CUB SCOUT PACK #37 REQUIREMENTS
FOR THE SCIENCE ACADEMICS BELT LOOP/PIN/LETTER
Complete these three requirements for Belt Loop (Year One):
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Explain the scientific method to your adult partner.
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Use the scientific method in a simple science project. Explain
the results to an adult.
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Visit a museum, a laboratory, an observatory, a zoo, an
aquarium, or other facility that employs scientists. Talk to a
scientist about his or her work.
Earn the Science Belt Loop and complete five of the following requirements for the Science Pin (Year Two):
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Make a simple electric motor that works.
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Find a stream or other area that shows signs of erosion. Try to
discover the cause of the erosion.
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Plant seeds. Grow a flower, garden vegetable, or other plant.
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Use these simple machines to accomplish tasks: lever, pulley,
wheel-and-axle, wedge, inclined plane, and screw.
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Learn about solids, liquids, and gases using just water. Freeze
water until it turns into ice. Then, with an adult heat the ice until
it turns back into a liquid and eventually boils and becomes a
gas.
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Build models of two atoms and two molecules, using plastic
foam balls or other objects.
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Make a collection of igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary
rocks and label them.
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Learn about a creature that lives in the ocean. Share what you
have learned with your Den/Patrol or family.
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Label a drawing or diagram of the bones of the human skeleton.
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Make a model or poster of the solar system. Label the planets
and the sun.
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Do a scientific experiment in front of an audience. Explain your
results.
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Read a book about a science subject that interests you.
Earn the Science Belt Loop and Science Pin and complete remaining requirements above to earn the Science Letter (Year Three).
To help with Den/Patrol organization: Print out this page, check off requirement as completed, and turn in to Leader when all requirements for Belt Loop, Pin, or Letter are completed.
Zoom School - Visit this
online classroom for fun, facts, and help with
Science, Geography, and Language Arts topics. Get help with reports
and try the activities too.
The Lab - Australian Broadcast Corporation's
gateway to online science. Includes tons of science news, games and puzzles, jokes, links, and
much more.
Evidence: The True Witness - Learn about forensic science, including
fingerprinting, DNA, and ballistics, at this great ThinkQuest site.
Kinetic City Cyber Club - Your place for science adventure, fun games,
and more. Follow the crew on their adventures, or do some of their fun
lab experiments.
Mad Science Group - Take a quiz, try out some home experiments, or
check out some cool scientific facts.
Newton's Apple - A national science program for kids and adults.
Quirks & Quarks - Award-winning radio science program of the
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Check out the archives, take a
science quiz, and more.
Scientific Method - Step by step explanation of how scientists find
things out from Biology4Kids.
SimScience - Find out more about membranes, fluid flow, cracking
dams, and crackling noise! You choose your reading level from
beginner to advanced.
Exploratorium's Science of Baseball - Explore the science behind the
game. Find out why curveballs curve and what's behind a home run
swing.
Science Behind a Home Run - Learn how to find the "sweet spot" of a
baseball bat and about the science of hitting a home run!
The Skinny On... - Regular column by writer Hannah Holmes on
Discovery Online with answers to nagging questions like why there's no
channel 1 on a TV, and why pizza makes you thirsty.
