[GeoStL] Re: Geocaching Merit Badge Assistance
- From: "ZLA Solutions" <Zeke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 14:53:10 -0500
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Thank you so much. I will forward the information to my classmate.
Regards,
Zeke (ZLA)
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[mailto:geocaching-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Lefferts Family
Sent: Monday, May 24, 2010 2:37 PM
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Subject: [GeoStL] Re: Geocaching Merit Badge Assistance
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They need to contact their local council and find out who is a merit badge
counselor for this badge. It is brand new here are the requirements:
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*Geocaching Merit Badge-Revised Requirements 4/9/2010
*
1. Do the following:
a. Explain to your counselor the most likely hazards you may encounter while
participating in geocaching activities and what you should do to anticipate,
help prevent, mitigate, and respond to these hazards.
b. Discuss first aid and prevention for the types of injuries or illnesses
that could occur while participating in geocaching activities, including
cuts, scrapes, snakebite, insect stings, tick bites, exposure to poisonous
plants, heat and cold reactions (sunburn, heatstroke, heat exhaustion,
hypothermia), and dehydration.
c. Discuss how to properly plan an activity that uses GPS, including using
the buddy system, sharing your plan with others, and considering the
weather, route, and proper attire.
2. Discuss the following with your counselor:
a. Why you should never bury a cache
b. How to use proper geocaching etiquette when hiding or seeking a cache,
and how to properly hide, post, maintain, and dismantle a geocache
c. The principles of Leave No Trace as they apply to geocaching
3. Explain the following terms used in geocaching: waypoint, log, cache,
accuracy, difficulty and terrain ratings, attributes, trackable. Choose five
additional terms to explain to your counselor.
4. Explain how the Global Positioning System (GPS) works. Then, using
Scouting's Teaching EDGE, demonstrate the use of a GPS unit to your
counselor. Include marking and editing a waypoint, changing field functions,
and changing the coordinate system in the unit.
5. Do the following:
a. Show you know how to use a map and compass and explain why this is
important for geocaching.
b. Explain the similarities and differences between GPS navigation and
standard map reading skills and describe the benefits of each.
c. Explain the UTM (Universal Transverse Mercator) system and how it differs
from the latitude/longitude system used for public geocaches.
d. Show how to plot a UTM waypoint on a map. Compare the accuracy to that
found with a GPS unit.
6. Describe the four steps to finding your first cache to your counselor.
Then mark and edit a waypoint. geocaching.rev5 4/12/2010 2
7. With your parent's permission*, go to www.geocaching.com. Type in your
zip code to locate public geocaches in your area. Share the posted
information about three of those geocaches with your counselor. Then, pick
one of the three and find the cache.
*To fulfill this requirement, you will need to set up a free user account
with www.geocaching.com. Ask your parent for permission and help before
doing so.
8. Do ONE of the following:
a. If a Cache to Eagle series exists in your council, visit at least three
of the locations in the series. Describe the projects that each cache you
visit highlights, and explain how the Cache to Eagle program helps share our
Scouting service with the public.
b. Create a Scouting-related Travel BugR that promotes one of the values of
Scouting. "Release" your Travel Bug into a public geocache and, with your
parent's permission, monitor its progress at www.geocaching.com for 30 days.
Keep a log, and share this with your counselor at the end of the 30-day
period.
c. Set up and hide a public geocache, following the guidelines in the
*Geocaching
*merit badge pamphlet. Before doing so, share with your counselor a
six-month maintenance plan for the geocache where you are personally
responsible for the first three months. After setting up the geocache, with
your parent's permission, follow the logs online for 30 days and share them
with your counselor.
d. Explain what Cache in Trash Out (CITO) means, and describe how you have
practiced CITO at public geocaches or at a CITO event. Then, either create
CITO containers to leave at public caches, or host a CITO event for your
unit or for the public.
9. Plan a geohunt for a youth group such as your troop or a neighboring
pack, at school, or your place of worship. Choose a theme, set up a course
with at least four waypoints, teach the players how to use a GPS unit, and
play the game. Tell your counselor about your experience, and share the
materials you used and developed for this event.
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 2:28 PM, CribbageWitch
<VelyneTarlos@xxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
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> Brawny Bear would be my suggestion!!
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