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

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   Explain the scientific method to your adult partner.
   
   

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   Use the scientific method in a simple science project. Explain the results to an adult.
   
   

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   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.

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

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   Make a simple electric motor that works.
   
   

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   Find a stream or other area that shows signs of erosion. Try to discover the cause of the erosion.
   
   

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   Plant seeds. Grow a flower, garden vegetable, or other plant.
   
   

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   Use these simple machines to accomplish tasks: lever, pulley, wheel-and-axle, wedge, inclined plane, and screw.
   
   

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   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.
   
   

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   Build models of two atoms and two molecules, using plastic foam balls or other objects.
   
   

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   Make a collection of igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks and label them.
   
   

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   Learn about a creature that lives in the ocean. Share what you have learned with your Den/Patrol or family.
   
   

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   Label a drawing or diagram of the bones of the human skeleton.
   
   

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   Make a model or poster of the solar system. Label the planets and the sun.
   
   

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   Do a scientific experiment in front of an audience. Explain your results.
   
   

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   Read a book about a science subject that interests you.

   
   
3. Earn the Science Belt Loop and Science Pin and complete remaining requirements above to earn the Science 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.

• 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.
  
  
• The Lab - Australian Broadcast Corporation's gateway to online science. Includes tons of science news, games and puzzles, jokes, links, and much more.
  
  
• Evidence: The True Witness - Learn about forensic science, including fingerprinting, DNA, and ballistics, at this great ThinkQuest site.
  
  
• Kinetic City Cyber Club - Your place for science adventure, fun games, and more. Follow the crew on their adventures, or do some of their fun lab experiments.
  
  
• Mad Science Group - Take a quiz, try out some home experiments, or check out some cool scientific facts.
  
  
• Newton's Apple - A national science program for kids and adults.
  
  
• Quirks & Quarks - Award-winning radio science program of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Check out the archives, take a science quiz, and more.
  
  
• Scientific Method - Step by step explanation of how scientists find things out from Biology4Kids.
  
  
• SimScience - Find out more about membranes, fluid flow, cracking dams, and crackling noise! You choose your reading level from beginner to advanced.
  
  
• Exploratorium's Science of Baseball - Explore the science behind the game. Find out why curveballs curve and what's behind a home run swing.
  
  
• Science Behind a Home Run - Learn how to find the "sweet spot" of a baseball bat and about the science of hitting a home run!
  
  
• The Skinny On... - Regular column by writer Hannah Holmes on Discovery Online with answers to nagging questions like why there's no channel 1 on a TV, and why pizza makes you thirsty.