Canada
and the World - Purple Star Activities
     
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Canada and the World
is a big place to learn about. Here's a good place to start you on your way.
 PURPLE
STAR
ABORIGINAL
AWARENESS BADGE
CANADIAN
HERITAGE BADGE
INTERNATIONAL
TRADE BADGE
SPACE
EXPLORATION BADGE
WORLD
RELIGIONS BADGE
WORLD
CUBBING BADGE
LANGUAGE
STRIP
RELIGION
IN LIFE EMBLEM
WORLD
CITIZEN AWARD
PURPLE
STAR
To earn the Purple Star,
choose and do any six of the A requirements and a minimum of five of the B
requirements:
A. Requirements
1. Give the history and draw a picture of the Canadian
flag. Also draw the flags
of two other countries.
2. Recite or sing "0
Canada", our national anthem.
3. Draw or trace a map of Canada
and include such features as provincial and territorial boundaries, capital
cities, your home location, occupations common to the various regions and
natural features.
4. Make a simple scrapbook describing the life of one or more important
Canadians of your choice.
5. Discuss with your leader the benefits you and your community receive from
doing community service projects.
6. Discuss with an adult what some of our Rights
and Freedoms are as Canadians. Also discuss what freedom and prejudice mean
to you.
7. Make a chart of your pack or six and see how many cultures are represented.
8. Participate in an activity which explores the traditions of your own faith.
9. Participate in an activity which explores the traditions of a religion other
than your own.
10. Participate in an activity where you explore the traditions of a culture or
country other than your own.
11. Look through a catalogue, newspaper or magazine for products which are made
in another country and sold in Canada. Find products made in Canada that are
sold in other countries.
12. Make a presentation describing Canadian technology and travel.
B. Requirements
1. Participate in a local food bank drive.
2. Participate in a project to collect items for the needy, such as clothes or
toys.
3. Assist a Service Agency in a service project. (e.g. Red
Cross, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, etc.)
4. Participate in providing service for your place of worship.
5. Participate in any environmental cleanup or beautification project.
6. Participate in an Adopt-a-Friend project for a special person, group,
community or environment.
7. Participate in providing service to your Sponsor or assist your Sponsor in
any community service project.
8. Make a gift and donate it to a worthy cause.
9. Participate in any project which improves access for or awareness of the
disabled.
10. Participate in providing service to your school.
11. Assist a Colony as a Keo for three months.
12. Participate in a project that supports the Canadian Scout Brotherhood Fund
or Community Development Projects.
13. Participate in a community
service project not listed above.
BADGE ACTIVITIES
 ABORIGINAL
AWARENESS BADGE
Do any four of the following requirements:
1. Tell about or show four or more items
that were invented by Aboriginal
people and which we still use today.
2. Make a list of Aboriginal
words that are used as names of places, such as provinces and territories,
cities, towns, parks, roads and waterways. Discover the Aboriginal meaning of
these words.
3. Learn about some of the Aboriginal
people who first lived in your area. Using historical information and designs,
make a model or display that shows their dwellings,
how they traveled, their writing and art forms, and objects
used for daily living.
4. Learn an Aboriginal game, song,
dance or story
and share it with your six or pack.
5. Tell how an Aboriginal people's way of life is affected by the part of the
country in which they live.
6. Discover and tell how Aboriginal people helped early explorers and pioneers
to settle in Canada.
7. If possible, arrange to visit with an Aboriginal person. Find out how that
person's life is similar to or different from how Aboriginal people lived long
ago.
 CANADIAN
HERITAGE BADGE
Do any seven of the following requirements:
1. Learn a Canadian folksong and its origins, and then sing it with your six or
pack.
2. Make a scrapbook about a famous Canadian, telling when he or she lived, and
what his or her accomplishments were.
3. Learn a Canadian
legend or folktale. Tell it to your six or pack.
4. Do either (a) or (b):
a) Visit another part of Canada and make a
collection of things that you see there. Present your collection to your six or
pack
b) Make a presentation
about a city in Canada other than where you live. How big is it? When was it
founded? What is it famous for? What is Canada like near that city? Hint: Write
to the Chamber of Commerce or Tourism Board to get answers.
5. Visit a local museum.
Draw a picture of some of the exhibits or things you see. Show your pictures to
your six or pack, and tell them what you liked about the museum and what you
learned from visiting it.
6. Tell your six or pack about a cultural group in Canada. What are their
traditions? What languages does the group speak? How has this cultural group
contributed to Canada's culture?
7. Make a presentation about Aboriginal
people in Canada. Meet with an Aboriginal person if possible, to learn more
about the history, traditions and contributions of local Aboriginal people.
8. Contact a Cub in another
part of Canada. Ask the Cub what Canada is like there and what the people
like to do.
9. Draw or trace a simple map of Canada, showing the provinces and territories,
capital cities, and other main features you can discover.
10. Learn the Wolf Cub Promise, Law and Grand Howl in another
language of your choice.
