LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
- Go to a completed landscape project that a landscape architect has designed. Before you visit the site, obtain a plan of the design from the landscape architect if one is available.
- After completing requirement 1, discuss the following with your merit badge counselor:
- Tell whether the design had separate spaces, a clear path system, and sun and shade variety.
- Discuss how the designated seating, eating, or parking areas suited the overall design.
- Explain how the design reflected consideration for the comfort, shelter, and security of the users.
- Discuss how the choice of trees, shrubs, and ground covers used in the project contributed to its appeal and function.
KAYAKING
- Do the following:
- Explain to your counselor the hazards you are most likely to encounter while participating in kayaking activities, including weather and water-related hazards, and what you should do to anticipate, help prevent, mitigate, and respond to these hazards.
- Review prevention, symptoms, and first-aid treatment for the following injuries or illnesses that can occur while kayaking: blisters, cold-water shock and hypothermia, heat-related illnesses, dehydration, sunburn, sprains, and strains.
JOURNALISM
- Explain what freedom of the press is and how the First Amendment guarantees that you can voice your opinion. In your discussion, tell how to distinguish between fact and opinion, and explain the terms libel, slander, defamation, fair comment and criticism, public figure, privacy, and malice. Discuss how these matters relate to ethics in journalism.
- Do either A OR B:
INVENTING
- In your own words, define inventing. Then do the following:
- Explain to your merit badge counselor the role of inventors and their inventions in the economic development of the United States.
- List three inventions and state how they have helped humankind.
- Do ONE of the following:
- Identify and interview with a buddy (and with your parent's permission and merit badge counselor's approval) an individual in your community who has invented a useful item. Report what you learned to your counselor.
- Read about three inventors. Select the one you find most interesting and tell your counselor what you learned.
Run On...
Scout 1: IT'S ALL AROUND ME! IT'S ALL AROUND ME!
Scout 2: What's all around you??!
Scout 1: MY BELT!
Run Off
INSECT STUDY
- Tell how insects are different from all other animals. Show how insects are different from centipedes and spiders.
- Point out and name the main parts of an insect.
INDIAN LORE
- Give the history of one American Indian tribe, group, or nation that lives or has lived near you. Visit it, if possible. Tell about traditional dwellings, way of life, tribal government, religious beliefs, family and clan relationships, language, clothing styles, arts and crafts, food preparation, means of getting around, games, customs in warfare, where members of the group now live, and how they live.
