Elective AOL Adventures

1. Identify foods grown or processed in your state.

2. Determine the benefits of purchasing food that is locally grown or processed.

3. Explore the concept of a food desert.

4. Explore the concept of a food oasis.

5. Learn how individuals can reduce food waste.

6. Participate in a conservation service project.

1. Decide on gear and supplies you should bring for a long bike ride.

2. Discover how multi-gear bicycles work and how they benefit a rider.

3. Show how to lubricate a chain.

4. Pick a bicycle lock that you will use. Demonstrate how it locks and unlocks, how it secures your bicycle, and how you carry it while you are riding your bicycle.

5. Repair a flat tire.

6. With your patrol, pack, or family, use a map and plan a bicycle ride that is at least 10 miles.

7. With your patrol, pack, or family and using the buddy system, go on a bicycle ride that is a minimum of 10 miles.

1. Learn the focus, related sciences, and products of civil, electrical, and mechanical engineers.

2. Pick one of the engineering fields from requirement 1 to complete the following requirements.

3. Examine a set of blueprints or specifications used by your choice of engineer.

4. Identify a project that you would like to build.

5. Using the engineering process, build your project.

1. Estimate food measurements.

2. Estimate the time of day.

3. Estimate the height of a distant object.

4. Estimate the distance between two points.

1. Make a plan to go fishing. Determine where you will go and what type of fish you plan to catch. All of the following requirements are to be completed based on your choice.

2. Use the Scouting America SAFE Checklist to plan what you need for your fishing experience.

3. Describe the environment where the fish might be found.

4. Make a list of the equipment and materials you will need to fish.

5. Determine the best type of knot to tie your hook to your line and tie it.

6. On your own, choose the appropriate type of fishing rod and tackle you will be using. Have an adult review your gear.

7. Using what you have learned about fish and fishing equipment, spend at least one hour fishing following local guidelines and regulations.

1. With an adult, use a weather app or website to see the forecast for an outdoor activity and discuss any preparation needed to accommodate the weather.

2. With an adult, find a knot-tying app. Select one knot to learn, and tie it using the app.

3. Discuss how technology has improved camping gear.

4. Think of a way technology can improve camping gear used on one of your outdoor activities.

1. Visit a place with a variety of wild animals. Select one of the animals and observe its behavior. Use your selected animal to complete the remaining requirements.

2. Create a model of your animal's ecosystem.

3. Investigate how your animal coexists with other animals in the wild.

4. Describe how humans interact with your chosen animal's ecosystem.

5. Discover how wildlife management benefits your animal.

1. Visit an area with trees and plants and conduct a tree inventory. Select one tree and complete the remaining requirements based on that tree.

2. Determine if your tree is deciduous or evergreen.

3. Determine if the tree is native or was introduced to your area.

4. Find out how your tree deals with wildfire.

5. Learn how wildlife uses your tree.

1. Read, understand, and promise to follow the "Cub Scout Knife Safety Rules."

2. Demonstrate the knife safety circle.

3. Demonstrate that you know how to care for and use a knife safely.

4. Demonstrate the proper use of a pocketknife to make a useful object on a campout.

5. Choose the correct cooking knife and demonstrate how to properly slice, chop, and mince.

1. Before attempting requirements 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 for this Adventure, you must pass the Scouting America swimmer test.

2. Pick a paddle craft you'll use to complete all requirements: canoe, kayak, or stand-up paddleboard.

3. Review Safety Afloat.

4. Demonstrate how to identify and properly wear a life jacket that is the correct size.

5. Jump feet first into water over your head while wearing a life jacket. Then swim 25 feet wearing the life jacket.

6. Discuss how to enter and exit a canoe, kayak, or stand-up paddleboard safely.

7. Discuss what to do if your canoe or kayak tips over or you fall off your stand-up paddleboard.

8. Learn two paddle strokes: power stroke and sweep.

9. Have 30 minutes or more of canoe, kayak, or stand-up paddleboard paddle time.

1. With adult supervision, build either a Pinewood Derby car or a Raingutter Regatta boat.

2. Learn the rules of the race for the vehicle chosen in requirement 1.

3. Mentor a younger den to prepare for the race.

4. Before the race, discuss with your patrol den how you will demonstrate good sportsmanship during the race.

5. Participate in a Pinewood Derby or a Raingutter Regatta.

1. Anytime during May through August participate in a total of three Cub Scout activities.

1. Review Safe Swim Defense.

2. Explain the meaning of "order of rescue" and demonstrate the reach and throw rescue techniques from land.

3. Attempt the Scouting America swimmer test.

4. Have 30 minutes or more of free swim time during which you practice the buddy system and stay within your ability group. The qualified adult supervision should conduct at least three buddy checks per half hour of swimming.

*This adventure may be earned by completing the requirements above OR taking swimming lessons OR passing the Scouting America swimmer test).