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Healthy Heart 1 (Click here for Healthy
Heart 2 - for Teen Girl Scouts)
Suggested level: Brownie and Junior Girl Scouts
Description: This patch will help girls learn about
their circulatory system and how to keep a healthy heart.
Patch requirements: At least six activities must be
completed.
Activities:
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Have someone
help you draw an outline of your body. Draw in the heart and other organs
plus the major veins and arteries.
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Find or draw an
outline of a heart. Label the parts of the heart and the direction the
blood flows.
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Learn how to
take your pulse correctly. Take your pulse after you have been sitting
awhile. Because the heart and lungs work together, when you exercise your
body needs extra oxygen. To get more oxygen, you take more breaths, and
your heart forces blood to pick up oxygen from the lungs more rapidly.
Take your pulse again after walking for a few minutes, after running for a
minute and after singing for two minutes.
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Create a device
to use as a stethoscope and listen to your heart and others' hearts.
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Make a
poster/picture or display describing the different parts of blood and what
they do (white blood cells, red blood cells, platelets, hemoglobin, etc.)
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Have your blood
pressure taken and learn what the numbers mean.
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Find out what
are heart healthy exercises. Make a healthy heart exercise plan for a
month and chart your progress.
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Make a display
or chart of foods that are healthy for your heart and share it with
others. Plan a healthy heart meal.
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Visit a
hospital or doctor's office and find out what they do for people with
heart problems.
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Create a troop
chart illustrating that not everyone's heart beats at the same rate.
Record the pulse rate of each troop member and make a bar graph to show
the results. Determine the troop average.
Healthy Heart 2
Suggested level: 11-17 yr old Girl Scouts
Description: This patch will help Girl Scouts learn
about their circulatory system and how to keep a healthy heart.
Patch requirements: At least eight activities must
be completed.
Activities:
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Draw or find a
diagram of the heart. Label the parts of the heart and the direction the
blood flows and to where.
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Have your blood
pressure taken and learn what the two numbers mean. Find out what a
healthy blood pressure is for at least three different age groups.
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Get information
from a local or national heart association (American Heart Association,
Red Cross, etc.) and make a presentation of what they do.
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Talk to the Red
Cross about blood drives. Visit or assist at one if possible. Find out
and make a chart of the steps to giving blood and what happens to the
blood that is donated.
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Learn how to
take your pulse correctly in two places (wrist and neck). Take your pulse
first thing in the morning for a few days to get your basic "at rest"
pulse. Then take your pulse about walking or other light activity, and
then after running or heavy activity.
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Find out about
one of the many blood or heart disorders (leukemia, iron-deficiency
anemia, pernicious anemia, sickle-cell anemia, hemophilia, heart attacks,
strokes, etc.). Share this information in an interesting way with your
class at school, another troop or your own troop.
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Find out the
blood types of yourself and your family or troop. Find out why there are
different blood types and why it is important to know the blood types
before doing transfusions.
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Take a first
aid/CPR class (contact your local hospital, school, or Red Cross).
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Find out what
aerobic and anaerobic exercise are. Make an aerobic exercise plan for a
month and chart your progress.
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Keep a daily
list of the food you eat for a week. Note those that are heart healthy.
Devise a plan on how to eat heart healthy.
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Plan and make a
heart healthy meal to share with your family or troop.
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Prepare
information and activities to share with a group of younger children on
keeping a healthy heart.
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