A challenge for all sections on the themes of transport, travel, invention and adventure! 1st Waddington Guides’ Transport Challenge

A challenge badge for all sections on the themes of transport, travel, invention and adventure!

On a recent camp we experienced so many different and exciting forms of transport that we thought we deserved a badge! So we have created this challenge badge for all the members of Guiding who love to travel, to encourage them to find out about different methods of transport, try out some which are new to them and have lots of fun doing some challenges along the way – literally! There are lots of activities which we have tried and tested, so we hope you will enjoy them as much as we have!

The challenge consists of 5 sections:

Section 1: Vehicular Voyages – Experiencing different forms of transport Section 2: Excellent Expeditions – Maps, directions & explorations Section 3: Transport Trivia – Finding out more about transport past & present Section 4: Joyous Journeys – Making journeys fun Section 5: Creative Conveyances – Transport-themed arts and crafts

To complete the challenge we suggest that:

Rainbows should complete six challenges Brownies should complete eight challenges Guides should complete ten challenges Senior Section members and adults should complete twelve challenges

In each case, at least one challenge should be completed from each section.

Vehicular Voyages

Everyday Transport During a single Guiding event (e.g. a camp or day trip) travel by four of the following:

Bike/Scooter Car Foot Train Bus Coach Taxi Tram

Unusual Transport Travel by one of the following methods of transport and tell others about your journey in an interesting way (e.g. poster, diary entry, talk, powerpoint, news article):

Amphibious vehicle Horse & carriage Open top bus Boat/Ferry Hot air balloon Paddle steamer Cable car Hovercraft Plane Chained ferry Light railway Rickshaw Cliff lift Monorail Tourist/beach train Funicular Motorbike Speedboat Gondola Narrow boat Steam train Helicopter Narrow gauge train Underground train

Transport for Fun ᴽ Transport isn’t just about getting from A to B – travelling by unusual methods can be just for fun! With your Six, Patrol or Unit, try out any one of these:

Bell boating Parachuting Skiing Canoeing/Kayaking Paragliding Sledging (snow or grass) Canyoning Parascending Snowboarding Coasteering Parasailing Surfing Dragon boating Pedalo Swimming Go karting Punting Tandem Gorge walking Quad biking Turfboarding Horse riding Rafting Water skiing Ice skating Roller skating/blading Windsurfing Jet skiing Rowing White water rafting Kite surfing Sailing Zip wire Microlighting Segway Zorbing

Remember to check the A-Z of activities and ensure the correct risk assessment requirements, adult:child ratios, instructor qualification, etc. are fulfilled Excellent Expeditions

Coin Walk Go on a coin walk – take a coin with you and every time you reach a corner toss the coin. If it lands heads up turn left and if it lands tails up turn right. Remember to keep a note of which way you have been so that you can find your way back!

Geocaching Try geocaching – a treasure hunting game using GPS. For details of where geocaching is available near you, go to www.geocaching.com

Orienteering *Learn to set and use a compass and use it to go orienteering.

Local Area ˜*° Draw a sketch map of your local area, marking on it important landmarks such as churches, phone boxes and schools. Use it to explain to someone how to get to three local places of importance, for example the police station or hospital.

Plan a Journey *ᵡ°ᶻ With other members of your unit, plan and make a journey using at least one mode of public transport. You will need to consider:

Where you are going & why How you and your group will keep safe Which form(s) of transport you will use How much the journey will cost How long it will take (use a timetable) What you need to take with you

Budget Travel How far can you travel from your meeting place on a budget of, for example, £10? Either use the internet to find out, or actually try it for yourselves! You could do this in small groups, competing others to see which group can travel furthest. Stay safe – let someone know where you are regularly and hitchhiking is not allowed!! Transport Trivia

Famous Journeys Find out about one of the following famous journeys and tell your unit about your findings in an interesting way:

Saul’s journey to Damascus (Biblical) Christopher Columbus discovers America (1492) Titanic’s maiden voyage (1912) Scott of the Antarctic’s mission to the South Pole (1912) Apollo 11 – first manned mission to the moon (1969)

Inventions Transport today would be very different without the inventors of the past! Find out what each of the following people invented and when:

Karl Benz G Daimler & W Maybach RJ Mitchell Louis Brennan Karl Drais Robert Stephenson Christopher Cockerell Cornelius Drebbel Frank Whittle Paul Cornu Dean Kamen Orville & Wilbur Wright

There are matching cards at the back of this pack to use with this challenge if you wish.

See for Yourself Go on an outing to a transport museum, famous vehicle or airshow/similar. For example, you could visit York Railway Museum or the HMS Belfast, watch the Red Arrows perform or go to watch a motor race.

