Challenge Badges

Aviator Kea

1. Find out about the flight of New Zealand's native parrot the Kea, after which our section is named.

2. Find out about New Zealand's flightless birds.

3. Make a paper dart and demonstrate to an adult how well it flies.

4. Find out about a particular aeroplane and share what you have found with your Kea Club. Examples might be Concorde, Airbus, Spitfire, Jumbo Jet, Helicopter.

5. Find out about some unusual ways of flying e.g. hot air balloon,                    microlight, glider, parachuting, and sand or windsurfing. Share this information with your Kea Club.

6. If you have flown in an aeroplane, tell others in your Club about your flight. If you have not flown, tell others what you would like to fly in and why.

Caring Kea - Choose conservation or animals

CONSERVATION

1. Join the Kiwi Conservation Club (Forest and Bird) - (optional) or find out about a New Zealand organization involved with conservation.

2. Find out about the New Zealand Kea Nestor notabilis.

3. Grow and care for a vegetable plant and eat the produce from it. Some examples could be potato, sweet corn, tomato, lettuce, beans, peas.

4. Find out about an endangered animal in another country.

5. Grow a plant from seeds saved from a flower or fruit or seedpod.

6. Make a picture or poster to show how we can care for our planet.

ANIMALS

1. Know how to care for an animal, fish, bird or insect.

2. Find out some information about your chosen animal.

3. Know about the correct food to feed the animal, including type, variety and quantity.

4. Help take care of a mammal, fish, bird or insect for one month.

5. Keep a record of the food and what is done to care for the animal.

6. Tell others in the Kea Club about this animal.

Healthy Kea

1. Plan and help cook a healthy meal at home.

2. Make a poster of pictures of foods that are good for you.

3. Show that you know about personal hygiene by showing how to care for your teeth, hair, skin, fingernails and feet.

4. Describe when hands should be washed and show how to do this.

5. Take part in a regular fitness activity. This could be at school.

6. Tell others in your Kea Club about a sport or activity you take part in.

Helpful Kea

1. Prepare vegetables for a family meal.

2. Learn how to set the table for a family meal and demonstrate this to an adult.

3. Make your own lunch for school or an outing.

4. Make your bed and keep your room tidy for a week.

5. Help fold the family washing and put your own clothes away.

6. Help put out the rubbish or recycling for two weeks.

Keen Kea

1. Write a prayer or reflection.

2. Read or share the prayer at the opening or closing ceremony of your Club.

3. Find and tell a story that relates to the Kea Scout Promise in an interesting way,    for example as a simple drama, picture, cartoon or part of a game.

4. Describe what you could do to make a new Kea joining your Club feel welcome

5. Visit a place of worship and show evidence of the visit with photographs, drawings, handouts, leaflets or information sheets.

6. Share a favourite poem about nature.

Techno Kea

1. Investigate something of interest to find out how it works. e.g., show how a torch works from the bits that make it up. Demonstrate how magnets work. Other simple machines may be chosen according to the Kea's interest.

2. Make a poster showing different forms of technology.

3. Find out how one of the following services is produced and how it gets to your home: electricity, water, sewerage, rubbish disposal.

4. Demonstrate how to use the phone, know your home phone number and describe how to call emergency services.

5. Write a letter or make a card using a computer, email it to someone living far away. If the Kea does not have access to a computer at home, the Leader will need to investigate with the Kea where this can be done e.g. school, local library or Internet café.

6. Make a mobile, an origami shape, a model out of clay or plasticine and a painting or drawing.

Kea Scientific Badge  

·       Take part in 2 simple experiments with other Keas or at home and be able to explain what has happened and how it happened. Show pictures and explanations if you did it at home.

·       Complete any three of the following:

o     Look at the clouds and be able to explain what the weather is going to be like for the day.

o     Explain a weather map in your local newspaper.

o     Explain how rain is made.

o     Make a simple paper plane, Parachute or Helicopter and get it to fly.

o     Take part in an activity that uses a form of energy. Explain what energy it used and show pictures to help your explanation.

o     Explain what the ‘milky way’ is and talk about 2 planets in it.

o     Grow a plant and track it’s growth over a 4-week period with a Diary and photos.

o     Make a simple telephone or some other form of Communication and explain how it works

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