1st Victorian Sea Scouts, Albert Park, Melbourne
1st Victorian Sea Scouts - Albert Park Lake
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SILVER Boomerang Requirements
(for ~8 1/2 to 9 1/2 years old)
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To achieve this award, Cub Scouts will need to complete 10 of the requirements.

Requirements 1-7 Compulsory
1. Health and First Aid (Responsibility for Self)
Personal Health
·       Explain how and why to keep your feet in good condition.
·       Discuss why sleep is important.
·       Discuss the importance of a balanced diet.
·       Prepare a healthy lunch for an outing
Basic First Aid
·       Check and replenish or put together a simple first aid kit and take it on bushwalks and outings with you.
·       Show how to treat a bleeding nose.
·       Show how to treat stings and insect bites common to your region.
Infections
·       Show an understanding of how germs and head lice can pass to people by contact and how to prevent this.
Adult Help
·       Explain why you need adult help in case of accidents.
·       Pass a message, including an address, from one adult to another.
·       Explain how to use a mobile phone and a public phone and discuss the steps you would take to make and emergency phone call.

2. Safety (Responsibility for Self)
Buddy System
·       Define the Buddy System and explain its benefits
Home
·       Discuss the causes of accidents around the home and garden, including in sheds and around swimming pools.
Road
·       Discuss the safety aspects of travelling in cars, buses and trains.
Water
·       Demonstrate an understanding of the dangers of swimming in
·       swimming pools,
·       sea,
·       rivers and lakes
·       dams.
·       Identify safe areas for swimming
Bush
·       Explain what to do to make sure you don't get lost in the bush and what to do if something goes wrong.
·       Demonstrate three ways of making distress signals.
Fire
·       Discuss the ways that fire can start in the home and in the bush.
·       Show what to do if you are in a fire at home.
Personal
·       Discuss what to do if you do not feel safe somewhere.

3. Ropes (Outdoor Scouting)
Tying Knots
·       Tie a sheetbend
·       Tie a clove hitch.
·       Tie a reef knot.
Use of knots
·       Discuss how and when to use these knots.
Care of ropes
·       Name the parts of a rope.

4. Outdoor Scouting (Outdoor Scouting)
Compass and Navigation
·       Demonstrate an understanding of how many degrees there are in a compass and the eight principal points.
·       Use a compass to follow a trail, which includes at least six compass points.
Maps and Hiking
·       Use a road map to work out the distances between two towns named by your examiner.
·       Demonstrate five trail signs.
Fire Lighting.
·       Discuss ways that fires can start in the home and the bush.
Outdoor Cooking
·       On a fire you prepare and light, cook a meal such as sausages or food in a foil pouch.

5. Our Cub Scout Traditions  (Scouting Aims and Principles)
The Jungle Books
·       Tell one of the stories in The Jungle Books that does not have Mowgli in it.
·       Explain the significance of Baloo and Bagheera in Mowgli’s life.
Scouting History
·       Find out when Scouting started in your local Group.
·       Find out and explain the meaning of your scarf and District /Region Badge.

6. Symbols of Australia (Growing Awareness of Local Community)
Flags
·       Describe the flag of your State or Territory and show an understanding of the components of it.
Emblems
·       Describe the emblem of your State or Territory and show an understanding of what it means.
Flora and Fauna
·       Name and describe the flora and fauna emblem of your State or Territory.

7. Promise and Law (Values of Scouting)
Duty to Your God
·       Find out three things about your beliefs and explain them to your Leader.
Promise and Law
·       Talk to your Leader about how you have tried to put your Promise and Law into practice in everything you have done.
Service
·       Do a good turn for your Cub Pack or Scout Group and tell your Leader about it.



Choose any three of the requirements 8-14


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