In this adventure, you’ll get to explore how to keep your body healthy. Why is it important to wash your hands? Why is the slimy mucus in your nose (yep, snot) important to your health? What happens if you sneeze into the air instead of the bend in your elbow? Clean rooms do not just make adults happy, how does keeping your room clean help keep you healthy? We will explore all of these questions while we journey through the yucky world of germs!
Clean rooms do not just make adults happy…they keep wolves healthy, too! We will experiment and find answers to all of these questions while we journey through this adventure! After all, healthy habits create healthy habitats!
Rationale for Adventure
This adventure teaches Wolf Scouts about the importance of keeping a clean room, proper hand washing, and covering their sneezes — through fun (and gross!) hands-on science experiments.
Requirements
Complete at least five of the following requirements
- Wash your hands while singing the “germ song.”
- Play Germ Magnet with your den or family. Wash your hands again afterward.
- Conduct the sneeze demonstration.
- Conduct the mucus demonstration with your den or family.
- Grow a mold culture. At a den or pack meeting, show what formed.
- Make a clean room chart, and do your chores for at least one week.
Takeaways for the Scout
- Knowing the proper way to wash hands
- Why we cover a sneeze
- What mucus does for our bodies
- The importance of cleaning our rooms
- Bacteria are present even if we can’t see them.
- A scout is clean, courteous.
Historical Requirements
2015 Handbook Requirements
Wolf Handbook, page 230
Wolf Den Leader Guide, page 137
- Wash your hands while singing the “germ song.”
- Play Germ Magnet with your den. Wash your hands again afterward.
- Conduct the sneeze demonstration.
- Conduct the mucus demonstration with your den.
- Grow a mold culture. Show what formed at a den or pack meeting.
- Make a clean room chart, and do your chores for at least one week.
