Sea Partners for Cub Scouts

Summary

The Sea Partners Campaign is an environmental education and outreach program focused on communities at large to develop community awareness of maritime pollution issues and to improve compliance with marine environmental protection laws and regulations.

Sea Partners messages include:

1. The effects of oil, hazardous chemicals, waste and debris on the marine environment.
2. How marine environmental protection laws and regulations apply to various marine users.
3. Ways groups and individuals can take action to protect the marine environment.

How Cub Scouts Participate

1. Step 1
2. Step 2
3. Step 3
4. Hand out Under the Sea coloring/activity books.
5. Step 5

Lessons learned

• Lesson 1
• Lesson 2
• Lesson 3
• Lesson 4

Resources

• Sea Partners Powerpoint presentation
• Sea Partners Patch Program application
• Sea Partners Home page
• The Adventures of Captain Cleanwater
• Cub Scout World Conservation Award
• Conservation Good Turn
• NOAA Education website
• Preserve America's Waterways -- Develop a joint waterway conservation project with a Cub Pack
• Inky the Whale -- Learn the story of Inky the Whale, a pygmy sperm whale who washed up on a beach in New Jersey, was rescued by marine mammal stranding network volunteers, airlifted by the Coast Guard and taken to the National Aquarium

Contributed by

John Campbell, FSO-MS, 5th District (Southern Region), Flotilla 31