Historical Events Transport has played an important part in many historical events. Find out about one of the following and tell your unit about your findings in an interesting way:

Anti-Jewish bicycle decree John F Kennedy’s assassination London Underground air raid shelters Rosa Parks’ bus journey Trojan horse Joyous Journeys

Travel Games ᶻ Make up games which you could play on two of the following types of journey:

Boat/Ferry Coach/Bus Train Car Plane Walk

Picture Journey ᵡᶻ On a journey, take photographs or draw pictures of what you see along the way. When you get home, use them to make a poster or timeline showing people where you went on your journey and what you saw.

Alphabetical I-Spy On a journey with other members of your unit, look out for items starting with every letter of the alphabet and write them down. The first person to spot an item starting with all 26 letters is the winner!

Scavenger Hunt Make a list of 15 items for someone to find whilst they are on a journey. Think about what they are likely to see (this will depend on the type of journey) and decide whether you want them to bring the items back with them or just see them. If possible, swap lists with someone and have a go at finding the items on a journey!

Sing as You Go Singing always helps to pass the time on a long journey. Learn or sing some (vaguely!) transport or travel themed songs, such as:

Barges Oh you’ll never go to Heaven Daisy Bell (Give me your answer do) Princess Pat Everywhere we go Row, row, row your boat Follow the yellow brick road The ants went marching one by one It’s a long way to Tipperary The wheels on the bus Me Tarzan, you Jane When I was one…. (Pirate song) Creative Conveyances

Transport of the Future What might transport look like in the future? Let your imagination go wild and create a new form of transport. You could draw or paint a picture or create a model from clay, plasticine, paper or recycled rubbish.

Books Read a book, such as those listed below, in which someone goes on a great journey. Then write a review about the book or tell someone what you thought of it.

Alice in Wonderland The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Around the world in eighty days The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Charlie and the great glass elevator The Time Machine Gulliver’s travels Watership Down

Films With members of your unit, watch one of the following short films involving a journey. Then act out your favourite scene. Each film’s length (min) is in brackets. Alternatively, if you have more time, you could watch a full length film involving a journey, such as Ice Age 2: The Meltdown, Homeward Bound or Road Trip.

Hedgehog in the fog (11) The Snowman (26) Mickey Mouse in Steamboat Willie (8) Wallace & Gromit – A Grand Day Out (24)

Poems, Songs & Stories Listen to a poem, song or story about transport or travelling, for example From a Railway Carriage (Robert Louis Stevenson), Daisy Bell (Henry Dacre) or The tortoise and the hare (Aesop). Then have a go at making up your own.

Bear & Balloon Challenge Make a hot air balloon which is able to lift a small teddy bear at least 10cm off the floor for a minimum of 20 seconds.

Delicious Transport Try one of these transport-themed food ideas. Remember to check for allergies!

Helicopter sandwiches Fruity cars Jelly boats Make a sandwich and cut off Use bananas, kiwi, blueberries, Use jelly, blue food colouring, the crusts to use as propellers strawberries and cocktail sticks oranges, melons and cocktail and landing skids. Use chip- to make these delicious and sticks to make these delicious shaped crisps for the tail and a healthy cars! boats. slice of apple for the window.

Crafty Creations Try one of these transport-themed crafts. Instructions are at the back of the booklet.

Balloon powered Balloon Paper plane Space rocket car hovercraft garland

Baker Ross Buys I’ve never met a Guider who doesn’t like Baker Ross! The following Baker Ross transport-themed crafts have proven popular in our unit:

Car suncatchers Flying gliders Racing car Racing car ceramic coin scratch art banks bookmarks

EK6726 6 for £2.50 EV1813 8 for £2.50 P573 4 for £6.96 ET145 10 for £2.99 EK6727 24 for £9.12 EV1814 24 for £6.96 P5731 12 for £19.80 ET1451 30 for £8.10

Additional Information

Over the next few pages you will find:  Instructions for making the crafts  Inventions matching cards and answers  Information on links to interest badges, etc.  Badge order form

Rocket ships

You will need  Kitchen roll inside (cardboard tube)  Coloured card/foam  Stickers, felt/foam letters/shapes, etc. to decorate  Orange & yellow tissue paper  Sticky tape  Scissors  Glue

Instructions  Wrap the toilet roll in tin foil and stick in place  Cut a circle from the card with a circumference slightly larger than that of the tube  Cut a straight line from the edge of the circle to the centre  By allowing the two pieces of circle to overlap, fold the card circle into a cone with a base slightly larger than the end of the tube  Stick the cone together  Stick the cone to the top of the tube  Cut two matching triangular pieces from the card  Stick the two triangles to the bottom of the tube  Cut the tissue paper into thin strips  Stick the tissue paper to the inside of the tube at the bottom so that when it is held up it looks like there are flames coming from the bottom of the rocket  Decorate the rocket as desired

Balloon powered car

You will need  4 plastic lids from soft-drink or water bottles.  Rectangle of thick corrugated cardboard (15cm x 10cm)  Straight straw  Bendable straw  Metal skewer  2 wooden skewers  Balloon  Elastic band  Plasticine  Sticky tape  Scissors

