Webelos Scientist pin

[Eliza]

In Requirement # 12 --

"Show in three different ways how your eyes work together..."

 

Does anyone know what the three different ways are? Is it

1-see things in three dimensions? (I guess brain does this - does it count?)

2-adjust for light & dark

3-?????

 

My son is doing this pin on his own, and I could use some help!

[The Blancmange]

Show him how to figure out which eye is his dominant eye:

 

http://vision.about.com/od/contactlenses/ht/Eye_Dominance.htm

 

It will help him with things like BB or rifle shooting, if it turns out that he is like me: right handed, but left eye dominant.

[dmillar71]

Eliza, scouting.org has all of the Webelos Den Meeting Plans on line, including activiites for the Scientist Badge, Requirement # 12.

 

http://www.scouting.org/filestore/CubScoutMeetingGuide/ArrowofLight/ArrowofLightMeeting5.pdf

 

 

[Eliza]

dmillar

 

Thank you! I totally forgot about the online plans -- and about the Webelos Leader book sitting on my shelf. I'll have to look at the online plans for my son's remaining few pins -- the online plans have some different info from the the leader guide. Nice to have both!

 

None of the guides/sites EXACTLY answers the question, IMHO. So, I guess I will not obsess about it.

[clemlaw]

I don't think the requirement is asking for _the_ three ways in which the eyes work together. It is asking for three of the many ways in which they work together.

 

So a good #3 would be that the eyes track together while following an object. To demonstrate this, you can move a finger back and forth in front of the subject's eyes, and everyone (other than the subject) will observe that the two eyes travel in unison.

[Scoutfish]

Depth perception!

Two eyes are better than one. If you ever have to wear a patch over one eye for medical reasons, most Dr's will ask you to get a ride home, or take extra time and driver really slow because you lose a signifigant amount of depth perception...even if you don't realize it.

 

 

[Eliza]

Thank you, everyone --

 

These are great ideas!! I was having one of those days when I just wasn't getting it (although I can normally read elementary school material with no problems, lol).

[Scoutfish]

LOL! Elementary school is way tougher than it used to be.

My 4th grade son's math alone is asstounding:

 

"Write a word problem and corrulating word picture to associate the following problem:

 

214

X 83

 

 

SAY WHAT? What happened to just using multiplication to solve the answer? Now you have to write a sentance and draw a picture too?

 

[SSScout]

Wow...

 

"Demetrius has a raisin farm and has determined that each #8 box can hold 83 raisins. If the Kellogs cereal company needs to fill 214 boxes of Raisin Bran, and one #8 box of raisins will fill one Raisin Bran box, how many raisins must Demetrius pick (assuming the raisins are ripe) to fulfill the order, if Kelloggs makes the order??"