ThadenPierce School

Complete these three requirements:

With your parent’s or adult partner’s permission, talk with someone who grew up in a different country than you did. Find out what it was like and how it is different from your experience.
Learn 10 words that are in a different language than your own.
Play two games that originated in another country or culture.
Academics Pin

Earn the Language and Culture belt loop, and complete seven of the following requirements:

Earn the BSA Interpreter Strip.
Write the numbers 1-10 in Chinese or another number system other than the one we normally use (we use the Arabic system).
Visit an embassy, consulate, or chargé d’affaires for another country.
Make a display of stamps or postcards of another country. Explain the importance or symbolism of the things depicted to that country’s culture.
Learn 30 words in a language other than your own. Practice saying these words with your den or an adult family member.
Learn a song in another country’s language. Sing the song for your den or an adult family member, and then tell what the words mean.
Say five words in American Sign Language. One of these words could be your first name.
Visit a restaurant that specializes in recipes from another country.
Watch a TV show or movie in a foreign language. Tell how easy or difficult it was to understand what was happening.
With your parent’s or adult partner’s permission, interview an interpreter. Find out what his or her job is like.
Make a list of 30 things around your home that were made in another country.
Read a book or story about an immigrant to the United States.

September – 1. Scientific Method, Experiments & Senses
- sensory experiments
- disability awareness experiments: ear plugs, blind fold
- will it float?
- water, ice, dye

Vocab: solid, liquid, gas, senses

C Cub Scout Award Science requirements here.

October – MATERNITY LEAVE

November – 2. Animals
- sorting animal cards
- visit animals*: zoo, Spirit Horse, farm (nutrition scout award)
- care for pet for 2 weeks, read book and list 3 facts about & make poster to share

Vocab: habitat

C Cub Scout Award pet care requirements.

December – 3. Life Long Ago/Dinosaurs
- animal tracks, make prints in clay & plaster (for scout requirement re: wildlife conservation & geology, footprints and fossil print)

Vocab: earth, dinosaurs

January – 4. Land
- rock, sand & other mineral examination
- samples of igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic & 3 types of minerals

Vocab: rock, mineral, soil

C Cub Scout Award Geology requirements here.

February – 5. Body
- food groups
- safety poster: KidPower & Frisco fire station visit*

Vocab: body, heart, energy, exercise

C Cub Scout Award for Nutrition requirements here.

Games: All Systems Go and Heart Health.

March – 6. Earth & Outer Space
- shadow tracing
- constellation cups w/flashlight: planetarium trip*
- model solar system

Vocab: shadow, star, solar system, orbit
(Additional C vocab for scout pin: planet, star, solar system, galaxy, the Milky Way, black hole, red giant, white dwarf, comet, meteor, moon, asteroid, star map, and universe)

C Cub Scout Award Astronomy requirements here.

April – 7. Forces
- forces on different objects: use simple machines (for scout award: lever, pulley, wheel-and-axle, wedge, inclined plane, and screw)
- magnets

Vocab: machine, magnet, attract, repel, force

May – 8. Plants
- plant seeds: diagram plants
- ways animals use plants poster

Vocab: stem, roots, flower, fruit, seed, pollen

June – 9. Water & Weather
- water plus: salt, sugar, sand, oil
- helicopter spinners
- make poster water cycle
- set up weather station for one week

Vocab: water, air, gas, weather, wind (Additional vocab for C’s scout pin: humidity, precipitation, temperature, tornado, hurricane.)

C Cub Scout Award weather award requirements.

July – 10. Caring for our Planet
- caring for our space: make poster of ways to care for our space and do service project*
- create poster of food chain
- create poster/report on endangered species

C Cub Scout Wildlife Conservation requirements.

* Field trip ideas.

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.
Academics Pin

Earn the Wildlife Conservation belt loop, and complete five of the following requirements:

Visit a wildlife sanctuary, nature center, or fish hatchery.
Collect and read five newspaper or magazine articles that discuss conservation of wildlife and report to your family or den what you learn.
Learn about five animals that use camouflage to protect themselves. Tell your den or an adult family member what you learned.
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.
With your parent or adult partner, 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.

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. Discuss with an adult family member what you heard and saw. Follow up by discussing the accuracy of the forecast.
Academics Pin

Earn the Weather belt loop, and complete five of the following requirements:

Explain to your den or an adult family member the meaning of these terms: weather, humidity, precipitation, temperature, and wind.
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.
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.
With your parent’s or adult partner’s permission, talk to a meteorologist about his or her position. Learn about careers in meteorology. Share what you learned with your den or an adult family member.
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.

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.

Academics Pin – Earn the Science belt loop, and complete five of the following requirements:

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 two 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 interests you. Tell your den or an adult family member about what you learned.

Care for your pet for two weeks. Make a list of the tasks that you did to take care of your pet.
Read a book, explore the Internet (with your parent’s or adult partner’s permission), or acquire a pamphlet about your pet. List three new interesting facts that you learned about your pet.
Make a poster about your pet. Share your poster with your den, pack, or family.
Academics Pin

Earn the Pet Care belt loop, and complete five of the following requirements:

With an adult, develop a plan for someone to care for your pet if you were to be away for one week.
Train your pet to do a trick or follow a simple command.
Describe how your pet communicates with you and other animals.
Observe or play with your pet for 15 minutes each day for one week. Keep a chart that shows your pet’s mood on each day.
Attend a pet show. Report to your den about the show.
Make a drawing of the cage or bed your pet requires. Describe the important parts of it.
Visit an animal shelter. Explain the reasons why pets are in the animal shelter to your den or family.
Visit a pet store. Make a list of the different animals in the store and the kinds of foods they eat.
Talk to a veterinarian about his or her career. Share what you learned with your den or family.
Tell three ways that animals can help people.
Do a service project for an animal shelter, exercise an elderly person’s pet, or help a friend with the care of his or her pet.
Find out about the pets of U.S. presidents while they lived at the White House. Tell your den about one president and his pet(s).

