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Badge Projects Page
Earning badges is
great fun and very rewarding so this December Holiday I would like you to complete
some of the following
interest badges. We will go through your completed badge/s in
the new year. Good Luck!
GUIDE - INTEREST BADGE
1. Show that you have an
intimate personal knowledge, gained through your own exploring
and investigation, of the locality around your Group
Headquarters or home, by marking the following on a street plan
or map which must be submitted to the examiner:
EITHER
a) Chief government and
municipal /village buildings.
b) The location of
doctors, veterinary surgeons, dentists, hospital and ambulance.
c) Fire station, police
station, service stations and public telephones.
d) Bus stops, railway
station (s), and airport (if any), and the routes of buses and
trains to surrounding areas.
e) Main highways to
neighbouring suburbs, cities, towns and villages.
f) Schools,
churches, synagogues, public parks, theatres, cinemas, museums,
public conveniences and any building or place of local interest.
g) Your Group
Headquarters, and the homes of your District Commissioner,
Group Scouters, Asst Troop
Scouters and the Scouts in your Patrol (if they live in the area
covered).
OR
a) The houses, features
and landmarks of an area of 5 kilometre radius from your
village.
b) Details of paths,
trees, crops and streams in this area.
c) Details of roads, main
highways and tracks in this area.
d) Buildings which house
people of authority in the vicinity.
NOTE: The area to be
covered is a 5 kilometre radius from your Group HQ or home in
the country; 3 kilometres in towns/ villages of up to 20 000
inhabitants; and 1 kilometre in towns/cities of over 20 000
inhabitants.
2. Complete one of these
a) Satisfy the examiner
that you are able to guide strangers by day or night to any of
the places mentioned in (1) above without reference to your
street plan or map.
b) Produce evidence that
you have thoroughly explored an area of at least 5 kilometre
radius (not around your home or HQ) by submitting a log of your
expedition.
NOTE: The logs submitted
must give the distance covered and be accompanied, as tar as
possible, by explanatory sketches, maps and photographs.
3. Using timetables where
necessary, work out plans for travel by public transport to four
different points in southern Africa chosen by the examiner.
MODEL ENGINEER - INTEREST BADGE
1. Prepare detailed plans
for three working models.
2. Build and paint any two
of these models and demonstrate their possibilities in action.
Kits may not be used.
SAFETY CODE - INTEREST BADGE
1. Prepare a safety
notebook. Include:
a) Newspaper and other
stories showing main kinds of accidents.
b) Similar materials
showing 5 causes of accidents.
2. Show that you have a
knowledge of the common causes of electrical accidents. Know the
safety precautions to be taken in your home to prevent them.
happening.
3. Using safety checklist
approved by your examiner (or Parent) make an inspection of your
home. Explain the hazards found, why they are hazards and how
they can be or have been corrected. Show that you know the
dangers of hazardous articles, eg:
a) oil lamps;
b) pressure stoves;
c) Flannelette, silk,
nylon, etc.;
d) Christmas decorations;
e) Plastics;
f) Aerosols;
g) Inflammable liquids;
h) Liquified Petroleum Gas
(LPG);
i) Focussing of the sun's
rays.
4. Demonstrate a sound
knowledge of the dangers of veld fires and the precautions
necessary to prevent them when you are camping or hiking.
5. By applying in a
practical manner, show a knowledge of the principles of safety
first:
a) As a pedestrian
b) As a traveller by road,
rail or on water
c) As an operator of
potentially dangerous tools and machines such as those used in
the home and school workshops (power lawnmowers, power tools,
etc).
6. At 3 appropriate
locations spend 3 hours observing and listing safe and unsafe
practices at or near intersections by:
a) Motor vehicle drivers;
b) Pedestrians;
c) Bicycle riders;
d) Passengers (car, bus,
train or aircraft)
Show this list to your
examiner and describe, in the case of the unsafe practices, what
the correct conduct should have been.
7. Make a plan for an
accident/hazard prevention programme for the following outdoor
situations: (a) camping and hiking; (b) storm and wind; (c)
water activities Each plan should include an analysis of the
possible hazards, any action proposed to minimise or correct the
hazards and the reasons for the correction you propose.
GENEALOGY - INTEREST BADGE
1. Explain the meaning of
genealogy and genealogical resources.
2. Make a pedigree chart
of your family. Fill it in as far as you can at the beginning,
and add additional names, dates and places to it as you obtain
further information.
3. Show yourself as a
child on a family group record form, and show one of your
parents as a child on another family group record form.
4. Interview an older
relative to obtain information about your family. This interview
may be in person, by telephone, or by letter. Add any
information obtained to your pedigree chart and family group
records.
5. Obtain at least one
genealogical document showing proof of some information on your
pedigree chart or family group records. This document may be
located in your home, an archive or library, etc.
6. Tell how you would
evaluate genealogical information.
7. Do ONE of the
following:
a) Do a time line for
yourself or a close relative.
b) Keep a journal for six
weeks, writing in it at least once weekly.
c) Write a short history
of yourself or of a close relative.
8. Do ONE of the
following:
a) Record the headstone
inscriptions on a small farm cemetery.
b) With other Scouts,
record the headstone inscriptions in a town cemetery.
c) Assist in recording a
Complete Birth, Marriage or Death register at your local church.
9. Tell where you would
find current information about genealogical records and research
methods.
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