1. Complete these three requirements for Belt Loop (Year One):
   
   

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   Draw a map of your neighborhood. Show natural and manmade features. Include a key or legend of map symbols.
   
   

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   Learn about the physical geography of your community. Identify the major landforms within 100 miles. Discuss with an adult what you learned.
   
   

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   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.

   
   
   
2. Earn the Geography Belt Loop and complete five of the following requirements for the Geography Pin (Year Two):
   
   

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   Make a three-dimensional model of an imaginary place. Include five different landforms, such as mountains, valleys, lakes, deltas, rivers, buttes, plateaus, basins, and plains.
   
   

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   List 10 cities around the world. Calculate the time it is in each city when it is noon in your town.
   
   

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   Find the company's location on the wrapper or label of ten products used in your home, such as food, clothing, toys, and appliances. Use a world map or atlas to find each location.
   
   

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   On a map, trace the routes of some famous explorers. Show the map to your den or family.
   
   

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   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.
   
   

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   Read a book (fiction or nonfiction) in which geography plays an important part.
   
   

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   Take part in a geography bee or fair in your pack, school, or community.
   
   

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   Choose a country in the world and make a travel poster for it.
   
   

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   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.
   
   

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   Draw or make a map of your state. Include rivers, mountain ranges, state parks, and cities. Include a key or legend of map symbols.

   
   
3. Earn the Geography Belt Loop and Geography Pin and complete remaining requirements above to earn the Geography Letter (Year Three).

To help with Den/Patrol organization: Print out this page, check off requirement as completed, and turn in to Leader when all requirements for Belt Loop, Pin, or Letter are completed.

• Geo Globe: - Interactive Geography - explore the world - interactive puzzles, landmarks, mazes, and more.
  
  
• National Geography Bee - National competition sponsored by the National Geographic Society for students in grades four through eight.
  
  
• Puzzles Of the Earth - This interactive ThinkQuest entry has lots of information and theories about geography, plate tectonics, and related topics.
  
  
• Zoom School - Visit this online classroom for fun, facts, and help with Science, Geography, and Language Arts topics. Get help with reports and try the activities too.
  
  
• Aristotle and Ptolemy in the Virtual Classroom - Brief descriptions of Aristotle's and Ptolemy's beliefs on the Earth and geography.