Printed from the Merit Badge Center, Philippines - http://www.meritbadge.org.ph/

Boating

  1. Before doing the other requirements, swim 100 yards using any stroke; then rest by floating as still as you can for one (1) minute.

  2. Show that you know safety rules for boating or sailing.

  3. Secure a permit to operate a motorboat, if needed. Explain the laws affecting pleasure boating in your area.

  4. Identify the features or hazards of the body of water before going on a boat.

  5. Explain the rules of the sea lanes. Describe the navigation aids used where you cruised.

  6. Examine the condition of the following safety equipment:
    1. Lifesaving device for each person on board
    2. Fire extinguisher
    3. Oars or paddles
    4. Light
    5. Tool kit
    6. Extra shear pin and spark plugs
    7. Horn, whistle, or other sound signals
    8. Compass
    9. Anchor and line
    10. Safety chain (for outboard motor)
    11. First aid kit
    12. Bilge pump or similar device for bailing

  7. Demonstrate the proper use of each piece of equipment.

RESOURCE LINKS
Boating Safety - http://www.boatingsafety.com/
BSA Safe Swim Defense/Safety Afloat Online Training - http://www.scouting.org/pubs/aquatics/index2.html
Fire and Extinguishers - http://www.firstalert.com/home_safety/fire_extinguishers/facts.htm
How to Use a Compass - http://www.learn-orienteering.org/old/
Orienteering - BSA Troop 780 - http://www.bsatroop780.org/skills/Orienteering.htm
USCG Boating Safety - http://www.uscgboating.org/

LOCAL LINKS
Compass Reading - /pub/pdf/notes_compass.pdf

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Camping

  1. Show your Counselor and Troop Leader/Outfit Advisor the following:
    1. Preparing for camp: clothes and equipment and how to pack them
    2. Camp shelter and sanitation, including tent pitching
    3. Safety precautions for a Patrol/Crew or Troop/Outfit camp

  2. Make a camp lay-out and prepare a plan for a weekend camp including a schedule of activities; submit these to your Counselor. With the members of your Patrol/Crew or Troop/Outfit discuss the camp plan in the presence of the Troop Leader/Outfit Advisor and the Counselor. Carry out the camp plan.

  3. While in camp, do the following:
    1. Make a comfortable ground bed and sleep on it. Use ground cloth and padding of clothing, grass, leaves or straw
    2. Make a camp table, a tripod for suspending camp supplies, clothes line or other camp conveniences using proper lashing techniques

  4. Show and explain the proper method of storing and protecting your food and equipment against small animals, insects, and wet weather.

  5. Tell how you would protect yourself against wet weather and cold while in camp.

  6. Camp a total of at least twenty (20) days and twenty (20) nights outdoors. Provide evidence to your Troop Leader/Outfit Advisor and Counselor that these camps met the required standards. You can include weekend camps and a week of summer camp as part of the 20 days and nights.

RESOURCE LINKS
Camping Basics - http://camping.about.com/blbasics.htm?once=true

LOCAL LINKS

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Citizenship in the Community

  1. Prepare a written outline of the history of your community including such known information as who the first settlers were, when they came, important historical events, and people who figured prominently in the growth of the community.

  2. Mark or point out on a map of your community:
    1. Principal government buildings
    2. Fire station (fire brigade), police station (outpost), hospital or puericulture center, schools or churches
    3. Main highways and/or feeder roads to neighboring cities or towns
    4. Nearest railroad and/or bus station, piers and airport, if any
    5. Chief industries (principal sources of income or livelihood)
    6. Historical spots and other points of interest

  3. From newspapers, radio, forums or other sources of public information and discussion, gather opinions on both sides of a public issue and give your own ideas on it.

  4. Draw a diagram of the organizational structure of your provincial or city government, showing its executive, legislative, and judicial branches, and tell briefly what each branch performs.

