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Family Travel

travel

  • This subject was added in 2009.
     
  • Requirements

    Tiger Cubs, Cub Scouts, and Webelos Scouts may complete requirements in a family, den, pack, school, or community environment. Tiger Cubs must work with their parents or adult partners. Parents and partners do not earn loops or pins.
     
  • Belt Loop

    Complete these three requirements:

      1. Make a list of things you would take on a three day trip with your family, then pack these items in a bag or suitcase.
      2. With an adult’s help, figure out the cost and miles to complete a trip to a place of interest using the family car or public transportation.
      3. Research at least five places to visit during a trip to a place of interest. Explain what you learned to your family.

    Academics Pin

    Earn the Family Travel belt loop, and complete five of the following requirements:

      1. Go on a trip with your family that includes at least one overnight stay. Keep a journal of your trip and then share it with your den leader.
      2. Play a travel game while traveling in a car.
      3. With an adult, review the Guide to Safe Scouting, chapter XII, “Transportation.” Then make a list of safety rules to follow when traveling in the car or while using public transportation such as a bus, plane, boat, and train. Share the list with your den.
      4. With the help of a parent or adult partner, use a computer to look up an airfare from your closest airport to a city in a foreign country. Calculate the total travel time, the day and time you will leave your home, and the day and time you will arrive at your destination.
      5. Visit a travel agent office or look up a travel Web site.
      6. Using pictures, explain to a family member how people’s forms of transportation have changed in the last 300 years.
      7. Visit with an adult who has driven in a different country. List five things that the adult found to be very different from driving in the United States
      8. Make a list of occupations that people have that are related to traveling. Describe the position you would like to try. Explain to a family member why you chose that occupation.
     
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