Naturalist Activity Badge |
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Ideas/Helps: |
1. With your parent, guardian, or Webelos
den leader, complete the Respect Character Connection.
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Know: Tell what interested you most when completing the
requirements for this activity badge. Tell what you learned about
how you can show appreciation and respect for wildlife.
Commit: Tell things that some people have done that show
a lack of respect for wildlife. Name ways that you will show respect
for and protect wildlife.
Practice: Explain how completing the requirements for this
activity badge gives you the opportunity to show respect.
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Den
Meeting Ideas
Naturalist Activities
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| Do five of these: |
| 2. Keep an "insect
zoo" that you have collected. You might have crickets, ants, or
grasshoppers. Study them for a while then release them. Share your experience
with your Webelos den. |
Insects
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| 3. Set
up an aquarium or terrarium.
Keep it for at least a month. Share your experience with your Webelos den
by showing them photos or drawings of your project, or having them visit
to see your project. |
| 4. Visit a museum of
natural history, nature center, or zoo with your family, den, or pack. Tell
what you saw. |
Nature Outings |
| 5. Watch for birds in
your yard, neighborhood, or town for one week. Identify
the birds you see and write down where and when you saw them. |
| 6. Learn about the bird
flyways closest to your home. Find out which birds use these flyways. |
Migration
Flyaways
Migration
Facts
Birds in Massachusetts
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7. Learn to identify poisonous plants and venomous reptiles
found in your area.
Poisonous
plants quiz
Poisonous
plants and animals
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Copperhead
Coral
Timber Rattler
Northern Water (aggresive)l
Brown
recluse
Black
Widow
Poison
ivy
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| 8. Watch six wild animals
(snakes, turtles, fish, birds, or mammals) in the wild. Describe the kind
of place (forest, field, marsh, yard, or park) where you saw them. Tell
what they were doing. |
Wild
New England
US Fish & Wildlife
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9. Give examples of:
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Food
chain movie
Marine
food chain
Owl Pellet Dissection
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10 Identify a plant,
bird, or wild
animal that is found only in your area of the country. Tell why it
survives only in your area.
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| 11. Learn about aquatic
ecosystems and wetlands in your area. Discuss with your Webelos den
leader or activity badge counselor the important role aquatic ecosystems
and wetlands play in supporting lifecycles of wildlife and humans. |
| 12. Look around your neighborhood and identify
how litter might be dangerous to the birds and other animals. Clean
up the litter. Identify what else you might do to make your neighborhood
safer for animals. |
Earth
Day Online Games
Nice to Wild Animals |
| 13. While you are a Webelos Scout, earn the
Cub Scout Academics belt loop for Wildlife
Conservation. |
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Related achievements:
Wolf achievement #7
Wolf Arrow point
elective #13 (related to #5 of the Naturalist activity badge requiremets)
Bear achievement #5
Bear Achievement
#6
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