  5. Do two of the following:
    1. Draw a diagram of the organizational structure of your barrio, town, or city government showing the top officials, courts, and administrative departments. Indicate who among these officials are elected and who are appointed. Give the names of these officials.
    2. Know and tell how to do at least seven of the following in your community:
      1. Report a fire
      2. Report an automobile accident
      3. Call a physician and/or an ambulance
      4. Report damage to electric power, gas, or water supply system
      5. Report damage to or need of repairs on streets, roads, bridges, or sewerage system
      6. Obtain a bicycle license
      7. Obtain a dog license
      8. Report a mad dog scare
      9. Report a contagious disease
      10. Call a veterinarian
      11. Obtain a building permit
      12. Obtain help from a representative of the agricultural agency in your locality
      13. Report to the authority the commission of crime such as robbery, theft, burglary, illegal cockfighting, gambling, etc.
      14. Report to the authority traffic violations
      15. Report to the authority election violations
    3. Visit one department of your local government and report on what services it offers for the community; or, attend a court session or a public meeting of a government body and report what takes place.
    4. Know how much it costs to run your local government for one year; how your money is obtained and for what it is chiefly spent. Tell what kinds of taxes your family pays in meeting your cost.

  6. Discuss with your family or Counselors in what ways Scouting helps to train you for citizenship and give examples of democracy at work in your Outfit.

  7. Take an active part and vote regularly in elections of officers and matters of business in your Outfit, school and other groups to which you belong.

  8. List and briefly describe the work of several civic organizations other than the Boy Scouts of the Philippines through which people of your community work together for the general welfare by way of serving the youth, safeguarding public health or safety, disaster relief, care of orphans, aid to the poor, providing recreational facilities, promoting good business or better farming, improving labor conditions, or general civic improvement.

  9. Do one of the following:
    1. Identify the principal political parties or factions of parties in your community or province, and explain briefly their points of view on one public issue of which they disagree.
    2. Describe at least one vocation opportunity offered in your community in some form of public service. Tell what personal qualifications are needed for the job.

  10. List and explain at least five privileges and forms of protection you enjoy as a citizen in your community, and describe your obligations to the community

  11. With the advice of your Outfit Advisor and Merit Badge Counselor, plan your own program of community service, and give at least 10 hours of your time in carrying it out; or give 10 hours of community service in a project carried out by your Outfit.

RESOURCE LINKS
Government Links - http://www.ldb.org/phili2.htm
Map Central - http://www.mapcentral.ph
Philippines: A Country Study - https://www.loc.gov/item/92039812/
Wikipedia: Phil Places - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Philippine-related_topics#Places_and_Locations

CIVIC GROUPS
Philippine National Red Cross - http://www.redcross.org.ph/

LOCAL LINKS

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Citizenship in the Home

  1. Discuss with your parents (or teacher) and Counselor:
    1. the meaning of citizenship
    2. the importance of the home in the training of a Scout for citizenship

  2. Submit a statement from your parents or other people who are familiar with your conduct at home, evidence you practice good citizenship at home by being courteous, fair and helpful to members of your family and that you put into practice the Scout Oath and Law, Scout Motto and Slogan. (A suitable certification form must be made available for filling the above requirement).

  3. Prepare a list (at least five) of your regular home duties for at least one month and keep a record of how often you do them.

  4. Discuss with your family or Merit Badge Counselor your rights and obligation in your family.

  5. Do the following:
    1. Make a health and safety check-up of your home, and help your family correct as many hazards as possible.
    2. Prepare with your family a plan of escape in case of fire in your home.
    3. Tell how to get help in case of accident, illness, fire and other emergencies in your home.

  6. Do at least one major Good Turn for your home outside of your regular duties.

  7. Make a budget and keep a record of your own income and/or allowances and expenses for two months. Explain why it is wise to live within one's means.

  8. Submit a report on a family group activity which you helped to plan, prepare and carry out.

RESOURCE LINKS
National Safety Council - http://www.nsc.org/

LOCAL LINKS

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Citizenship in the Nation

  1. Read the Constitution of the Philippines and:
    1. Explain its purpose as set forth in the Preamble
    2. Draw a diagram to show the organization of the Philippine government into three branches as provided.
    3. Describe and explain the purpose of the system of checks and balances.
    4. Tell how the Constitution may be amended.

  2. Present newspaper or magazine clippings showing instances of how at least three of the privileges in the Bill of Rights have been protected in our country, or how they have been set aside in countries under totalitarian rule.

  3. Take part in a group discussion in your Outfit, school, family or any other Outfit, on an important national problem.

  4. Do one of the following:
    1. Visit the National or Provincial Capital, or a National project which serves your community, province or region; or a place associated with a person who had figured in the history of our country. Prepare and submit a brief report of your visit.
    2. Correspond with someone preferably a Scout who lives in another Region of the Philippines. Exchange ideas, descriptive materials, hobby items (e.g. stamps), Scout insignias, etc.

