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The possible electives are:
- Space
- Identify two constellations and the North Star.
- Make a pinhole planetarium and show three constellations.
- Visit a planetarium.
- Build a model of a rocket or space satellite.
- Read and talk about at least one man-made satellite and one natural
one.
- Find a picture of another planet in our solar system. Explain how it
is different from Earth.
- Weather
- Learn how to read a thermometer. Put a thermometer outdoors and read
it at the same time every day for 2 weeks. Keep a record of the weather
for each day's temperature and a description of the weather each day
(fair skies, rain, fog, snow, etc.).
- Build a weather vane, record wind direction for 2 weeks at the same
hour. Keep a record of the weather for each day.
- Make a rain gauge.
- Find out what a barometer is and how it works. Tell your den about it.
Tell what relative humidity means.
- Learn to identify three different kinds of clouds. Estimate their
height.
- Watch the weather forecast on TV every day for 2 weeks. Describe three
different symbols used on weather maps. Keep a record of how many times
the weather forecast is correct.
- Radio
- Build a crystal or diode radio. Check with your local craft or hobby
shop or the nearest Scout shop that carries a crystal radio kit. It is
all right to use a kit.
- Make and operate a battery powered radio following the directions with
the kit.
- Electricity
- Wire a buzzer or doorbell.
- Make an electric buzzer game.
- Make a simple bar or horseshoe electromagnet.
- Use a simple electric motor.
- Make a crane with an electromagnetic lift.
- Boats
- Help an adult rig and sail a real boat.
- Help an adult repair a real boat or canoe.
- Know the flag signals for storm warnings.
- Help an adult repair a boat dock.
- Know the rules of boat safety.
- With an adult, demonstrate forward strokes, turns, and backstrokes.
Row a boat around a 100-yard course involving two turns.
- Aircraft
- Identify five different kinds of aircraft in flight, if possible, or
from models or photos.
- Ride in an airplane (commercial or private).
- Explain how a hot air balloon works.
- Build and fly a model airplane. (You can use a kit. Every time you do
this differently, it counts as a completed project.)
- Sketch and label an airplane showing the direction of forces acting on
it (lift, drag, and load).
- What are some of the things a helicopter can do that other kinds of
airplanes can't? Make a list. Draw or cut out a picture of a helicopter
and label the parts.
- Build and display a scale airplane model. You may use a kit or build
it from plans.
- Things that go
- Make a scooter
or a Cubmobile.
Know the safety rules.
- Make a windmill.
- Make a waterwheel.
- Make an invention of your own design that goes.
- Cub Scout Band
- Make and play a homemade musical instrument - cigar box banjo, washtub
bull fiddle, a drum or rhythm set, tambourine. etc.
- Learn to play two familiar tunes on an ocarina, a harmonica, or a
tonette.
- Play in a den band using homemade or regular musical instruments. Play
at a pack meeting.
- Play two tunes on any recognized band or orchestra instrument.
- Art
- Do an original art project and show it at a pack meeting. Every
project you do counts as one requirement. Here are some ideas for art
projects:
- Mobile or wind sculpture.
- Silhouette
- Acrylic Painting
- Watercolor painting
- Collage
- Mosaic
- Clay sculpture
- Silk screen picture
- Visit an art museum or picture gallery with your den or family.
- Masks
- Make a simple papier-mâché mask.
- Make an animal mask.
- Make a clown mask.
- Photography
- Practice holding a camera still in one position. Learn to push the
shutter button without moving the camera. Do this without film in the
camera until you have learned how. Look through the viewfinder and see
what your picture will look like. Make sure that everything you want in
your picture is in the frame of your viewfinder.
- Take five pictures of the same subject in different kinds of light.
- Subject in direct sun with direct light.
- Subject in direct sun with side light.
- Subject in direct sun with back light.
- Subject in shade on a sunny day,.
- Subject on a cloudy day.
- Put your pictures to use.
- Mount a picture on cardboard for display.
- Mount on cardboard and give it to a friend.
- Make three pictures that show how something happened (tell a
story) and write one sentence explanation for each.
- Make a picture in your house.
- With available light.
- Using a flash attachment or photo flood (bright light).
- Nature Crafts
- Make shadow prints or blueprints of three kinds of leaves.
- Make a display of eight different animal tracks with an eraser print.
- Collect, press, and label ten kinds of leaves.
- Build a water scope, and identify five types of water life.
- Collect eight kinds of plant seeds and label.
- Collect, mount, and label 10 kinds of rocks or minerals.
- Collect, mount, and label five kinds of shells.
- Build and use a bird caller.
- Magic
- Learn and show three magic tricks.
- With your den, put on a magic show for someone else.
- Learn and show four puzzles.
- Learn and show three rope tricks.
- Landscaping
- With an adult, help take care of your lawn or help take care of the
lawn of a public building, school, or church. Seed bare spots. Get rid
of weeds. Pick up litter. Agree ahead of time on what you will do.
- Make a sketch of a landscape plan for the area right around your home.
Talk it over with a parent or den leader. Show what trees, shrubs and
flowers you could plant to make the area look better.
