Naturalist

Outdoor Group 

 

If you're in the Greater Cincinnati area, the Hamilton County Park District offers a program at Sharon Woods Park where Scouts can earn this badge and the Forester badge in one session.  Sessions are Ranger led and are a great and easy way to earn these badges. The session costs a nominal fee and is held periodically throughout the year. Advance registration is required. Check the Evergreen insert in the Sunday Cincinnati Enquirer or their web site.

  Do Four of These:

  1. Keep an "insect zoo" that you have collected. You might have crickets, ants, or grasshoppers. Study them for a while then release them.
  2. Set up an aquarium or terrarium. Keep it for at least a month.
  3. Visit a museum of natural history, nature center, or zoo with your family, den, or pack. Tell what you saw.
  4. Watch for birds in your yard, neighborhood, or town for one week. Identify the birds you see and write down where and when you saw them.
  5. Learn about the bird flyways closest to your home. Find out which birds use these flyways.
  6. Learn to identify poisonous plants and venomous reptiles found in your area.
  7. Watch six wild animals (snakes, turtles, fish, birds, or mammals) in the wild. Describe the kind of place (forest, field, marsh, yard, or park) where you saw them. Tell what they were doing.
  8. Give examples of:
        A producer, a consumer, and a decomposer in the food chain of an ecosystem
        One way humans have changed the balance of nature
        How you can help protect the balance of nature

 

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    Last Updated 10/16/2002