  5. Give the names of the President, the Vice-President, the President of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, any Senator (preferably one from your Region), and the Representative from your District in Congress. Tell how to address a letter to each of them at their respective offices.

  6. Indicate to which branches of the national government any ten of the following list fall:

    national parks, national forests and wildlife protection, fish protection, flood control, investigation of violations of national laws, judgment of such violations, issuance of currency, appropriations for government expenses, foreign policy, soil conservation, child welfare, settlement of sparsely populated areas, fundamental education

  7. Describe five ways by which the National Government serves you, your family, and your community.

  8. Present your birth certificate or other legal evidence of your citizenship; or, if foreign-born, learn what a person must do in order to become a Filipino citizen.

RESOURCE LINKS
Chan Robles Law Library - http://www.chanrobles.com/index1.htm
CIA Philippine Fact Sheet - https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/geos/rp.html
Government Links - http://www.ldb.org/phili2.htm
Philippine Constitution - https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/constitutions/1987-constitution/
Phil. Law & Jurisprudence - https://lawphil.net/judjuris/judjuris.html

LOCAL LINKS

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Ecology

  1. Explain the meaning of the following: ecology, biosphere, ecosystem, plant succession, limiting factor. Give an example of the last two.

  2. With the help of your Counselor, pick an area of 3 hectares for study. City Scouts may pick an area in a large park, if a better place is not available.

  3. Visit the area four times for 2 hours each time. Do this at different times on one day a week for a month; or if at camp, on four different days of the week at different times of the day.
    1. Record the temperature, rain, and wind
    2. List the animals you saw. Tell what they were doing
    3. List the plants you saw
    4. Name the kinds of rocks and soil

  4. Write about your study in 500 words or more showing:
    1. How the climate, topography, and geology have influenced the number and kinds of plants and animals
    2. How the living and non-living elements are interrelated
    3. Why it is important that people understand this

  5. With your Counselor, plan and carry out a project on one of the following:
    1. The effect of water-holding capacity of soil on plant life. The relation of plant cover to run-off. How both are related to the water and oxygen cycles.
    2. The influence of land plant life on temperature, light intensity, wind velocity, and humidity. The influence of water plant life on the water environment. How both land and water plants affect animal life.

  6. Make a report, in the form of a short talk to a Scout group, on what you did in requirement 5.

  7. Show you understand the following:
    1. The causes of water pollution. Tell what it does to rivers and lakes.
    2. The causes of land pollution. Tell what it does to the environment.
    3. The causes of air pollution. Tell what it does to the environment.
    4. How some chemicals get into the tissues of animals miles from where they were used.

  8. Describe what you and others can do to help solve a local problem or air pollution, water pollution, or litter.

  9. Describe the duties of three positions in environmental science.

RESOURCE LINKS
Biodiversity Hotspots - http://www.biodiversityhotspots.org/xp/Hotspots/philippines/?showpage=HumanImpacts
Citizens for Planet Earth - http://www.tryscience.org/csp/csp.html
Economy & Environment SEA - http://www.eepsea.org/
Leave No Trace Resources - https://lnt.org/learn
Mineralogy Database - http://webmineral.com/
Pollution.Com - http://www.pollution.com/
Water Cycle - http://mbgnet.mobot.org/fresh/cycle/

LOCAL LINKS

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Electricity

  1. Know the sources and ways of producing electricity.

  2. Make a simple electromagnet. Show and state the relationship between electricity and magnetism.

  3. Understand the difference between a direct current and an alternating current and show uses to which each is adapted. Give a method of determining what current flows in a given circuit.

