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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.