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Art
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Belt Loop
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Complete these three (3)
requirements:
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- Make a list of common materials used to create visual
art compositions.
- Demonstrate how six of the following elements
of design are used in drawing: lines, circles, dots, shapes, colors,
patterns, textures, space, balance, or perspective.
- Identify the three primary colors and the
three secondary colors that can be made by mixing them. Show how
this is done using paints or markers. Use the primary and
secondary colors to create a painting.
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Academics Pin
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Earn the belt loop, and
complete six of the following requirements:
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- Visit an art museum, gallery, or exhibit.
Discuss with an adult the art you saw.
- Create two self-portraits using two different
art techniques, such as drawing, painting, print-making, sculpture, or
computer illustration.
- Demonstrate how to make paper. Make a
sample at least 4 inches by 4 inches.
- Make a simple silkscreen or stencil. Print a
card or T-shirt.
- Create a freestanding sculpture or mobile
using wood, metal, soap, paper-Machete. or found objects.
- Create an object using clay that can be fired,
baking in the oven, or hardened in water.
- Photograph four subjects in one theme, such as
landscapes, people, animals, sports, or buildings.
- Make a collage using several different
materials.
- Use your artistic skills to create a postage
stamp, book cover, or music CD cover.
- Use a computer illustration or painting
program to create a work of art.
- Display your artwork in a Pack, school, or
community art show.
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Chess
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Belt Loop
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Complete these three (3)
requirements:
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- Identify the chess pieces and set up a chess
board for play.
- Demonstrate the moves of each chess piece to
your den leader or adult partner.
- Play a game of chess.
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Academics
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Earn the belt loop, and
complete five of the following requirements:
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- Demonstrate basic opening principles (such as
development or pieces, control center, castle, don't bring queen out too
early, don't move same piece twice)
- Visit a chess tournament and tell your den
about it.
- participate in a pack, school, or community
chess tournament.
- Solve a prescribed chess problem (e.g.,
"White to move and mate in three") given to you by your adult
partner.
- Play 5 games of chess.
- Play 10 chess games via computer or on the
internet.
- Read about a famous chess player.
- Describe U.S. Chess Federation rating for
chess players.
- Learned to write chess notation and record a
game with another scout.
- Present a report about the history of chess to
your den or family.
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Citizenship
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Belt Loop
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Complete these three (3)
requirements:
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- Develop a list of
jobs you can do around the home. Chart your progress for one week.
- Make a poster
showing things that you can do to be a good citizen.
- Participate in a
family, den, or school service project.
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Academics
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Earn the belt loop, and
complete five of the following requirements:
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- Interview someone
who has become a naturalized citizen. Give a report of your
interview to your den or family.
- Write a letter to
your newspaper about an issue that concerns you.
- Create a collage
about America.
- Conduct a home
safety or energy audit and inspect your home. Talk with your
parent or adult partner about correcting any problems you find.
- Visit you local site of government. Interview someone who is involved with the
governmental process.
- Visit a court room
and talk with someone who works there.
- Go to the polls with
your parents when they vote. Talk to them about their choices.
- Take part in a
parade with your den or pack.
- List ways you can
recycle various materials and conserve and protect the environment.
- Attend a community event or visit a landmark in your community.
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Communicating
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Belt Loop
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Complete these three (3)
requirements:
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- Tell a story or
relate an incident to a group of people, such as your family, den, or
members of your class.
- Write a letter to a
friend or relative.
- Make a poster about
something that interest you. Explain the poster to your den.
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Academics
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Earn the belt loop, and
complete five of the following requirements:
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- Write an original
poem or story.
- Keep a journal of
daily activities for at least seven (7) days.
- Listen to a news
story on television or the radio. Discuss the information with an adult.
- Go to the
library. Use the card catalog or computer reference system to find
a book, and then check it out.
- Read a book that has
been approved by your parent or teacher. Discuss the book with an
adult.
- With a friend,
develop a skit. Perform it at a Scout meeting, family meeting, or school
event.
