Bear Elective Adventure: Make It Move

Bear Elective Adventure: Make It Move

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1. Create an “exploding” craft stick reaction.
Jumbo Craft sticks on amazon 
Non video tutorial
Tutorials 
Brit Tutorial
3rd video tutorial 

2. Make two simple pulleys, and use them to move objects.
Russian girl making them with cardboard and bottle cap and straws.
Plastic bobbins for pulleys(small) on amzon, just need small dowels for axles

3. Make a lever by creating a seesaw using a spool and a wooden paint stirrer. Explore

the way it balances by placing different objects on each end.

4. Do the following:

a. Draw a Rube Goldberg–type machine. Include at least six steps to complete your action.

b. Construct a real Rube Goldberg–type machine to complete a task assigned by your den

leader. Use at least two simple machines and include at least four steps.

Notes: Rube gold berg handout

http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/lab/experiments/popsicle-stick-chain-reaction

Cool Rube Goldberg for kids page:
http://tinkerlab.com/engineering-kids-rube-goldberg-machine/

Required: Craft sticks (for catapult?), pulley, windlass, rpe, lever(Paint stirrer)  & Fulcrom(thread Spool), rube goldberg parts to setup..(pre make specific parts)(include Marble track)

Bear Elective Adventure: Forensics

Bear Elective Adventure: Forensics

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1. Talk with your family and den about forensics and how it is used to help solve

crimes.

2. Analyze your fingerprints.

3. Learn about chromatography and how it is used in solving crimes. Do an

investigation using different types of black, felt-tip markers. Share your results with your den.

4. Do an analysis of four different substances: salt, sugar, baking soda, and cornstarch.

5. Make a shoe imprint.

6. Visit the sheriff’s office or police station in your town. Find out how officers collect evidence.

7. Learn about the different jobs available in forensic science. Choose two, and find out what is

Required to work those jobs. Share what you learned with your den.

8. Learn how animals are used to gather important evidence. Talk about your findings with your den.

Notes: Integrate this one with the Justice Center Visit
Black Pen Chromatography experiment
https://www.exploratorium.edu/science_explorer/black_magic.html

Required: Different black tip markers(not permanent) and Chromatography kits (uv & white light mini flashlights, Light , color filters, coffee fitlers to put ink on, clear cups water), salt, sugar, baking soda, and cornstarch, stuff for a shoe imprint

Bear Elective Adventure: Critter Care

Bear Elective Adventure: Critter Care

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1. Care for a pet for two weeks. Make a list of tasks you did to take care of the pet. If

you do not have a pet, research one that you would like to have and write about the

care it needs.

2. Learn more about your pet or a pet you would like to have. List three interesting

facts that you learned about your pet.

3. Make a poster about your pet or a pet you would like to own. Share your poster with your den, pack, or family.

4. Do your best to train a pet to perform a trick or follow a simple command, and explain how youtrained it. (If your pet is a hermit crab, fish, snake, or the like, you may skip this requirement.)

5. Tell three ways that animals can help people.

6. Tell what is meant by an animal being “rabid.” Name some animals that could have rabies.

Explain what you should do if you are near an animal that might be rabid.

7. Visit with a local veterinarian or animal shelter caretaker. Find out what types of animals he or she might see on a regular basis. Ask what type of education is needed to become a veterinarian or shelter caretaker and why he or she chose to pursue this career.

Notes: Set up Visit to the Local Vet (on 685)

1.   Home Town Animal Care

www.hometownanimalcare.com

1001 FM685
Pflugerville, TX
(512) 251-2242

Required: Poster supplies (collage?)

Bear Elective Adventure: Beat of the Drum

Bear Elective Adventure: Beat of the Drum

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1. Learn about the history and culture of American Indians who lived in your area at the

time of European colonization.
Texas Native tribesNative American info for kids
Cool short Rap  song teaching about Various Native Tribes, about one sentence per tribe

Do an atl atl demonstration and boys, maybe let the boys try.
(Yes I have an atl atl... big boys = big toys)

2. Write a legend.
Gift of the Sacred Dog  

3. Make a dream catcher.
Paper Plate Dream Catcher Crafts
 

4. Make a craft.

Bear claw necklace kits on amazon ($25ish)
(You can get all the pieces seperately, but it works out about the same, unless you have some of it already, I'm doing this one)
100 bulk bearclaws $13 not Amazon
Other crafts on a pintrest board
Head band craft

5. Make a drum. Once your drum is complete, create a ceremonial song.
Packing tape headed Drums 

6. Visit an Order of the Arrow dance ceremony or American Indian event within your community.

 Austin Powow: http://www.austinpowwow.net/heritage-day/ Friday, September 25, 2015

7. Learn and demonstrate ceremonial dance steps.
A simple form of the hoop dance might be fun
Kids hoop dancing  
Hoop dancing with one hoop
How to make hoops
Hoop dance instructable

Pex Pipe from home Depot 1/2"matches the connectors, just make sure you get the right coupler ask the guy at homdepot cause I'm not sure the one below is 100% (it's too big) but it gives you the idea of what it looks like, might be brass instead of plastic
+ coupling to turn it into a loop
You ought to be able to make hoops out of that, and  you can buy it by the foot at home depot too since a 100" is a lot.. then decorate it with colored electrical tape and you are in the right place. 

8. Create a dance.
Let the boys watch this because its' so cool, supaman prayer loop song
Ex 6 time national champ hoop dancer

Notes: 
Organize trip to OA Dance Ceremony? Get Oa to come to us?(Presents for Oa dancers?)