Make a poster of foods that are good for you. Share the poster with your den.
Explain the difference between a fruit and a vegetable. Eat one of each.
Help prepare and eat a healthy meal of foods that are included in a food pyramid.
(With your parent’s or partner’s permission, see http://www.mypyramid.gov.)
Academics Pin

Earn the Nutrition belt loop, and complete five of the following requirements:

Make a poster that shows different foods that are high in each of the vitamins. Using your poster, explain to your den or family the difference between a vitamin and a mineral and the importance of each for a healthy diet.
Read the nutrition label from a packaged or canned food item. Learn about the importance of the nutrients listed. Explain what you learned to your den or family.
Make a list of diseases that can be caused by a diet that is poor in nutrition.
Talk with your school cafeteria manager about the role nutrition plays in the meals your school serves.
With an adult, plan a balanced menu of breakfasts, lunches, and dinners for your family for a week.
Make a list of healthy snack foods. Demonstrate how to prepare two healthy snacks.
With an adult, go grocery shopping. Report to your den or other family members what you learned about choosing good foods to eat.
Demonstrate how to safely prepare food for three meals.
Demonstrate how to store leftover food to prevent spoilage or contamination.
Help with a garden. Report to your den or family about what is growing in the garden and how you helped. Show a picture of or bring an item harvested from your gaden.
Visit a farm or ranch. Talk with the owner about how the farm or ranch produces food for families.
Explain how physical exercise works with nutrition in helping people be fit and healthy. Demonstrate three examples of good physical activity.

Explain to your den or an adult family member what geology means.
Collect samples of igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks. Explain how each was formed.
Collect samples of three minerals. Explain to your family or den what a mineral is and show and tell about the minerals you collected.
Academics Pin

Earn the Geology belt loop, and complete five of the following requirements:

Make a plaster cast of a fossil.
Make a special collection of rocks and minerals that illustrates the hardness scale.
Give examples of sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic rocks.
Gather several different types of rocks. Compare them and put them in groups according to physical properties such as color, texture, luster, hardness, or crystals.
Describe the effects of wind, water, and ice on the landscape.
Make “pet rocks” using rocks, paint, and glue-on eyes. Tell a creative story about your pet rocks.
Draw a diagram showing different types of volcanoes or draw a diagram that labels the different parts of a volcano.
Make a crystal garden.
Make a collection of five different fossils and identify them to the best of your ability.
Make a poster or display showing 10 everyday products that contain or use rocks or minerals.
Visit a mine, oil or gas field, gravel pit, stone quarry, or similar area of special interest related to geology.
With your parent or adult partner, visit with a geologist. Find out how he or she prepared for the position. Discuss other careers related to geology.
Draw the inside of a cave showing the difference between stalactites and stalagmites.

He’s earned the belt loop already.

Academics Pin

Earn the Disabilities Awareness belt loop, and complete five of the following requirements:

1. People with disabilities move around in different ways such as crutches, scooters, and wheelchairs. Explain the differences. With an adult’s supervision and permission, try to safely use one.

2. Using sign language, demonstrate the Cub Scout Promise and motto.

3. Read a book about a person with a disability. x

4. Explain how your school helps students with disabilities (elevators, ramps, small classes, special tools and equipment, specialized teachers)

5. Describe one of the following and its purpose: occupational therapy, speech therapy, or physical therapy. Visit with a person who works in one of these fields and learn about his or her position.

6. Read about a famous person who has been physically or mentally challenged. Report what you learned to your den or family.

7. For two one-hour periods, and with adult supervision, go about your normal routine doing chores, watching television, studying, etc. Change your abilities by using one of these experiences, then share what you learned with your den:

Hearing impairment — Muffle your ears with earmuffs or bandages.
Sight impairment — Blindfold one or both eyes.
Physical impairment— Bind an arm or leg so that it cannot be used.
Speaking impairment — Cover your mouth or do not speak
Choose an impairment of your own that is approved by an adult

8. Look at a catalog and find three items that could help a person with disabilities in their daily life. Explain how each item would help the individual.

9. Volunteer and help someone with disabilities in school, sports, or another supervised activity.

10. Visit a nursing home or elderly person and help someone with a meal.

11. Talk to someone who works with people who have disabilities. Ask what the person’s position is like and how he or she helps people with disabilities.

Belt Loop

Complete these three requirements:

Explain the rules of basketball to your leader or adult partner.
Spend at least 30 minutes practicing basketball skills.
Participate in a basketball game.
Sports Pin

Earn the Basketball belt loop, and complete five of the following requirements:

Compete in a pack or community basketball tournament.
Demonstrate effective passing using the chest pass, bounce pass, over-the-head pass, and baseball pass.
Successfully demonstrate the set shot and jump shot shooting styles.
Demonstrate skill in the following dribbling techniques: high dribble, low dribble, turnable dribble, change-of-pace dribble, and combination dribble.
On three different occasions, spend at least 30 minutes developing individual defensive skills.
Explain and demonstrate 10 official basketball signals.
Play three shot-improving games with a member of your den or team.
Play five games of basketball.
Participate in a basketball clinic.
Attend a high school, college, or professional basketball game.