  4. Have an elementary knowledge of the construction of cells, batteries, switches, electric bells, and transformers.

  5. Demonstrate how to replace fuses, and properly splice, solder, and tape rubber-covered wires.

  6. Make and submit a diagram or sketch showing the lights, switches, and outlets controlled by each fuse in his house.

  7. Read correctly an electric meter and compute the bill.

RESOURCE LINKS
Alternating and Direct Current - http://www.pcguide.com/ref/power/ext/basicsACDC-c.html
Build an Electromagnet - http://www.sciencebob.com/experiments/electromagnet.html
Electricity and Magnetism - http://scitec.uwichill.edu.bb/cmp/online/P10D/help/splash/index.htm
Explore Learning - http://www.explorelearning.com/index.cfm?method=cResource.dspResourcesForCourse&CourseID=334
Generating Electricity - http://americanhistory.si.edu/csr/powering/generate/gnmain.htm
How Stuff Works - http://www.howstuffworks.com/

LOCAL LINKS

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Emergency Preparedness

  1. Earn the First Aid Merit Badge.

  2. Tell what you would do to prevent injury and possible loss of life to you and others in each of the following situations:
    1. Fire or explosion at home or in a public building
    2. Car stalled in a secluded place
    3. Motor vehicle accident
    4. Mountain accident
    5. Food poisoning
    6. Boating accident
    7. Search for lost persons
    8. Gas leak
    9. Earthquake
    10. Flood
    11. Typhoon
    12. Lightning
    13. Nuclear fallout
    14. Scaffold Hitch
    15. Avalanche (rock) and landslide
  3. Demonstrate and explain how you could safely save a person from the following situations:
    1. Touching a live electric wire
    2. A room filled with carbon monoxide or other fumes or smoke
    3. Clothes on fire
    4. Drowning using non-swimming rescues (including river, sea, or beach accidents)

  4. Describe what a group of Scouts should be prepared to do, the training needed, and the safety precautions to be taken for the following emergency services:
    1. Crowd and traffic control
    2. Messenger service and communication
    3. Collection and distribution services
    4. Group feeding, shelter, and sanitation

  5. Demonstrate the following:
    1. Three ways to attract and communicate with rescue planes or helicopters
    2. Proper use of ropes and lines for rescue work by:
      1. Tying knots for joining lines, shortening or adjusting lines, and lashings
      2. Lowering a person from a height
      3. Coil and accurately throw light and heavy 50-foot heaving lines

  6. Prepare a written plan for mobilizing your Troop/Outfit for emergency service. Prepare an emergency kit for use by your Patrol/Crew or your family.

  7. Participate in one emergency service.

RESOURCE LINKS
Animated Knots - http://www.animatedknots.com/
Rope Works - http://www.ropeworks.biz/
Preparedness List - http://www.iveleague.org/s034-aa.html
Wilderness Survival Guide - http://ammo.com/articles/surviving-in-the-wild

LOCAL LINKS

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Filipino Heritage

  1. Write a biography of at least five Filipino heroes or great men. Explain to your Outfit what outstanding work they did for our country that made them great. Describe any of their personal virtues or qualities that are worth emulation by the youth.

  2. Cite at least five (5) literary works written by Filipino heroes or great men. Explain to your Outfit the significance of each of these literary works. Select at least three (3) passages/ideas from each which you think are still relevant today.

  3. Compile and relate to your Outfit ten (10) Filipino traditions that are worth emulating. Give reasons why they should be emulated and preserved.

  4. Compile and recite to your Outfit twenty (20) Filipino proverbs; explain at least half of them.

  5. Recite a poem written by your favorite Filipino hero or great man in an Outfit meeting and explain the meaning of the lines or phrase of the poem.

  6. Take part in a Crew or Outfit activity or any project honoring the memory of Filipino heroes or great men.

  7. Visit any historical place or shrine connected with Filipino heroes or great men. Make a written report of the visit with the Outfit Advisor.

RESOURCE LINKS
Ating Baybayin - http://www.eaglescorner.com/baybayin
Arabic Calligraphy - http://www.islamicart.com/main/calligraphy/index.html
Ayala Museum - http://www.ayalamuseum.com/
Philippine Proverbs - http://www.seasite.niu.edu/tagalog/Literature/tagalog_proverbs_are_called_sala.htm
Philippines: A Country Study - https://www.loc.gov/item/92039812/
Tagalog - http://www.seasite.niu.edu/tagalog/
Tagalog Dictionary - http://www.tagalog-dictionary.com/
10 Best Books in Phil Literature - https://theculturetrip.com/asia/philippines/articles/the-10-best-books-in-philippine-literature/
12 Famous Monuments and Shrines - https://faq.ph/famous-monuments-and-shrines-in-the-philippines-that-you-should-visit/

LOCAL LINKS

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Lifesaving

  1. Earn the Swimming Merit Badge.

  2. Do the following:
    1. Spend at least six hours in preparing and practicing lifesaving skills
    2. Surface dive into open water, 2 to 3 meters deep, recovering various objects three times and a 5-kilo weight once.

