Activity Description: Scouts listen to animal sounds and try to guess which animal made each one, then learn how animals are shaped by where they live.
- Fulfills Step 1 of GSUSA Daisy Animal Observer badge requirements.
Info Needed: Animal are all unique. They have different bodies and features that help them live where they are. There is thick fur for colder environments, or fins and gills for underwater creatures. They make unique sounds, and each leave a unique print where they move, called an animal track.
Items Needed:
- Device that can play the Animal Sound Guessing video
- Animal Habitats Printout (like VTK’s Animal Habitats)
Instructions (Estimated Total Time: 15–25 min):
- Get ready to listen (2–3 min)
- Leader sets up the video and makes sure scouts can hear but not see the screen.
- Explain that scouts will hear six animal sounds and try to guess each one.
- Play the guessing game (8–10 min)
- Each animal sound plays for 8 seconds.
- There is 3 seconds between clips. The Leader can pause the video to allow more time for scouts to call out their guesses and discuss if they were right or wrong.
- (Optional) Keep track of how many correct guesses each scout or group makes.
- Match animals to habitats (3–5 min)
- Scouts use the VTK Animal Habitats printout to match each animal to where it lives.
- Leader briefly explains how each animal’s body helps it survive in that habitat.
- Reflect and explore (2–5 min)
- Scouts share which animal sound was their favorite.
- (Optional) draw the track that animal might leave behind or how it moves through its habitat.
Animal Sound Guessing Videos
- By The Badge Archive (1:20 min)
- By Little Dreamers Education (8:42 min)
- By Mister Teach (11:08 min)
- By Quiz Blitz (16:10 min)
- By Quiz Channel (11:46 min)
- By Quiz Show (12:17 min)
The Badge Archive 