- Learn the alphabet
in sign language. Learn how to sign 10 words.
- With an adult, use
the Internet to search for information on a topic of interest to you.
- Watch three (3)
television commercials and discuss the information in them with your
parent or den leader.
- Read the directions
for anew game. Explain to a family member or friend how to play it.
- Learn about
"reading" materials for people who have poor vision or who are
blind.
- While traveling,
make a list of road signs, animals, or license plates that you see.
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Computers
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Belt Loop
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Complete these three (3)
requirements:
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- Explain these parts of a personal computer: central processing unit (CPU), Monitor,
keyboard, mouse, modem, and printer.
- Demonstrate how to
start up and shut down a personal computer properly.
- Use your computer to
prepare and print a document.
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Academics
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Earn the belt loop, and
complete five of the following requirements:
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- Use a computer to
prepare a report on a subject of interest to you. Share it with your den.
- Make a list of 10
devices that can be found in the home that use a computer ship to
function.
- Use a computer to
maintain a balance sheet of your earnings or allowance for four (4)
weeks.
- Use a spreadsheet program to organize some information.
- Use an illustration,
drawing , or painting program to create a picture.
- Use a computer to
prepare a thank-you letter to someone.
- Log on to the Internet. Visit the Boy Scouts of America homepage
(http://www.bsa.scouting.org).
- Discuss personal
safety rules you should pay attention to while using the internet.
- Practice a new
computer game for two weeks. Demonstrate an improvement in your score.
- Correspond with a
friend via e-mail. Have at least five (5) e-mail replies from your
friend.
- Visit a local
business or government agency that uses a mainframe computer to handle
it's business. Explain how computers save the company time and money
in carrying out its work.
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Geography
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Belt Loop
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Complete these three (3)
requirements:
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- Draw a map of your
neighborhood. Show natural and manmade features. Include a key or legend
of map symbols.
- Learn about the
physical geography of your community. Identify the major landforms within 100 miles. Discuss with an adult what you learned.
- Use a world globe or map
to locate the continents, the oceans, the equator, and the northern
and southern hemispheres. Learn how longitude and latitude lines
are used to locate a site.
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Academics
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Earn the belt loop, and
complete five of the following requirements:
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- Make a
three-dimensional model of an imaginary place. Include five
different land-forms, such as mountains, valleys, lakes, deltas, rivers,
buttes, plateaus, basins, and plains.
- List 10 cities
around the world. Calculate the time it is in each city when it is noon
in your town.
- Find the company's
location on the wrapper or label of 10 product used in your home, such
as food, clothing, toys, and appliances. Use a world map or atlas
to find each location.
- On a map, trace the
routes of some famous explores. Show the map to your den or
family.
- On a United States
or world map, mark where your family members and ancestors were born.
- Keep a map record of
the travels of your favorite professional sports team for 1 month.
- Read a book (fiction
or nonfiction) in which geography plays an important part.
- Take part in a
geography bee or fair in your pack, school, or community.
- Choose a country in the
world and make a travel poster for it.
- Play a
geography-based board game or computer game. Tell an adult some facts you learned about a place that was part of them game.
- Draw or make a map
of your state. Include rivers, mountain ranges, state parks, and
cities. Include a key or legend of map symbols.
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Heritages
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Belt Loop
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Complete these three (3)
requirements:
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- Talk with members of
your family about your family heritage: it's history, traditions, and
culture.
- Make a poster that
shows the origins or your ancestors. Share it with your den or
other group.
- Draw a family tree
showing members of your family for three (3) generations.
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Academics
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Earn the belt loop, and
complete five of the following requirements:
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- Participate in a
pack heritage celebration in which Cub Scouts give presentations about
their family heritage.
- Attend a family
reunion.
- Correspond with a
pen pal from another country. Find out how his or her heritage is
different from yours.
- Learn 20 words in a
language other than your native language
- Interview a
grandparent or other family elder about what it was like when he or she
was growing up.
- Work with a parent
or adult partner to organize family photographs in a photo album.
