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Items needed:

• (Optional) Printout of App Icons
• Printout of the Lost Pet Detective maps on page 10 – one map for each scout.
• A Printout like this Lost Pet Poster for each scout or scout group.
• Printout out of Blank App Screens: 2-3 for each scout or scout group.
• Troop coloring supplies (markers, crayons, or colored pencils)

What’s an App?

Info Needed: App stands for application. An application is a computer program designed for a mobile device, like a smartphone or tablet. There are many types of apps. Most kids know of game apps, but they might also know educational apps, reading apps, and apps for learning languages. Adults use apps to track their time, their diets, their medical stuff, and other information. Apps can be used to learn things, organize things, and much more.

(Optional) Activity: Look through the App Icons and sort apps into “Helpful” and “Entertainment”.

Decomposition Fun

Info Needed: Decomposition is the process of breaking a big thing into little things. Like taking a toy apart into separate parts. Or taking a big task, like cleaning your room, and making little ones, like picking up toys and making the bed.

Fun Activity: Use the Lost Pet Posters and the maps from page 10 of the Lost Pet Detective to run the Fictional Lost Buddy activity. In the end, make sure each scout (or small group) is holding on to their Lost Pet picture for the next activity.

(Requirement 1 Earned)

Draw It!

Action Needed: Challenge the scouts to make an app that would have helped with the missing pet. Use the Blank App Screens for scout (or small groups) to draw what their app screen would look like – decomposing their app idea into different parts. (Like a place for the photo of the missing pet, a place where people can comment when they find a clue, etc.)

(Requirement 2 Earned)

Share It!

Action Needed: Scouts share their app screens and get feedback from their troopmates.

Question Needed: Is there a way they can improve their app?

(Requirement 3 Earned)

Meeting End

Scouts can draw different pets they can think of (a missing fish?) until it’s time to go home.

General Notes

Note to Leaders – No Basic Plan compiled by The Badge Archive will earn multiple badges in one level. Part of being budget friendly is not costing more than the price of one official GSUSA badge per meeting.

Some badges will take two meetings to finish. This helps scouts enjoy activities and keeps the troop budget in mind by only needing one GSUSA badge for every two meetings. Troops may choose to get a fun patch for one of the meetings if scouts want a badge/patch for every meeting. Scouts can earn the fun patch if they only attend one meeting and get a fun patch and the official badge if they go to both.

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