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Tree Leaf and Tree Fruit Identification (from Klondike1997)
Objective: To correctly identify tree leaves.
To correctly match tree names with their leaves, with their fruits.
Procedure: Part I: In the Scout handbook are drawings of some common broadleaf trees. Many of these trees are native to northeast Ohio. Examples of these include: sumac, redbud, maple, sweetgum, oak, sycamore, birch sassafras, buckeye, tulip, locust, and ash. Each patrol member will be required to identify three leaves without assistance. The leaves to be identified will be selected at random by those running the event.
Part II: The patrol, as a group, will be given names of six trees. For these names, the patrol will have a maximum of 5 minutes to link each leaf with its fruit. Great care has been taken to obtain the tree fruits of many indigenous trees. These include sweetgum, maple, locust, beech, oak (from the acorn grew the mighty oak ) sassafras, chestnut, sycamore, buckeye, tulip, and ash. Scoring: Part I: 40 points maximum based on a percentage of correct identifications Part II: 60 points maximum 10 points for each of the six matches. 5 points for partial matches (for example: correct fruit with tree name, but wrong leaf) Reference: pp. 326-331 of the Scout Handbook
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Mammal Identification (from the 1998 klondike)
Objective: To identify North American mammals.To link name, description, footprint, and a picture or drawing of a North American mammal.
Procedure: Part I: Scouts will be individually asked to identify five North American mammals from a picture of drawing. Part II: The patrol, as a group, will be given the names, a written description, picture or drawing, and a footprint, of ten North American mammals. The patrol will be required to correctly link the preceding attributes.
Equipment needed: none
Equipment provided: everything needed
Scoring: Part I: 40 points possible -determined as a percentage of correct responses.
Part II: 60 points possible -2 points per correct link to each animal name. Reference: Scout Handbook, public library

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Food Chains (from Klondike 1999)

Objective: Scouts will demonstrate knowledge of food chains, including what food common animals need to eat to survive. Procedure: Part I: Scouts will individually be required to assemble, beginning with the sun, a food chain from the items presented. Part II: Scouts, as a patrol, will be presented with pictures of twenty of the mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, and insects pictured on pages 260 ? 277 and 291 ? 315 of the Scout Handbook. Scouts are to correctly link each with one item they depend upon in the food chain for survival.
Scoring: Part I: 40 points possible, based on the percentage correct of each Scout's food chain. Part II: 60 points possible. 3 points for each correct link.
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Tree Leaf/Fruit Identification (from klondike 2000)
Objective: To identify tree leaves and tree fruit both individually and as a patrol.
Procedure: 1. Scouts will individually identify five leaves common to northeast Ohio. 2. Scouts as a patrol will link the name, tree leaf, and tree fruit for 15 trees common to northeast Ohio.
Equipment Provided: nothing
Equipment Needed: Each patrol member will need a pencil. The trees to know include: Willow, cottonwood, beech, sumac, oak, red-bud, maple, ash, sassafras, tulip, sycamore, sweetgum, locust, dogwood, buckeye, birch, wild cherry, horse chestnut.
Scoring: part 1. 8 points each for a total of 40 points. Part 2. 4 points each for a total of 60 points
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Bird Identification Relay (from Klondike 2001)
Objective: To identify birds common to Northeast Ohio.
Procedure: The patrol will run relay-style to a judge who will ask them to identify a bird from a picture. Patrol members will cycle through to the judge until they have seen 15 different birds.
Equipment Provided: Pictures of birds
Equipment Needed: Nothing
Scoring: Bird Identification -up to 75 points, 5 points for each correct
Time -25 points for best time, 24 for next, etc.
Resources: The birds to identify will be contained in the following list:
Northern Cardinal, Blue Jay, Black-Capped Chickadee, Tutfed Titmouse, Downy Woodpecker, Red-Breasted Robin, Eastern Bluebird, Red-Tailed Hawk, Dark-eyed (or Northern) Junco, Whitebreasted Nuthatch, Canada Goose, Mallard, American Kestrel, Wild Turkey, American Crow, Song Sparrow, House Finch, American Goldfinch, Herring Gull, Mourning Dove, Great Horned Owl, Barred Owl.
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Fish ID and Mammal Match (from Klondike 2002)
Objective:   To identify local fish. To know what different mammals look like, are named, and what they eat.
Procedure:
Part I: To individually identify five fish common to the region. HINT: sheephead, large mouth bass, perch, walleye, sunfish, carp, or catfish.
Part II: Scouts, as a patrol, will be presented with pictures of fifteen mammals. Scouts will link the name, picture of the animal, and what the animal eats to survive. HINT: porcupine, bear, wolverine, woodchuck, skunk, beaver, raccoon, rabbit, weasel, mink, badger, squirrel, muskrat, opossum, bobcat, deer, moose, otter, coyote, fox.
Equipment needed: none
Equipment provided: everything needed
Scoring:
Part I:         40 points possible - determined as a percentage of correct responses.
Part II:       60 points possible - 2 points per correct link to each animal name.

