Summer Camp
  • Badges
    • Gardening - Week 1
    • Mystery - Week 2
    • Travel - Week 3
    • History - Week 4
    • Families - Week 5
    • Music - Week 6
    • Heroes - Week 7
    • Animals & Nature - Week 8
    • Food & Drink - Week 9
    • Arts & Crafts - Week 10
  • Instructions
  • Read for Good

TRAVEL Badge

TO ​​​EARN YOUR BADGE, CHOOSE ANY COMBINATION OF ACTIVITIES AND FILL OUT THE BADGE FORM
Online Diversions
Travel the globe or even to space without leaving home:
  • Choose a travel activity on the Activity Finder 
    Buckingham Palace INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION VIRTUAL TRAIN RIDE ​THE LOUVRE SMITHSONIAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
  • Take a virtual hike or explore a new country GOOGLE EARTH
  • Explore the world around you STEM activity from NASA
  • Experience another place through world cinema on Kanopy (log in with your Vernon Area Library card number)
  • Learn a new language or brush up for future travels with Mango Languages (log in with your Vernon Area Library card)
Offline Adventures
Be a tourist in your own neck of the woods:
  • Take a bike or scooter ride or go for a walk to explore a park or neighborhood you haven’t spent time in before LAKE COUNTY BIKEWAY MAP 
  • Walk a trail that’s new to you FOREST PRESERVES TRAIL MAPS​
  • Take a scenic drive WISCONSIN RUSTIC ROADS SOUTHERN LAKE MICHIGAN CIRCLE TOUR ILLINOIS SCENIC BYWAYS
Suggested Reading
​Read for fun ~ read for good!
  • Three book recommendations in 4 minutes (video): BOOK BREAK: TRAVEL
  • Fiction suggestions that transport you to another country Translated fiction​
  • cloudLibrary: Sci-Fi  & Fantasy TEEN Sci-Fi TEEN Time Travel TEEN Travel Fiction
  • Libby/OverDrive: ARMCHAIR EXPLORATION
  • hoopla: TEEN Travel fiction Fodor’s travel guides

​All reading counts! You do not have to read about travel. Listening to audiobooks counts, too, of course.

​​CLAIM YOUR BADGE

At the end of the week, submit your activities and reading minutes. Complete one form for each participant. Deadline for raffle entry: Wednesday, June 24, at 12 PM CDT.
Badge Form

Print a Tracking sheet

Download a printable PDF to help keep track of the badges you've earned and the number of minutes you've read.
Download PDF
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. ​ 
—Marcel Proust
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  • Badges
    • Gardening - Week 1
    • Mystery - Week 2
    • Travel - Week 3
    • History - Week 4
    • Families - Week 5
    • Music - Week 6
    • Heroes - Week 7
    • Animals & Nature - Week 8
    • Food & Drink - Week 9
    • Arts & Crafts - Week 10
  • Instructions
  • Read for Good