REQUIREMENTS
FOR THE ART ACADEMICS BELT LOOP
Complete these three requirements:
1.Make a list of common materials used to create visual art
compositions.
2.Demonstrate how six of the following elements of design
are used in a drawing: lines, circles, dots, shapes, colors,
patterns, textures, space, balance, or perspective.
3.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.
REQUIREMENTS FOR THE ART ACADEMICS PIN
Earn the Art belt loop, and complete six of the following
requirements:
1.Visit an art museum, gallery, or exhibit. Discuss with an
adult the art you saw.
2.Create two self-portraits using two different art techniques,
such as drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture, or
computer illustration.
3.Demonstrate how to make paper. Make a sample at least 4
inches by 4 inches.
4.Make a simple silkscreen or stencil. Print a card or T-shirt.
5.Create a freestanding sculpture or mobile using wood,
metal, soap, papier-mache, or found objects.
6.Create an object using clay that can be fired, baked in the
oven,
or hardened in water.
7.Photograph four subjects in one theme, such as
landscapes, people, animals, sports, or buildings.
8.Make a collage using several different materials.
9.Use your artistic skills to create a postage stamp, book
cover, or music CD cover.
10.Use a computer illustration or painting program to create a
work of art.
11.Display your artwork in a pack, school, or community art
show.
REQUIREMENTS
FOR THE CHESS ACADEMICS BELT
LOOP
Complete these three requirements:
1.Identify the chess pieces and set up a chess board for play.
2.Demonstrate the moves of each chess piece to your den
leader or adult partner.
3.Play a game of chess.
REQUIREMENTS FOR THE CHESS ACADEMICS PIN
Earn the Chess belt loop, and complete five of the following
requirements:
1.Demonstrate basic opening principles (such as
development of pieces, control center, castle, don't bring
queen out too early, don't move same piece twice).
2.Visit a chess tournament and tell your den about it.
3.Participate in a pack, school, or community chess
tournament.
4.Solve a pre-specified chess problem (e.g., "White to move
and mate in three") given to you by your adult partner.
5.Play five games of chess.
6.Play 10 chess games via computer or on the Internet.
7.Read about a famous chess player.
8.Describe U.S. Chess Federation ratings for chess players.
9.Learn to write chess notation and record a game with
another Scout.
10.Present a report about the history of chess to your den or
family.
REQUIREMENTS
FOR THE CITIZENSHIP ACADEMICS
BELT LOOP
Complete these three requirements:
1.Develop a list of jobs you can do around the home. Chart
your progress for one week.
2.Make a poster showing things that you can do to be a good
citizen.
3.Participate in a family, den, or school service project.
REQUIREMENTS FOR THE CITIZENSHIP ACADEMICS PIN
Earn the Citizenship belt loop, and complete five of the following
requirements:
1.Interview someone who has become a naturalized citizen.
Give a report of your interview to your den or family.
2.Write a letter to your newspaper about an issue that
concerns you.
3.Create a collage about America.
4.Conduct a home safety or energy audit and inspect your
home. Talk with your parent or adult partner about correcting
any problems you find.
5.Visit your local site of government. Interview someone who
is involved with the governmental process.
6.Visit a court room and talk with someone who works there.
7.Go to the polls with your parents when they vote. Talk to
them about their choices.
8.Take part in a parade with your den or pack.
9.List ways you can recycle various materials and conserve
and protect the
environment.
10.Attend a community event or visit a landmark in your
community.
REQUIREMENTS
FOR THE COMMUNICATING ACADEMICS
BELT LOOP
Complete
these three requirements:
1.Tell a story or relate an incident to a group of people, such
as your family, den, or members of your class.
2.Write a letter to a friend or relative.
3.Make a poster about something that interests you. Explain
the poster to your den.
REQUIREMENTS FOR THE COMMUNICATING ACADEMICS
PIN
Earn the Communicating belt loop, and complete five of the
following requirements:
1.Write an original poem or story.
