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    <LI>[http://www.division22.org/private/Aux-BSA/cub-watersafety/safe-swim.pdf '''Safe Swim Defense'''] - Talk about the tenets
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about safe swimming, the expectation of having a lifeguard, and always swimming with a buddy.</LI>
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    <LI>[http://www.division22.org/private/Aux-BSA/cub-watersafety/boating_fun.pdf '''Boating Fun Booklet'''] - Print this out and
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  passed it out.  Tell the Cubs that if they fill it out and return it, they will get a certificate. 
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    <LI>Hand out ''Under the Sea'' coloring/activity books.</LI>
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  Review some of the slides on a projector.</LI>
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    <LI>Played the [http://www.uscg.mil/hq/cg092/special_features/archive/InYourTime.asp Coast Guard's promo video with Bob Segar's ''In Your Time''] on the Coast Guard's website.</LI>
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    <LI>Have the Cubs try on different life jackets. We showed the proper wearing of them. 
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  They played "bumper cars" with them and this gave them a little energy release.</LI>
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    <LI>[http://www.division22.org/private/Aux-BSA/cub-watersafety/SeaPartners_Patch_program.pdf '''Sea Partners Patch program sheet''']. If the Cubs answer the questions and do the activities and send it in to the NOAA, they
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  get a patch.  The big one is to do a beach cleanup.  As it happens, we already had something called
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  ''America's Waterway'' clean-up with the National Parks Department planned for next month.</LI>
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* [[Image:htm.gif|16px|Website]] [http://www.education.noaa.gov/ NOAA Education website]
 
* [[Image:htm.gif|16px|Website]] [http://www.education.noaa.gov/ NOAA Education website]
 
* [[Image:htm.gif|16px|Website]] [http://pawaterways.org/ Preserve America's Waterways] -- Develop a joint waterway conservation project with a Cub Pack
 
* [[Image:htm.gif|16px|Website]] [http://pawaterways.org/ Preserve America's Waterways] -- Develop a joint waterway conservation project with a Cub Pack
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* [[Image:htm.gif|16px|Website]] [http://www.aqua.org/oceanhealth_pygmyspermwhale.html 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 in Baltimore
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* [[Image:htm.gif|16px|Website]] [http://www.aqua.org/oceanhealth_pygmyspermwhale.html 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 [http://www.aqua.org National Aquarium]
  
 
===Contributed by===
 
===Contributed by===
 
   
 
   
 
[mailto:[email protected] John Campbell, FSO-MS], 5th District (Southern Region), [http://www.flotilla31.org Flotilla 31]
 
[mailto:[email protected] John Campbell, FSO-MS], 5th District (Southern Region), [http://www.flotilla31.org Flotilla 31]

Latest revision as of 08:23, 24 May 2010

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

Contributed by

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

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