022.C.W09.F2F - DIY - Environmental Conservation - Gardener - Global Issues - Naturalist Badges

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Due to the crossover in requirements this plan covers several badges over 9+ weeks: DIY, Environmental Conservation, Gardener, Global Issues, Naturalist

Resources

Week 1
Recycled plastic bottle
Marker pen
Scissors
Garden wire/string
Bird seed
Paper plate
Pine or fir cones (dried out so they open!) • Bird seed
Raisins
Peanuts
Grated cheese • Suet or lard
Mixing bowl
Scissors

Week 2
Gardening tools
Cress seeds
Strawberry seeds
Soil
Something to make a label out of (e.g. lollipop sticks)
Seed trays/small plant pots/jars - Cubs to bring a clear jar if possible
Base instructions
Books with planting information

Week 3
Cards cut out and answers

Week 4
Tools
Wood samples
Hard
Soft
Chipboard
Plywood
MDF

Weeks 5 and 6
Gloves
Goggles
Work benches
Hammers
Hanging clips/hooks (to be hammered onto hotels)
Drills
Drill bits
Screwdrivers
Pencils
Wood (pre-cut and labeled)
Design/plan for hotel
Screws
Sand paper
Paints
Paintbrushes
Newspaper (to protect the floor and to leave hotels on to dry)
Cleaning materials

Week 8
Ask Cubs to bring litter pickers if they have them.
High vis jackets
Appropriate clothing
Medium-sized rubbish bag per pair
Leader to have spare rubbish bags and 1 for recycling

Week 9
Car kits
Materials used (waste, recycling, and reusable) from this term

Instructions

Week 1
Base 1 - Bottle bird feeder
https://www.getoutwiththekids.co.uk/activities/making/making-bird-feeder-plastic-bottle/
Recycled plastic bottle
Marker pen
Scissors
Garden wire/string
Bird seed

Base 2 - Paper plate bird feeder
Paper plate
String
Bird seed

Base 3 - Pinecone bird feeder
https://www.rspb.org.uk/fun-and-learning/for-kids/games-and-activities/activities/produce-a-pine-cone-feeder/
Pine or fir cones (dried out so they open!) • Bird seed
Raisins
Peanuts
Grated cheese • Suet or lard
Mixing bowl
Scissors
String
1.First make your bird mix. Allow the lard to warm up to room temperature, but don’t melt it. Then cut it up into small pieces and put it in the mixing bowl.
2. Add the other ingredients to the bowl. Mix them together with your fingertips, until the fat holds this great squidgy mess all together.
3.Tie string at the top of your cones, then fill them
with bird mix.
4.Put your cones in the fridge to set for an hour or so. Now they’re ready to hang up and give the birds a warming meal.

Homework
Put the feeders up at home and take a picture of the most interesting, colourful, or rare bird using it or use your imaginations! A previous Cub took a photo of the Madagascar Penguins.

Badge requirements
Naturalist - Activity
Environmental Conservation - Project 1
DIY - Project (part)
World Challenge - Environment

Week 2
Base 1
Show and tell the Cubs about some gardening tools and care, try to get an unusual tool they may not have seen at home and get them to guess what it is (e.g. an apple picker).

This could be a good time to introduce ideas about the commercial production of food. How might the tools farmers’ use be different from the tools we use in our own gardens, for example?

Equipment
Gardening tools

Base 2
Plant cress seeds and strawberry seeds (some to leave at the Hut (no water but with sunlight), some to take home to look after (water and sunlight)
Design plant labels for the seeds

Equipment
Cress seeds
Strawberry seeds
Soil
Something to make a label out of (e.g. lollipop sticks)
Seed trays/small plant pots/jars - Cubs to bring a clear jar if possible

Base 3
Ask the Cubs:
What are the seasons?
Autumn, Winter, Summer, Spring
Why is it important to know about the seasons when gardening?
Some plants grow better if planted during a particular season. Vegetables/fruit ripen better at different times of the year.
What do plants need to grow?
Sunlight, water, air (carbon dioxide), and nutrients.
What does it mean when it is said that a fruit or vegetable is ‘in season’?
At that time of year it is at its peak, in terms of flavour or harvest.
Ask the Cubs to find a plant that is best planted in, e.g. summer.

https://learnaboutag.org/resources/lesson/what.pdf
Why is it good to eat veg in season:
Richer flavour – Produce that is picked when it’s fully ripened tastes amazing. If your produce is coming from across the US or another country, it is picked before it’s ripe. As it travels to your local grocery store, it ripens in a cardboard box, often after being sprayed by chemicals to prevent it from ripening too quickly.