- Visit a genealogy
library and talk with the librarian about how to trace family records.
Variation: access a genealogy Web Site and learn how to use it to
find out information about ancestors
- Make an article of
clothing, a toy, or a tool that your ancestors used. Show it to
your den.
- Help your parent or
adult partner prepare one of your family's traditional food dishes.
- Learn about the origin
of your first, middle, or last name.
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Mathematics
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Belt Loop
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Complete these three (3)
requirements:
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- Do five activities
within your home or school that require the use of mathematics.
Explain to your den how you used everyday math.
- Keep track of the
money you earn and spend for three (3) weeks.
- Measure five items
using both metric and non-metric measures. Find out about the
history of the metric system or measurement.
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Academics
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Earn the belt loop, and
complete one from each of the five areas below:
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Geometry is related to the measurement but also
deals with objects and positions in space.
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- Many objects can be
recognized by their distinctive shape: a tree, a piece of broccoli, a
violin. Collect 12 items that can be recognized, classified, and
labeled by their distinctive shape or outline.
- Select a single
shape or figure. Observe the world around you for at least a week and
keep a record of where you see this shape or figure and how it is
used.
- Study geometry in
architecture by exploring your neighborhood or community. Look at
different types of buildings -- houses, churches, businesses, etc.. --
and create a presentation (a set of photographs, a collage of pictures
from newspapers and magazines, a model) that you can share with your den
or pack to show what you have learned about shapes in architecture.
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- Calculating
is adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing numbers.
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- Learn how an abacus
or slide rule works and teach it to a friend or to your den or pack.
- Go shopping with an
adult and use a calculator to add up how much the items you buy will
cost. See whether your total equals the total at checkout.
- Visit a bank and
have someone there explain to you about how interest works. Use
the current interest rate and calculate how much interest different sums
of money will earn.
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- Statistics
is collecting and organizing numerical information and studying
patterns.
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- Explain the meaning
of these statistical words and tools: data, averaging, tally marks,
bar graph, line graph, pie chart, and percentage.
- Conduct an opinion
survey through which you collect data to answer a question, and then
show your results with a chart or graph. For instance: what is the
favorite food of the Cub Scouts in your pack (chart how many like pizza,
how many like hamburgers, etc..).
- Study a city
newspaper to find as many examples as you can of statistical
information.
- Learn to use a
computer spreadsheet.
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- Probability
helps us know the chance or likelihood of something happening.
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- Explain to your den
how a meteorologist or insurance company (or someone else) might use the
mathematics of probability to predict what might happen in the future
(i.e., the chance that it might rain, or the chance that someone might
be in a car accident).
- Conduct and keep a
record of a coin toss probability experiment.
- Guess the
probability of your sneaker landing on it's bottom, top, or side, and
flip it 100 times to find out which way it lands. Use this
probability to predict how a friends sneaker will land.
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- Measuring is
using a unit to express how long or how big something is, or how much of
it there is.
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- Interview four
adults in different occupations to see how they use measurement in their
jobs.
- Measure how tall someone
is. Have them measure you.
- Measure how you use
your time by keeping a diary or log of what you do for a week.
Then make a chart or graph to display how you spend your time.
- Measure, mix, and
cook at least two recipes. Share your snack with family, friends,
or your den.
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Music
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Belt Loop
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Complete these three (3)
requirements:
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- Explain why music is
an important part of our culture.
- Pick a song with at
least two (2) verses and learn it by heart.
- Listen to four (4) different
types of music either recorded or live.
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Academics
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Earn the belt loop, and
complete five of the following requirements:
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- Make a musical
instrument and play it for your family. den or pack.
- Teach your den a
song.
- Play a song by
yourself or n a group, in unison or in harmony.
- Create an original
melody and / or original words for a song.
- Using a tape
recorder, capture natural sounds of the environment or record songs you
create, and use your recording as a soundtrack for a short skit or as
background for a movement or activity.
- Attend a live
musical performance or concert.
- Demonstrate
conducting patterns for two (2) songs using different meters (two-,
three-, or four- beat meter) while your adult partner or den members sing or play the songs you have selected.
