A few weeks back I received my second exchange in the The Great Astronomers Badge Swap . The Astronomer's Badge from the 12th Winches...

Ken Murphy over at Out of the Cradle wrote a piece on Girl Scout space badges in Scouting the Moon .  The article also has some references t...

Here are the requirements: This week the I received my first exchange in the The Great Astronomers Badge Swap . The Skies Badge from ...

For my 100th post I wanted to talk about something at the core of Scouting. The humble but ever so useful neckerchief seemed a perfect choi...

While the David Dunlop Observatory is now closed, two of the astronomers that ran the public outreach program for schools, Scouting, and Gui...

Parents, Cubs, and new Chums. Even though our Cub pack takes the summer off, there's lots of things a Cub can do over the summer. Even ...

I'd like to propose a modest project. To gather a collection of one of each astronomers badges from Scouters across the world. Phase ...

Emergency Preparedness Adventure at Centennial Park - Saturday, May 10th, 9 am - 4 pm Cubs and Scouts For more information see here or down...

Every good Scout should be able to find their direction. Even without a compass! Or a GPS unit. But how? How many ways are there to find ...

As part of our Space Exploration Badge we built a full scale model of a satellite! Here are some pictures of our model. Canada and Canadians...

Last meeting I was looking at our Pack's inventory of badges to see what we were short (and long) on. And I came across this one in our...

On March 4th 2008, the 433rd Cubs, parents, and a few Scouts paid a visit to the David Dunlap Observatory. Unfortunately the weather did no...

A while back I wrote that your first telescope should be a good pair of binoculars . This morning I came across an article on things to loo...

Image courtesy of NASA, the Comet is a bonus, click on image for more info (Credit: Alessandro Dimai at the Col Druscie Observatory) Th...

One of the Astronomer badge requirements is to use a seasonal star chart. One of the most compact and useful star charts is called a Planis...

At our last meeting, we had a visit from the Toronto Fire Service. We learned about basic fire safety, including: smoke alarms (batteries an...

Tuesday, January 22, 2008 at 8:35 a.m. EST is the full Wolf Moon! It may just be visible in the western sky when you wake and before school...

The Tides Game is an educational steam-off game. The game illustrates the affect of the moon on the Earth's Oceans. The players: "...

Image courtesy of NASA APOD, click image for more info (Credit & Copyright: Matthew Spinelli) Fall stargazing can be tough with all the ...

I found some Games involving Knots here .