  3. Show the following:
    1. For two times, remove your street clothes in 30 seconds or less. (Street clothes means socks, shoes, trousers, barong/shirt/sweatshirt).
    2. The correct approach to a drowning person who is in the following positions:
      1. Back to Scout - Back Approach
      2. Face to Scout with head above water - Underwater Approach

  4. With the help of a buddy and a subject, show (reel-in rescue) the following rope rescue both as line tender and as rescuer:
    1. As rescuer - carrying the looped end of a rope 20 meters long, ½-centimeter in diameter across your shoulder and chest, make a running or leaping entry into the water, swim 20 meters to struggling subject, and tow him ashore with the rope
    2. As line tender - chain know rescue line. Tie and place loop around rescuer's shoulder, pay out rope and pull rescuer and subject ashore

  5. Keeping in sight a struggling person, enter the water feet first and -
    1. Swim 10 meters, make correct approach, and tow victim 10 meters to shore with cross-chest carry
    2. Swim 10 meters, make correct approach, and tow victim 10 meters to shore with hair carry
    3. Swim 10 meters, make correct approach, and tow victim 10 meters to shore with collar or wrist carry
    4. Swim 10 meters, make correct approach to a tired swimmer, using swimmer's carry and push him 10 meters to shore

  6. Do the following:
    1. In water at least two meters deep, show how to block effectively and avoid the attempts of a struggling person to grasp you around the neck with right arm and with both arms. In each case, show how to tow him ashore
    2. In water at least two meters deep, show how to disengage yourself from any of the following grasps:
      1. Wrist
      2. Front head hold
      3. Rear head hold
      4. Arms around the body, at the front, below the armpit
      5. Arms around the body from back
    3. Demonstrate resuscitation for two minutes using the mouth-to-mouth method with external cardiac massage.

RESOURCE LINKS
Lifesaving Resources - http://lifesaving.com/
Philippine National Red Cross - http://www.redcross.org.ph/

LOCAL LINKS

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Physical Fitness

  1. Submit evidence of your general medical examination done within the year. State what has been or will be done to correct conditions needing remedial measures.

  2. Do the following:
    1. Get examined by a dentist. Explain how to care for your teeth.
    2. Describe your daily health habits and how you take care of your skin, hands, fingernails, eyes, ears, and nose.

  3. Explain how to ventilate a sleeping room properly. Give the number of hours of sleep needed by a person of your age. Explain why a person should sleep alone and how far apart beds should be. Demonstrate proper breathing and explain how it affects health.

  4. Explain the following:
    1. How disease is spread through drinking water, shared drinking cups, dirty dishes, dirty dish towels, soiled bath towels, unpasteurized milk, and personal contact.
    2. The essential foods for the daily diet of a person of your age and why it's important to have good eating habits.
    3. How the use of alcohol, tobacco, and drugs can be harmful to you.
    4. The value of clean moral habits to general health.

  5. Do the following:
    1. Record your best scores in the following tests: push-ups, jump-reach, run-walks and sit-ups.
    2. Set goals to reach during the next 30 days
    3. Do daily exercise and keep a record for 30 days or until your goals are met.

  6. With your Outfit Advisor and Counselor, accomplish the following physical fitness tests. (Earn a minimum of not less than 200 points which must come from not more than five events):
    • PFT #1 - SWIMMING (maximum of 50 pts)
      • 15 meters speed swim - 5 points for each second faster than 25 seconds.
      • Distance Swim - 50 points for swimming 500 meters, 25 points for swimming 250 meters.
    • PFT #2 - ARM STRENGTH (maximum of 50 pts)
      • Pull-Ups - 10 points for each pull-up
      • Push-Ups - 2 points for each push-up
      • Archery - 5 points for every bullseye
    • PFT #3 - ABDOMINAL POWER (maximum of 50 pts)
      • Bent-Knee Sit-Ups - 1 point for each sit-up
    • PFT #4 - SPEED RUNNING (maximum of 50 pts)
      • 50-Yard Dash - 2 points for each 1/10 of a second faster than 11 seconds
      • 40-Yard Shuttle Run - 2 points for each 1/10 second faster than 15 seconds
    • PFT #5 - ENDURANCE RUNNING OR WALKING (maximum of 50 pts)
      • 500 Meters Run-Walk - 1 point for each second faster than 4 minutes
      • One-Kilometer Walk - 10 points for each minute faster than 20 minutes
    • PFT #6 - JUMPING (maximum of 50 pts)
      • Standing Long Jump - 5 points for each inch over 4 feet
      • Vertical Jump and Reach - 5 points for each inch over 7 inches
    • PFT #7 - Body Coordination (maximum of 50 pts)
      • Basketball Throw - 2 points for each foot over 30 feet
      • Softball Throw - 1 point for each foot over 70 feet
      • Archery - 5 points for every bulls-eye

