DATE: October 9, 2013
Theme: Rock
Hounds
TIME
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ACTIVITY
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EQUIPMENT NEEDED
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BADGE REQUIRMENTS MET
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3:45
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Gathering Activity:
Rock Jokes
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4:00
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Opening Ceremony
- Opening
Prayer: _____________
- Grand Howl
-Attendance:
________________
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Attendance Book
Stamp and Ink
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4:05
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GAME: Mini Olympics
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Skipping
Long Jump etc
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Athletic Badge #4
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4:15
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BADGEWORK: Insect
Habits: An introduction to insects
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First Aider #2i
WSEA Natural Habitat 1c
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4:20
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THEME ACTIVITY: Discovering
Insects in our Backyard
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Magnifying glass
Observation worksheets
Pencils and clipboards
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Observer badge #5
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4:40
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GAME: Rock Slide Cruise
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5:00
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THEME ACTIVITY: How
Trees Grow
Discuss why trees are important.
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Yarn
Cardstock
Glue
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Black Star 5A
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5:10
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BADGE WORK: Identify 6 trees or shrubs
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Identification Worksheets
Leaves to identify
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Observer Badge #6
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5:15
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SPIRITUAL FELLOWSHIP
-Spiritual
Thought: ____________
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Assignment: Story from the Friend
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5:20
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Closing Ceremony
-Cub Promise
(review line 2)
-Closing Prayer
-Badge
worksheets or other information
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5:30
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Dismiss and Go Home
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GATHERING ACTIVITY: Rock Jokes
Have boys tell each other jokes about rocks.
- What does a rock
want to be when it grows up?
- What do you call
a dog who collects rocks?
- What do you do
to a baby rock?
- What is a rock's
favorite kind of music?
- Where do rocks
sleep?
- How do rocks
wash their clothes?
- What is a rock's
favorite transportation?
- What is a rock's
favorite cereal?
Answers
1.
A Rock Star
2.
A Rockhound
3.
Rock it
4.
Rock 'N Roll
5.
Bedrock
6.
On the rock cycle
7.
A rocket
8.
Cocoa Pebbles
GAMES: Mini Olympics
Have the boys continue with last week’s
activities
GAMES: Rockslide Cruise
This game is played like red light – green light. Instead
when the word cruise is said the boys can run. When the word rockslide is said
the boys have to stop. Anyone moving after the word rockslide hast to go back
to the beginning.
VARIATION: To make this game a little more interesting,
create a circuitous path that they must follow rather than running straight for
the end of the play area.
THEME ACTIVITY: Insects in our Backyard
Materials Needed:
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Insect identification chart
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Insect Observation Worksheet
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Plastic spoon
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2 Plastic cups (Petri dishes, lidded plastic
containers, sample bottles, etc.)
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Magnifier box, or hand lens
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Digital Camera if desired
OVERVIEW
Have each Cub Scout search out as many different insects as
he can. Have him identify each insect he finds and write it down.
PREPARATION
Before doing this activity, we recommend you make sure the
boys understand basic insect anatomy to help them recognize and differentiate
insects from other organisms, and to help them appreciate some of the major
groups of common insects.
Your location could be outside the door in the building you
meet in, or it could be a nearby municipal park, or it could be a more remote
natural area. In any case, pick out and mark several different spots where Cubs
will be able to find insects
Here are some suggestions for different locations:
• Under a log
• Near or under rocks
or gravel
• In a grassy spot in
full sunlight
• At the base of a
tree
• In the leaf litter
on the forest floor
• In the leaves an
blossoms of a flowering plant
• On the trunk and
branches of a tree
• Near the wall of a
building
• On or near a sidewalk
PROCEDURE
Step 1: Equip your pack with simple insect capture and
observation tools, a clipboard, a pencil, and a worksheet, as listed above.
Step 2: Assign each pair of boys to two locations where they
will hunt for and observe insects. Instruct them to handle the insects very carefully,
and if the insects are too fast or vigorous, to leave them alone.
Step 3: Be sure the boys are recording their findings on
their observation worksheet. Gather the pack after 6 insects have been
identified and observed.
Fun Facts About Insects and Bugs
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Night butterflies have ears on their wings so they can avoid
bats.
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Monarch caterpillars shed their skin four times before they
become a chrysalis, growing over 2700 times their original size.
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There may be as many as 3,000 different kinds of insects — more
than all the other animal and plant species combined.
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Of the huge numbers of insects, only a tiny amount, one percent,
are harmful to humans. Most insects are harmless or actually beneficial. For
example, without bees to pollinate flowers, plants would not have a way of
reproducing and we wouldn’t have anything to eat!
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Locusts can eat their own weight in food in a day. A person eats
his own body weight in about half a year.
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The earliest fossil cockroach is about 280 million years old ~
80 million years older than the first dinosaurs!
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The desert locust is the world’s most destructive insect. It can
eat its own weight in food every day. Large swarms can gobble up to 20,000 tons
of grain and plants in a day.
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The honeybee has to travel an average of 43,000 miles to collect
enough nectar to make a pound of honey!
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Out of every 1,000 Mosquitos, one female carries a disease that
could be fatal to humans.
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Honeybees have hair on their eyes.
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The average housefly lives for one month.
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There is only one insect that can turn its head — the praying
mantis.
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A slug has four noses.
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Some male spiders pluck their cobwebs like a guitar, to attract
female spiders.
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A mosquito flaps its wings 500 times a second.
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Only male crickets can chirp.
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Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day!
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About 80% of the Earth’s animals are insects!
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The common garden worm has five pairs of hearts.
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Dragonflies can fly up to 50 miles per hour.
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The earliest fossil cockroach is about 280 million years old –
80 million years older than the first dinosaurs!
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The praying mantis is the only insect that can look behind its
shoulders.
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One kind of insect called a spittlebug, lays its eggs in a big
nest of saliva bubbles. I guess no predator would look for a meal in there!
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A snail can sleep for 3 years straight!
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The heaviest insect in the world weighs 2.5 ounces.
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A cockroach can live for up to 3 weeks without its head!
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A butterfly has its taste receptors in its feet!
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The mayfly only lives for 8 hours!
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The female black widow’s poison is 15 times deadlier than a
rattlesnake’s!
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There are worms in Australia that are over 4 Feet Long!
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The weight of all the termites in the world outweigh the weight
of all humans 10 to 1!
THEME ACTIVITY: How Trees Grow Craft
Materials Needed:
q
Green yarn
q
Brown yarn
q
White yarn
q
Red yarn
q
White glue
q
Cardstock
Give each Cub a piece of
cardstock divided into 6 sections. Have them label each section respectively:
Seeds, Sprouts, Seedling, Tree, Blossoms, Apples
Use the worksheet below to help
conduct a discussion about why trees are important in nature.
BADGEWORK: Identifying Trees/Shrubs
Materials Needed:
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Leaves gathered from various varieties of trees.
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‘A Key to Trees’ Worksheet
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Pencils
