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  • This award can be earned only once while you are in Cub Scouting
    (i.e. as either a Wolf Cub Scout, a Bear Cub Scout, or as a Webelos Scout).

    As a Bear Cub Scout, you can earn the Cub Scout World Conservation Award by doing the following:

    1. Complete achievement #5 - SHARING YOUR WORLD WITH WILDLIFE
    2. Complete all requirements in 2 of the following 3 electives:
    3. Participate in a den or pack conservation project in addition to the above
     

    SHARING YOUR WORLD WITH WILDLIFE (Page 50)
    This elective is also part of the Cub Scout World Conservation Award.
    Do four of the requirements.

    1. Choose a bird or animal that you like and find out how it lives. Make a poster showing what you have learned.
    2. Build or make a bird feeder or birdhouse and hang it in a place where birds can visit safely.
    3. Explain what a wildlife conservation officer does.
    4. Visit one of the following:
      Zoo, Nature center, Aviary, Wildlife refuge, Game preserve.
    5. Name one animal that has become extinct in the last 100 years. Tell why animals become extinct. Name one animal that is on the endangered species list.
     

    WEATHER (Page 184)
    This elective is also part of the Cub Scout World Conservation Award.

    1. Learn how to read an outdoor thermometer. Put one outdoors and read it at the same time every day for two weeks. Keep a record of each day's temperature and a description of the weather each day (fair skies, rain, fog, snow, etc.).
    2. Build a weather vane. Record wind direction every day at the same hour for two weeks. Keep a record of the weather for each day.
    3. Make a rain gauge.
    4. Find out what a barometer is and how it works. Tell your den about it. Tell what "relative humidity" means.
    5. Learn to identify three different kinds of clouds. Estimate their heights.
    6. Watch the weather forecast on TV every day for two weeks. Describe three different symbols used on weather maps. Keep a record of how many times the weather forecast is correct.
     

    NATURE CRAFTS (Page 226)
    This elective is also part of the Cub Scout World Conservation Award.

    1. Make solar prints of three kinds of leaves.
    2. Make a display of eight different animal tracks with an eraser print.
    3. Collect, press, and label ten kinds of leaves.
    4. Build a waterscope and identify five types of water life.
    5. Collect eight kinds of plant seeds and label them.
    6. Collect, mount, and label ten kinds of rocks or minerals.
    7. Collect, mount, and label five kinds of shells.
    8. Build and use a bird caller
     

    WATER AND SOIL CONSERVATION (Page 240)
    This elective is also part of the Cub Scout World Conservation Award.

    1. Dig a hole or find an excavation project and describe the different layers of soil you see and feel. (Do not enter an excavation area alone or without permission.)
    2. Explore three kinds of earth by conducting a soil experiment.
    3. Visit a burned-out forest or prairie area, or a slide area, with your den or your family. Talk to a soil and water conservation officer or forest ranger about how the area will be planted and cared for so that it will grow to be the way it was before the fire or slide
    4. What is erosion? Find out the kinds of grasses, trees, or ground cover you should plant in your area to help limit erosion.
    5. As a den, visit a lake, stream, river, or ocean (whichever is nearest where you live). Plan and do a den project to help clean up this important source of water. Name four kinds of water pollution.