  7. Discuss with your Counselor how a Scout can serve others by being physically fit.

RESOURCE LINKS
Alcohol & Tobacco Abuse - http://ncadi.samhsa.gov/
Diet and Exercise - http://familydoctor.org/handouts/288.html
PE Central - http://www.pecentral.org/
WHO on Immunization - http://www.who.int/immunization/en/

LOCAL LINKS

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First Aid

  1. Show the correct way to:
    1. Transport a person with compound fracture of the forearm; head injury; spinal column injury.
    2. Make and apply splints for a broken thigh bone.
    3. Explain the dangers involved in the transportation of an injured person even before the injury is known.

  2. Show how to:
    1. Stop bleeding from a ruptured varicose vein in the leg.
    2. Control arterial and/or venous bleeding on the wrist and calf of leg and other parts of the body.

  3. Demonstrate First Aid for the following situtations:
    1. A person in contact with an electric wire
    2. A person in shock due to starvation, injuries, or certain diseases
    3. A person choking from drowning or food lodged in your windpipe
    4. A person who dove into shallow water, struck your head, and fell unconscious

  4. Identify the likely disease-causing germs in gunshot wounds, stab wounds, wounds from rusty nails, pitchforks, garden rakes, or powder burns. Explain why it is essential for patients with these wounds to seek medical treatment from a physician.

  5. Show how to:
    1. Sterilize a small piece of cloth or part of your shirt if you have to use it as an improvised bandage or dressing
    2. Treat extreme shock, using cover, correct position and heating devices
    3. Give a patient an external cardiac massage

RESOURCE LINKS
Family Doctor.Org - http://familydoctor.org/online/famdocen/home.html
Learn CPR - http://depts.washington.edu/learncpr/
Philippine National Red Cross - http://www.redcross.org.ph/
WebMD - http://my.webmd.com/

LOCAL LINKS
First Aid - /pub/pdf/notes_firstaid.pdf

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Safety

  1. Make an inspection of your home using a safety list checked by your Outfit Advisor and Counselor. Tell what hazards you found, why they are hazards, and how they can be removed

  2. As a result of the inspection, list down ten (10) safety rules to be observed in your home

  3. Do one of the following:
    1. Take active part in the safety work in school over a period of at least 10 weeks, at all times doing your best by example and attitude, to interest your schoolmates in safety activities
    2. Build a cabinet for the safe and proper storage of medicines or poisons or a suitable play pen for a baby, OR recommend a safety device for home or Troop/Outfit and with the approval of the Counselor, make such a device.

  4. Show or tell:
    1. How you would make yourself visible while walking on the road at night; on which side of the road you should walk, day or night, and why
    2. A good knowledge of local traffic regulations and basic rules of the road.
    3. The correct and proper way to handle objects with sharp points or edges on public transportation.
    4. Safe practices for handling, carrying, and storing various kinds of farm tools in the home or workshop.
    5. Familiarity and ability to operate common types of fire extinguishers.

  5. Find and comment on newspaper stories from the last three months that talk about three (3) types of accidents caused by one of these reasons:
    1. Getting on and off moving vehicles
    2. Crossing streets or highways
    3. Reckless driving
    4. Not following traffic laws

  6. Discuss with your Counselor or act out with you Patrol/Crew the main dangers you think are involved in:
    1. Modern transportation
    2. Industry
    3. Recreation
    4. Home

  7. Tell how to deal safely with the following:
    1. Dangling wires from and electric post
    2. Safe storage and use of gasoline or other petroleum products
    3. Running engine in a closed garage
    4. Three ways of turning on a fire alarm
    5. Provide the exact location of the nearest alarm to your home, school, and Outfit meeting room.
    6. Danger of firecrackers

  8. Discuss with your Counselor how you can contribute to the safety of yourself, your family, and your community, as proof of your understanding and appreciation of Safety.