Required: Drum kits Supplies(rubber top easier than leather?), Dream Catcher Kits, another craft kit (leather work?)

indian 4 hole flute

Information about the Tonkawa tribes (local to our area and our OA chapter is named after them)
More Tonkawa

Bear Elective Adventures: Bear Picnic Basket

Bear Elective Adventures: Bear Picnic Basket

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1. Do the following:

a. Create your own Bear Cookbook using at least five recipes you can cook or

prepare either on your own or with some adult help. Include one page with

information about first aid. You should include one recipe for a breakfast

item, one for lunch, and one for dinner, and two recipes for nutritious snacks.

b. Prepare for cooking by explaining the importance of planning, tool selection, and

cooking safety.

c. Go on a grocery shopping trip with your den or with an adult. Check the price of

different brands of one single item, and compare the price of a ready-made item with

the price of the same item you would make yourself.

2. Do the following:

a. With the help of an adult, select one food item, and follow a recipe to prepare it for

your family in your kitchen. Clean up after the preparation and cooking.

b. With the help of an adult, select one food item and follow a recipe to prepare it

outdoors for your family or den. Clean up after the preparation and cooking.

3. Select and prepare two nutritious snacks for yourself, your family, or your den.

Notes: Build Recipe book, Cook at home 1 Cook at outside one. (Remember nutritious!= healthy, just cant’ be empty)

Required: Assorted Recpies for kid friendly per req 1, take a trip to stor to get the stuff as a den? Or have each family get something?

Bear Elective Adventure: A Bear Goes Fishing

Bear Elective Adventure: A Bear Goes Fishing

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1. Discover and learn about three types of fishes in your area. Draw a color picture of

each fish, record what each one likes to eat, and describe what sort of habitat each

likes.

Coloring book with reference pics for fish at Camp Green Dickson (where we are going fishing)

Fish Coloring Book (free)
Page with coloring sheets of fish(free)
Kid Fish in Lake Pflugerville
Stocking report for lake pflugerville

Types of Pan fish in Texas (the kinds kids will most likely catch)
links to other states at the bottom

2. Learn about your local fishing regulations with your leader or a parent or guardian.

List three of the regulations you learn about and one reason each regulation exists.

Texas Fishing Regulations

3. Learn about fishing equipment, and make a simple fishing pole. Practice casting at a target.

Several simple fishing poles for kids, I'll probably do the PVC

NEW!!!

Here is my step by step document on just about the simplest fishing pole that i think bear scouts can learn to make using the knots they basically already know, or a super simple to tie.

Here is a web page of the same instructions, in case you just want to browse it.

If you need it here is a closeup video of the finished pole



4. Go on a fishing adventure, and spend a minimum of one hour trying to catch a fish. Put into

Practice the things you have learned about fish and fishing equipment.

Notes: Make Fish Handouts, make Fishing Rules Handouts, or order from state

Required:Make, Fishing Poles, worms

 

Bear Elective Adventure: Baloo the Builder

Bear Elective Adventure: Baloo the Builder

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1. Discover which hand tools are the best ones to have in your tool box. Learn the

rules for using these tools safely. Practice with at least four of these tools before

beginning a project.

I searched all voer for a good hand tools lesson and they all teach way to many tools here is my list
I'll try to develop it into a lesson later

Hammer, claw (a small heavy hammer like this is better for kids than the longer lighter ones)
Screwdriver, flathead and phillips. (again stubby ones are better)
Tape measure
Speed square
Pencil
Hand saw, rip and cross cut (teach but don't make them actualy use this)
Electric Jig/saber saw
Electric drill (in drill mode and in screw driver mode, teach to change tips)
Pliers Needle nose and regular
File (teach them to push forward life bring back set down and repeat, file teeth usually only cut one direction)

Optional:
Nail set (to hammer finishing nails down where they don't stick out)


2. Select, plan, and define the materials for the projects you will complete in

requirement 3.
Lots of woodworking plans for free designed for kids 

3. Assemble your materials, and build one useful project and one fun project using wood.

My useful project:
Top one, simple shelf, replace curves on bottom with straight lines
Another Option fora simple useful shelf
Simple stool
Another simple tool , all rectangles(youtube video)

Simplest stool, no plans just a pic

Fun Project: the Catapult:(shoot marshmallow or ping pong balls for safety)
Several simple catapult designs
Tiny Catapults
The simplest one yet
This is the catapult design I went with

A company that makes cheap premade kits for those of you who are low on power tools
Lots of different kits down the left had side.. if you don't want to do a catapult.

simple napkin holder for camping...

4. Apply a finish to one of your wood projects.

We are going to spray/hand  paint or hand rub on  some stain

Donations from Lowes and Home Depot:
Be aware of this trick when looking for donations from Lowes, or Home Depot. Each store gets a Monthly budget for community outreach, so when you go ask for donations or help, go early in the month. The Mangers have a monthly meeting where they talk about all the people they helped. Make up a sheet of notes for them to make this meeting easier for them, describing who you are and what your project is. (You can thank my oldest, the eagle scout for this knowledge)

Notes: Shelf, step or Door stop, catapult(fun thing), whatever you finish, sign with a hand print like the Indians did, to tie this into the Indian section .

Required: Supplies for both projects, Make Catapult Kits, enough basic tools for each kid (gather cheap tool sets? See if Lowes /HD will donate them?

Pintrest of Ballo the Builder Projects

More cubscout oriented woodworking projects

Instructable of beginning wood working projects