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To earn the Green Star, choose and do any five of the A requirements
and any
three of the
B requirements:
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A. Requirements
1. Estimate three distances and measuring things by using your body, such as the
length your foot, your pace or the top of your thumb.
2. Tie and show a practical use for any five knots such as reef, sheet bend,
taut-line, bowline, fisherman's knot, round turn and two half hitches, clove
hitch.
3. Make a Cub First Aid/Survival kit.
4. Make or put together a camp gadget for outdoor use.
5. Know what to do if lost.
6. Recognize or describe the signs for different types of weather.
7. Lay, light and safely put out a fire in the outdoors.
8. Show how to use a road or topographical map.
9. Tell or demonstrate how to dress for different weather conditions to reduce
the risk of hypothermia and reduce your exposure to the sun's ultraviolet rays.
10. Know and explain some rules for protecting nature while on an outing.
B. Requirements
1. Take part in three pack hikes.
2. Help prepare and cook a hot meal on a family, six or pack outing.
3. Tell or show how the sun, moon and North Star can help you find directions.
4. Make or follow a trail of not more than 300 meters using clues, trail signs,
a map, compass directions or any combination of these.
5. Draw a simple sketch map of a campsite or your Cub meeting place using
compass and paces.
6. Without harming nature, put up and take down an emergency shelter of your own
design.
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Animated
knots
for Boating, Climbing,
Fishing, Scouting & Aborists.
Watch as popular knots are
tied using real rope and
stop action technology.
Orienteering
for the Young (Green
Star A8 & B4, Camping 5c)
James Baker provides
information on the sport of
Orienteering and how to set
up courses for different
ages and skill levels. Some
information on map reading
and basic compass use.
Cooking for
Scouts and Scouters
(Green Star B2, Cooking,
Camping 5b)
Download recipe books, links
to other sites. Includes
information on camp cooking,
cutch oven cooking, gourmet
backpack cooking,
alternative methods, etc.
The Dome of
the Sky (Winter
Cubbing 4)
Check out where the stars
and constellations are in
the sky tonight. Good
section on mythology.
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