THE BELT LOOP AND PIN PROGRAM
A LISTING OF REQUIREMENTS TO EARN AWARDS
Requirements
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 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. |
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| Pin 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. |
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