Academics - Computers

CUB SCOUT ACADEMICS: COMPUTERS


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.  

REQUIREMENTS FOR THE COMPUTERS ACADEMICS BELT LOOP

Complete these three requirements:

  1. Explain the parts of a personal computer: central processing unit (CPU), monitor, keyboard, mouse, modem, and printer.
  2. Demonstrate how to start up and shut down a personal computer properly.
  3. Use your computer to prepare and print a document.

 

REQUIREMENTS FOR THE COMPUTERS ACADEMICS PIN

Earn the Computers belt loop and complete five of the following requirements:

  1. Use a computer to prepare a report on a subject of interest to you. Share it with your den.
  2. Make a list of 20 devices that can be found in, the home that use a computer chip to function.
  3. Use a computer to maintain a balance sheet of your earnings for four weeks.
  4. Use a spreadsheet program to organize some information.
  5. Use an illustration, drawing, or painting program to create a picture.
  6. Use a computer to write a thank-you letter to someone.
  7. Log on to the Internet. Visit the Boy Scouts of America homepage (http://www.scouting.org).
  8. Discuss with an adult personal safety rules you should use while using the Internet.
  9. Practice a new computer game for two weeks. Demonstrate an improvement in your scores.
  10. Correspond with a friend using e-mail. Have at least five e-mail replies from your friend.
  11. Visit a local business or government agency that uses a large mainframe computer to handle their business. Be able to explain how computers save them time and money in carrying out their work.

 

COMPUTER RESOURCES

No matter where you live, you can get information on computers. Look in your telephone directory for one or more of the following:

 

PARENTS GUIDE

  1. Be involved. Talk to your children, establish rules, and make it known that breaking the rules can lead to a suspension of their online privileges.
  2. Don't-use the computer as an electronic baby-sifter. Stay involved with your child's online activities. Put the computer in a family room rather than a child's bedroom.
  3. Commercial online services have parental-control, or "blocking," features that allow parents to keep the children out of certain areas of the World Wide Web. Internet Web browsers are developing controls, and there are also software packages designed to block Internet sites. Surfwatch Software, for example, has a Macintosh and Windows program that blocks Internet newsgroups, Web sites, file libraries, and chat areas known to contain sexually explicit material. Cyber Patrol, from Microsystems Software, gives parents the option of choosing which types of sites to block.

 

RULES FOR ON-LINE SAFETY