Science


Tiger Cubs, Cub Scouts, and Webelos Scouts may complete requirements in a family, den, pack, school, or community environment. Tiger Cubs must work with their parents or adult partners. Parents and partners do not earn loops or pins.

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.

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 to 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.
 
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