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Tiger Core Adventures
Effective June 1, 2015
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These are the requirements for the Tiger Core (Required)
Adventures which became effective on June 1, 2015.
There are 6 Core (Required) Adventures in the Tiger program:
- Backyard Jungle
- Games Tigers Play
- My Family's Duty to God
- Team Tiger
- Tiger Bites
- Tigers in the Wild
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- Take a 1-foot hike. Make a list of the living things you find
on your 1-foot hike.
- Point out two different kinds of birds that live in your area.
- Be helpful to plants and animals by planting a tree or other
plant in your neighborhood.
- Build and hang a birdhouse.
- With your adult partner, go on a walk, and pick out two sounds
you hear in your “jungle.”
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- Do the following:
- Play two initiative or team-building games with the members
of your den.
- Listen carefully to your leader while the rules are being
explained, and follow directions when playing.
- At the end of the game, talk with the leader about what
you learned when you played the game. Tell how you helped the
den by playing your part.
- Make up a game with the members of your den.
- Make up a new game, and play it with your family or members
of your den or pack.
- While at a sporting event, ask a participant why he or she thinks
it is important to be active.
- Bring a nutritious snack to a den meeting. Share why you picked
it and what makes it a good snack choice.
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Complete requirement 1 and at least two from requirements 2–4.
- With your adult partner, find out what duty to God means to
your family.
- Find out what makes each member of your family special.
- With your family, make a project that shows your family's beliefs
about God.
- Participate in a worship experience or activity with your family.
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- List the different teams of which you are a part.
- With your den, make a den job chart that shows everyone doing
something to help. As one of the den jobs, lead the Pledge of Allegiance
at a den meeting.
- Pick two chores you will do at home once a week for a month.
- Make a chart to show three ways that members of your Tiger team
are different from each other.
- Do an activity to help your community or neighborhood team.
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- Identify three good food choices and three foods that would
not be good choices.
- Show that you know the difference between a fruit and a vegetable.
Eat one of each.
- With your adult partner, pick a job to help your family at mealtime.
Do it every day for one week.
- Show you can keep yourself and your personal area clean.
- Talk with your adult partner about what foods you can eat with
your fingers. Practice your manners when eating them.
- With your adult partner, plan and make a good snack choice or
other nutritious food to share with your den.
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- With your adult partner, name and collect the Cub Scout Six
Essentials you need for a hike. Tell your den leader what you would
need to add to your list if it rains.
- Go for a short hike with your den or family, and carry your
own gear. Show you know how to get ready for this hike.
- Do the following:
- Listen while your leader reads the Outdoor Code. Talk about
how you can be clean in your outdoor manners.
- Listen while your leader reads the Leave No Trace Principles
for Kids. Discuss why you should "Trash Your Trash."
- Apply the Outdoor Code and Leave No Trace Principles for
Kids on your Tiger den and pack outings. After one outing, share
what you did to demonstrate the principles you discussed.
- While on the hike, find three different kinds of plants, animals,
or signs that animals have been on the trail. List what you saw
in your Tiger handbook.
- Participate in an outdoor pack meeting or pack campout campfire.
Sing a song and act out a skit with your Tiger den as part of the
program.
- Find two different trees and two different types of plants that
grow in your area. Write their names in your Tiger handbook.
- Visit a nearby nature center, zoo, or another outside place
with your family or den. Learn more about two animals, and write
down two interesting things about them in your Tiger handbook.
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Source: Cub Scout Tiger Handbook (#34713 - SKU 620130)
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Tiger Elective Adventure Requirements
Effective June 1, 2015
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These are the requirements for the Tiger Elective Adventures
which became effective on June 1, 2015.
There are 14 Elective Adventures in the Tiger program:
- Curiosity, Intrigue, and Magical Mysteries
- Earning Your Stripes
- Family Stories
- Floats and Boats
- Good Knights
- Rolling Tigers
- Sky is the Limit
- Stories in Shapes
- Tiger-iffic!
- Tiger: Safe and Smart
- Tiger Tag
- Tiger Tales
- Tiger Theater
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- Learn a magic trick. Practice your magic trick so you can perform
it in front of an audience.
- Create an invitation to a magic show.
- With your den or with your family, put on a magic show for an
audience.
- Create a secret code.
- With the other Scouts in your den or with your family, crack
a code that you did not create.
- Spell your name using sign language, and spell your name in
Braille.
- With the help of your adult partner, conduct a science demonstration
that shows how magic works.
- Share what you learned from your science demonstration.
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- Bring in and share with your den five items that are the color
orange.
- Demonstrate loyalty over the next week at school or in your
community. Share at your next den meeting how you were loyal to
others.
- With your adult partner, decide on one new task you can do to
help your family, and do it.
- Talk with your den and adult partner about polite language.
Learn how to shake hands properly and introduce yourself.
- Play a game with your den. Then discuss how your den played
politely.
- With your adult partner and den, work on a service project for
your pack's meeting place or chartered organization.
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- Discuss with your adult partner and/or family where your family
originated. Discuss their history, traditions, and culture - your
family heritage. Share a story or bring something to share with
your den about yourself and your family.
- Make a family crest.
- Visit your public library to find out information about your
heritage.
- Interview one of your grandparents or another family elder,
and share with your den what you found.
- Make a family tree.
- Share with your den how you got your name or what your name
means.
- Share with your den your favorite snack or dessert that reflects
your cultural heritage.
- Learn where your family came from, and locate it on a map. Share
this information with your den. With the help of your adult partner,
locate and write to a pen pal from that location.
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- Identify five different types of boats.
- Build a boat from recycled materials, and float it on the water.
- With your den, say the SCOUT water safety chant.
- Play the buddy game with your den.
- Show that you can put on and fasten a life jacket the correct
way.
- Show how to safely help someone who needs assistance in the
water, without having to enter the water yourself.
- Show how to enter the water safely, blow your breath out under
the water, and do a prone glide.
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- Do the following:
- With your den or adult partner, say the Scout Law. Explain
to your den one of the 12 points of the Law and why you think
a knight would have the same behavior.
- If you have not already done so, make a code of conduct
with your den that will describe how each person should act
when you are all together. If your den has a code of conduct,
discuss with your den what updates it might need. Vote on which
actions should go in your den code of conduct.
- Create a den shield and a personal shield.
- Using recycled materials, design and build a small castle with
your adult partner to display at the pack meeting.
- Think of one physical challenge that could be part of an obstacle
course. Then help your den design a Tiger knight obstacle course.
With your adult partner, participate in the course.
- Participate in a service project.
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- With your den or adult partner, discuss two different types
of bicycles and their uses.
- With your den or adult partner, try on safety gear you should
use while riding your bike. Show how to wear a bicycle helmet properly.
- With your den or adult partner, learn and demonstrate safety
tips to follow when riding your bicycle.
- Learn and demonstrate proper hand signals.
- With your den or adult partner, do a safety check on your bicycle.
- With your den or family, go on a bicycle hike wearing your safety
equipment. Follow the bicycling safety and traffic laws.
- Learn about a famous bicycle race or famous cyclist. Share what
you learn with your den.
- Visit your local or state police department to learn about bicycle-riding
laws.
- Identify two jobs that use bicycles.
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- With your den or adult partner, go outside to observe the night
sky. Talk about objects you see or might see.
- Look at a distant object through a telescope or binoculars.
Show how to focus the device you chose.
- Observe in the sky or select from a book or chart two constellations
that are easy to see in the night sky. With your adult partner,
find out the names of the stars that make up the constellation and
how the constellation got its name. Share what you found with your
den.
