Cub Scout Pack Meeting: March 5, 2014

DATE: March 5, 2014

Theme:    Canada                                                        Objective: ________________________

Attendance Assignment: _________________                               Spiritual Thought Assignment: ___________________

TIME	ACTIVITY		EQUIPMENT NEEDED		BADGE REQUIRMENTS MET
PACK MEETING ADGENDA
5:00	Display		Show projects from previous weeks
5:05	GAMES:	BUSINESS: -Badge worksheets -Culture day in 2 weeks		Brief Outline of Business Upcoming dates to mark on calendar.	Planning ahead for Purple Star 10A
5:15	RECOGNITION:      - This month’s theme – Canada      - Certificates		Assignment Sheets Certificates Badges
5:25	SPIRITUAL THOUGHT:
5:27	WRAPUP PACK MEETING: -Handout detailed calendars for upcoming month -Badge worksheets for at home work -Pertinent information to upcoming activities CLEAN UP & SEND EVERYONE HOME		Calendars Badge worksheets
3:45	Gathering Activity: Canada Word Search		Word search copies
4:00	Opening Ceremony      -Opening Prayer: _____________      -Attendance: ________________      -Welcome/Introduction		Attendance Sheet
4:05	GAME:
4:15	BADGEWORK: History of the Canadian Flag		Papers and Pencils to draw the flag		Purple Star 1A
4:25	THEME ACTIVITY: Cultural Activities (7 minutes) This Country Canada BADGEWORK: Benefits of Service (5-7 min) (5A) Cultural Activities: Explore Canada (3A) BADGEWORK: Recite or Sing ‘O Canada’ (2A) Sing ‘Frere Jacques’		Province Cards Masking Tape Discussion Material Picture of Canada to assemble (3A)		Purple Star 3A Purple Star 5A Purple Star 2A Canadian Heritage #1
4:45	GAME:
4:55	Set up for Pack Meeting		Hand out assignments for Pack Meeting

Gathering Activity: Word search

Materials:
 ·         Canada Word search

·         Pencils

Have the boys work on finding as many words in the word search as they can.

THEME ACTIVITY: This Country Canada

Materials Needed

·         Province Cards

·         Masking tape

Divide the room into 12 sections and tape a province card into each section.

Activity begins as the leader calls out the names of the provinces. As the boys run to those areas the leader will call out action phrases, and the Cubs must stop where they are, do them and then continue running to the province or territory. The last cub to arrive at the correct location (or the last to do the action) moves back to his home province before the next play.

Actions

·         “Climbing the Rockies” – stop and pretend you are rock climbing for 5 seconds

·         “Hauling in the Catch” – stop and pretend you are pulling in nets full of heavy fish for 5 seconds

·         “Felling the Trees” – stop and pretend you are starting a chain saw or using an axe for 5 seconds

·         “Sowing the Seeds” – stop and pretend you are planting crops for 5 seconds

·         “Riding a Kayak” – stop, sit down and pretend you are paddling a kayak for 5 seconds

·         “Nations Captial” – everyone rushes to Ottawa, Canada’s capital city

THEME ACTIVITY: Canadian Folksong

Frere Jaques

Are you sleeping, Are you sleeping?

Brother John, Brother John?

Morning bells are ringing! Morning bells are ringing!
Ding, dang, dong. Ding, dang, dong.

Frère Jacques, frère Jacques,
Dormez-vous ? Dormez-vous ?
Sonnez les matines ! Sonnez les matines !
Ding, daing, dong. Ding, daing, dong.

I Hear Thunder to the tune of "Frere Jacques"
I hear thunder
I hear thunder
Hark don't you?
Hark don't you?
Pitta patta raindrops
Pitta patta raindrops
I'm wet through
So are you!

THEME ACTIVITY: Explore Canada

Materials Needed

·         Province Cutouts

·         Play cards with specific details noted on each. Have about 4-6 for each boy.

Assemble Canada and have the boys pick up cards and indicate the following…

·         Provincial boundaries (specify the boundary on the card for the boy to locate)

·         Capital Cities

·         Your Home location

·         Occupations common to the various regions of Canada

Additional Information: Canadian Industries

The Atlantic Provinces (fishing, farming, forestry, mining)
Newfoundland	Prince Edward Island		Nova Scotia		New Brunswick
Fishing Off-shore oil & gas extraction Hydro-electric resources	Potatoes		Shipbuilding Fisheries Shipping Coal mining Forestry Agriculture Off-shore oil & gas		Forestry Agriculture Fisheries Mining Food processing
Central Canada (Industry and Manufacturing)
Quebec			Ontairo
Forestry Energy Mining Pulp and paper Hydro-electricity Pharmaceutical aeronautics			Manufacturing Vineyards, wines and fruits Farmers - Dairy and Beef cattle, poultry, vegetables and grains
Prairie Provinces (energy, farming)
Manitoba		Saskatchewan		Alberta
Agricutlrue Mining Hydro-electric power		Grains and oilseeds Fertilizer Oil and gas		Oil and gas Agriculture Cattle
West Coast			Northern Territories (gold, lead, copper, diamond and zinc mines, oil and gas, hunting, fishing, trapping)
British Columbia			NWTerritories	Yukon		Nunavut
Forestry products – lumber, newsprint, pulp and paper Mining Fishing Fruit orchards Wine			Diamonds	Mining		Inuit art

Badgework: History of the Canadian Flag

Materials Needed:

·         Book which includes a table of contents, forward, chapters, glossary and index

Canada’s History in Flags

·         1. First nations, who arrived ≈10,000 BC, didn't have flags in the modern sense, so we represent them here with the flag of the Iroquois Confederacy, which is a representation of a Hiawatha Wampum belt.

·         2. French explorers arrived and founded the first permanent European settlements, including Quebec City in 1608. The French Royal Standard was their flag.

·         3. The British has been in North America for many years. In 1759 at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham, the French were defeated and the land that is now Canada become entirely under British rule. Their flag was the Union Jack of Great Britain, which combines the Cross of St. George, red on white, representing England; with the Cross of St. Andrew, white on blue, representing Scotland.

·         4. In 1801, Ireland united with Great Britain to create the United Kingdom. They added the Cross of St. Patrick to the flag to represent this, resulting in the modern Union Jack.

·         5. In 1867, Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick confederated to become Canada. The Canadian Red Ensign has a Union Jack in the first quarter and, in the field, a shield made by combining the shields of the four provinces. Note that the quarter for Nova Scotia (bottom-left) is not the shield used now. In the early 1900s, Nova Scotia reverted to an earlier design that had been lost.

·         6. As the years went by, more provinces joined and the flag become more and more complicated as additional shields were added. In 1921, the flag was redesigned to instead show the shield from Canada's newly-made coat of arms. The shield contains the three lions passant representing England, the one lion rampant representing Scotland, the harp representing Ireland, a small French Royal Standard representing France, and the maple leaves representing Canada. The symbols represented the primary immigrant groups that made up Canadian society of the day.

·         7. In the 1960s, there was a desire to create a flag that was uniquely Canadian without any foreign symbols. After a big debate, the Maple Leaf Flag was adopted in 1965. The red bands represent the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. The maple leaf has long been a symbol of Canada since so many maple trees grow here. Red and white had become Canada's official colours in 1921.

Badgework: How my Community benefits from service I do.

Some Ideas may include:

•        Solve Problems

•        Strengthen Communities

•        Improve Lives

•        Connect to Others

•        Transform Our Own Lives

•        Satisfaction

•        New friends