Monday, August 31, 2015
Friday, August 21, 2015
Junior Scout Badge - Water Wonders
Water Wonders
1. It's in a Cycle - Show your understanding of the water cycle. Describe each step of evaporation, transpiration, condensation, and precipitation. Don't forget the sun's role in providing energy.
2. The Water You Drink - Find our if your drinkingw ater comes from an aquifer, spring, river, reservoir, or another source. What is done to this water to make it safe to drink?
3. Not Enough? Find out about an area of the counrty or world that has too little ater. Learnw hy the are ais do dry, how the people that live there are affected, and what is being done about the problem?
4. Life Underwater - Visit a place like an aquarium, fish hatchery, zoo, or pet store to find three different aquatic animals that live all or part of their lives underwater, like fish, frogs, turtles, smails, se alions, or beavers. How do their adaptations allow them to live in the water.
1. It's in a Cycle - Show your understanding of the water cycle. Describe each step of evaporation, transpiration, condensation, and precipitation. Don't forget the sun's role in providing energy.
2. The Water You Drink - Find our if your drinkingw ater comes from an aquifer, spring, river, reservoir, or another source. What is done to this water to make it safe to drink?
3. Not Enough? Find out about an area of the counrty or world that has too little ater. Learnw hy the are ais do dry, how the people that live there are affected, and what is being done about the problem?
4. Life Underwater - Visit a place like an aquarium, fish hatchery, zoo, or pet store to find three different aquatic animals that live all or part of their lives underwater, like fish, frogs, turtles, smails, se alions, or beavers. How do their adaptations allow them to live in the water.
- How do they move?
- How do they breathe?
- How do they protect themselves?
5. Water Food Chain - Find out about a water ecosystems's fppd chain by doing one of the foollowing in a body of freshwater or slatwater. In each case, find illustrate a food chain thatw ould include the animals you have observeed. Would YOU have a place in such an food chain?
- Drag a plankton net in the water and obsevre what you capture using a agnifying glass or a microscope.
- Take a bottom sample from a marsh. Place it in a white dish and look for signs of life
- Look under rocks, in a pool, in a stream, or in a tide pool. What do you see?
6. A Balanced Life - Set up a fresh or saltwater aquarium. Balanace the numbers and kinds of living things with a healthy food and water supply,
7. Water Work - Visit a place where water has been put to work, such as a sewage or eater-treatment plant, an irrigation control center, a mining operation, a power plant, a fish hatchery, or a physical therapy center. Find out where the water comes from, how it is used, and what happens to it afterwards, What kinds of jobs can you observe? What things do people do, and how do they learn them?
8. Fixing It Up - Help with a project to improve a water related habitat, such as a shoreline clean up, plantings to filter water, filling gabions along banks to prevent stream erosion, or constructing and putting up birdhouses and nesting platforms.
9. Just Add Salt - Find our how saltwater and freshwater are different. DO at least two experiments to find out which:
- boils first
- freezes first
- yields crystals
- makes better soapsuds
- makes floating easier
10. Water Comparisons - Conduct a water taste test with others. Taste several different kinds of water (tap, bottle, spring, mineral water) and rate each on a scale of 1-5, with 5 being the best tasting. What did you find?
LnE Patch - Zoo
1. Visit Bear Hollow Zoo in Athens, Georgia. Engage in the Self-Guided Tour to meet the /rehabilitated animals and hear about the unique survival stories that brought them to Bear Hollow. 8/2/2015
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2. Visit ZOO Atlanta in Atlanta Georgia's Grant Park.
Monday, August 3, 2015
LnE Patch - Botanical Gardens 8/2/2015
1. University of Georgia Botanical Gardens in Athens, Georgia - Tour indoor conservatory, cactus gardens, orchids, outdoor Asian Gardens, Carnivorous Plant Pond, and Statue Garden. 8/2/2015
2. Enjoy afternoon concert in the Conservatory with the Athens Brass Choir. 8/2/2015
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