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 Bronze Boomerang |
| Tests 1-7 are mandatory |
Test 1 - Health and First Aid (Responsibility for self) |
| Personal Health |
Explain how to keep your hands and nails clean and why.
Explain when you should wash your hands.
Demonstrate how to look after your teeth. |
Basic First Aid |
Put together a simple first aid kit and take it on bushwalks and outings with you.
Show how to treat a graze or small cut. |
Infections |
Show an understanding of how colds are spread and how to prevent them. |
Adult Help |
Explain why you need adult help in case of accidents.
Pass a message, including an address, from one adult to another.
Explain how to use a mobile phone and a public phone and discuss the steps you would take to make an emergency call. |
Test 2 - Safety (Responsibility for self) |
| Buddy System |
Explain the buddy system. |
| Home |
Discuss the causes of accidents in the home, especially in the kitchen, bathroom and on stairways. |
| Road |
Take an adult for a walk and show that you know how to be safe on the roads. |
| Water |
Discuss the dangers of swimming in the type of water in your area.
Explain the dangers of inflatable toys in open water. |
| Bush |
Explain what you should do to make sure you don't get lost in the bush.
Discuss what to do if you do get lost in the bush. |
| Fire |
Discuss the dangers that fire can cause in the home and the bush.
Show what to do if you are in a fire at home. |
| Personal |
Discuss why you should not go places by yourself. |
Test 3 - Ropes (Outdoor Scouting) |
| Tying knots |
Tie a reef knot.
Tie your shoelaces |
| Use of knots |
Discuss how and when to use a reef knot. |
| Care of ropes |
Show you know how to look after ropes correctly
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| * More info on ropes can be found on our ropes page.
Test 4 - Outdoor Scouting (Outdoor Scouting) |
| Compass and Navigation |
Discuss how a compass works and show you know the four principal points.
Make a simple compass. |
| Maps and Hiking |
Attend at least two outdoor outings with your Pack.
Dress correctly and pack your own daypack for the outings. |
| Fire Lighting |
Demonstrate the correct way to strike a match. |
Outdoor Cooking |
Prepare and cook for yourself a damper/twist. |
Test 5 - Our Cub Scout Traditions (Scouting Aims and Principles) |
| The Jungle Books |
Talk about the main characters in the Jungle Books and what their names are.
Tell the story of how Mowgli came to be in the Jungle. |
| Scouting History |
Tell who founded Scouting and where and when it began.
Find out when Scouting started in Australia and in your Group.
When is BP's birthday and what do we call this special day? |
Test 6 - Symbols of Australia (Growing Awareness of Local Community) |
| Flags |
Show you know the composition of the Australian Flag. |
| Emblems |
Tell your Leader of two places where you would see the Australian Coat of Arms. |
Test 7 - Promise and Law (Values of Scouting) |
| Duty to Your God |
Write a prayer and read it to your Pack. |
| Promise and Law |
Talk to your Leader about how you do your best to live up to the Promise and Law:
- at school
- at home
- in the Pack.
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| Service |
Do a good turn for someone at home and tell your Leader about it. |
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Bronze Boomerang |
| Choose any 3 from Tests 8-14 (when added to Tests 1-7, you'll have finished 10 tests to complete your Boomerang) |
Test 8 - Fitness (Pursuits and Interests & Responsibility for Self) |
| Ball Skills |
Throw a ball 5 metres to someone else and catch it on return four times
Dribble a ball for a distance of 10 metres. |
| Athletic Skills |
Run 100 metres as quickly as you can. |
| Strength and Stamina |
Skip 10 times without stopping. |
Test 9 - People and Cultures (Growing Awareness of Wider World) |
| Indigenous Australians |
Find out about one of the traditional owners in your area/State or Territory and something about how they lived before European settlement. |
| International Cultures |
Make a list of the ethnic groups in your community, e.g. at school, church or in your Pack. |
| Scouting |
Find out something about each of the five Sections in Scouts Australia, either in your own Group or in the District.
Take part in an activity with a different Section |
Test 10 - Scientific Discovery (The World Around us) |
| Cub Scouts will be required to do any two of the following |
| Biology |
Grow some seeds on cotton wool and observe what happens. |
| Geology |
Identify five different rocks and tell where you found them. |
| Physics |
Explain the composition of air
Perform an experiment that shows how oxygen can be used up. |
| Estimation |
Measure your hand and foot.
Using these measurements, estimate:
- the width of your Scout Hall
- the height of a Cub Scout.
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Test 11 - The Natural Environment (The World Around us) |
| Recycling |
Name four things that can be recycled and how the recycling helps the environment.
Make something using recycled materials. |
| Pollution |
Help to clean up litter in your local area.
Explain how litter can harm the natural environment. |
| Habitat Destruction |
Find out what native creatures live in your local area.
Discuss how their habitats can be destroyed. |
Test 12 - Self Expression (Creativity) |
| Cub Scouts will be required to do any two of the following |
| Performing Arts |
Perform in a mime, skit or play with other members of your Pack. |
| Visual Arts |
Create a poster, painting, drawing or collage. |
| Creative Writing |
Write a poem or a short story. |
| Music |
Sing a song or play a musical instrument for your Pack. |
Test 13 - Handcraft (Creativity) |
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Make an item from one of the following materials: |
Test 14 - Your Community (Growing Awareness of Local Community) |
| Home |
Show you know how to keep your clothes, toys and equipment tidy.
Talk to your Leaders about how you do this. |
| Local Community |
Show you know where the main features are in your local area, such as:
- the nearest bus stop to home and the Scout Hall
- the safest route to the shops from home.
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| Local Organisations |
Does your community have a local newspaper or Community Newsletter? If so, what is it called? |
