Weekly Program
Week 1
Activity Booklet
Science and Nature

 

Dear All,
While we currently are unable to meet each week Thames Ridge will be producing a weekly program pack for you to share with each section offering a range of activities and challenges to keep us all scouting during this difficult time.
We will be using this to support all the young people in their continued efforts to work towards their top awards and to offer comfort to those whom scouting forms a vital part of their weekly routines. We will endeavour in this time to ensure no young person misses out on the values and support scouting provides.
If you have any suggestions of questions relating to what we are offering please send in your thoughts to ddc-program@thamesridgescouting.org.uk also please send in any photos of the activities that have been produced by your group for us to share with others in the district group.
Yours in Scouting
The District Team

Science in Action
Classifying living things:
1.	Cut out or print pictures of different animals and sort them into similar groups 
2.	How many different groups could you sort them into? You could use the number of legs or the food they eat for example.
3.	Take some pictures of the different groups and send them to your leader
4.	Make a collage of different animals and how they are the same and different 

Did you know that all animals are unique in some way just like people?
 And just like people there are some things that are the same, such as their likes and dislikes or the number of legs 

they have

Why?
Animals can be grouped into 6 different groups:
Mammals – warm blooded and give birth to live young
Birds – warm blooded, have feathers, lay eggs
Reptiles – cold blooded, lay eggs
Amphibians – cold blooded, can live on land and in water
Fish – cold blooded, use gills to breathe
Invertebrates – have no backbone

•	½ cup of milk
•	1 tablespoon sugar
•	1 teaspoon essence
•	I large sandwich bag
•	1 small sandwich bag
•	2 cups of ice
•	6 tablespoons of salt

Squishy Ice Cream
1.	mix the milk, sugar and essence in the                                                small bag, seal and shake
2.	Mix the ice and the salt in the bigger                                             bag
3.	Put the small bag into the bigger bag                                                 and squish them together for 10mins.                                        The longer you knead them the                                                    creamier the ice cream.
4.	Eat! 

Did you know?
The salt makes the ice even colder so freezes the milk mixture faster. If you keep squishing the mixture it then becomes creamy and you have ice cream.

Make your own cloud
1.	Pour a little bit of warm water into the plastic bottle, just enough to cover the bottom
2.	Ask for an adult to help you light a match
3.	Blow out the match and immediately let the smoke from the match fill the bottle, the smoke will clear quite quickly.
4.	In the bottle there are now invisible particles floating around
5.	Screw the cap onto the bottle, keeping as much smoke inside as possible
6.	
A clear 2 litre plastic bottle
•	Warm water
•	matches

Squeeze the bottle 6 or 7 times
7.	Take a picture or film what you see.

Did you know?
Fluffy clouds are called cumulus clouds

Scouting at Home
What else can I do to link science to scouting?
Below are a list of some other activities that we could try to show the different skills we have through scouting, link to the theme of science, nature and the environment.

Skill	
Description	
Achieved	

Creative
	Change the lyrics of any song and sing it. Upload a video of you singing this
newly-adapted song		

Creative	
Create the scout logo out of recycled materials 		

Experiment 	
Carry out a science experiment		

Builder
	Build a free-standing tower, more than 2 metres tall using only cardboard boxes. 
Upload a picture.		

Builder
	Design a machine that could help us find a cure for a disease or remove pollution from the environment.		

Creative	Make a selfie Stick and take the most awesome selfie ever! The stick has to be shown in the photo.		

Creative	Design a frame and take a photo of the previously drawn recycled logo

Don’t forget to try one of our badge booklets to find out all that you will need to carry out to complete a badge, a different badge will be issued each week along with the weekly program.

This week we have the photography badge to link into our District photography competition. 

Please keep scouting and send in pictures of all you achieve to the group so we can all share in each other’s accomplishments.

Yours in Scouting 
GSL