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== Outcomes == | == Outcomes == | ||
This badge's requirements help Cubs develop and demonstrate knowledge of their local community and its services and institutions. This allows them to practically assist people unfamiliar with the area. | This badge's requirements help Cubs develop and demonstrate knowledge of their local community and its services and institutions. This allows them to practically assist people unfamiliar with the area. | ||
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Outcomes
This badge's requirements help Cubs develop and demonstrate knowledge of their local community and its services and institutions. This allows them to practically assist people unfamiliar with the area. [1]
Requirements
- Show that you can politely give clear, simple directions to someone asking his or her way. Describe what you would do if a stranger offered you a ride of asked you to come along to show him or her how to get to a place.
- Describe how to call for fire fighters, police or ambulance.
- Show on a map the route of your local bus, or school bus or a direct route from your home to the centre of your community.
- Describe how to get to the main highways around your community.
- Describe or point out on a map the location of as many of the following as are found in your community:
- (a) nearest mail box or post office
- (b) police station
- (c) hospital/doctor
- (d) school
- (e) drug store
- (f) public telephone
- (g) fire station or alarm box
- (h) railway or bus station
- (i) gas station
- (j) hotel or motel
- (k) block parent
Cross-badge links:
- Part 1 cross-links (partially) with Blue Star A3
- Part 2 cross-links (partially) with Blue Star A4 and (partially) with Family Safety Badge 9
- Part 5 cross-links to Blue Star A8
Program Suggestions
1:
- http://www.wikihow.com/Give-Directions
- http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/technical_writing/60973
- The Cub Book pages 208-210 Staying Safe
- http://www.tooter4kids.com/strangers.htm
- http://earlychildhood.suite101.com/article.cfm/teaching_kids_about_strangers
- http://www.ehow.com/how_2028405_teach-kids-strangers.html
- http://safety.more4kids.info/19/teaching-about-strangers/
- Halifax Regional School Board - When a Stranger Approaches (Parent Information)
- Poway Unified School District - Talking to Kids About Strangers
2:
- http://www.ehow.com/how_2131582_call.html
- http://www.ehow.com/how_4515118_effective-call-police.html
- http://www.ehow.com/how_14236_teach-child-call.html
- http://www.canada911.com/
- http://kidshealth.org/kid/watch/er/911.html
3/4/5:
- Bring maps (road, transit, Google map print-outs, etc.) to a meeting and discuss where things are in the neighbourhood.
- Print out a map sheet and get Cubs to draw in key features, including where they live. (See 3rd Eastern Passage sheet as an example.)
References
- ↑ Taken from MEASURING SUCCESS - THE SCOUTING WAY
