Champions for Nature
Illinois is known for growing these three crops.
What are corn, soybeans, pumpkins?
(Alternate answers may be accepted)
This type of engineer plans, designs, constructs, maintains, or operates infrastructure (like roads, bridges, and water plants) while protecting the public and environmental health.
What is a Civil Engineer?
Knowing the weather is important for keeping safe during an outdoor activity. Using these apps can help to plan in advance.
What are weather apps?
What are hand measurements?
This lets other patrols know you have arrived.
Purchasing locally grown foods result in these benefits.
What are helping the local economy and having less negative impact on our environment?
This type of engineer designs, develops, tests, and supervises the manufacture of electrical equipment such as electric motors, radar and navigation systems, communications systems, or power generation equipment. They also design electrical systems for automobiles and aircraft.
What is an Electrical Engineer?
These items need to be taken when planning a camping trip with a weather forecast of temperatures below freezing.
What are warm clothing, fire starter, water, food, adequate shelter, extra blankets. (Alternate answers may be accepted)
These forms of estimation use your body to determine the time of day.
What are using shadows when the sun is high in the sky and fingers to determine time until sunset?
This Scout list has 12 expectations for a Scout to follow.
Must recite for points!
What is the Scout Law?
An area that has limited access to affordable and nutritious food.
What is a food desert?
This type of engineer plans, designs, constructs, maintains, and/or operates machines that use power, generator power, or involve force or movement. They often specialize in a specific area like engines, robotics, or even biotechnology.
What is a Mechanical Engineer?
The Animated Knot 3D app is a great resource to use when learning to tie this first knot learned in Cub Scouts.
What is a square knot?
This method helps to determine the height of an object but requires flat ground.
The saying for this is "Be Prepared".
This happens when affordable and nutritious food is available in the middle of a food desert.
A written and/or picture design used by engineers to assist them with their projects.
(Pull up Image)
What is a blueprint?
Camping gear has evolved over the years. These examples show how technology has improved camping gear over time.
Be able to explain your answer to get points!
Matches, Tents, Sleeping Bags, Flashlights, etc.
This method of estimation is used to measure the width of a river.
What is the Napoleon Method?
This Scout Slogan should be followed on a daily basis.
What is Do a Good Turn Daily?
Only taking what you will eat, planning meals ahead of time, and making grocery lists are all ways to prevent this.
What is food waste?
What is Civil Engineering?
Plant and animal identification is an important skill when outdoors. These are some ways technology can help you know what you are looking at.
Be able to explain your answer for points!
Using apps, web searches, FaceTime, etc.
This method to measure distance requires walking about 50 paces along the shore from a stick you have placed on the ground.
What is the Stride or Step Method?
These three Scout hand signals are used regularly during Scouting Events.
Must show the signal and know what it is called for points!