2.Keep a journal of daily activities for at least seven days.
3.Listen to a news story on television or the radio. Discuss the
information with an adult.
4.Go to the library. Use the card catalog or computer
reference
system to find a book, and then check it out.
5.Read a book that has been approved by your parent or
teacher. Discuss the book with an adult.
6.With a friend, develop a skit. Perform it at a Scout meeting,
family meeting, or school event.
7.Learn the alphabet in sign language. Learn how to sign 10
words.
8.With an adult, use the Internet to search for information on a
topic of interest to you.
9.Watch three television commercials and discuss the
information in them with your parent or den leader.
10.Read
the directions for a new game. Explain to a family
member or friend how to play it.
11.Learn about "reading" materials for people who have poor
vision or who are blind.
12.While traveling, make a list of road signs, animals, or
license plates that you see.
REQUIREMENTS
FOR THE COMPUTERS ACADEMICS
BELT LOOP
Complete these three
requirements:
1.Explain the parts of a personal computer: central
processing unit (CPU), monitor, keyboard, mouse, modem,
and printer.
2.Demonstrate how to start up
and shut down a personal
computer properly.
3.Use your computer to prepare and print a document.
REQUIREMENTS FOR THE COMPUTERS ACADEMICS PIN
Earn the Computers belt loop and complete five of the following
requirements:
1.Use a computer to prepare a report on a subject of interest
to you. Share it with your den.
2.Make a list of 20 devices that can be found in, the home that
use a computer chip to function.
3.Use a computer to maintain a balance sheet of your
earnings
for four weeks.
4.Use a spreadsheet program to organize some information.
5.Use an illustration, drawing, or painting program to create a
picture.
6.Use
a computer to write a thank-you letter to someone.
7.Log on to the Internet. Visit the Boy Scouts of America
homepage (http://www.bsa.scouting.org).
8.Discuss with an adult personal safety rules you should use
while using the Internet.
9.Practice a new computer game for two weeks.
Demonstrate an improvement in your scores.
10.Correspond with a friend using e-mail. Have at least five
e-mail replies from your friend.
11.Visit a local business or government agency that uses a
large mainframe computer to handle their business. Be able
to explain how computers save them time and money in
carrying out their work.
REQUIREMENTS
FOR THE GEOGRAPHY ACADEMICS
BELT LOOP
Complete
these three requirements:
1.Draw a map of your neighborhood. Show natural and
manmade features. Include a key or legend of map
symbols.
2.Learn about the physical geography of your
community.
Identify the major landforms within 100 miles. Discuss with
an adult what you learned.
3.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.
REQUIREMENTS FOR THE GEOGRAPHY ACADEMICS PIN
Earn the Geography belt loop, and complete five of the following
requirements:
1.Make a three-dimensional model of an imaginary place.
Include five
different landforms, such as mountains, valleys,
lakes, deltas, rivers, buttes, plateaus, basins, and plains.
2.List 10 cities around the world. Calculate the time it is in
each
city when it is noon in your town.
3.Find the company's location on the wrapper or label of 10
products used in your home, such as food, clothing, toys,
and appliances. Use a world map or atlas to find each
location.
4.On a map, trace the routes of some famous explorers.
Show the map to your den or family.
5.On a United States or world map, mark where your family
members and ancestors were born.
6.Keep a map record of the travels of your favorite
professional sports team for one month.
7.Read a book (fiction or nonfiction)
in which geography plays
an important part.
8.Take part in a geography bee or fair in your pack, school, or
community.
9.Choose a country in the world and make a travel poster
for
it.
10.Play a geography-based board game or computer game.
Tell an adult some facts you learned about a place that was
part
of the game. 11. Draw or make a map of your state.
Include rivers, mountain ranges, state parks, and cities.
Include a key or legend of map symbols.
