SCOUTS BSA MERIT BADGE
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
While earning the Environmental Science merit badge, Scouts will get a taste of what it is like to be an environmental scientist, making observations and carrying out experiments to investigate the natural world.
REQUIREMENTS NOT COVERED: Requirement 2.
Requirement 2 - Ecology. Do the following and email fshanar@thehealthmuseum.org with a summary to complete the final requirement. This can include summary, pictures and/or videos.
(a) Choose an area approved by your counselor and observe (sight, sound, and smell) its ecosystem over a two-day period.
(b) Make notes about living, nonliving (e.g. rocks) and formerly living components. Include information about interactions among the components, including the food chain, predators, native species, and invasive species) and identify how human activities have affected the ecosystem.
Note to SCOUTS: Get approval from your counselor before attending this course and bring your blue card with you to get signed. Bring a lunch, water and a pen. Wear your Scout A or Scout B uniform. Most importantly, BE PREPARED.
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