read the label!). Think about and discuss:▪ How was this gadget used? ▪ Tell a short fictional story about you or someone else using this gadget. ▪ What is it made from? Could you make this at home?

Step 2: Listen to the World

 * Cool sound facts: Koalas have a special organ that helps males make a low bass sound 20 times lower than would be expected from an animal their size -- something more expected from an elephant than a koala.


 * Crawl through the AIR DUCT in School for Spies. What language can you hear?
 * Try your hand at the Undersea Surveillance interactive located on the 3rd floor of the Museum in School for Spies.

Step 3: Put Your Nose to Work
Girls will learn more about their sense of smell by doing a few activities where they identify objects by their smell and learn to navigate around objects using only their sense of smell.

Step 4: Take a Taste Test
Try new foods at the local farmers market.

To use your sense of taste, you need your mouth and your tongue.

Step 5: Touch and Feel
You can touch and feel the adventure of being a spy! Challenge yourself on the 1st floor in the Your Bond Moment activities:

• Hang Time

• Atomic Countdown • Spy vs. Spy

Meeting plans

 * Meeting Plan. Link to how we earned it at camp. Easily adaptable to a meeting setting.


 * Meeting Plan. Our 3rd Grade Brownies did this Try-it with some Daisies as a joint Bridging Requirement activity (for the Daisies to see what Brownies do, and for the Brownies to show younger girls what they do). We set it up with 5 different stations that groups of girls rotated around. Each station could then be done in 10-15 minutes each all in one meeting with some extra parent helpers at each station.


 * This badge might be fun to do as a Halloween party. Maybe doing something along the lines of the The Withered Corpse: A Body Parts Guessing Game, adding in spooky sounds, weird food to task, etc.


 * Five Senses Science Investigation with Chewing Gum