REQUIREMENTS
FOR THE HERITAGES ACADEMICS BELT
LOOP
Complete these three requirements:
1.Talk with members of your family about your family heritage:
its history, traditions, and culture.
2.Make a poster that shows the origins of your ancestors.
Share it with your den or other group.
3.Draw a family tree showing members of your family for three
generations.
REQUIREMENTS FOR THE HERITAGES ACADEMICS PIN
Earn the Heritages belt loop, and complete five of the following
requirements:
1.Participate in a pack heritage celebration in which Cub
Scouts give presentations about their family heritage.
2.Attend a family reunion.
3.Correspond with a pen pal from another country. Find out
how his or her heritage is different from yours.
4.Learn 20 words in a language other than your native
language.
5.Interview a grandparent or other family elder about what it
was like when he or she was growing up.
6.Work with a parent or adult partner to organize family
photographs in a photo album.
7.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.
8.Make an article of clothing, a toy, or a tool that your
ancestors used. Show it to your den.
9.Help your parent or adult partner prepare one of your
family's traditional food dishes.
10.Learn about the origin of your first, middle, or last name.
REQUIREMENTS
FOR THE MATHEMATICS ACADEMICS
BELT LOOP
Complete these three requirements:
1.Do five activities within your home or school that require the
use of mathematics. Explain to your den how you used
everyday math.
2.Keep track of the money you earn and spend for three
weeks.
3.Measure five items using both metric and nonmetric
measures. Find out about the history of the metric system of
measurement.
REQUIREMENTS FOR THE MATHEMATICS ACADEMICS
PIN
Earn the Mathematics beft loop, and complete one from each of
the five areas below:
I.Geometry is
related to measurement but also deals with
objects and positions in space.
1.Many objects can be recognized by their distinctive
shapes: a tree, a piece of broccoli, a violin. CoBect
12 items that can be recognized, classified, and
labeled by their distinctive shape or outline.
2.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.
3.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 seen and learned about shapes
in architecture.
II.Calculating is adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing
numbers.
1.Learn how an abacus or slide rule works and teach it
to a friend or to your den or pack.
2.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 check out.
3.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.
III.Statistics is collecting and organizing numerical information
and studying patterns.
1.Explain the meaning of these statistical words and
tools: data, averaging, tally marks, bar graph, line
graph, pie chart, and percentage.
2.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.).
3.Study a city newspaper to find as many examples as
you can of statistical information.
4.Learn to use a computer spreadsheet
IV.Probability helps us know the chance or likelihood of
something happening.
1.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).
2.Conduct and keep a record of a coin toss probability
experiment.
3.Guess the probability of your sneaker landing on its
bottom, top, or side, and then ffip it 100 times to find
out which way it lands. Use this probability to predict
how a friend's sneaker will land.
5.Measuring is using a unit to express how long or how big
something is, or how much of it there is.
1.Interview four adults in different occupations to see
how
they use measurement in their jobs.
2.Measure how tall someone is. Have them measure
you.
3.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.
4.Measure, mix, and cook at least two recipes. Share
your snacks with family, friends, or your den.
REQUIREMENTS
FOR THE MUSIC ACADEMICS BELT LOOP
Complete these three requirements:
1.Explain why music is an important part of our culture.
2.Pick a song with at least two verses and learn it by heart
3.Listen to four different types of music either recorded or five.
REQUIREMENTS FOR THE MUSIC ACADEMICS PIN
Earn the Music beft loop, and complete five of the following
requirements:
1.Make a musical instrument and play it for your family, den,
or pack.
2.Teach your
den a song.
3.Play a song by yourself or in a group, in unison or in
harmony.
4.Create an original melody and/or original words for a song.
5.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 activity.
6.Attend a live musical performance or concert.
7.Demonstrate conducting patterns for two songs using two
different meters (two-, three-, or four-beat meter) while your
adult
partner or den members sing or play the songs you
have selected.
8.Take voice or dance lessons or lessons to learn to play an
instrument.