- Create and name your own constellation. Share your constellation
with your den.
- Create a homemade constellation.
- Find out about two different jobs related to astronomy. Share
this information with your den.
- Find out about two astronauts who were Scouts when they were
younger. Share what you learned with your den.
- With your den or family, visit a planetarium, observatory, science
museum, astronomy club, or college or high school astronomy teacher.
Before you go, write down questions you might want to ask. Share
what you learned.
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- Visit an art gallery or a museum, explore an art website, or
visit your library. Do each of the following:
- Look at pictures of some abstract art with your den. Decide
what you like about the art, and share your ideas with the other
Tigers.
- Create an art piece.
- Do the following:
- Draw or create an art piece using shapes.
- Use tangrams to create shapes.
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Complete requirements 1–3 and one from 4–6.
- Play at least two different games by yourself; one may be a
video game.
- Play a board game or another inside game with one or more members
of your den.
- Play a problem-solving game with your den.
- With your parent's or guardian's permission, do all of the following:
- Play a video game with family members in a family tournament.
- List at least three tips that would help someone who was
learning how to play your favorite video game.
- Play an appropriate video game with a friend for 30 minutes.
- With other members of your den, invent a game, OR change the
rules of a game you know, and play the game.
- Play a team game with your den.
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- Do the following:
- Memorize your address, and say it to your den leader or
adult partner.
- Memorize an emergency contact's phone number, and say it
to your den leader or adult partner.
- Take the 911 safety quiz.
- Do the following:
- Show you can "Stop, Drop, and Roll."
- Show you know how to safely roll someone else in a blanket
to put out a fire.
- Make a fire escape map with your adult partner.
- Explain your fire escape map, and try a practice fire drill
at home.
- Find the smoke detectors in your home. With the help of your
adult partner, check the batteries.
- Visit an emergency responder station, or have an emergency responder
visit you.
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- Choose one active game you like, and tell your den about it.
- Do the following:
- Play two relay games with your den and your adult partner.
- Tell your partner or the other Tigers what you liked best
about each game.
- Have your den choose a relay game that everyone would like
to play, and play it several times.
- With your adult partner, select an active outside game that
you could play with the members of your den. Talk about your game
at the den meeting. With your den, decide on a game to play.
- Play the game that your den has chosen. After the game, discuss
with your den leader the meaning of being a good sport.
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- Create a tall tale with your den.
- Create your own tall tale. Share your tall tale with your den.
- Read a tall tale with your adult partner.
- Create a piece of art from a scene in the tall tale you have
read, using your choice of materials. Share it with your den.
- Play a game from the past.
- Sing two folk songs.
- Visit a historical museum or landmark with your adult partner.
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- With your den, discuss the following types of theater: puppet
shows, reader's theater, and pantomime.
- As a den, play a game of one-word charades with your adult partners.
- Make a puppet to show your den or display at a pack meeting.
- Perform a simple reader's theater. Make a mask afterward to
show what your character looks like.
- Watch a play or attend a story time at a library.
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Wolf Core Adventures
Effective June 1, 2015
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These are the requirements for the Wolf Core (Required) Adventures
which became effective on June 1, 2015.
There are 6 Core (Required) Adventures in the Wolf program:
- Call of the Wild
- Council Fire
- Duty to God Footsteps
- Howling at the Moon
- Paws on the Path
- Running With the Pack
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- While a Wolf Scout, attend a pack or family campout. If your
chartered organization does not permit Cub Scout camping, you may
substitute a family campout or a daylong outdoor activity with your
den or pack.
- Show how to tie an overhand knot and a square knot.
- While on a den or family outing, identify four different types
of animals. Explain how you identified them.
- With your family or den, make a list of possible weather changes
that might happen on your campout according to the time of year
you are camping. Tell how you will be prepared for each one.
- Show or demonstrate what to do:
- When a stranger approaches you, your family, or your belongings.
- In case of a natural disaster such as an earthquake or flood.
- To keep from spreading your germs.
- On the campout, participate with your family or den in a campfire
show. Prepare a skit or song, and then present it at the campfire
for everyone else.
- Do the following:
- Recite the Outdoor Code with your leader.
- Recite the Leave No Trace Principles for Kids with your
leader. Talk about how these principles support the Outdoor
Code.
- After your campout, list the ways you demonstrated being
careful with fire.
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- Participate in a flag ceremony, and learn how to properly care
for and fold the flag.
- Work with your den to develop a den duty chart, and perform
these tasks for one month.
- Do the following:
- Learn about the changes in your community, and create a
project to show your den how the community has changed.
- Select one issue in your community, and present to your
den your ideas for a solution to the problem.
- Do the following:
- Attend the pack committee leaders' meeting. Present ideas
to the pack committee regarding your service project.
- Work together on a community service project.
- Talk to a military veteran, law enforcement officer, member
of the fire department, or someone else who works for the community.
Talk about his or her service to the community. After you have visited
with the individual, write a short thank-you note.
- Do the following:
- Learn about the three R's of recycling: reduce, reuse, and
recycle. Discover a way to do each of these at home, at school,
or in your community.
- Make your own recycling center, or contribute to an existing
one.
- Create a den project from recyclables for a pack meeting.
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Complete requirements 1 and 2.
- Do both of these:
- Visit a religious monument or site where people might show
reverence.
- Create a visual display of your visit with your den or your
family, and show how it made you feel reverent or helped you
better understand your duty to God.
- Complete 2a and at least two of requirements 2b–2d.
- Give two ideas on how you can practice your duty to God.
Choose one, and do it for a week.
- Read a story about people or groups of people who came to
America to enjoy religious freedom.
- Learn and sing a song that could be sung in reverence before
or after meals or one that gives encouragement, reminds you
of how to show reverence, or demonstrates your duty to God.
- Offer a prayer, meditation, or reflection with your family,
den, or pack.
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- Show you can communicate in at least two different ways.
- Work with your den to create an original skit.
- Work together with your den to plan, prepare, and rehearse a
campfire program to present to your families at a den meeting.
- Practice and perform your role for a pack campfire program.
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- Show you are prepared to hike safely by putting together the
Cub Scout Six Essentials to take along on your hike.
- Tell what the buddy system is and why we always use it in Cub
Scouts.
- Describe what you should do if you get separated from your group
while hiking.
- Choose the appropriate clothing to wear on your hike based on
the expected weather.
- Before hiking, recite the Outdoor Code and the Leave No Trace
Principles for Kids with your leader. After hiking, discuss how
you showed respect for wildlife.
- Go on a 1-mile hike with your den or family. Watch and record
two interesting things that you've never seen before.
- Name two birds, two insects, and two other animals that live
in your area. Explain how you identified them.
- Draw a map of an area near where you live using common map symbols.
Show which direction is north on your map.
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- Play catch with someone in your den or family who is standing
10 steps away from you. Play until you can throw and catch successfully
at this distance. Take a step back, and see if you can improve your
throwing and catching ability.
- Practice balancing as you walk forward, backward, and sideways.
- Practice flexibility and balance by doing a front roll, a back
roll, and a frog stand.
- Play a sport or game with your den or family, and show good
sportsmanship.
- Do at least two of the following: frog leap, inchworm walk,
kangaroo hop, or crab walk.
- Demonstrate what it means to eat a balanced diet by helping
to plan a healthy menu for a meal for your family. Make a shopping
list of the food used to prepare the meal.
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Wolf Elective Adventures
Effective June 1, 2015
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These are the requirements for the Wolf Elective Adventures
which became effective on June 1, 2015.