- Take voice or dance lessons or lessons to learn to play an instrument.
- Create movements to a
piece of music without words to demonstrate the moods of the music:
happy, sad, calm, excited, playful, inspired.
- Learn about a composer
of some music that you enjoy.
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Science
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Belt Loop
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Complete these three (3)
requirements:
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- Explain the
scientific method to your adult partner.
- Use the scientific
method in a simple science project. Explain the results to an
adult.
- Visit a museum, a laboratory, an observatory, a zoo, an aquarium, or
other facility that employ scientist. Talk to a scientist about his or her work.
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Academics
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Earn the belt loop, and
complete five of the following requirements:
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- Make a simple
electric motor that works.
- Find a stream or
other area that shows signs of erosion. Try to discover the cause of the
erosion.
- Plant seeds. Grow a
flower, garden vegetable, or other plant.
- Use these simple
machines to accomplish task: lever, pulley, wheel-and-axle, wedge,
inclined plane, and screw.
- Learn about solids,
liquids, and gasses 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.
- Build models of
atoms and two molecules, using plastic foam balls or other objects.
- Make a collection of
igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks and label them.
- Learn about a
creature that lives in the ocean. Share what you have learned with your
den or family.
- Label a drawing or
diagram of the bones of the human skeleton.
- Make a model or
poster of the solar system. Label the planets and the sun.
- Do a scientific experiment
in front of an audience. Explain your results.
- Read a book about a
science subject that interest you.
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Weather
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Belt Loop
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Complete these three (3)
requirements:
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- Make a poster that
shows and explains the water cycle.
- Set up a simple
weather station to record rainfall, temperature, air pressure, or
evaporation for one week.
- Watch the weather forecast
on a local television station.
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Academics
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Earn the belt loop, and
complete five of the following requirements:
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- Define the following terms: weather, humidity, precipitation, temperature, and
wind.
- Explain how clouds
are made. describe the different kinds of clouds--stratums, cumulus,
cumulonimbus, and cirrus-- and what kind of weather can be
associated with these cloud types.
- Describe the climate
in your state. Compare its climate with that in another state.
- Describe a
potentially dangerous weather condition in your community. Discuss
safety precautions and procedures for dealing with this condition.
- Define what is meant
by acid rain. Explain the greenhouse effect.
- Talk to a
meteorologist about his or her job. Learn about careers in meteorology.
- Make a weather map
of your state or country, using several weather symbols.
- Explain the differences
between tornadoes and hurricanes.
- Make a simple weather
vane. Make a list of other weather instruments and describe what they do.
- Explain how weather
can affect agriculture and the growing of food.
- Make a report to
your den or family on a book about weather.
- Explain how rainbows
are formed and then draw and color a rainbow.
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Wildlife Conservation
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Belt Loop
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Complete these three (3)
requirements:
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- Explain what natural
resources are and why it's important to protect and conserve them.
- Make a poster that
shows and explains the food chain. Describe to your den what happens if
the food chain becomes broken or damaged.
- Learn about an
endangered species. Make a report to your den that includes a picture,
how the species came to be endangered, and what is being done to save
it.
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Earn the belt loop, and
complete five of the following requirements:
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- Visit a wildlife
sanctuary, nature center, or fish hatchery.
- Collect and read
five (5) newspaper or magazine articles that discuss conservation of
wildlife and report to your family or den what you learned.
- Learn about five (5)
animal that use camouflage to protect themselves.
- Make a birdbath and
keep a record for one week of the different birds that visit it.
- Make a collage of animals
that are in the same class: fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds,
or mammals.
- Make a plaster cast
of an animal track. Show it to your den.
- Visit with a person
who works in wildlife conservation, such as a park ranger, biologist,
range manager, geologist, horticulturist, zookeeper, fishery technician,
or conservation officer.
- Visit a state park
or national park.
- Participate in an
environmental service project that helps maintain habitat for wildlife,
such as cleaning up an area or planting trees.
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