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Official Girl Scout Sites
www.girlscouts.org
The official Girl Scouts of the USA
website.
www.girlscouts.org/councilfinder
Use this page to find Girl Scout
Councils throughout the USA.
www.studio2b.org
The official Studio 2B website for
Teens.
www.wagggsworld.org
The World Association of Girl Guides
and Girl Scouts website.
Troop Management Software*
www.scoutsoftware.com/gscoutmate.htm - G-Scoutmate
Highly rated (within our Council and
elsewhere) and most widely used GS troop management software. Evaluation copy available. Official GSUSA software vendor.
Great calendar function and reports, usability a bit awkward.
www.scouttroop.com - TroopManager Plus
Intuitive smaller scale application
to manage troops, generate reports, etc, created purely for Girl
Scout Troops. Evaluation copy available. Not an official GSUSA
software vendor.
www.troopmaster.com - TroopMaster
Similar to previous two - most expensive troop management
application. Very comprehensive database of awards and individual
progress through awards. Evaluation copy
available. Not an official GSUSA software vendor.
Girl Scout tips, links, and more!
www.vintagegirlscout.com
A good Girl Scout history web site. It
has pictures of some of the patches the girls and adults earned
during the war.
http://jenefer.speedyweb.com/jrbadgehelps.shtml
A large collection of Junior badge
helps and packets
www.scouts.elysiumgates.com/daisy/dl1.html
Check out this wonderful online
version of an old Juliette Low comic book!
www.neighborhood13-1.com
Wonderful tips and helpful resources on everything to do
with Girl Scouting, and a
particularly good resource for new leaders.
www.scoutinglinks.com
An incredible list of links and
resources on a wide range of topics.
gsleaders.org/files/SFC_Activities.htm
A good resource, includes a forum.
Inundated with ads though.
coy.ne.client2.attbi.com/default.htm
World culture pages for Girl Scouts - submitted by Lyn Gill
www.angelfire.com/ct/cgrob123/girlscout.html
An assortment of Girl Scouting links.
www.sossi.org/girls/guides.htm
An fascinating collection of stamps
with Girl Scout themes.
flatstanley.enoreo.on.ca/girl-scouts.htm
The Flat Stacie page for Girl Scouts.
Craft & Game Ideas
www.childfun.com
A large collection of craft ideas for all age ranges. Includes a
special girl scouting section (large number of ads however).
www.enchantedlearning.com
Lots of great links for a wide variety of educational and fun
activities
www.kidslist.uc.edu/kidslist/gs.html
A large collection (though a little
outdated) of links on many topics.
www.kidsdomain.com
A similar site, with some great craft and activity ideas, and clip
art!
www.geocities.com/RainForest/Canopy/1543/intlgames.htm
Nice site of international games - submitted by Lyn Gill
Organizations
www.praypub.org/recognitions/girlscout.htm
Contacts and descriptions for all of the major Religious
Recognitions.
www.epa.gov/adopt/linkinggirls
Information on the EPA program 'Linking Girls to the Land'
www.swe.org
Society of Women Engineers, of particular interest, K-12 Programs.
www.hiusa.org
Hostelling International USA
International
coy.ne.client2.attbi.com/default.htm
World culture pages for Girl Scouts - submitted by Lyn Gill
www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/index.html
Great site of flags of the world and the US. You can print them in
full color detail, or as coloring pages with just outlines. -
submitted by Lyn Gill
lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html
Library of Congress - info re most
countries
www.your-nation.com
www.iearn.org
www.countrywatch.com
www.countryreports.org
Flags, maps & national anthems of each
country
www.50states.com
www.stateline.org
www.un.org
Nature
www.bear-tracker.com
Great site for identifying animal tracks. - submitted by Lyn Gill
www.enature.com/audio/audio_home.asp
An amazing collection of 550 bird calls with beautiful pictures!
www.nps.gov/youthprograms/gscouts.htm
National Park Service and Girl
Scouting.