There are 13 Elective Adventures in the Wolf program:
- Adventures in Coins
- Air of the Wolf
- Code of the Wolf
- Collections and Hobbies
- Cubs Who Care
- Digging in the Past
- Finding Your Way
- Germs Alive!
- Grow Something
- Hometown Heroes
- Motor Away
- Paws of Skill
- Spirit of the Water
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- Identify different parts of a coin.
- Find the mint mark on a coin; identify what mint facility it
was made in, and what year it was made.
- Play a coin game.
- Choose a coin that interests you, and make a coin rubbing. List
information next to the coin detailing the pictures on it, the year
it was made, and the mint where it was made.
- Play a game or create a game board with your den or family where
you can practice adding and subtracting coins.
- Create a balance scale.
- Do a coin-weight investigation.
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- Do the following investigations:
- Conduct an investigation about the weight of air.
- Conduct an investigation about air temperature.
- Conduct at least one of the following investigations to
see how air affects different objects:
- Make a paper airplane and fly it five times. Make a
change to its shape to help it fly farther. Try it at least
five times.
- Make a balloon-powered sled or a balloon-powered boat.
Test your sled or boat with larger and smaller balloons.
- Bounce a basketball that doesn't have enough air in
it. Then bounce it when it has the right amount of air in
it. Do each one 10 times. Describe how the ball bounces
differently when the amount of air changes.
- Roll a tire or ball that doesn't have enough air in
it, and then roll it again with the right amount of air.
Describe differences in how they move.
- Do the following:
- With other members of your den, go outside and record the
sounds you hear. Identify which of these sounds is the result
of moving air.
- Create a musical wind instrument, and play it as part of
a den band.
- With an adult, conduct an investigation on how speed can
affect sound.
- Do the following:
- Explain the rules for safely flying kites.
- Make a kite using household materials.
- With your family, den, or pack, participate in a kite derby,
space derby or rain-gutter regatta. Explain how air helps the vehicle
move.
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- Do one of the following:
- With the members of your den or family, make a game with
simple materials that requires math to keep score.
- Play a game of “Go Fish for 10s.”
- Do five activities at home, at school, or in your den that
use mathematics, and then explain to your den how you used everyday
math.
- Make a rekenrek with two rows, and show Akela how you would
represent the numbers 4, 6, 9, and 14.
- Make a rain gauge or some other measuring device, and use
it.
- Do one of the following:
- With other members of your den or family, identify three
different types of shapes that you see in nature.
- With other members of your den or family, identify two shapes
you can see in the construction of bridges.
- Select a single shape or figure. Observe the world around
you for at least a week, and write down where you see this shape
or figure and how it is used.
- Do one of the following:
- With your den, find something that comes with many small,
colored items in one package. Count the number of items of each
color in your package. Keep track of each color. Then:
- Draw a graph showing the number of items of each color.
- Determine what the most common color is.
- Compare your results to the other boys'.
- Predict how many items of each color you will find in
one more package.
- Decide if your prediction was close.
- With your den or family, measure the height of everyone
in the group and see who takes more steps to walk 100 feet.
- Have each member in your den shoot a basketball. Count the
number of shots it takes to make five baskets. Graph the number
of shots it takes for each boy using 5, 6–10, 11–15, 16–20,
or more than 20.
- Do one of the following:
- Use a secret code using numbers to send a message to one
of your den members or your den leader. Have that person send
a message back to you. Be sure you both use the same code numbers.
- Send a message to another member of your den or your den
leader using the pig pen code or another code that changes letters
into special shapes.
- Practice using a code stick to create and decode a message.
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- Begin a collection of at least 10 items that all have something
in common. Label the items and title your collection.
- Share your collection at a den meeting.
- Visit a show or museum that displays different collections or
models.
- Create an autograph book and get at least 10 autographs. Start
with members of your den.
- Pick a famous living person, and write him or her a letter.
In your letter, ask the person to send you an autographed photo.
- Play a game with your den that involves collecting.
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- With the members of your den, visit with a person who has a
physical disability.
- Do four of the following:
- With other members of your den, try using a wheelchair or
crutches, and reflect on the process.
- Learn about a sport that has been adapted so that people
in wheelchairs or with some other physical disability can play,
and tell your den about it.
- Learn about “invisible” disabilities. Take part in an activity
that helps develop an understanding of invisible disabilities.
- With your den, try doing three of the following things while
wearing gloves or mittens:
- Tying your shoes.
- Using a fork to pick up food.
- Playing a card game.
- Playing a video game.
- Playing checkers or another board game.
- Blowing bubbles.
- Paint a picture two different ways: Paint it once the way
you usually would paint it and then again by using a blindfold.
Discuss with your den the ways the process was different.
- Demonstrate a simple sentence or at least four points of
the Scout Law using American Sign Language.
- Learn about someone famous who has or had a disability,
and share that person's story with your den.
- Attend an event where people with disabilities are participants
or where accommodations for people with disabilities are made
a part of the event.
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- Play a game that demonstrates your knowledge of dinosaurs, such
as a dinosaur match game.
- Create an imaginary dinosaur. Share with your den its name,
what it eats, and where it lives.
- Make a fossil cast.
- Make a dinosaur dig.
- Make edible fossil layers. Explain how this snack is a good
model for the formation of fossils.
- Be a paleontologist, and dig through the dinosaur digs made
by your den. Show and explain the ways a paleontologist works carefully
during a dig.
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- Do the following:
- Using a map of your city or town, locate where you live.
- Draw a map for a friend so he or she can locate your
home, a park, a school, or other locations in your neighborhood.
Use symbols to show parks, buildings, trees, and water. You
can invent your own symbols. Be sure to include a key so your
symbols can be identified.
- Pick a nutritious snack, and find where it came from. Locate
that area on a map.
- Do the following:
- Identify what a compass rose is and where it is on the map.
- Use a compass to identify which direction is north. Show
how to determine which way is south, east, and west.
- Go on a scavenger hunt using a compass, and locate an object
with a compass.
- Using a map and compass, go on a hike with your den or family.
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- Wash your hands while singing the “germ song.”
- Play Germ Magnet with your den or your family. Wash your hands
afterward.
- Conduct the sneeze demonstration.
- Conduct the mucus demonstration with your den.
- Grow a mold culture. Show what formed at a den or pack meeting.
- Make a clean room chart and do your chores for at least one
week.
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- Select a seed, and plant it in a small container. Care for it
for 30 days. Take a picture or make a drawing of your plant once
each week to share with your den.
- Find out the growing zone for your area, and share the types
of plants that will grow best in your zone.
- Visit or research a botanical or community garden in your area,
and learn about two of the plants that grow there. Share what you
have learned with your den.
- Make a terrarium.
- Do one of the following:
- Using a seed tray, grow a garden inside your home. Keep
a journal of its progress for 30 days. Share the results with
your den.
- Grow a sweet potato plant in water. Keep a journal of its
growth for two weeks. Share it with your den.
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- Talk with your family and den about what it means to you to
be a hero. Share the name of someone you believe is a hero. Explain
what it is that makes that person a hero.
- Visit a community agency where you will find many heroes. While
there, find out what they do. Share what you learned with your den.
- With the help of a family member, interview one of your heroes,
and share what you learn with your den. Tell why you think this
person is a hero.
- As a den or family, honor a serviceman or servicewoman by sending
a care package along with a note thanking them for their service.
- With your family or den, find out about animals that are trained
to help others in your community.
- Participate in or create an event that celebrates your hometown
hero(es).
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- Do the following:
- Create and fly three different types of paper airplanes.
