Webelos/AOL Elective Adventure: Engineer

Webelos/AOL Elective Adventure: Engineer

Do all of these:

1. Pick one type of engineer. With the help of the Internet, your local library, or a local engineer you may know or locate, discover and record in your book three things that describe what that engineer does. (Be sure to have your Webelos den leader, parent, or guardian's permission to use the Internet.) Share your findings with your Webelos den.

1. For this kind of Req. I usually print out 1 sheet summaries for several kinds, have the boys each pick on, go off with their parents and then tell us what they read about and a few col things... if you ask them what the learned they can clam up, if you ask what they thought was cool, they usually speak right up. 
2. Here is a great page with links to lots fo types of engineering, designed for kids
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2. Learn to follow engineering design principles by doing the following: Examine a set of blueprints. Using these as a model, construct your own set of blueprints or plans to design a project.

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   1. Print out simple blue prints for your Build it carpentry project, have the boys copy them. Teach them the important parts of a blue print, drawing, measurements, instructions.

   2. Using the blueprints or plans from your own design, construct your project. Your project may be something useful or something fun.

   1. Use for Build it Carpentry project

   3. Share your project with your Webelos den and your pack by displaying the project at a pack meeting.

   1. Have the boys do the project together and share with each other.
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3. Explore other fields of engineering and how they have helped form our past, present, and future.

1. See the links above for #1
   

4. Pick and do two projects using the engineering skills you have learned. Share your projects with your den and also exhibit them at a pack meeting.

Workbook for use with these requirements: PDF Format DOCX Format