Talk to beavers about Astronomy...HELP!

[haitch]

Was that towards a badge?

I'm an assistant at my son's Beaver colony and have the books of the badge requirements and haven't yet found a way to convincingly tie astronomy into one of them. Cubs and Scouts have astronomy badges but the Cub one really just covers learning a few constellations.

By the way, Beavers is equivalent to Rainbows for girls (although girls are allowed at beavers) as both are for 6-7 yr olds. Brownies and Cubs are 8-9 then it's Scouts/Guides.

Excellent idea for an education resource.

[Coco]

Was that towards a badge?

I'm an assistant at my son's Beaver colony and have the books of the badge requirements and haven't yet found a way to convincingly tie astronomy into one of them. Cubs and Scouts have astronomy badges but the Cub one really just covers learning a few constellations.

By the way, Beavers is equivalent to Rainbows for girls (although girls are allowed at beavers) as both are for 6-7 yr olds. Brownies and Cubs are 8-9 then it's Scouts/Guides.

Excellent idea for an education resource.

Sorry I've been busy with work..

Its towards the Zodiac badge

Really looking forward to taking my 12" Dob to family camp in June..

Cheers

Guy

[Phil Fargaze]

i got roped into taking my scope down to the local brownies club with my daughter, set up the scope and called them out thinking that it would be one at a time and 30 6 year olds came running out !

one tried to pick the scope up, the others went though my bag of eyepieces, finger prints all over, but they had a great time which took over 2 hours for all of them to view M42 and Venus.

When I helped the Brownies do their Astronomy Badge, we sent them out in groups of six to look through the scope. A lot easier than being mobbed by the whole pack!