Before launching them, record which one you believe will travel
the farthest and what property of the plane leads you to make
that prediction.
- Make a paper airplane catapult. Before launching a plane,
record how far you believe it will travel and explain what information
you used to make this prediction. After you make your prediction,
launch the plane and measure how far it flies.
- Make two different boats and sail them. Choose different shapes
for your boats.
- Create a car that moves under its own power.
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- Talk with your family and den about what it means to be physically
fit. Share ideas of what you can do to stay in shape.
- With your den, talk about why it is important to stretch before
and after exercising. Demonstrate proper warm-up movements and stretches
before and after each activity you do that involves action.
- Select at least two physical fitness skills and practice them
daily. See if you can improve over a two-week period.
- With your family or your den, talk about what it means to be
a member of a team. Working together, make a list of team sports,
and talk about how the team works together to be successful. Choose
one and play for 30 minutes.
- With your den, talk about sportsmanship and what it means to
be a good sport while playing a game or a sport. Share with your
den how you were a good sport or demonstrated good sportsmanship
in requirement 4.
- Visit a sporting event with your family or your den. Look for
ways the team works together. Share your visit with your den.
- With your den, develop an obstacle course that involves five
different movements. Run the course two times and see if your time
improves.
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- Demonstrate how the water in your community can become polluted.
- Explain one way that you can help conserve water in your home.
- Explain to your den leader why swimming is good exercise.
- Explain the safety rules that you need to follow before participating
in swimming or boating.
- Show how to do a reaching rescue.
- Visit a local pool or public swimming area with your family
or Wolf den. With qualified supervision, jump into water that is
at least chest-high, and swim 25 feet or more.
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Bear Core Adventures
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These are the requirements for the Bear Core (Required) Adventures
which became effective on June 1, 2015.
There are 6 Core (Required) Adventures in the Bear program:
- Bear Claws
- Bear Necessities
- Fellowship and Duty to God
- Fur, Feathers, and Ferns
- Grin and Bear It
- Paws for Action
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- Learn about three common designs of pocketknives.
- Learn knife safety and earn your
Whittling Chip.*
- Using a pocketknife, carve two items.
*One of the items carved for requirement 3 may be used to fulfill
Whittling Chip requirement 3.
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- While working on your Bear badge, camp overnight with your pack.
If your chartered organization does not permit Cub Scout camping,
you may substitute a family campout or a daylong outdoor activity
with your den or pack.
- Attend a campfire show, and participate by performing a song
or skit with your den.
- Make a list of items you should take along on your campout.
- Make a list of equipment that the group should bring along in
addition to each Scout's personal gear.
- With your den, plan a cooked lunch or dinner that is nutritious
and balanced. Make a shopping list, and help shop for the food.
On a campout or at another outdoor event, help cook the meal and
help clean up afterward.
- Help your leader or another adult cook a different meal from
the one you helped prepare for requirement 5. Cook this meal outdoors.
- Help set up a tent. Pick a good spot for the tent, and explain
to your den leader why you picked it.
- Demonstrate how to tie two half hitches and explain what the
hitch is used for.
- Learn how to read a thermometer and a barometer. Keep track
of the temperature and barometric pressure readings and the actual
weather at the same time every day for seven days.
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Do either requirement 1 OR requirement 2.
- Earn the religious emblem of your faith.
- Complete 2a and at least two of requirements 2b–2d.
- Working with a parent or guardian, spiritual advisor, or
religious leader, provide service to help a place of worship
or spiritual community, school, community organization, or chartered
organization that puts into practice your ideals of duty to
God and strengthens your fellowship with others.
- Identify a person whose faith and duty to God you admire,
and discuss this person with your family.
- Make a list of things you can do to practice your duty to
God as you are taught in your home or place of worship or spiritual
community. Select two of the items, and practice them for two
weeks.
- Attend a religious service, den or pack meeting worship
service, or time of family reflection and discussion about your
family's beliefs.
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- While hiking or walking for one mile, identify six signs that
any mammals, birds, insects, reptiles, or plants are living nearby
the place where you choose to hike.
- Name one animal that has become extinct in the last 100 years
and one animal that is currently endangered Explain what caused
their declines.
- Visit one of the following: zoo, wildlife refuge, nature center,
aviary, game preserve, local conservation area, wildlife rescue
group, or fish hatchery. Describe what you learned during your visit.
- Observe wildlife from a distance. Describe what you saw.
- Use a magnifying glass to examine plants more closely. Describe
what you saw through the magnifying glass that you could not see
without it.
- Learn about composting and how vegetable waste can be turned
into fertilizer for plants.
- Plant a vegetable or herb garden.
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- Play a challenge game or initiative game with the members of
your den. Take part in a reflection after the game.
- Working with the members of your den, organize a Cub Scout carnival
and lead it at a special event.
- Help younger Cub Scouts take part in one of the events at the
Cub Scout carnival.
- After the Cub Scout carnival, discuss with the members of your
den and your den leader what went well, what could be done better,
and how everyone worked together to make the event a success.
- Make and present an award to one of the adults who helped you
organize the activities at the Cub Scout carnival.
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- Do the following:
- Find out about two famous Americans. Share what you learned.
- Find out where places of historical interest are located
in or near your community, town, or city. Go and visit one of
them with your family or den.
- Learn about our flag. Display it at home for one month.
Say the Pledge of Allegiance and learn its meaning.
- Do the following:
- Visit a local sheriff's office or police station, or talk
with a law enforcement officer visiting your den. During the
visit, take turns with your den members asking questions that
will help you learn how to stay safe.
- During or after your visit with a law enforcement officer,
do at least two of the following:
- Practice one way police gather evidence by taking fingerprints,
taking a shoe print, or taking tire track casts.
- Make a list of emergency numbers to post in your home,
and keep a copy with you in your backpack or wallet.
- With your family, develop a plan to follow in case of
an emergency, and practice the plan at least three times.
Your family can determine the emergency, or you can develop
several plans.
- Discuss with your parent or another adult you trust
any worries you have about your safety or a friend's safety.
- If you have younger brothers and sisters, make sure
they know how to call for help in an emergency.
- Do the following:
- Learn about the energy your family uses and how you can
help your family decrease its energy use.
- Do a cleanup project that benefits your community.
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Bear Elective Adventures
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These are the requirements for the Bear Elective Adventures
which became effective on June 1, 2015.
There are 13 Elective Adventures in the Bear program:
- Baloo the Builder
- A Bear Goes Fishing
- Bear Picnic Basket
- Beat of the Drum
- Critter Care
- Forensics
- Make It Move
- Marble Madness
- Roaring Laughter
- Robotics
- Salmon Run
- Super Science
- A World of Sound
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- Discover which hand tools are the best ones to have in your
tool box. Learn the rules for using these tools safely. Practice
with at least four of these tools before beginning a project.
- Learn the steps of planning a building project and how to read
the instructions or drawings.
- Select and build one useful project and one fun project using
wood.
- Learn how to finish a wood project.
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- Discover and learn about three types of fishes in your area.
Draw a color picture of each fish, record what each one likes to
eat, and describe what sort of habitat each likes.
- Learn about your local fishing regulations with your leader
or a parent or guardian. List three of the regulations you learn
about and one reason each regulation exists.
- Learn about fishing equipment, and make a simple fishing pole.
Practice casting at a target 30 feet away. Teach what you have learned
to someone in your family, another Scout, or one of your friends.
- Go on a fishing adventure, and spend a minimum of one hour trying
to catch a fish. Put into practice the things you have learned about
fish and fishing equipment.