9.Create movements to a piece of
music without words to
demonstrate the moods of the music: happy, sad, calm,
excited, playful, inspired.
10.Learn about a composer of some music that you enjoy.
REQUIREMENTS
FOR THE SCIENCE ACADEMICS BELT
LOOP
Complete these three requirements:
1.Explain the scientific method to your adult partner.
2.Use
the scientific method in a simple science project.
Explain the results to an adult.
3.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.
REQUIREMENTS FOR THE SCIENCE ACADEMICS PIN
Earn the Science belt loop, and complete five of the following
requirements:
1.Make a simple electric motor that works.
2.Find a stream or other area that shows signs of erosion. Try
to discover the cause of the erosion.
3.Plant
seeds. Grow a flower, garden vegetable, or other
plant.
4.Use these simple machines to accomplish tasks: lever,
pulley, wheel-and-axle, wedge, inclined plane, and screw.
5.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.
6.Build models of two atoms and two molecules, using plastic
foam balls or other objects.
7.Make a collection of igneous, metamorphic, and
sedimentary rocks and label them.
8.Learn about a creature that lives in the ocean. Share what
you have learned with your den or family.
9.Label a drawing or diagram of the bones of the human
skeleton.
10.Make a model or poster of the solar system. Label the
planets and the sun.
11.Do a scientific experiment in front of an audience. Explain
your results.
12.Read a book about a science subject that interests you.
REQUIREMENTS
FOR THE WEATHER ACADEMICS BELT
LOOP
Complete
these three requirements:
1.Make a poster that shows and explains the water cycle.
2.Set up a simple weather station to record rainfall,
temperature, air pressure, or evaporation for one week.
3.Watch the weather forecast on a local television station.
REQUIREMENTS FOR THE WEATHER ACADEMICS PIN
Earn the Weather belt loop, and complete five of the following
requirements:
1.Define the following terms: weather, humidity, precipitation,
temperature, and wind.
2.Explain how clouds are made. Describe the different kinds
of clouds-stratus, cumulus, cumulonimbus, and cirrus-and
what kind of weather can be associated with these cloud
types.
3.Describe the climate in your state. Compare its climate with
that in another state.
4.Describe a potentially dangerous weather condition in your
community. Discuss safety precautions and procedures for
dealing
with this condition.
5.Define what is meant by acid rain. Explain the greenhouse
effect.
6.Talk to a meteorologist about his or her job. Learn about
careers
in meteorology.
7.Make a weather map of your state or country, using several
weather symbols.
8.Explain the differences between tornadoes and hurricanes.
9.Make
a simple weather vane. Make a list of other weather
instruments and describe what they do.
10.Explain how weather can affect agriculture and the growing
of food.
11.Make a report to your den or family on a book about
weather.
12.Explain how rainbows are formed and then draw and color a
rainbow.
REQUIREMENTS
FOR THE WILDLIFE ACADEMICS BELT
LOOP
Complete these three requirements:
1.Explain what natural resources are and why it's important to
protect and conserve them.
2.Make a poster that shows and explains the food chain.
Describe to your den what happens if the food chain
becomes broken or damaged.
3.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.
REQUIREMENTS FOR THE WILDLIFE ACADEMICS PIN
Earn the Wildlife Conservation belt loop, and complete five of the
following requirements:
1.Visit a wildlife sanctuary, nature center, or fish hatchery.
2.Collect and read five newspaper or magazine articles that
discuss conservation of wildlife and report to your family or
den what you learn.
3.Learn about five animals that use camouflage to protect
themselves.
4.Make a birdbath and keep a record for one week of the
different birds that visit it.
5.Make a collage of animals that are in the same class: fish,
amphibians, reptiles, birds, or mammals.
6.Make a plaster cast of an animal track. Show it to your den.
7.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.
8.Visit a state park or national park.
9.Participate in an environmental service project that helps
maintain habitat for wildlife, such as cleaning up an area or
planting trees.