Better nutrition – When produce is picked before it’s ripe, the nutrients do not fully develop in the flesh of the fruit. Plants need the sun to grow, and picking them before they are ripe cuts off the nutrient availability. Genetic modification is also sometimes used, which can alter how the crop was naturally supposed to be consumed. Also, if you eat seasonally, you are guaranteed to consume a variety of produce, which will assist you in eating a balanced diet.

Cost efficient – Supply and demand simply explains how buying produce seasonally saves money. Produce in season is more abundant, so it is less per pound in the store. If you are buying produce that is out of season, there is travel, time and added expenses to grow it in a greenhouse.

Environmentally friendly – As we truck in produce from other areas, it requires gas to get the produce to the store. This fuel charge is something often added to price of the food upon delivery, not to mention what this does to the carbon footprint.

Community benefit – Buying your produce from local farmers’ markets and Community Supported Agricultures (CSA) is a great way to build community, but also allows you to feel more connected to where your food is coming from and who is growing it.

Equipment
Base instructions
Books with planting information

Homework
Look after the seeds they have planted to take home over the next few weeks.

Badge requirements
Gardener - Tools
Gardener - Labels
Gardener - Seasons
Gardener - Help (to be completed in a couple of months)
Science - Cress
Skills Challenge - Creative

Week 3
Whole Pack together (not bases)

Part 1 - Plant check up - ~10 minutes
Cubs to check progress of plants at the Hut and report about the ones they took home too:
Alive?
How tall?
Did any die?
If so, why?
Why did the ones at the Hut die? (no water)

Part 2 - Identification - ~20 minutes
Give them names without the pictures (birds and minibeasts)
Put the pictures up around the Hut for them to find, how many do they get right?

Part 3 - Minibeasts - ~30 minutes
Explain what minibeasts are then get the Cubs to go outside to see how many minibeasts they can find in the grounds.

Skeletons!
Reach your hand around to the middle of your back and press gently. Can you feel the bones that make up your backbone, also called your spine? Because we have a backbone inside our bodies that gives our bodies shape, humans are vertebrates. Not only do skeletons with backbones prevent vertebrates from living life as shapeless blobs, they also serve the important job of protecting a living thing's soft parts, like organs, and helping a vertebrate move around.

But, having a skeleton is actually pretty rare. Far more living things do not have a backbone than do. In fact about 97% of living things don't have a skeleton with a backbone inside their bodies. These creatures are called invertebrates, or the less scientific term: minibeasts.

This includes:
Insects
Crustaceans
Millipedes and centipedes
Even arachnids

Being an invertebrate means they don’t have backbones like us. Instead, some have soft and slimy bodies, or some have shells, like snails.

Some minibeasts have a really thin but super strong layer on the outside of their bodies. Creatures like ants, woodlice and even spiders all have this hard layer and it’s called an exoskeleton. It protects their squidgy bodies underneath.

Minibeasts
Invertebrates are all around us and we often call them by different names. Minibeasts is another name for invertebrates, many of which are small, or 'mini,' creatures.

Some of the smaller minibeasts include worms, butterflies, spiders, beetles and shrimp. Some not-so-small minibeasts include lobsters, octopuses, squid, corals, starfish and jellyfish. While these creatures might not seem to have much in common they all lack a backbone.

Many Minibeasts
Without skeletons how do minibeasts keep their shape and protect their organs? Different types of minibeasts use different strategies to deal with not having a backbone. Lets explore two types of minibeasts and how they protect themselves.

Insects
Insects are a type of minibeast with six legs, a three-part body and an antenna. They also have a skeleton outside of their body to protect their organs. This outside, or external, skeleton is called an exoskeleton. An exoskeleton is like the hard, colorful shell on an M & M that surrounds the soft chocolate center. The crunch you hear if you step on a bug is the sound of the exoskeleton cracking. Eww!

Mollusks
Minibeasts can even be found in water. Mollusks are a type of minibeast with bodies that are soft and not divided into sections. These minibeasts like to live in damp or watery places.

https://www.bbc.com/bitesize/articles/z9fkwmn
https://study.com/academy/lesson/what-is-a-minibeast-lesson-for-kids.html

Part 4 - Countryside code - ~15 minutes
Game - Countryside Code
Into teams

The leader shouts out an item (e.g. an open gate) and the Cubs have to race to find the picture card of this item and also the card with the matching responsible behaviour.
Divide the group into equal teams and place the sets of game cards a good distance away from them.