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- Do the following:
- Create your own Bear Cookbook using at least five recipes
you can cook or prepare either on your own or with some adult
help. Include one page with information about first aid. You
should include one recipe for a breakfast item, one for lunch,
and one for dinner, and two recipes for nutritious snacks.
- Demonstrate an understanding of meal planning, cooking tools,
cooking safety, and how to change the amounts in a recipe.
- Go on a grocery shopping trip with your den or with an adult.
Check the price of different brands of one single item, and
compare the price of a ready-made item with the price of the
same item you would make yourself.
- Do the following:
- With the help of an adult, select one food item, and follow
a recipe to prepare it for your family in your kitchen. Once
you have eaten, ask everyone what they liked or didn't like.
Explain what you would do differently next time. Make notes
on your recipe of changes you want to make so you will remember
them the next time you cook. Clean up after the preparation
and cooking.
- With the help of an adult, select one food item, and follow
a recipe to prepare it outdoors for your family or den. Once
you have eaten, ask everyone what they liked or didn't like.
Explain what you would do differently next time. Make notes
on your recipe of changes you want to make so you will remember
them the next time you cook. Clean up after the preparation
and cooking.
- Select and prepare two nutritious snacks for yourself, your
family, or your den.
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- Learn about the history and culture of American Indians who
lived in your area at the time of European colonization.
- Write a legend.
- Make a dream catcher.
- Make a craft.
- Make a drum. Once your drum is complete, create a ceremonial
song.
- Visit an Order of the Arrow dance ceremony or American Indian
event within your community.
- Learn about ceremonial dances and learn dance steps.
- Create a dance.
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- Care for a pet for two weeks. Make a list of tasks you did to
take care of the pet. If you do not have a pet, research one that
you would like to have and write about the care it needs.
- Learn more about your pet or a pet you would like to have. List
three interesting facts that you learned about your pet.
- Make a poster about your pet or a pet you would like to own.
Share your poster with your den, pack, or family.
- Do your best to train a pet to perform a trick or follow a simple
command, and explain how you trained it. (If your pet is a hermit
crab, fish, snake, or the like, you may skip this requirement.)
- Tell three ways that animals can help people.
- Tell what is meant by an animal being "rabid." Name some animals
that could have rabies. Explain what you should do if you are near
an animal that might be rabid.
- Visit with a local veterinarian or animal shelter caretaker.
Find out what types of animals he or she might see on a regular
basis. Ask what type of education is needed to become a veterinarian
or shelter caretaker. Why did he or she choose to pursue this career?
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- Talk with your family and den about forensics and how it is
used to help solve crimes.
- Analyze your fingerprints.
- Learn about chromatography and how it is used in solving crimes.
Do an investigation using different types of black, felt-tip markers.
Share your results with your den.
- Do an analysis of four different substances: salt, sugar, baking
soda, and cornstarch.
- Make a shoe imprint.
- Visit the sheriff's office or police station in your town. Find
out how officers collect evidence.
- Learn about the different jobs available in forensic science.
Choose two, and find out what is required to work in those jobs
. Share what you learned with your den.
- Learn how animals are used to gather important evidence. Talk
about your findings with your den.
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- Create an “exploding” craft stick reaction.
- Make two simple pulleys, and use them to move objects.
- Make a lever by creating a seesaw using a spool and a wooden
paint stirrer. Explore the way it balances by placing different
objects on each end.
- Do the following:
- Draw a Rube Goldberg–type machine. Include at least six
steps to complete your action.
- Construct a Rube Goldberg–type machine to complete a task
assigned by your den leader. Use at least two simple machines
and include at least four steps.
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- Discuss with your family and den the history of marbles, such
as where and when the game began. Talk about the different sizes
of marbles and what they are made of and used for.
- Learn about three different marble games, and learn to play
the marble game “ringer.” Learn how to keep score. Learn and follow
the rules of the game. Play the game with your family, friends,
or your den.
- Learn four or five words that are used when talking about marbles.
Tell what each of the words means and how it relates to playing
marbles. Share this information with your den.
- With the help of an adult, make a marble bag to hold marbles.
- With your den or family, make a marble obstacle course or marble
golf course. Share what you create. Invite everyone to go through
your course.
- Create your own game using marbles, and design rules for playing
the game. Share the game you created with your den, family, or friends.
Explain the rules and how to play the game.
- With your den or family, create a marble race track. Have at
least two lanes so you can race your favorite marbles against each
other.
- Make a marble maze.
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- Think about what makes you laugh. Write down three things that
make you laugh.
- Practice reading tongue twisters.
- Create your own short story. Remove some nouns, verbs, adjectives,
and adverbs from the story, leaving blanks. Without telling the
story, have a friend insert his or her own nouns, verbs, adjectives,
and adverbs in the story you created.
- With a partner, play a game that makes you laugh.
- Share a few jokes with a couple of friends to make them laugh.
- Practice at least two run-ons with your den, and perform them
at a pack meeting or campfire program.
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- Identify six tasks performed by robots.
- Learn about some instances where a robot could be used in place
of a human for work. Research one robot that does this type of work,
and present what you learn to your den.
- Build a robot hand. Show how it works like a human hand and
how it is different from a human hand.
- Build your own robot.
- Visit a place that uses robots.
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- Explain the safety rules that you need to follow before participating
in boating.
- Identify the equipment needed when going boating.
- Demonstrate correct rowing or paddling form. Explain how rowing
and canoeing are good exercise.
- Explain the importance of response personnel or lifeguards in
a swimming area.
- Show how to do both a reach rescue and a throw rescue.
- Visit a local pool or swimming area with your den or family,
and go swimming.
- Demonstrate the front crawl swim stroke to your den or family.
- Name the three swimming ability groups for the Boy Scouts of
America.
- Attempt to earn the BSA beginner swimmer classification.
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- Make static electricity by rubbing a balloon or a plastic or
rubber comb on a fleece blanket or wool sweater. Explain what you
learned.
- Conduct a balloon or other static electricity investigation
that demonstrates properties of static electricity. Explain what
you learned.
- Conduct one other static electricity investigation. Explain
what you learned.
- Do a sink-or-float investigation. Explain what you learned.
- Do a color-morphing investigation. Explain what you learned.
- Do a color-layering investigation. Explain what you learned.
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- Make an mbira.
- Make a sistrum.
- Make a rain stick.
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Arrow of Light Core Adventures
Effective June 1, 2015
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These are the requirements for the Arrow of Light Core (Required)
Adventures which became effective on June 1, 2015.
There are 4 Core (Required) Adventures in the Arrow of Light program:
- Building a Better World
- Camper
- Duty to God in Action
- Scouting Adventure
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- Explain the history of the United States flag. Show how to properly
display the flag in public, and help lead a flag ceremony.
- Learn about and describe your rights and duties as a citizen,
and explain what it means to be loyal to your country.
- Discuss in your Webelos den the term "rule of law," and talk
about how it applies to you in your everyday life.
- Meet with a government leader, and learn about his or her role
in your community. Discuss with the leader an important issue facing
your community.
- Learn about your family's expenses, and help brainstorm ways
to save money. Plan and manage a budget.
- Learn about energy use in your community and in other parts
of our world.
- Identify one energy problem in your community, and find out
what has caused it.
- With the assistance of your den leader or parent, participate
in an event that would help lead others in recycling and conserving
resources.
- Show that you are an active leader by planning an activity without
your den leader's help.
- Do one of these:
- Learn about Scouting in another part of the world. With
the help of your parent or your den leader, pick one country
where Scouting exists, and research its Scouting program.
