AHG Merit Badge Help – Our Feathered Friends #1

It’s Friday, so that means another badge help here at the Life of Momma B. Today I am looking at the Our Feathered Friends Merit Badge from the Science and Technology Frontier.

Spring is right around the corner, and all little girls love baby birds. Baby animals of any kind really.  Now is a great time to study Ornithology  (yes, that is my fifty cent word for the day).  The first requirement teaches the basic parts of a bird. 

To help you with this, I have drawn a basic diagram of a bird that can be labeled.  If you click on the picture below you can download a pdf worksheet for your Tenderheart to use.  And I did include an answer sheet.  The worksheet also includes basic definitions for all of the parts of the bird needed to complete requirement #1. 

If you are trying to complete this badge, I have also posted these requirements:

NOTE: The requirements have been simplified here. Please be sure to read the full text in the Girl Handbook to make sure you fully understand the requirements.

AHG Badge Help – Young Meteorologist #15

Since today is Groundhog Day, why not incorporate a little badge work into your day.  Will Punxsutawney Phil see his shadow? Will we have six more weeks of winter?

Long before computers, people used signs to predict the weather. Over time, they recognized a pattern between cloud patterns and animal behavior and the upcoming weather. This created a long list of weather folklore. Continue reading “AHG Badge Help – Young Meteorologist #15”

AHG Badge Help – Young Meteorologist #16

With today being the first full day of winter, I wanted to share a seasonal badge help.

Wilson Bentley became famous after he developed a method for photographing snowflakes in the late 1800’s.  During his lifetime he photographed over 5000 different snowflakes. The most startling realization was that no two snowflakes were alike, each one was unique. Continue reading “AHG Badge Help – Young Meteorologist #16”

AHG Merit Badge Help – Living & Working in Space #16

Have you noticed a space theme in my most recent merit badge help posts?

I am learning a ton in preparing for the summer camp badge classes.  While in the back of my mind, I have known that many of the NASA projects help my life today, I would be hard pressed to tell you what some of those things were. Continue reading “AHG Merit Badge Help – Living & Working in Space #16”