Scouter Life

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.

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.

Do the following:
a. 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.
b. 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

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).

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:
a. 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.
b. 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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Do the following:
a. Using a map of your city or town, locate where you live.
b. 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:
a. Identify what a compass rose is and where it is on the map.
b. 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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