- Set up an exhibit at a pack meeting to share information
about the World Friendship Fund.
- Find a brother Scout unit in another country.
- Under the supervision of your parent, guardian, or den leader,
connect with a Scout in another country during an event such
as Jamboree on the Air or Jamboree on the Internet or by other
means.
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Do all of these:
- With the help of your den leader or family, plan and conduct
a campout. If your chartered organization does not permit Cub Scout
camping, you may substitute a family campout or a daylong outdoor
activity with your den or pack.
- On arrival at the campout, with your den and den leader or family,
determine where to set up your tent. Demonstrate knowledge of what
makes a good tent site and what makes a bad one. Set up your tent
without help from an adult.
- Once your tents are set up, discuss with your den what actions
you should take in the case of the following extreme weather events
which could require you to evacuate:
- Severe rainstorm causing flooding
- Severe thunderstorm with lightning or tornadoes
- Fire, earthquake, or other disaster that will require evacuation.
Discuss what you have done to minimize as much danger as possible.
- On a pack campout, work with your den leader or another adult
to plan a campfire program with the other dens. Your campfire program
should include an impressive opening, songs, skits, a Cubmaster's
minute, and an inspirational closing ceremony.
- Show how to tie a bowline. Explain when this knot should be
used and why. Teach it to another Scout who is not a Webelos Scout.
- Go on a geocaching adventure with your den or family. Show how
you used a GPS unit or a smartphone with a GPS application to locate
a geocache.
- Recite the Outdoor Code and the Leave No Trace Principles for
Kids from memory. Talk about how you can demonstrate them while
you are working on your Arrow of Light. After one outing, list the
things you did to follow the Outdoor Code and Leave No Trace.
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Do either requirement 1 OR requirement 2:
- Earn the religious emblem of your faith for Webelos Scouts,
if you have not already done so.
- Do requirement 2a and any two from requirements 2b-2e:
- With your parent, guardian, or religious or spiritual leader,
discuss and make a plan to do two things you think will help
you better do your duty to God. Do these things for a month.
- Discuss with your family how the Scout Oath and Scout Law
relate to your beliefs about duty to God.
- For at least a month, pray or reverently meditate each day
as taught by your family or faith community.
- Read at least two accounts of people in history who have
done their duty to God. (This can include family members and
ancestors.) List their names and how they showed their duty
to God.
- Under the direction of your parent, guardian, or religious
or spiritual leader, do an act of service for someone in your
family, neighborhood, or community. Talk about your service
with your family and your Webelos den leader. Tell your family,
den, or den leader how it related to doing your duty to God.
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Do all of these:
- Prepare yourself to become a Boy Scout by completing all of
the items below:
- Repeat from memory the Scout Oath, Scout Law, Scout motto,
and Scout slogan. In your own words, explain their meanings
to your den leader, parent, or guardian.
- Explain what Scout spirit is. Describe for your den leader,
parent, or guardian some ways you have shown Scout spirit by
practicing the Scout Oath, Scout Law, Scout motto, and Scout
slogan.
- Give the Boy Scout sign, salute, and handshake. Explain
when they should be used.
- Describe the First Class Scout badge, and tell what each
part stands for. Explain the significance of the First Class
Scout badge.
- Repeat from memory the Outdoor Code. In your own words,
explain what the Outdoor Code means to you.
- Visit a Boy Scout troop meeting with your den members, leaders,
and parent or guardian. After the meeting, do the following:
- Describe how the Scouts in the troop provide its leadership.
- Describe the four steps of Boy Scout advancement.
- Describe ranks in Boy Scouting and how they are earned.
- Describe what merit badges are and how they are earned.
- Practice the patrol method in your den for one month by doing
the following:
- Explain the patrol method. Describe the types of patrols
that might be part of a Boy Scout troop.
- Hold an election to choose the patrol leader.
- Develop a patrol name and emblem (if your den does not already
have one), as well as a patrol flag and yell. Explain how a
patrol name, emblem, flag, and yell create patrol spirit.
- As a patrol, make plans with a troop to participate in a
Boy Scout troop's campout or other outdoor activity.
- With your Webelos den leader, parent, or guardian, participate
in a Boy Scout troop's campout or other outdoor activity. Use the
patrol method while on the outing.
- Do the following:
- Show how to tie a square knot, two half hitches, and a taut-line
hitch. Explain how each knot is used.
- Show the proper care of a rope by learning how to whip and
fuse the ends of different kinds of rope.
- Demonstrate your knowledge of the pocketknife safety rules and
the pocketknife pledge. If you have not already done so, earn your
Whittling Chip card.
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Webelos and Arrow of Light
Elective Adventures
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These are the requirements for the Webelos and Arrow of Light
Elective Adventures which became effective on June 1, 2015.
There are 18 Elective Adventures in the Webelos and Arrow of Light programs:
- Adventures in Science
- Aquanaut
- Art Explosion
- Aware and Care
- Build It
- Build My Own Hero
- Castaway
- Earth Rocks!
- Engineer
- Fix It
- Game Design
- Into the Wild
- Into the Woods
- Looking Back, Looking Forward
- Maestro!
- Moviemaking
- Project Family
- Sportsman
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Do all of these:
- An experiment is a "fair test" to compare possible explanations.
Draw a picture of a fair test that shows what you need to do to
test a fertilizer's effects on plant growth.
- Visit a museum, a college, a laboratory, an observatory, a zoo,
an aquarium, or other facility that employs scientists. Prepare
three questions ahead of time, and talk to a scientist about his
or her work.
- Complete any four of the following:
- Carry out the experiment you designed for requirement 1,
above. Report what you learned about the effect of fertilizer
on the plants that you grew.
- Carry out the experiment you designed for requirement 1,
but change the independent variable. Report what you learned
about the effect of changing the variable on the plants that
you grew.
- Build a model solar system. Chart the distances between
the planets so that the model is to scale. Use what you learn
from this requirement to explain the value of making a model
in science.
- With adult supervision, build and launch a model rocket.
Use the rocket to design a fair test to answer a question about
force or motion.
- Create two circuits of three light bulbs and a battery.
Construct one as a series circuit and the other as a parallel
circuit.
- Study the night sky. Sketch the appearance of the North
Star (Polaris) and the Big Dipper (part of the Ursa Major constellation)
over at least six hours. Describe what you observed, and explain
the meaning of your observations.
- With adult assistance, explore safe chemical reactions with
household materials. Using two substances, observe what happens
when the amounts of the reactants are increased.
- Explore properties of motion on a playground. Does the weight
of a person affect how fast they slide down a slide or how fast
a swing moves? Design a fair test to answer one of those questions.
- Read a biography of a scientist. Tell your den leader or
the other members of your den what the scientist was famous
for and why his or her work is important.
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Complete 1–5 and any two from 6–10.
- State the safety precautions you need to take before doing any
water activity.
- Recognize the purpose and the three classifications of swimming
ability groups in Scouting.
- Discuss the importance of learning the skills you need to know
before going boating.
- Explain the meaning of "order of rescue" and demonstrate the
reach and throw rescue techniques from land.
- Attempt the BSA swimmer test.
- Demonstrate the precautions you must take before attempting
to dive headfirst into the water, and attempt a front surface dive.
- Learn and demonstrate two of the following strokes: crawl, sidestroke,
breaststroke, or elementary backstroke.
- Invite a member or former member of a lifeguard team, rescue
squad, the U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Navy, or other armed forces branch
who has had swimming and rescue training to your den meeting. Find
out what training and other experiences this person has had.
