Local Historian (Cub)

Badge Requirements

Choose any three of the following activities:

●          Make a logbook or scrapbook to discuss what you have found out about:

❖        Someone famous who lived in or near your neighbourhood.

❖        Visit and find out about a famous old building, monument or other place of historical interest.

●          Collect pictures and find out the meaning of your Area badge and the Singapore coat of arms. Tell your Leader about some of the places you have seen the coat of arms being displayed.

●          Make a video or audio recording of an interview you conducted with someone who has lived in your neighbourhood for a long time and find out about what they did at your age, and what changes they have seen in your neighbourhood over the years.

●          Choose two different locations in your neighbourhood such as a road, park, field, hill, lake, streams and find out how they got their names.

●          Draw a map of your area and mark on it places of historical interest for visitors.

●          Go on a short walk with your Leader and some Cub Scouts around your neighbourhood and discuss local points of historical interest.