For a younger group, you may wish to select a smaller number of cards or for an older group you could put the cards face down to make it more difficult.

Call out an item from the leader’s Games Card List.

The first child in each team runs forward, picks up the correct picture card and the matching text card then runs back to their team with both cards.

Ask the first child back to show the picture card and read out their text card. The teams decide if the answer is correct. Give the first team back with the correct answer 2 points and give 1 point for the second team back, providing they got it right.

Continue until all cards have been collected.

Equipment
Cards cut out and answers

Homework
Complete the Nature visit log over the next few months.

Badge requirements
Gardener - Minibeasts
Naturalist - Learn and follow the Countryside Code
Naturalist - Identify
Outdoor Challenge - Countryside Code
World Challenge - Environment
Teamwork Challenge - Team game

Week 4 - (3 months later)
Collect in the Nature visit logs.
Whole Pack together (not bases)

Part 1: Tools and safety
Gather some tools needed to do DIY that the Cubs might recognise, and 1 that they are unlikely to have seen before; get them to guess what it is.

Get them to explain how to use them safely.

Any special safety equipment needed? E.g. gloves

Part 2: Wood types
Have samples of different wood types and ask the Cubs what they would be best used for.

Part 3: Design and build
Ge the Cubs to design

Equipment
Tools
Wood samples
Hard
Soft
Chipboard
Plywood
MDF

Badge requirements
Gardener - Help
Naturalist - Visits
DIY - Tools
DIY - Safety
DIY - Wood types

Week 5 and 6 - Bug hotel
Have pieces of wood pre-cut for bug hotels.

Drill holes and screw the pieces together.
Cubs should have to use a hammer to fix hanging clip/hook.
Sand the wood down so that it’s ready for painting/staining.
Design how to paint it, and paint it.
Leave to dry.
Put hotels up at home.

Equipment
Gloves
Goggles
Work benches
Hammers
Hanging clips/hooks (to be hammered onto hotels)
Drills
Drill bits
Screwdrivers
Pencils
Wood (pre-cut and labeled)
Design/plan for hotel
Screws
Sand paper
Paints
Paintbrushes
Newspaper (to protect the floor and to leave hotels on to dry)
Cleaning materials

Badge requirements
DIY - Project (finish)

Week 7 - Crazy Golf
Notes
The Cubs should be bringing CLEAN recyclable rubbish to build a crazy golf course of their own design.

Adults: make sure that the hut, cars, people etc. are safe and not likely to be damaged during building, play, or clean up.

There are hockey sticks in the Bosun's just behind the door for the golf clubs and tennis balls should be in the cub cupboard, and any reusable things from tonight I'll put in the Bosun's.

The Cubs MUST HELP CLEAR UP: they need to sort the rubbish in to plastics, cardboard, non-recyclables, etc. as this is the badge requirement part of the night.

If you can get some parents to take the rubbish home then great.

Badge requirements
Environmental Conservation - Rubbish
Teamwork Challenge- Team-building
Adventure Challenge - Activity
Skills Challenge - Creative

Week 8 - Litter Pick

Equipment
Ask Cubs to bring litter pickers if they have them.
High vis jackets
Appropriate clothing
Medium-sized rubbish bag per pair
Leader to have spare rubbish bags and 1 for recycling

Split cubs into pairs/or 3s if an odd number.
1 carries a bag, the other has a picker (will swap on way round), if in a 3 the other is a spotter.

Badge requirements
Adventure Challenge - Activity
Environmental Conservation - Project 2
Environmental Conservation - Rubbish
World Challenge - Environment
World Challenge - Project

Week 9 - Renewables

Find out how to reduce waste at Cubs and reuse more things
Find out about a type of renewable energy and the advantages and disadvantages of the tech.

Show Cubs what they have used so far in the term (waste and recycling and reusable) - what could be done to reduce the waste and recycling and increase the reusable?

Get and build car kits that use renewable energy (solar/wind).

Equipment
Car kits
Materials used (waste, recycling, and reusable) from this term

Badge requirements
Environmental Conservation - Renewable
Environmental Conservation - Reduce
Global Issues - Monitor
World Challenge - Environment

Homework - Global Issues
If the Cubs want to finish off the Global Issues badge they need to complete the below requirements.

Badge requirements
Global Issues - Charity
Global Issues - International
Global Issues - Homeless
Global Issues - Belongings

022.C.W09.F2F - DIY - Environmental Conservation - Gardener - Global Issues - Naturalist Badges

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