- Demonstrate how to correctly fasten a life jacket that is the
right size for you. Jump into water over your head. Show how the
life jacket keeps your head above water by swimming 25 feet. Get
out of the water, remove the life jacket and hang it where it will
dry.
- If you are a qualified swimmer, select a paddle of the proper
size and paddle a canoe with an adult's supervision.
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Do all of these:
- Visit an art museum, gallery, or exhibit. Discuss with an adult
the art you saw. What did you like?
- Create two self-portraits using two different techniques, such
as drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture, and computer illustration.
- Do two of the following:
- Draw or paint an original picture outdoors, using the art
materials of your choice.
- Use clay to sculpt a simple form.
- Create an object using clay that can be fired, baked in
the oven, or air dried.
- Create a freestanding sculpture or mobile using wood, metal,
papier-mâché, or found or recycled objects.
- Make a display of origami or kirigami projects.
- Use a computer illustration or painting program to create
a work of art.
- Create an original logo or design. Transfer the design onto
a T-shirt, hat, or other object.
- Using a camera or other electronic device, take at least
10 photos of your family, a pet, or scenery. Use photo-editing
software to crop, lighten or darken, and change some of the
photos.
- Create a comic strip with original characters. Include at
least four panels to tell a story centered on one of the points
of the Scout Law. Characters can be hand-drawn or computer-generated.
- Choose one of the following methods to show your artwork:
- Create a hard-copy or digital portfolio of your projects.
Share it with your family and members of your den or pack.
- Display your artwork in a pack, school, or community art
show.
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- Develop an awareness of the challenges of the blind through
participation in an activity that simulates blindness.
- Participate in an activity that simulates severe visual impairment,
but not blindness.
- Participate in an activity that simulates the challenges of
being deaf or hard of hearing.
- Engage in an activity that simulates mobility impairment.
- Take part in an activity that simulates dexterity impairment.
- With your den, participate in an activity that focuses on the
acceptance of differences in general.
- Do two of the following:
- Do a Good Turn for residents at a skilled nursing facility
or retirement community.
- Invite an individual with a disability to visit your den,
and discuss what activities he or she currently finds challenging
or found challenging in the past.
- Attend a disabilities event such as a Special Olympics competition,
an adaptive sports event, a performance with sign language interpretation,
or an activity with service dogs. Tell your den what you thought
about the experience.
- Talk to someone who works with people who have disabilities.
Ask what the person does and how he or she helps people with
disabilities.
- Using American Sign Language, sign the Scout Oath.
- With the help of an adult, contact a service dog organization,
and learn the entire process from pup training to assignment
to a client.
- Participate in a service project that focuses on a specific
disability.
- Participate in an activity with an organization whose members
are disabled.
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- Learn about some basic tools and the proper use of each tool.
Learn about and understand the need for safety when you work with
tools.
- With the guidance of your Webelos den leader, parent, or guardian,
select a carpentry project and build it.
- List the tools that you use safely as you build your project;
create a list of materials needed to build your project.
- Put a checkmark next to the tools on your list that you used
for the first time.
- Learn about a construction career. With your Webelos den leader,
parent, or guardian, visit a construction site, and interview someone
working in a construction career.
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- Discover what it means to be a hero. Invite a local hero to
meet with your den.
- Identify how citizens can be heroes in their communities.
- Recognize a hero in your community by presenting him or her
with a "My Hero Award."
- Learn about a real-life hero from another part of the world
who has helped the world be a better place.
- Learn about a Scout hero.
- Create your own superhero.
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- Do two of these:
- With the help of an adult, demonstrate one way to light
a fire without using matches.
- On a campout with your den or family, cook two different
recipes that do not require pots and pans. If your chartered
organization does not permit Cub Scout camping, you may substitute
a family campout or a daylong outdoor activity with your den
or pack.
- Using tree limbs or branches that have already fallen or
been cut, build a shelter that will protect you overnight.
- Do ALL of these:
- Learn what items should be in an outdoor survival kit that
you can carry in a small bag or box in a day pack. Assemble
your own small survival kit, and explain to your den leader
why the items you chose are important for survival.
- Show you can live "off the grid" by minimizing your use
of electricity for one week. Keep a log of what you did. Discuss
with your den members how you adjusted to this lifestyle.
- With your den, invent a game that can be played without
using electricity and using minimal equipment or simple items.
- Name your game, write down the rules once you have decided
on them, then play the game at two different den meetings or
outings.
- Teach your game to the members of your pack or other Scouts.
- With your den, demonstrate two different ways to treat drinking
water to remove impurities.
- Discuss what to do if you become lost in the woods. Tell
what the letters "S-T-O-P" stand
for. Tell what the universal emergency signal is. Describe three
ways to signal for help. Demonstrate one of them. Describe what
you can do you do to help rescuers find you.
- Make a list of four qualities you think a leader should
have in an emergency and why they are important to have. Pick
two of them and act them out for your den. Describe how each
relates to a point of the Scout Law. Describe how working on
this adventure gave you a better understanding of the Boy Scout
motto.
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- Do the following:
- Explain the meaning of the word "geology."
- Explain why this kind of science is an important part of
your world.
- Share with your family or with your den what you learned
about the meaning of geology.
- Look for different kinds of rocks or minerals while on a rock
hunt with your family or your den.
- Do the following:
- Identify the rocks you see on your rock hunt. Use the information
in your handbook to determine which types of rocks you have
collected.
- With a magnifying glass, take a closer look at your collection.
Determine any differences between your specimens.
- Share what you see with your family or den.
- Do the following:
- With your family or den, make a mineral test kit, and test
rocks according to the Mohs scale of mineral hardness.
- Record the results in your handbook.
- With your family or den, identify on a road map of your state
some geological features in your area.
- Do the following:
- Identify some of the geological building materials used
in building your home.
- Identify some of the geological materials used around your
community.
- Record the items you find.
- Do either 7a or 7b:
- Go on an outing with your family or den to one of the nearby
locations you discovered on your state map, and record what
you see as you look at the geographical surroundings. Share
with your family or den while on this outing what you notice
that might change this location in the future (wind, water,
ice, drought, erosion).
- Do the following:
- With your family or your den, visit with a geologist
or earth scientist and discover the many career fields that
are included in the science of geology.
- Ask the geologist or earth scientist about the importance
of fossils that are found.
- Ask the geologist or earth scientist what you can do
to help preserve our natural resources.
- Do at least one earth science demonstration or investigation
with your den or with adult supervision, and explore geology in
action.
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- Pick one type of engineer. With the help of the Internet, your
local library, or a local engineer you may know or locate, discover
and record in your book three things that describe what that engineer
does. (Be sure to have your Webelos den leader, parent, or guardian's
permission to use the Internet.) Share your findings with your Webelos
den.
- Learn to follow engineering design principles by doing the following:
- Examine a set of blueprints. Using these as a model, construct
your own set of blueprints or plans to design a project.
- Using the blueprints or plans from your own design, construct
your project. Your project may be something useful or something
fun.
- Share your project with your Webelos den and your pack by
displaying the project at a pack meeting.
- Explore other fields of engineering and how they have helped
form our past, present, and future.
- Pick and do two projects using the engineering skills you have
learned. Share your projects with your den and also exhibit them
at a pack meeting.
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- Put a Fix It Tool Box together. Describe what each item in your
toolbox can be used for. Show how to use three of the tools safely
.
- Be Ready. With the help of an adult in your family, do the following:
- Locate the electrical panel in your home. Determine if the
electrical panel has fuses or breakers.
