Webelos/AOL Elective Adventure: Aware and Care

 

Webelos/AOL Elective Adventure: Aware and Care

Do all of these:

1. Develop an awareness of the challenges of the blind through participation in an activity that simulates blindness.
1. Why not a blindfold and have them walk around an area with obstacles (say your living room)
2. We had the boys blindfolded, and I threw balls and Frisbees around the back yard and the parents had to guide them without touching them to get the ball and then get back to where they started with it 
2. Engage in an activity that simulates mobility impairment.
1. Three legged race?
    
3. Take part in an activity that simulates dexterity impairment.
1. Have them put on thick work gloves and write therie name on a piece of papaer, and pcik up quarters and then dimes. Or tie there shoes, simulates small motor control problems (one of my personal issues)
    
4. With your den, participate in an activity that focuses on the acceptance of differences in general.
1. I think something as cheezy as a sharing circle, where the adults and then the kids sharing something they are good at, and something that is/was an obstacle they worked to overcome would be good.
2. Try to bring out the idea that EVERYONE has deficits, of some kind.
    
5. Do two of the following:
   1. Do a Good Turn for residents at a skilled nursing facility or retirement community.
   2. Invite an individual with a disability to visit your den, and discuss what activities he or she currently finds challenging or found challenging in the past.
   1. We did this as part of #4
   3. Attend a disabilities event such as a Special Olympics competition, an adaptive sports event, a performance with sign language interpretation, or an activity with service dogs. Tell your den what you thought about the experience.
   4. Talk to someone who works with people who have disabilities. Ask what the person does and how he or she helps people with disabilities.
   1. What about your local Special Ed teacher?
   5. Using American Sign Language, sign the Scout Oath.
   1. YouTube video to follow
   6. With the help of an adult, contact a service dog organization, and learn the entire process from pup training to assignment to a client.
   1. Find a video posted by a good org, I need to come back and add one here:
   1. Autism dog training text
   7. Participate in a service project that focuses on a specific disability.
   8. Participate in an activity with an organization whose members are disabled.

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