AY Honor Explorers of the Northwest

Explorers of the Northwest

Skill Level

Unknown

Year

Unknown

Version

03.12.2024

Approval authority

Upper Columbia Conference

Overview

The Challenging Part

The most challenging requirement of this honor is probably this:

9. Do four of the following:

a. Using rope and natural materials, build a simple shelter and camp in it overnight.

b. Build a fire only using only materials that an explorer of the west might use.

c. With a group, cook a simple meal using foods that a western explorer might eat.

d. Visit a place that explorers of the west explored and share with your instructor the similarities and differences between what they would have seen and what you see now.

e. Watch a video about an explorer of the west and discuss what you learned with your group.

f. Tell a story about a western explorer to a group and something that you found interesting when learning about them.

g. Discuss how explorers of the west healed illnesses and demonstrate how they cured injuries.

h. Visit an open-air or living history museum and give a report on what you saw and learned.

i. Draw a map of a natural area, adding all major landmarks, and describe how explorers measured distances and heights of landforms when they drew maps.

j. Create a simple project out of leather that would have been useful during a trip to explore the west.

k. Earn the Archery honor.