RESOURCE LINKS
Home Safety Checklist - https://www.safety.com/home-safety-checklist/
Online Newspapers - http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/philippi.shtml
Road Signs - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_signs_in_the_Philippines
Safe Kids Campaign - http://www.safekids.org
School Safety Checklist - http://negordrrm.weebly.com/uploads/1/7/7/4/17742683/schools_checklist_2017.pdf
Youtube - Medicine Cabinet - https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=medicine+cabinet

LOCAL LINKS

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Soil and Water Conservation

  1. Define what is soil. Explain how soil is formed. Explain the importance of conserving soil.

  2. Do the following:
    1. Collect and identify various kinds of rocks from which soil is formed
    2. Present samples of three classifications of soil - sand, silt and clay. Explain their relationship with water
    3. Explain and show why soil fertility is important to soil conservation.

  3. Demonstrate and explain any three (3) of the following:
    1. Why organic matter called "humus" is important to soil
    2. How living organisms like earthworms, play an important role in conserving soil
    3. Beneficial effects of compost heap when added to soil
    4. How indiscriminate burning of grass and leaves of trees or plants and "kaingin" cause soil erosion
    5. Name three kinds of soil erosion, describe each and how they can be prevented or controlled
    6. What is a gully (or dongas)? Describe how a gully could be healed.

  4. Make a drawing showing the water cycle and explain. Explain why a disturbance in the water cycle is a threat to man.

  5. Show and explain any three (3) of the following:
    1. The importance of water to man
    2. The disastrous effects of water pollution to man
    3. How water is polluted in rivers or streams. What pollution does to fish and wildlife, swimming, water or homes, farms and factories
    4. The three steps of waste water treatment
    5. What is a watershed? How removal of vegetation will affect the way water runs off a watershed
    6. At least five (5) ways of conserving water

RESOURCE LINKS
Uses of Humus - http://wi.essortment.com/foodsoilhumus_rfdg.htm
Waste Water Treatment - http://www.humboldt.edu/~ere_dept/marsh/flow1.html

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Swimming

    (These tests must be performed before a Counselor who is a recognized swimming instructor of the Philippine National Red Cross or who holds an Aquatic School Certificate for Swimming from the Boy Scouts of the Philippines)

  1. Swim 100 meters in good form using the following strokes for at least the distance specified:
    1. Side-Stroke - 20 meters
    2. Elementary Back Stroke - 20 meters
    3. Breast-Stroke - 60 meters

  2. Surface dive in two meters in water and recover an object from the bottom

  3. In water, two (2) or more meters deep, while fully dressed, remove trousers, tie an overhand knot on the bottom of each leg, inflate trousers and float motionless for one (1) minute using the inflate trousers as buoys; or while dressed as above, tread water, inflate shirt and float motionless for one (1) minute.

  4. Rest motionless in the water, or as nearly so as possible, at any angle, for one (1) minute.

  5. Enter water without sound, swim silently without splash for fifteen (15) meters (with breast stoke or dog paddle) leave water without sound.

  6. While swimming, submerge quickly (using both surface dive jackknife and duck dive and feet first method), swim three strokes forward under water, return to the surface and at signal, repeat three (3) times.

  7. In deep water, remove street clothes and swim forty (40) meters. *(Include socks, shoes, trousers, shins, sweater or sweatshirt)

RESOURCE LINKS
Philippine National Red Cross - http://www.redcross.org.ph/

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Tree Farming

  1. Point out fifteen different species of trees or wild shrubs in the field, and tell their names and chief use.

  2. Tell the value of forests in protecting soil and building fertility, regulating the flow of water, wildlife management, and as recreational areas. Tell from what watershed or other sources your community obtains its water.

  3. Describe briefly the part that forest products play in our everyday life.

  4. Take part in your town or community tree farming activities. Give the meaning of forest management.

  5. With its supervisor, visit a public or private forest area or watershed and write a 300-word report on how the area is managed to grow repeated crops of trees to protect the watershed, support wildlife, or provide other services and benefits.

