PRE-OPENING
Space
Trapper Trails Council
1. Sea Animal _____________________________
2. Bird
3. Heavenly Body
4. Right side of a ship
5. Outstanding young actress
6. A Patriot Song
7. To Begin
8. To go hungry
9. To surprise someone
Put answers on back: Starfish, Starling, Star, Starboard, Starlet, Star
Spangled Banner, Start, Starve, and Startle.
Registration
Activity
Crossroads of America
Give a piece of scrap paper to each person and have them
fold a paper airplane. Place a piece of poster board 10 to 15 feet away with a
hole cut in it. Have the people see if they can fly their plane through the
hole. Recognize successful space people before the meeting starts.
Name Tag
Crossroads of America
With the theme related to space, use a simple space
rocket as the form for this month’s nametag!
Paper
Airplanes
York Adams Area Council
Have the boys make their own paper airplanes and then
let them test their skills out on the flight line. For ideas on making
paper airplanes, see these and other website:
http://www.paperairplanes.co.uk/planes.html and
http://www.netwww.com/paper_ac.htm. You can
set up a contest to see which one flies the longest time, flies the farthest,
does the most tricks (like loops), etc.
Parachute
York Adams Area Council
They go up under rocket power, but they come down with gravity—that’s how
many rockets work. But to keep them from crashing and being destroyed,
they use parachutes! Have the boys make their own parachutes to test
out. Materials include circles of 12-inch diameter 3-mil plastic, 8
pieces of 20-inch string, small pieces of duct tape, and a large nut.
Tape the pieces of string to the “top” of the parachute. Turn the chute
upside down and bring all of the pieces of string together, feed them through
the nut, and tie them together. The boys will need to experiment with
the best way to fold and toss their chutes to see how they best open when they
are used. WARNING: Boys may not want to start the meeting once
they begin having fun with their chutes!
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Demo A CAD Program For Rockets
York Adams Area Council
If you have someone in your den with a laptop computer
and a little savvy in computer-aided design (CAD), why not have that person
download a demo copy of SpaceCAD from the website
http://www.spacecad.com/. Then as the boys
come to the meeting that person can show them some of the stuff that the
software helps them do. The executable file is about 2MB. I
haven’t used it myself, but it should be fairly easy to use and demonstrate.
B-L-A-S-T O-F-F
York Adams Area Council
It’s a new year and your
Pack is ready to “blast off” for a great yearlong space journey. How
about starting things off on the right trajectory by helping everyone
introduce themselves to each other? Write the letters B, L, A, S, T, O,
F, and F (again) down the left side of a paper, with spaces to the right to
fill in names. Hand out copies with the instructions to have each person
introduce themselves to others in the Pack and when they find someone with any
of these letters in their name, to write that name next to the letter.
See who can fill in the entire list with names.
Neil Alden Armstrong
York Adams Area Council
One of the most famous
astronauts in history was Neil Alden Armstrong—famous for having been the
first person to walk on the moon. He is also an Eagle Scout. Hand
out sheets of paper with his name at the top with the instruction to write out
as many words as they can from the letters in his name.
