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ART
Belt Loop:
Complete these 3 requirements:
- Make a list of common materials used to
create visual art compositions.
- Demonstrate how 6 of the following elements
of design are used in a drawing: lines, circles, dots, shapes, colors,
patterns, textures, space, balance, or perspective.
- Identify the 3 primary colors and the 3
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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In addition to the belt loop requirements, complete 6 of the following:
- Visit an art museum, gallery, or exhibit.
Discuss with an adult the art you saw.
- Create 2 self-portraits using 2 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, papier-mâché, or found objects.
- Create an object using clay that can be
fired, baked in the oven, or hardened in water.
- Photograph 4 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.
 CHESS
Belt Loop:
Complete these 3 requirements:
- 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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In addition to the belt loop requirements, complete 5 of the following:
- 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).
- Visit a chess tournament and tell your den
about it.
- Participate in a pack, school, or community
chess tournament.
- Solve a pre-specified 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 ratings for
chess players.
- Learn to write chess notation and record a
game with another Scout.
- Present a report about the history of chess
to your den or family.
 CITIZENSHIP
Belt Loop:
Complete these 3 requirements:
- 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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In addition to the belt loop requirements, complete 5 of the following:
- 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 your 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.
 COMMUNICATING
Belt Loop:
Complete these 3 requirements:
- 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 interests
you. Explain the poster to your den.
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In addition to the belt loop requirements, complete 6 of the following:
- Write an original poem or story.
- Keep a journal of daily activities for at
least 7 days.
- Listen to a news story on TV 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 3 TV commercials and discuss the
information in them with your parent or den leader.
- Read the directions for a new 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.
 COMPUTERS
Belt Loop:
Complete these 3 requirements:
- Explain these parts of a personal computer:
central processing unit, monitor, keyboard, mouse, modem, and printer.
- Demonstrate how to start up and shut down a
computer properly.
- Use your computer to prepare and print a
document.
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In addition to the belt loop requirements, complete 6 of the following:
- 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 chip to function.
- Use a computer to maintain a balance sheet
of your earnings or allowances for 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.
- Discuss personal safety rules you should pay
attention to while using the Internet.
- Practice a new computer game for 2 weeks.
Demonstrate an improvement in your scores.
- Correspond with a friend via e-mail. Have at
least 5 e-mail replies from your friend.
- Visit a local business or government agency
that uses a mainframe computer to handle its business. Explain how computers
save the company time and money in carrying out its work.
 GEOGRAPHY
Belt Loop:
Complete these 3 requirements:
- 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 have 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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In addition to the belt loop requirements, complete 6 of the following:
- Make a three-dimensional model of an
imaginary place. Include 5 different landforms, 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 on your town.
- 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.
- On a map, trace the routes of some famous
explorers. 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 one 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 the 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.
 HERITAGES
Belt Loop:
Complete these 3 requirements:
- Talk with members of your family about your
family heritage: its history, traditions, and culture.
- Make a poster that shows the origins of your
ancestors. Share it with your den or other group.
- Draw a family tree showing members of your
family for 3 generations.
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In addition to the belt loop requirements, complete 5 of the following:
- 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 oar 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 origins of your first,
middle, or last name.
 MATHEMATICS
Belt Loop:
Complete these 3 requirements:
- Do 5 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 3 weeks.
- Measure 5 items using both metric and
non-metric measures. Find out about the history of the metric system of
measurement.
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In addition to the belt loop requirements, complete 1 in each area:
- Geometry
is related to measurement but also deals with objects and positions in
space.
- Many objects can be recognized by their
distinctive shapes: 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, business, 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.
- Calculating
is adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing numbers.
- 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 check out.
- 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.
- Statistics
is collecting and organizing numerical information and studying patterns.
- 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.
- Probability
helps us know the chance or likelihood of something happening.
- 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, of 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 its bottom, top, or side, and then flip it 100 times to find
out which way it lands. Use this probability to predict how a friend’s
sneaker will land.
- Measuring
is using a unit to express how long or how big something is, or how much of
it there is.
- Interview 4 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 2
recipes. Share your snacks with family, friends, or your den.
 MUSIC
Belt Loop:
Complete these 3 requirements:
- Explain why music is an important part of
our culture.
- Pick a song with at least 2 verses and learn
it by heart.
- Listen to 4 different types of music either
recorded or live.
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In addition to the belt loop requirements, complete 5 of the following:
- Make a musical instrument and play it for
your family, den or pack.
- Teach your den a song.
- Play a song by yourself or in 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 using your
recording as a soundtrack for a short skit or as background for a movement
activity.
- Attend a live musical performance or
concert.
- Demonstrate conducting patterns for 2 songs
using 2 different meters (two-,three-, or four-beat mete) 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.
 SCIENCE
Belt Loop:
Complete these 3 requirements:
- 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 employs scientists.
Talk to a scientist about his or her work.
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In addition to the belt loop requirements, complete 6 of the following:
- 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
tasks: lever, pulley, wheel-and-axle, wedge, inclined plane, and screw.
- 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.
- Build models of 2 atoms and 2 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 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
interests you.
 WEATHER
Belt Loop:
Complete these 3 requirements:
- 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 TV
station.
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In addition to the belt loop requirements, complete 6 of the following:
- Define the following terms: weather,
humidity, precipitation, temperature, and wind.
- Explain how clouds are made. Describe the
different kinds of clouds – stratums, cumulus, , 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 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.
 WILDLIFE CONSERVATION
Belt Loop:
Complete these 3 requirements:
- 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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In addition to the belt loop requirements, complete 5 of the following:
- Visit a wildlife sanctuary, nature center,
or fish hatchery.
- Collect and read 5 newspaper or magazine
articles that discuss conservation of wildlife and report to your family or
den what you learn.
- Learn about 5 animals 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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Cub Scouts
Pack 419
Duluth, Ga.
 
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