topex-www.jpl.nasa.gov
Oceans & Climate
www.worldwildlife.org
Wildlife
www.kidsplanet.org
Wildlife
www.iloveparks.com
www.nps.gov
Safety
www.safekids.com
www.staysafeonline.info
Drug Education
www.acde.org
Communication
www.talkingwithkids.org
Tobacco Free Kids
www.tobaccofreekids.org
Sports
www.sikids.com
Sports Illustrated for Kids
Health
www.kidshealth.org
Research
www.encyclopedia.com
britannica.com
www.m-w.com
Webster’s Dictionary
www.thesaurus.com
www.onelook.com
Over 900 dictionaries in different
disciplines
www.webopedia.com
www.referencedesk.org
www.eduref.org
Ask ERIC – Educational Resources
Information Center
www.libraryspot.com
www.awesomelibrary.org
info-s.com
Search Engines
www.google.com
www.hotbot.com
www.lycos.com
www.yahooligans.com
Kids’ search engine
Newspaper Article Search Engines
search.nytimes.com/search/daily
search.usatoday.com
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/searches/mainsrch.htm
www.newspaperlinks.com
www.newslink.org
Kid’s News
www.timeforkids.com
fyi.cnn.com
school.newsweek.com
www.pbskids.org
kids.msn.com
cnnstudentnews.cnn.com
Questions?
www.whyfiles.org
www.askjeeves.com
www.247ref.org
www.askanexpert.com
www.last-word.com
People
www.biography.com
www.amillionlives.com
Misc. Educational Activities
www.quia.com
over 500,000 activities
www.greatsitesforkids.com
www.educationindex.com/education_resources.html
www.uselessknowledge.com
www.kidscom.com
www.thinkquest.org
Government
www.kids.gov
americaslibrary.gov
www.odci.gov/cia/ciakids
CIA for kids
Money Smarts
www.moneyopolis.org
www.practicalmoneyskills.com
www.kidsbank.com
www.greatseal.com
Language Translation
babelfish.altavista.com
www.freetranslation.com
Math & Science
www.tc.cornell.edu/Edu/MathSciGateway
mathworld.wolfram.com
www.megaconverter.com
Metric conversions & Fahrenheit to
Celsius
www.onlineconversion.com
Metric conversions & Fahrenheit to
Celsius
www.quickmath.com
www.fi.edu/tfi/welcome.html
Franklin Institute
www.yucky.com
Fun, Yucky Science
www.innerbody.com
Human Anatomy
www.sin.org
www.scienceagogo.com
www.sciencedaily.com
www.extremescience.com
www.scitechdaily.com
www.froguts.com
Interactive Dissection
curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/frog/menu.html
Interactive Dissection
www.madsci.org
Mad Science
starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov
HEASARC – High Energy Astrophysics
Science Archive Research Center
manufacturing.stanford.edu
How things are made
www.howstuffworks.com
How stuff works
howthingswork.virginia.edu
How stuff works
www.crustal.ucsb.edu/ics/understanding
Earthquakes
www.eqnet.org
Earthquakes
volcano.und.nodak.edu
Volcanoes
www.learner.org/exhibit/volcanoes
www.volcanolive.com
www.dinoheart.org
Dinosaurs
dinosaur.umbc.edu
zoomdinosaurs.com
www.westegg.com/einstein
www.junkscience.com
www.nationalgeographic.com
www.geosense.net
Space
solarsystem.nasa.gov/girlscouts/index.cfm
The Girl Scouts and NASA.
www.space.com
An incredible collection of all news
related to space, with exceptional photos.
marsweb.jpl.nasa.gov
spaceflight.nasa.gov
International Space Station
www.space.com
www.astronomy.com
www.nasa.gov
www.seds.org/nineplanets/nineplanets
All the planets in our Milky Way
Wanna be a Writer?
www.kidauthors.com
www.kidsonlinemagazine.com
www.angelfire.com/wi/writingprocess
www.poetry.com
A wonderful, comprehensive site
dedicated to poetry.
teenwriting.about.com
A great (though ad laden) site with
tips, submissions and contest alerts.
Miscellaneous
parentingteens.about.com
About.com Parenting teens page.
If you have a Girl Scouting link that you'd like to see here, please
email it to jmarang@cbgsc.org.
I will review it and post it here if appropriate. Similarly, if you
have an issue with any link posted here please email me. These links
are offered as a service to our volunteers. Girl Scouts
of the Chesapeake Bay does not endorse the content of any website
listed on this page, save for the Official Girl Scout sites.
*Girl Scouts of the Chesapeake Bay
offers these software links for information purposes only, and has
no connection whatsoever with the vendors selling the software. It
is highly recommend that volunteers make use of evaluation copies,
and review all privacy and security statements from the vendors
before purchasing a product.
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