Reference: Scout Handbook, public library, internet
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Edible plants and Tree Leaf/Fruit Identification (From 2003 Klondike)
Objective: To write the names of edible plants individually and to identify tree leaves and tree fruit both as a patrol.
Equipment Provided: nothing
Equipment Needed: Each patrol member will need a pencil.
Procedure:
Part 1. Each individual Scout will write the names of eight edible wild plants from following groups: two "wild greens", three "wild desserts", two "wild breadstuffs" one " wild beverage". Suggested source "old" Boy Scout Handbook 1990 Edition pages 340 through 345.

(Be forewarned that this page may take a while to load). It is also important to note that since this 1990 publication that Scouting policy has changed with regard to eating wild edibles. Scouts are not to eat wild edibles.

Part 2. Scouts as a patrol will link the name, tree leaf, and tree fruit for 15 trees common to northeast Ohio.
The trees to know include: Willow, cottonwood, beech, sumac, oak, red-bud, maple, ash, sassafras, tulip, sycamore, sweetgum, locust, dogwood, buckeye, birch, wild cherry, horse chestnut.
Scoring:
Part 1. 40 points - as a percentage of the collective correct responses
Part 2. 60 points - 4 points each
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Bird ID matching call/picture/name
Objective: To identify birds common to Northeast Ohio as well as others
Procedure: The patrol will run relay-style to a judge who will play a bird call from either a cassette or CD then ask them to identify a bird matching its picture and its name. Patrol members will cycle through to the judge until they have seen 10 different birds. Time limit is 10 minutes.

Equipment Provided: Recorded Bird Sounds, Pictures of birds, Name cards of birds
Equipment Needed: Nothing
Scoring: Points are earned by correctly matching a picture to the sound and correctly matching a name to the sound.
The number of correct matches will determine the score as a percent of 30 possible matches.
Time to determine tie breaker for best scores.

Bird List:
Blue Jay, Cardinal, Gull, Red-Tailed Hawk, Great Horned Owl, Sparrow, Mourning Dove, Eagle, Wren, Turkey Vulture, Robin, Roadrunner, Mallard Duck, Canada Goose, Pileated Woodpecker, Chick-a-dee, Loon, Whippoorwill, Wild Turkey.

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Fish ID and Tree Leaf/Tree Fruit ID
Objective: To link the tree name, leaf and fruit, and to identify five fish by illustration.
Scouts will individually write the names of five fish by an illustration of the fish from the following list: sunfish, large mouth bass, small mouth bass, walleye, perch, sheephead, catfish, and steelhead.
Scouts as a patrol will link the name, tree leaf, and tree fruit for 15 trees common to northeast Ohio.
Equipment Provided: Fish ID, Tree Leaf & Fruit ID
Equipment Needed: Each patrol member will need a pencil. The trees to know include: Willow Cottonwood, beech, sumac, oak, red-bud, maple, ash, sassafras, tulip, sycamore, sweet gum, locust, dogwood, buckeye, birch, wild cherry, horse chestnut.

Scoring:
Part 1. 7 points each for a total of 35 points.
Part 2. 3 points each for a total of 45 points.
Maximum 10 Points for Teamwork
Maximum 10 Points for Patrol Spirit
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