Water Conservation and Cryptography
Today, the Cubs looked at water conservation. When we were planning this term’s activities, it hadn’t rained for weeks and the world was looking a rather wilted place – we hadn’t imagined that when we came to do the water conservation day it would be raining so much that houses were flooding…
But, of course, in many countries, there’s not enough water to drink (let alone grow food), so it’s still an applicable concern!
After discussions about the importance of water conservation, we played a game that highlighted some of the issues.
Then the scout plan for the day had to be changed; it was too wet to go outside and complete the Nature badge, so instead, we extended last week’s cub cryptography exercise to Scout level. The discussion afterwards led to the topic of maths education, and the changes to the education system since Skip and Akela were doing GCSEs and A levels!