102 - Nature

Learning Objectives

As a result of this experience, each participant should be able to:

• Complete advancement requirements T4b and F5a
• Appreciate the beauty of the plants around them.
• Use resources to identify plants.

Materials Required

• Plant identification books
• Leaf casts.
• 10 to 15 different types of leaves (1 of each per participant and a set for the presenter).
• Ink (water soluble) and rubber roller.
• Newspaper.
• Copy paper (for prints).
• A piece of glass or a glass plate.
• Example leaf casts and leaf prints.

Discovery

Allow scouts to look at the leaves and identify as they can. Let scouts make a leaf cast at the beginning of the meeting so that it will be dry by the end. This could be done as the pre-opening.

Teaching-Learning

1. Identifying Leaves.
   1. Types of Trees
      • Deciduous (Broad Leafed).
      • Conifer (Evergreen or Cone Bearing).
   2. Types of leaves:
      • Simple.
      • Compound.
      • Simple Palmate.
      • Compound Palmate.
   3. For some of the leaves you have brought in, explain to scouts how you identified them.
   4. Include what make them different from other leaves and how they are alike.
2. Making leaf casts and leaf prints (see appendix)

Application

Have scouts make prints of their choice of 5 of the leaves you brought in. Make prints of these as described above. For scouts to complete their requirement, have them collect some more leaf samples and identify them on their own.