Websites
School Night for Scouting
Baloo covers SNFS
http://usscouts.org/bbugle/bb9809/bb9809.html
Rally Information and SNFS plans
http://usscouts.org/cubscouts/jsn.html
Get a Cub Scout Uniform for $36.00
http://bsa.scouting.org/stuff/cubuniform/index.html
Theme Related
How To Pan for Gold (video & audio)
http://www.sjmercury.com/goldrush/goldrush_resources.shtml
Gold Fever!
http://www.museumca.org/goldrush/fever.html
Gold Rush Sesquicentennial
http://www.calgoldrush.com/
Judy Polak sent me the following information and URLs about the Gold Rush era
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There was also a Canadian Gold Rush (in British Columbia 1858, 1862, 1865), Alaskan (Klondike) Gold Rush (in 1898) and Gold Rush Games (a video game company!)
Californians began celebrating the Sesquicentennial of the Gold Rush on Jan. 24, 1998. One hundred and fifty years early, in 1848, James Marshall found a pea sized nugget in the sawmill ditch of John Sutter's sawmill on the American River. Although Marshall and Sutter tried to keep it quiet, soon word was out across the United States, and one in every 90 people living in the United States was on his or her way to California -- the 49ers.
The Sacramento Bee has a multi-part article about the history of the Gold Rush. Remember Sacramento was established during the gold rush in the middle of the gold fields!
http://www.calgoldrush.com/
This PBS page has Gold Rush facts that Cubs will love
http://www.pbs.org/goldrush/funfacts.html
A common expression among the 49ers was "going to see the elephant." Find out what it means:
http://www.goldrushcom/~joann/elephant.htm
Go with Mr. Peabody, Sherman and the Wayback Machine from Rocky and Bullwinkle on a traveling adventure to the gold fields via a wayback machine:
http://www.discovery.com/stories/wayback/980323/wayback.html
Not everyone in the California gold fields made their fortunes. But here are some names we know today that are linked to 49ers:
http://www.womanmotorist.com/travel/sk-goldrush-history-04.shtml
An interactive game (better for Tigers) of equipment needed to go for the gold:
http://www.tbc.gov.bc.ca/culture/schoolnet/cariboo/kids/supply1.htm
A list of words associated with gold mining:
http://www.tbc.gov.bc.ca/culture/schoolnet/yale/kids/smlist.htm
Visit the site! Sutter's Mill is a part of Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park in California. Take a look at where it all happened:
http://calparks.ca.gov/DISTRICTS/goldrush/mgdshp/mgdshp6.htm
From our friends at Pack 114 in Fort Calhoun, Nebraska, are games that kids in the 1850's would have played. This site is quiet games (perfect for gathering):
http://www.creighton.edu/~bsteph/pack114/library/old-games.html
This site is more active games:
http://www.creighton.edu/~bsteph/pack114/library/old-games2.html
The U.S. Postal Service commemorated the Gold Rush in a stamp released in June 1999:
http://www.usps.gov/images/stamps/99/california.htm
Scouting & Pack Pages
Pack 273
http://www2.inow.com/~wag/pack273.html
Check out their duty roster
http://www2.inow.com/~wag/denduty.html
Pack 712--Cool guest book also-take a minute there and sign it
http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/Geyser/6117/index2.html
Trash to Treasures
http://craftsforkids.about.com/library/bltrashtr.htm?pid=2779&cob=home
How can my community reduce waste?
http://www.learner.org/exhibits/garbage/intro.html
Great Ceremony Site
THECEREMONYTABLE.COM
PowWow online
http://dns.advnet.net/chuckh
Cub Scout RT Information (see Survival Kit)
http://usscouts.org/csrt/
Cub Scout RT Information
http://kirk.home.texas.net/
Pack 215 ceremony site--GREAT!!
http://www.geocities.com/~pack215/ceremonies.html
Another Great site for info-check it out
http://www.infinet.com/~baugust/scout.html
Artist Activity Badge
http://www.artcyclopedia.com
Citizen Activity Badge
The White House
http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/Welcome.html
Betsy Ross site includes history on her, flag ettiquite, quotes, flag trivia
http://www.libertynet.org/iha/betsy/index.html
Scientist Activity Badge
Do your Webelos have scientific questions that you don't know the answer to-- Find out the answer to why you cry when cutting onions and other *burning* scientific questions (Around the House)
http://www.last-word.com/
Mad Scientist Day--for Webelos
http://www.physics.ucok.edu/~chughes/~cubscouts/
Showman give your Webelos *a hand* in grabbing onto this topic
Making Glove Puppets
http://edu147.coe.ufl.edu/Courses/edtech/XPI/text/articles/article 2 folder/puppet.html
Citizen
See American Documents
http://www.nara.gov/exhall/exhibits.html
Engineer
Catapult http://www.pack-o-fun.com/projects/catapult.htm
Catapult http://www.cariboo.bc.ca/schs/eureka/catapult.htm
Catapult http://www.rogerknapp.com/knap/stfiles.htm
Marshmallow Catapult
http://www.usoe.k12.ut.us/curr/science/core/plans/int/grape.html
Large Catapult Plans
http://www.isd.net/stobin/d-scoutcraft.html
Traveler Activity Badge
http://www.indo.com/distance/
Map Quest
http://www.mapquest.com/
Useful info for travelers
http://www.travel.org
Transportation for Scouts
http://usscouts.org/safety/g2ssXII.html
Just For Fun
Live puppy-cam at animal shelters across the country
http://www.thepuppycam.com/network/index.shtml
Where were you?
http://www.wherewereyou.com/
Best Books for kids site
http://www.bookhive.org/
Starburst Fun site
http://www.starburst.com/
Famous Sayings
http://www.bsa.scouting.org/fun/sayings/index.html?
Crafts for Kids
http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/kids_crafts
Resources
The scouting graphics for all levels of scouting are available on line at
http://usscouts.org/cd/index.html
or you can get it as a CD
Why A CD?:
For years we have been maintaining a free online library of Scouting images. Over the years many Scouters asked about how to go about having their own copy of all the images on the ftp site so that they could take the library with them on Scouting events.
This USSSP CD-ROM contains over 16,000 images (approximately 5,000 unique images in multiple formats) and 1,500 documents from our Clipart & File Library Site.
Purchase Your Copy of the CD: If you would like to purchase a copy of the CD you can use our order form. If you have suggestions for what you would like to see included on the next version of our CD, please drop us a line.
Download the Same Resources for Free: Remember, you don't have to buy a CD to use any of our free resources. Please feel free to browse our Clipart and File Library and download anything that will help you or your Scouting organization. We built the Clipart and File Library for the purpose of making Scouting resources available to Scouts and Scouters to further the aims of Scouting.
Need Something You Can't Find At USSSP: If you can't find what you need, please let the U.S. Scouting Service Project know and we'll see what we can do.
Contributions Welcome: If you have clipart, documents, or other stuff that you'd like to share, please let us know. We are always looking for new material to add to the library.
Versions and Future Plans:
Version 1.1 of the USSSP CD has a new cover to indicate that it was produced by USSSP (Version 1.0 was produced by our fulfillment agent). The contents are the same as Version 1.0.
We are currently considering the production of a Version 2.0 CD with more content and resources.