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Bear Den 12
May Homework
Date: 5/1/08 - 5/31/08
Location: Cub Scouts Home
May 2008 Theme - Leaf It to Cubs
Arrow Points - 2, 14
2. WEATHER (Page 184)
This elective is also part of the Cub Scout World Conservation Award.
a. Learn how to read an outdoor thermometer. Put one outdoors and read it at the same time every day for two weeks. Keep a record of each day's temperature and a description of the weather each day (fair skies, rain, fog, snow, etc.).
b. Build a weather vane. Record wind direction every day at the same hour for two weeks. Keep a record of the weather for each day.
c. Make a rain gauge.
d. Find out what a barometer is and how it works. Tell your den about it. Tell what "relative humidity" means.
e. Learn to identify three different kinds of clouds. Estimate their heights.
f. Watch the weather forecast on TV every day for two weeks. Describe three different symbols used on weather maps. Keep a record of how many times the weather forecast is correct.
14. LANDSCAPING (Page 236)
a. With an adult, help take care of your lawn or flower beds or help take care of the lawn or flower beds of a public building, school, or church. Seed bare spots. Get rid of weeds. Pick up litter. Agree ahead of time on what you will do.
b. Make a sketch of a landscape plan for the area right around your home. Talk it over with a parent or den leader. Show which trees, shrubs and flowers you could plant to make the area look better.
c. Take part in a project with your family, den, or pack to make your neighborhood or community more beautiful. These might be having a cleanup party, painting, cleaning and painting trash barrels, and removing weeds. (Each time you do this differently, it counts as a completed project.)
d. Build a greenhouse and grow twenty plants from seed. You can use a package of garden seeds, or use beans, pumpkin seeds, or watermelon seeds.
GEOLOGY
Belt Loop
Complete these three requirements:
1. Define geology.
2. Collect a sample of igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks. Explain how each was formed.
3. Explain the difference between a rock and a mineral.
Academics Pin
Earn the Geology belt loop, and complete five of the following requirements:
1. Make a plaster cast of a fossil.
2. Make a special collection of rocks and minerals that illustrates the hardness scale.
3. Give examples of sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic rocks.
4. Gather several different types of rocks. Compare them and put them in groups according to physical properties such as color, texture, luster, hardness, or crystals.
5. Describe the effects of wind, water, and ice on the landscape.
6. Make "pet rocks" using rocks, paint, and glue-on eyes. Tell a creative story about your pet rocks.
7. Draw a diagram showing different types of volcanoes or draw a diagram that labels the different parts of a volcano.
8. Make a crystal garden.
9. Make a collection of five different fossils and identify them to the best of your ability.
10. Make a poster or display showing 10 everyday products that contain or use rocks or minerals.
11. Visit a mine, oil or gas field, gravel pit, stone quarry, or similar area of special interest related to geology.
12. Visit with a geologist. Find out how he or she prepared for the job. Discuss other careers related to geology.
13. Draw the inside of a cave showing the difference between stalactites and stalagmites.
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