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 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.

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

Make a 3-D model of an imaginary place. Include five different landforms, such as mountains, valleys, lakes, rivers, plateaus, and plains.
List 10 cities around the world. Calculate the time it is in each city when it is noon in 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.

Choose one:
Read a book in which geography plays an important part;
On a web site with satellite views of earth, identify at least five locations, including your home address or a nearby building. Be sure you have your parent’s or adult partner’s permission first.
Take part in a geography bee or fair in your pack, school, or community.
Choose a country 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.

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 three generations.

Academics Pin

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

Participate in a pack heritage celebration in which Cub Scouts give presentations about their family heritage.
Attend a family reunion.
With your parent’s or adult partner’s permission, find and 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 or 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 origin of your first, middle, or last name. Tell your den or an adult family member about what you learned.

Update: Learning about the last name of Pierce, found this which says it’s Greek in origin (makes C happy) and highest concentration of Pierces in the US live in Texas. Funny!

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.