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Arrow of Light – 5th Grade
Estimations AOL
Elective
Requirement 1

Hungry, Hungry Campers

Arrow of Light – 5th Grade
Estimations AOL
Elective
Requirement 1

Hungry, Hungry Campers

Snapshot of Activity

Calculate ingredients needed for a campout meal.

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  • Campout Meal Planner found in Additional Resources 
  • Scratch paper for calculations, one for each Cub Scout 
  • Pencils, one for each Cub Scout 
  • Printer   

Before the meeting: 

  1. Make copies of Campout Meal Planner, one for each Cub Scout. There are three meals are provided in the handout, Cub Scouts choose one meal for this Adventure.   
  2. Set up meeting space for Cub Scouts to be able to sit down and write. 

During the meeting: 

  1. Explain that sometimes people use estimation to help in cooking.  Collect ideas on when someone might use an estimation or a guess when it comes to food.  Address the idea that estimation comes in handy when we buy food for big events like campouts, Blue and Gold dinners, or other events.  The recipes only feed a certain number of people, but we have to guess how much food we should buy to feed everyone.   A Scout is thrifty, so we try not to over-buy and be wasteful of money or food.   
  2. Demonstrate how to figure out the ingredients needed for 10 people for your favorite campout meal. A campout meal is provided as an example if needed.  
  3. Guide Cub Scouts through converting a meal plan.   Allow each Cub Scout to select a meal from the Campout Meal Planner.  Then monitor as they work through the calculations.   Remember, Cub Scouts have different levels of mathematical skills.  Some might add the item 10 times, some might choose to use multiplication.   The goal is to encourage mathematical thinking to achieve the correct answer.  Encourage them with whichever problem-solving method the Cub Scout selects.  
  4. Enable the Cub Scouts to try a new problem.  Create a story of how more people joined the campout so now 20 people are joining our meal (ex: In our pack, each Cub Scout brought a friend, so now we need food for 20 people!  Or  A pack camping next to us discovered that their cooler broke and all their food was spoiled, so we asked them to join our meal. Or Whoops! In all of our planning, we forgot to include the parents! They need to eat too!)  Enable the scouts to work on scaling the recipes up for 20 people.   
  5. Enrichment: The requirement only discusses the ingredients of the recipe.  However, as more people are added to a campout’s meal, supplies and cooking methods need to adapt to the larger number.  In closing, ask the Cub Scouts if anyone thought about how the cooking supplies (pots, Dutch ovens, etc.).  A pack might not have enough Dutch ovens to cook pizza for everyone.  If that is the case, discuss what we could do to solve that problem.  

Additional Resources

Campout Meal Planner

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Arrow of Light – 5th Grade

Size it Up!

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Cub Scouts estimate serving sizes of different foods. 

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Bray Barnes

Director, Global Security Innovative
Strategies

Bray Barnes is a recipient of the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award, Silver
Beaver, Silver Antelope, Silver Buffalo, and Learning for Life Distinguished
Service Award. He received the Messengers of Peace Hero award from
the royal family of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and he’s a life member of
the 101st Airborne Association and Vietnam Veterans Association. Barnes
serves as a senior fellow for the Global Federation of Competitiveness
Councils, a nonpartisan network of corporate CEOs, university presidents, and
national laboratory directors. He has also served as a senior executive for the
U.S. Department of Homeland Security, leading the first-responder program
and has two U.S. presidential appointments

David Alexander

Managing Member Calje

David Alexander is a Baden-Powell Fellow, Summit Bechtel Reserve philanthropist, and recipient of the Silver Buffalo and Distinguished Eagle Scout Award. He is the founder of Caljet, one of the largest independent motor fuels terminals in the U.S. He has served the Arizona Petroleum Marketers Association, Teen Lifeline, and American Heart Association. A triathlete who has completed hundreds of races, Alexander has also mentored the women’s triathlon team at Arizona State University.

Glenn Adams

President, CEO & Managing Director
Stonetex Oil Corp.

Glenn Adams is a recipient of the Silver Beaver, Silver Antelope, Silver Buffalo, and Distinguished Eagle Scout Award. He is the former president of the National Eagle Scout Association and established the Glenn A. and Melinda W. Adams National Eagle Scout Service Project of the Year Award. He has more than 40 years of experience in the oil, gas, and energy fields, including serving as a president, owner, and CEO. Adams has also received multiple service awards from the Texas Alliance of Energy Producers.