 INTERNATIONAL
TRADE BADGE (Updated
November 1999)
Do any five of the following requirements:
1. Make a list of at least eight items around your home (e.g. groceries,
clothes, electronics, etc.) that were grown or produced outside Canada. What
countries did they come from? Locate these countries on a map, and find out how
the items got to Canada.
2. Pick any five spices
(e.g. cinnamon, nutmeg, clove, pepper, turmeric). Where did they come from? Find
out their history and how they first arrived in other parts of the world.
3. Identify at least two different gem
stones. Where did they come from? Find out how they have been traded through
history.
4. Find a business in your area that exports or imports products to or
from other countries. Find out where these products have come from, and/or where
they are going. How were they transported?
5. Find out how airplanes carry
both cargo and passengers at the same time. Explain why there are special rules
for shipping dangerous goods on airplanes.
6. Identify four different types of cargo ships and what each has been
specially designed to carry.
7. List six things that Canada produces or grows that other countries may
want. In return, what things might these other countries trade with us because
we don’t produce or grow them?
8. Learn about the currencies
of at least two other countries (e.g. Malaysian ringgits, Chinese Yuan, Russian
rubles) and compare their value to Canadian currency.
9. Many famous explorers
went on their voyages looking for new trade routes and new lands. Learn the
story of one explorer. Share with your six or leader what the explorer went
looking for and what they discovered.
 SPACE
EXPLORATION BADGE
Do any four of the following requirements:
1. Discuss the importance of space
technology in Canadian living. This could include:
a) weather forecasts
b) communications
c) search and rescue operations
d) map making
e) promoting international cooperation between Canada
and other countries
2. Make a drawing or model of a satellite, such as Canada's
first satellites Alouette I and II, ISIS or Hermes, or another satellite of
your choice.
3. Make a presentation about the Space
Shuttle, including the Canadian.
4. Design and build a space
station. Include living requirements, such as water, air and food supplies,
power sources, communications and describe what peaceful activities the space
station can be used for.
5. Draw or make a model
of a rocket, or of a space craft of your own design. Tell about any special
features you have included in your model.
6. Draw or make a space suit currently in use or one of your own design. Tell
about any special features you have included in your model.
7. Make a report on or a scrapbook about an astronaut,
mission team or space mission of your choice.
 WORLD
RELIGIONS BADGE
With your parent's or guardian's permission and assistance from your leader,
complete the following requirements:
1. Do either (a) or (b):
a) Visit a place
of worship other than your own faith and find out some information about its
structure, its contents and the form of worship conducted there
b) Meet with a knowledgeable adult who belongs to a
denomination or religion other than your own and discover how that person puts
their faith into practice in daily life
2. Find out about a religion other than your own and tell your leader about any
of its sacred books, holy places, religious customs and special festivals or
holidays.
3. Discuss with your leader what values many of the world's religions have in
common.
 WORLD
CUBBING BADGE
1. Find out how Scouts Canada helps developing
countries to improve their living conditions. (Ask a leader about the Canadian
Scout Brotherhood Fund's Community Development Program and Scoutrees For Canada,
or contact your local Scout office.)
2. Make a simple scrapbook of another country,
containing pictures, drawings or samples of some of the following:
a) the country's
flag
b) people's daily dress
c) the country's coins and stamps
d) interesting places in the country
e) how people get around
f) people's houses
g) what the weather is like
h) what kind of food people grow and eat
i) the kinds of things children your age
like to do
3. Do either (a) or (b):
a) Make a presentation to your pack or six
on the country you've chosen. Use your scrapbook and talk about: the language or
languages people speak, the religions people follow, the geography and climate,
the main cities in the country, the size of the country, the main things people
grow and make, the kinds of things people do at home, school, work, in their
places of worship, and in the outdoors
b) Learn
where the people in your neighborhood or their ancestors came from. Make a
presentation for your pack or six on one of these countries, describing: how
people in that country express themselves today (language, beliefs, clothing,
religion, ceremonies, etc.) why some people from the country came to Canada some
of the country's customs your neighbors have kept (e.g. religion, food,
clothing, games, etc.)
LANGUAGE
STRIP i.e.
Je Parle Francais and Parlo Italiano
Demonstrate that you can communicate in a second language with others in and
around your community.
You wear the
Language Strip on the sash. There are Language Strips available for many
languages, including sign language and braille.
Ask one of your leaders about them.
RELIGION
IN LIFE EMBLEM
If the requirements for the
Religion in Life Emblem have been set by your religious organization, ask your
spiritual advisor or leader to help you earn this award
AWARDS
WORLD
CITIZEN AWARD
To achieve this award you must complete the following:
1. Earn the Purple
Star.
2. Earn a total of three of the Canada and the World related badges as follows:
a) The World
Religions Badge or the Religion
in Life Emblem, b) The Aboriginal
Awareness Badge or the Canadian
Heritage Badge, c) One other badge of your choice excluding the Language
Strip,
3. Choose a current affairs topic of your choice and follow it in the news for
at least one week. Report on what had happened and how people were involved.
4. Participate in a pack meeting which highlights Canada's role in the United
Nations, such as a U.N. night.
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