Scouts
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Dive into our ocean-themed resource packs and activities for Scouts. We've designed a series of resources to encourage your group's natural curiosity and investigative skills to learn more about our seas and how we can all look after them.
Resources overview
The packs will support your Scouts in completing Activity Badges and Challenge Awards, including the Environmental Conservation Activity Badge and Our World Challenge Award.
Fundraising Activity Badge
As a charity, our work relies on generous donations and fundraising activities. If your troop would like to help raise money for us, they could organise a Big Blue Day, hold an event, sell items or take on a challenge.
Naturalist Activity Badge
Use our rockpool spotter sheet and Seashore Safari guide when exploring the seashore as part of the Naturalist Activity Badge.
As part of reflection on the visit, everyone could make a journey stick as a way to record their experiences. You could also run a Blue Mindfulness activity as a way to recall the sights, sounds and smells of the ocean and shore.
For Requirement 5, our Marine Litter Image Reel provides a starting point for discussing how human activities can affect marine life.
Local Knowledge Activity Badge
Credit: Peter Richardson
Environmental Conservation Activity Badge
For Requirement 1, you could use our carbon footprint diary activity to help everyone identify the environmental issue that they would like to tackle.
If you’re investigating water or beach pollution, we’ve created two activities based around practical experiments to help illustrate the issues in easy-to-understand ways:
- Ocean threads explores hidden water pollution.
- Don’t flush it! introduces the problems created under our feet and in our rivers and sea when people flush the unflushable, like wet wipes.
If you’re investigating recycling and conservation, you could use our home rubbish survey activity to review home plastic recycling rates and consider the threat of plastic to the ocean and marine life, regardless of where you live.
For Requirement 3, we’ve put together top tips for contacting politicians and influencing businesses to change based on our 30 years' worth of experience persuading decisionmakers to support our cause and businesses to change their practices.
We’ve also created a set of top tips for safe social media campaigns, which includes a social media template and video storyboard.
Chef Activity Badge
94% of the world's fish stocks are fully or over-exploited from fishing.
Our seafood choices have a huge impact on the ability of stocks to renew. Anyone working towards their Chef Activity Badge who is planning to use fish, could use our fish switch sheet to help them make more sustainable fish choices.
Some people are choosing to stop eating fish altogether, but seafood has a much smaller carbon footprint than most land-based proteins and could play a role in helping fight climate change. By choosing sustainable seafood, it's possible to consume fish without endangering fish stocks.
Head to our Good Fish Guide to find out how we rate seafood species.
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Our World Challenge Award
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Credit: Billy Barraclough