Instructions  The plastic lids will be the wheels of the car. Placing each one in turn on the plasticine to avoid injury, use the metal skewer to make a hole in each lid, just big enough for a wooden skewer to fit through  Cut the straight straw in half  Tape one half-straw at one end of the cardboard, across the shorter side  Tape the other half-straw at the other end  Thread a wooden skewer through each half-straw to make the car axles  Thread the plastic lids onto the skewers and  Use plasticine to hold the wheels in place  Cut the long part of the bendable straw to the same length as the short part  Blow up the balloon and let it down a couple of times to stretch the rubber  Place the neck of the balloon over one end of the bendable straw and fasten it using the elastic band  Turn the cardboard over and tape the bendable straw along the length of the car so the balloon rests on the cardboard. The straw should poke over the other end  Inflate the balloon by blowing through the straw and pinch the balloon so that the air doesn’t come out  Place the car on a clear, smooth surface, let go of the balloon and watch your car go!

To watch a demonstration video, go to: http://sciencesquad.questacon.edu.au/activities/balloon_powered_car.html

CD Hovercraft

You will need  CD  Superglue  Balloon  Sports-style water bottle lid

Instructions  Superglue the bottle top to the centre of the CD, with the valve closed  Place the balloon over the bottle top  Open the bottle top’s valve  Blow up the balloon, blowing through the CD and bottle top  Close the bottle top’s valve  When you are ready to let your hovercraft move, open the bottle top’s valve and place it on a flat surface

To watch a demonstration video, watch the YouTube clip: Make Toy CD Hovercraft by spacepainter

Paper aeroplane garland

You will need  Cotton or thin cord  Needle  Paper of various colours and patterns

Instructions  Use piece of paper no larger than A6 to make small paper aeroplanes of various shapes, sizes and colours – you can decorate them or make them from different colours of paper  Use the needle to thread the aeroplanes onto the cotton/cord, approximately 30cm apart  Hang the garland from the ceiling to give the impression of very busy airspace! Inventions matching cards

You may like to use these cards to match inventors with their inventions. The dates have already been matched with the inventors to help give some clues! The answers are at the bottom of the page.

Louis Brennan Paul Cornu Cornelius Drebbel 1903 1907 1620

Christopher Cockerell Karl Drais Karl Benz 1955 1820 1885 Gottlieb Daimler & Dean Kamen Frank Whittle Wilhelm Maybach 2001 1930 1886 Orville & Wilbur Robert Stephenson RJ Mitchell Wright 1829 1936 1903

Monorail Helicopter Submarine

Speedboat Bicycle Hovercraft

Turbojet engine Spitfire Steam locomotive 1930

Segway Modern car Aeroplane

Modern car – Karl Benz, 1885 Submarine – Cornelius Drebbel, 1620 Monorail – Louis Brennan, 1903 Segway – Dean Kamen, 2001 Helicopter – Paul Cornu, 1907 Spitfire – RJ Mitchell, 1936 Hovercraft – Christopher Cockerell, 1955 Steam loco. – Robert Stephenson, 1829 Speedboat – Daimler & Maybach, 1886 Jet engine – Frank Whittle, 1930 Bicycle – Karl Drais, 1820 Aeroplane – O & W Wright, 1903 Links to Guiding Section Programmes

If you’ve enjoyed these activities, why not try a connected badge, Go For It or award?

Activities from this challenge can be counted towards Rainbow Roundabouts such as Roundabout Global Adventure, Roundabout the World and Roundabout Get Healthy.

Activities marked ˜ count towards the Brownie Finding Your Way badge. Activities marked * count towards the Brownie Out and About badge. Activities marked ᵡ count towards the Brownie World Traveller badge.

Activities marked ° count towards the Guide Finding Your Way badge. Activities marked ᶻ count towards the Guide World Traveller badge. Activities marked ᴽ count towards the Guide Outdoor Pursuits badge. Go For It! On the Move, Take your Toothbrush and Life Wise include some similar activities to those in this challenge badge

Activities for this badge could go towards Look Wider. For example:  Creativity – Creative Conveyances challenges  Fit for Life – Activities involving exercise or healthy foods  International – You could plan and/or undertake a journey abroad  Leadership – Lead one of these challenges for other members

Activities from this challenge badge can count towards your Leadership Qualification or part of the Camp and Holiday scheme. If you’ve enjoyed the travelling elements, why not think about travelling more with your unit or with other members of Guiding? Perhaps even to one of the four World Centres?!

Badge Order Form

Thank you for taking part in our Transport Challenge – we hope you enjoyed it! Please fill in the form below to order your badges.

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Postage: 1 – 30 badges £1.00 31 – 100 badges £1.50 101+ badges £2.00 £______

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Please make cheques payable to 1st Waddington Guides and send order forms to:

Sarai Woollins 34 Blackfriars Road Lincoln LN2 4WS

Alternatively, you are welcome to order by e-mail and pay by bank transfer. Please contact Sarai directly to arrange this: [email protected]

Profits will be used to help finance camps and holidays for members of 1st Waddington Guides