Requirements

The purpose of this Junior Proficiency Badge is to educate Girl Scouts about Lighthouse history and the restoration and preservation efforts to maintain them. Two very good resources are: “the New Jersey Network video, The Eye of the Mariner, and the book, Sentinels of the Shore by Bill Gately, to engender a consciousness of our lighthouse structures and to begin an awareness of the need to preserve them.” These resources are available through the New Jersey Lighthouse Society. Information about these resources can be found on the website: http://njlhs.burlco.org/

Do six to earn Junior Proficiency Badge.

1. What is a lighthouse and where are they located? Why are they located there? http://www.uscg.mil/hq/g-cp/history/WEBLIGHTHOUSES...

2. Look at pictures of lighthouses near you or you would like to visit, then do one of the following: Make a model of it out of clay, paper, paper cups, or paint, color or draw it. More – design your own lighthouse. http://www.uscg.mil/hq/g-cp/kids/200yrs/200y_p16.h... http://www.uscg.mil/hq/g-cp/kids/200yrs/200y_p17.h... http://www.uscg.mil/hq/gcp/kids/ourday/od_p25.html http://www.uscg.mil/hq/g-cp/kids/ourday/od_p26.htm... http://www.groton.k12.ct.us/WWW/cb/math.html

3. Read stories about haunted lighthouses and lighthouse lore. http://seadrift.tripod.com/lighthouse7.html http://www.jacksjoint.com/seatales.htm

4. Learn about at least one female Lighthouse Keeper. http://www.vais.net/~cypress/ida.htm

5. Find out about the history of lighthouses and lightships. http://www.uscg.mil/hq/gcp/history/LHevolution.htm... http://www.uscg.mil/hq/g-cp/history/h_lightships.h... http://www.uscg.mil/hq/g-cp/history/h_lightships.h...

6. Do a service project of your choice that would help preserve a lighthouse, or spread the information of lighthouse preservation efforts.

7. Learn the lighthouse terminology. http://www.uscg.mil/hq/gcp/history/WEBLIGHTHOUSES/...

8. Visit a lighthouse, either online or in person.

9. Find out interesting facts about lighthouses and share with others. http://www.uscg.mil/hq/gcp/history/h_lighthousefac...

http://www.geocities.com/zonianbhs66/interestinglh...

http://www.geocities.com/zonianbhs66/lighthousesin...

10. Do a service project of your choice that would help preserve a lighthouse, or spread the information of lighthouse preservation efforts.