- Determine what sort of heat is used to heat your home.
- Learn what you would do to shut off the water for a sink,
a toilet, a washing machine, or a water heater. If there is
a main shut-off valve for your home, show where it is located.
- Describe to your Webelos den leader how to fix or make safe
the following circumstances with help from an adult:
- A toilet is overflowing.
- The kitchen sink is clogged.
- A circuit breaker tripped, causing some of the lights to
go out.
- Let's Fix It. Select and do eight of the following. You will
need an adult's supervision for each of these Fix It projects:
- Show how to change a light bulb in a lamp or fixture. Determine
the type of light bulb and how to properly dispose of it.
- Fix a squeaky door or cabinet hinge.
- Tighten a loose handle or knob on a cabinet or a piece of
furniture.
- Demonstrate how to stop a toilet from running.
- Replace a furnace filter.
- Wash a car.
- Check the oil level and tire pressure in a car.
- Show how to replace a bulb in a taillight, turn signal,
or parking light, or replace a headlight in a car.
- Help an adult change a tire on a car.
- Make a repair to a bicycle, such as adjusting or lubricating
the chain, inflating the tires, fixing a flat, or adjusting
the seat or handlebars.
- Replace the wheels on a skateboard, a scooter, or a pair
of inline skates.
- Help an adult prepare and paint a room.
- Help an adult replace or repair a wall or floor tile.
- Help an adult install or repair a window or door lock.
- Help an adult fix a slow or clogged sink drain.
- Help an adult install or repair a mailbox.
- Change the battery in a smoke detector or a carbon monoxide
detector, and test its operation.
- Help an adult fix a leaky faucet.
- Find wall studs, and help an adult hang a curtain rod or
a picture.
- Take an old item, such as a small piece of furniture, a
broken toy, or a picture frame, and rebuild and/or refinish
it. Show your work to an adult or your Webelos leader.
- Do a Fix It project agreed upon with your parent or guardian.
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- Decide on the elements for your game.
- List at least five of the online safety rules that you put into
practice while using the Internet on your computer or smartphone.
Skip this if your Cyber Chip is current.
- Create your game.
- Teach an adult or another Scout how to play your game.
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Do six from requirements 1 through 9.
- Collect and care for an "insect, amphibian, or reptile zoo."
You might have crickets, ants, grasshoppers, a lizard, or a toad.
Study them for a while and then let them go. Share your experience
with your Webelos den.
- Set up an aquarium or terrarium. Keep it for at least a month.
Share your experience with your Webelos den by showing them photos
or drawings of your project or by having them visit to see your
project.
- Watch for birds in your yard, neighborhood, or town for one
week. Identify the birds you see, and write down where and when
you saw them.
- Learn about the bird flyways closest to your home. Find out
which birds use these flyways.
- Watch at least four wild creatures (reptiles, amphibians, arachnids,
fish, insects, or mammals) in the wild. Describe the kind of place
(forest, field, marsh, yard, or park) where you saw them. Tell what
they were doing.
- Identify an insect, reptile, bird, or wild animal that is found
only in your area of the country. Tell why it survives in your area.
- Give examples of at least two of the following:
- A producer, a consumer, and a decomposer in the food chain
of an ecosystem
- One way humans have changed the balance of nature
- How you can help protect the balance of nature
- Learn about aquatic ecosystems and wetlands in your area. Talk
with your Webelos den leader or family about the important role
aquatic ecosystems and wetlands play in supporting life cycles of
wildlife and humans, and list three ways you can help.
- Do ONE of the following:
- Visit a museum of natural history, a nature center, or a
zoo with your family, Webelos den, or pack. Tell what you saw.
- Create a video of a wild creature doing something interesting,
and share it with your family and den.
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- Identify three different groups of trees and the parts of a
tree.
- Identify six trees common to the area where you live. Tell whether
they are native to your area. Tell how both wildlife and humans
use them.
- Identify six plants common to the area where you live. Tell
which animals use them and for what purpose.
- Visit a nature center, nursery, tree farm, or park, and speak
with someone knowledgeable about trees and plants that are native
to your area. Explain how plants and trees are important to our
ecosystem and how they improve our environment.
- Develop a plan to care for and then plant at least one plant
or tree, either indoors in a pot or outdoors. Tell how this plant
or tree helps the environment in which it is planted and what the
plant or tree will be used for.
- Make a list of items in your home that are made from wood and
share it with your den. Or with your den, take a walk and identify
useful things made from wood.
- Explain how the growth rings of a tree trunk tell its life story.
Describe different types of tree bark and explain what the bark
does for the tree.
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- Create a record of the history of Scouting and your place in
that history.
- With the help of your den leader, parent, or guardian and with
your choice of media, go on a virtual journey to the past and create
a timeline.
- Create your own time capsule.
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- Do a or b:
- Attend a live musical performance.
- Visit a facility that uses a sound mixer, and learn how
it is used.
- Do two of the following:
- Make a musical instrument. Play it for your family, den,
or pack.
- Form a "band" with your den. Each member creates his own
homemade musical instrument. Perform for your pack at a pack
meeting.
- Play two tunes on any band or orchestra instrument.
- Do two of the following:
- Teach your den the words and melody of a song. Perform the
song with your den at your den or pack meeting.
- Create original words for a song. Perform it at your den
or pack meeting.
- Collaborate with your den to compose a den theme song. Perform
it at your pack meeting.
- Write a song with words and music that expresses your feelings
about an issue, a person, something you are learning, a point
of the Scout Law, etc. Perform it at your den or pack meeting,
alone or with a group.
- Perform a musical number by yourself or with your Webelos
den in front of an audience.
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- Write a story outline describing a real or imaginary Scouting
adventure. Create a pictured storyboard that shows your story.
- Create either an animated or live action movie about yourself.
Your movie should depict how you live by the Scout Oath and Scout
Law.
- Share your movie with your family, den, or pack.
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Do 1 through 5, then choose two of 6 through 8:
- Interview a grandparent, another family elder, or a family friend
about what life was like when he or she was growing up. Share his
or her story with another family member.
- Talk with members of your family about your family name, history,
traditions, and culture. Create a family tree of three generations
or make a poster or Web page that shows the origins of your ancestors.
Or choose a special celebration or holiday that your family participates
in, and create either a poster, picture, or photo slideshow of it.
Share this project with your den.
- Show your understanding of your duty to family by creating a
chart listing the jobs that you and other family members have at
home. Choose three of the jobs you are responsible for, and chart
them for two weeks.
- Select ONE of the jobs below that belongs to another family
member, and help that person complete it:
- Create a grocery shopping list for the week.
- Complete the laundry for your family one time.
- Help prepare meals for your family for one day.
- Create a list of community service or conservation projects
that you and your family can do together, and present it to your
family. Select one project, plan it, and complete it with your family.
- With the help of an adult, inspect your home and its surroundings.
Make a list of hazards or security problems that you find. Correct
one problem that you found, and tell what you did.
- Hold a family meeting to plan an exciting family activity. The
activity could include:
- A family reunion
- A family night
- A family outing
- Have your family event. Afterward, tell your parent or guardian
what you liked best about the event.
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- Show the signals used by officials in one of these sports: football,
basketball, baseball, soccer, or hockey.
- While you are a Webelos Scout, participate in two individual
sports.
- While you are a Webelos Scout, play two team sports.
- Complete the following requirements:
- Explain what good sportsmanship means.
- Role-play a situation that demonstrates good sportsmanship.
- Give an example of a time when you experienced or saw someone
showing good sportsmanship.
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