RESOURCE LINKS
The Cebu Cinnamon - http://www.globaltrees.org/reso_tree.asp?id=34
The Philippine Teak - http://www.globaltrees.org/reso_tree.asp?id=27

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Weather

  1. Show knowledge of the air's composition, including constant and variable elements, and their functions.

  2. Tell how the following are formed: moisture, fog, hail, rain, and snow.

  3. Describe electrical and optical phenomena in the air, such as rainbows, mirages, looming, halos, lighting and thunder. Mention any you have seen.

  4. Describe the use and how to read a barometer, thermometer, anemometer, hygrometer, and rain gauge.
    1. Make a simple weather vane.
    2. Demonstrate familiarity with storm/weather signals.

       

  5. Do any one of the following:
    1. Write a simple statement on the climate of the Philippines.
    2. Tell the value of weather prediction. Write a brief account of the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA), stating what daily, weekly, or monthly publications are prepared and distributed by it. Be able to interpret the chart and graphs contained in these publication.
    3. Keep a daily record for a month of the following: dew or fog in the morning; at a specific hour each day, the direction and force of the wind; the temperature and kinds of clouds (if any) in the sky.

  6. Name some places where the danger from lightning is high during severe thunderstorms, and some places where the danger is low.

  7. Show a knowledge of the causes and usual origins and trajectories or paths of typhoons in the Philippines.

RESOURCE LINKS
Atmospheric Composition - http://www.met.fsu.edu/explores/atmcomp.html

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World Brotherhood

  1. Have an elementary knowledge of the geography, history, customs and characteristics of people of at least three countries other than your own

  2. Correspond regularly for a period of not less than one year (write at least six letters and receive at least three replies) with a Scout of another country. (Your project may be done individually or as part of an Outfit "link up" Request for contact with overseas Scouts may be made with the Boy Scouts of the Philippines, National Headquarters, Manila).

  3. Give an informative talk of at least 3-minute duration to the members of your Crew or Outfit on the interest and knowledge gained by corresponding with or visiting a Scout of another country.

  4. Do the following:
    1. Tell in your own words how the Scouting Movement began. Point out on a world map the five Scouting regions and identify at least thirty countries which have Scouting.
    2. Describe and demonstrate at least three ways by which Scouts from various countries can recognize one another (by similarities in uniforms, insignias, badges, oath and law, motto, sign, handshakes, etc.)
    3. Explain the organization and operation of the World Organization of the Scout Movement (Conference, Committee and Bureau)

  5. Do any three of the following:
    1. Identify the flag of the United Nations and those of at least twelve member countries
    2. Read the preamble of the Charter of the United Nations; outline in your own words the purpose of the United Nations Organization as set forth in Chapter I of its charter.
    3. Describe the work of the specialized agencies of the United Nations
    4. Read the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and list at least five rights directly related to you and your family.

  6. Do any three of the following:
    1. Take part in some practical activity of an international character such as the collection or distribution of relief supplies, the reception and entertainment of visitors from overseas or assist in a project of a non-partisan organization to promote world brotherhood.
    2. Camp at least five days with Scouts of another country either in your own or in a foreign country. Keep a log book covering the event and note down your impressions. Show that you have a fair understanding of the culture, customs and characteristics of the Scouts you had camped with.
    3. Carry on a conversation with another person in a foreign language for at least five minutes; translate at least 100 words of that language given by the Counselor
    4. Keep an album or scrapbook for at least one year depicting activities of another country
    5. Relate briefly to the members of your Crew/Outfit the history of Scouting in three member countries of the World Organization of the Scout Movement. Draw their Scout Emblems.

RESOURCE LINKS
Country Reports - http://www.countryreports.org
World Factbook - CIA - https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/index.html
World Flag Database - http://www.flags.net/
Wikipedia: World Organization of the Scout Movement - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Organization_of_the_Scout_Movement

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SCOUTING EVENTS
JOTA/JOTI - https://www.jotajoti.info/
WOSM Scout Youth Forum - https://www.scout.org/youthforum

WORLD ORGANIZATIONS
Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) - http://www.asean.org
United Nations (UN) - http://www.un.org
World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM) - http://www.scout.org