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Sum of All Thrills

Sum of All Thrills

Scouts can build their own theme park ride! Visit Epcots Innovention building and stop by Sum of All Thrills.  This is where scouts and their ride partners will take a turn in the Designer Lab creating their one-of-a-kind ride experience. Using an interactive touchscreen design panel, 

Wild About Safety

Wild About Safety

Have you heard? Timon and Pumbaa are Wild About Safety. Safety is part of their problem-free philosophy and they want it to be part of yours too. Safety is an important part of the Scouting experience. The best way to stay safe in the outdoors is to 

Wolf Elective Adventure: Grow Something

Wolf Elective Adventure: Grow Something

BSA retired this adventure in May 2022. This information remains for reference only.

Wolf Elective Adventure: Grow Something

1. Select a seed, and plant it in a small container. Care for it for 30 days. Take a picture or make a drawing of your plant once each week to share with your den.

2. Find out the growing zone for your area, and share the types of plants that will grow best in your zone.

3. Visit or research a botanical or community garden in your area, and learn about two of the plants that grow there. Share what you have learned with your den.

4. Make a terrarium.

5. Do one of the following:
a. Using a seed tray, grow a garden inside your home. Keep a journal of its progress for 30 days. Share the results with your den.
b. Grow a sweet potato plant in water. Keep a journal of its growth for two weeks. Share it with your den.


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Behind the Seeds – Epcot Tour

Behind the Seeds – Epcot Tour

Disney offers a behind the scenes tour of the Living with the Land attraction in Epcot’s Future World.  Behind the Seeds is a kid-friendly, interactive journey backstage in The Land Pavilion living laboratories. Scouts visiting this agricultural exhibition will interact with amazing plants, insects, and fish—and even see American 

Wolf Elective Adventure: Finding Your Way

Wolf Elective Adventure: Finding Your Way

Wolf Elective Adventure: Finding Your Way 1. Do the following:a. Using a map of your city or town, locate where you live.b. Draw a map for a friend so he or she can locate your home, a park, a school, or other locations in your neighborhood. 

Wolf Elective Adventure: Digging in the Past

Wolf Elective Adventure: Digging in the Past

Wolf Elective Adventure: Digging in the Past

1. Play a game that demonstrates your knowledge of dinosaurs, such as a dinosaur match game.
2. Create an imaginary dinosaur. Share with your den its name, what it eats, and where it lives.
3. Make a fossil cast.
4. Make a dinosaur dig.
5. Make edible fossil layers. Explain how this snack is a good model for the formation of fossils.
6. Be a paleontologist, and dig through the dinosaur digs made by your den. Show and explain the ways a paleontologist works carefully during a dig.


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Wolf Elective Adventure: Cubs Who Care

Wolf Elective Adventure: Cubs Who Care

Wolf Elective Adventure: Cubs Who Care 1. With the members of your den, visit with a person who has a physical disability.2. Do four of the following:a. With other members of your den, try using a wheelchair or crutches, and reflect on the process.b. Learn 

Wolf Elective Adventure: Collections and Hobbies

Wolf Elective Adventure: Collections and Hobbies

BSA retired this adventure in May 2022. This information remains for reference only. Wolf Elective Adventure: Collections and Hobbies Begin a collection of at least 10 items that all have something in common. Label the items and title your collection. Share your collection at a 

Wolf Elective Adventure: Code of the Wolf

Wolf Elective Adventure: Code of the Wolf

Wolf Elective Adventure: Code of the Wolf

1. Do two of the following:

    1. With the members of your den or family, make a game with simple materials that requires math to keep score.
    2. Play a game of “Go Fish for 10s.”
    3. Do five activities at home, at school, or in your den that use mathematics, and then explain to your den how you used everyday math.
    4. Make a rekenrek with two rows, and show Akela how you would represent the numbers 4, 6, 9, and 14.
    5. Make a rain gauge or some other measuring device, and use it.

2. Do one of the following:

    1. With other members of your den or family, identify three different types of shapes that you see in nature.
    2. With other members of your den or family, identify two shapes you can see in the construction of bridges.
    3. Select a single shape or figure. Observe the world around you for at least a week, and write down where you see this shape or figure and how it is used.

3. Do one of the following:

    1. With your den, find something that comes with many small, colored items in one package. Count the number of items of each color in your package. Keep track of each color. Then:
      1. Draw a graph showing the number of items of each color.
      2.  Determine what the most common color is.
      3.  Compare your results to the other boys’.
      4. Predict how many items of each color you will find in one more package.
      5. Decide if your prediction was close.
    2. With your den or family, measure the height of everyone in the group and see who takes more steps to walk 100 feet.
    3. Have each member in your den shoot a basketball. Count the number of shots it takes to make five baskets. Graph the number of shots it takes for each boy using 5, 6–10, 11–15, 16–20, or more than 20.

4. Do one of the following:

    1. Use a secret code using numbers to send a message to one of your den members or your den leader. Have that person send a message back to you. Be sure you both use the same code numbers.
    2. Send a message to another member of your den or your den leader using the pig pen code or another code that changes letters into special shapes.
    3. Practice using a block cipher to decode a message.

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Wolf Elective Adventure: Air of the Wolf

Wolf Elective Adventure: Air of the Wolf

Wolf Elective Adventure: Air of the Wolf 1. Do the following investigations: Conduct an investigation about the weight of air. Conduct an investigation about air temperature. Conduct at least one of the following investigations to see how air affects different objects: Make a paper airplane