11th Southgate Beaver Scout Colony
Our final theme of the spring term was Space. We used activities from the excellent Space Explorers’ pack produced for Beavers by the National Space Centre. We found out about the phases of the moon and made a Plough finder which can be used to find the North Star. Astronauts have to perform many kinds of experiments when in space and some of these experiments are on plant growth, in order to see how plants react to weightless conditions and so we completed an experiment to see how plants grow depending on the type of conditions they are put in.  Beavers planted pea seeds and kept them in different places – somewhere dark, cold, light and warm.  They looked after the plants for about six weeks recording once a week how the plants were growing. When the plants and completed record sheets were brought along to a Colony meeting some of the plants already had small pea pods on them!

To complete our Space theme we entered the competition advertised in the pack. The Beavers designed and drew their own alien and  its home planet. They also had to include information about their alien, such as where it lives and what it can do.  Ben Slevin (6 years old) won one of the prizes, a Leapstar 2 Learning Game System, four games and a family pass to the National Space Centre!