- Take part in a project with your family, den, or pack to make your
neighborhood or community more beautiful. These might be having a
cleanup party, painting, cleaning and painting trash barrels, and
removing ragweed. (Each time you do this differently, it counts as a
completed project.)
- Build a greenhouse and grow twenty plants from seed. You can use a
package of garden seeds, or use beans, pumpkin seeds, or watermelon
seeds.
- Water and Soil Conservation
- Dig a hole or find an excavation project and describe the different
layers of soil you see and feel. (Do not enter an excavation area alone
or without permission.)
- "Explore 3 different kinds of earth by conducting a soil
experiment.
- Visit a burned-out forest or prairie area, or a slide area, with your
den or your family. Talk to a soil and water conservation officer, or a
Forest Ranger about how the area will be planted and cared for, to grow
again the way it was before the fire or slide.
- What is erosion? Find out the kinds of grass, trees, or ground cover
you need to plant to help limit erosion.
- As a den, visit a lake, stream, river, or ocean (whichever is nearest
where you live). Plan a den project to help clean up this important
source of water. Name four kinds of water pollution.
- Farm Animals
- Take care of a farm animal. Decide with your parent the things you
will do and how long you will do them.
- Name and describe six kinds of farm animals and tell their common
uses.
- Read a book about farm animals and tell your den about it.
- With your family or den, visit a livestock exhibit at a county or
state fair.
- Repairs
- With the help of an adult, fix an electric plug or an electric
appliance.
- Use glue or epoxy to repair something.
- Remove and clean a drain trap.
- Refinish or repaint something.
- Agree with an adult in your family on some repair job to be done and
do it. (Each time you do this differently, it counts as a completed
project.)
- Backyard Gym
- Build and use an outdoor gym with at least three items from this list.
- Balance Board
- Trapeze
- Tire Walk
- Tire Swing
- Tetherball
- Climbing Rope
- Running long jump area.
- Build three outdoor toss games.
- Plan an outdoor game or gym day with your den (this can be part of a
pack activity). Put your plans on paper.
- Hold an open house for your backyard gym.
- Swimming
- Jump feet first into water over your head, swim 25 feet on the
surface, stop, turn sharply, and swim back.
- Swim on your back, using a resting stroke, for 30 feet.
- Rest by floating on your back, using as little motion as possible for
at least one minute.
- Tell what is meant by the buddy system. Know the basic rules of safe
swimming.
- Do a racing dive from edge of pool and swim 60 feet, using a racing
stroke. (You might need to make a turn.)
- Sports
- In archery, know the safety rules. Know how to shoot correctly. Put
six arrows into a 4-foot target at a distance of 15 yards. Make an arrow
holder.
- In skiing, know the Skier's Safety and Courtesy Code. Demonstrate
walking and kick turn, climbing with sidestep or herringbone, snowplow
stop, stem turn, four linked snowplow or stem turns, and straight
running in a downhill position, or a cross-country position, and show
how to recover from a fall.
- Ice skating, know the safety rules. From a standing start, skate
forward 150 feet; come to a complete stop within 20 feet. Skate around a
corner clockwise and counterclockwise without coasting. Show a turn from
forward to backward. Skate backward 50 feet.
- In track, show how to make a sprint start. Run the 50- yard dash in 10
seconds or less. Show how to do the standing long jump, the running long
jump, or high jump. (Be sure to have a soft landing area.)
- In roller skating (with conventional on in-line skates), know the
safety rules. From a standing start, skate forward 150 feet; come to a
complete stop within 20 feet. Skate around a corner clockwise and
counterclockwise without coasting and show a turn from forward to
backward. Skate backward 50 feet. Wear the proper protective
clothing.
- Sales
- Take part in a council or pack-sponsored, money-earning sales program.
Keep track of the sales you make yourself. When the sale is over, add up
the sales you have made.
- Help with a garage sale or rummage sale. This can be with your family,
a neighbor, or a church, school, or pack event.
- Collecting Things
- Start a stamp collection. You can get information about stamp
collecting at any U.S. Post Office.
- Mount and display a collection of patches, coins, or other things to
show at a pack meeting. This can be any kind of collection. Every time
you show a different kind of collection, it counts as one requirement.
- Start your own library. Keep your own books and pamphlets in order by
subject. List the title, author, and subject of each on an index card
and keep the cards in a file box, or use a computer program to store the
information.
- Maps
- Look up your state on a U.S. map. What other states touch its borders?
- Find your city or town on a map of your state. How far do you live
from the state capital?
- In which time zone do you live? How many time zones are there in the
United States?
- Make a map showing the way from your home to your school or den
meeting place.
- Mark a map showing the way to a place you would like to visit that is
at least 50 miles from your home.
- Native American Life
- Native Americans lived all over what is now the United States. Find
the name of the tribe who lived nearest where you live now. What is this
tribe best known for?
- Learn, make equipment for, and play two Native American games with
members of your den. Be able to tell the rules, who won, and what the
score was.
- Make a model of an early Native American house.
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Cub Scouts
Pack 419
Duluth, Ga.
  
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