Saturday, January 24th
1:00 PM – 4:00 PM

Cost: $25 per scout, $15 per chaperone

*This workshop is for a Eagle-Required Merit Badge.*

This merit badge workshop is open to any youth in grades 6th – 12th grade and is designed to help BSA Scouts meet requirements for the Environmental Science merit badge, an Eagle Required badge. We will be covering requirements 1, 2b, 3c, 4b, 5b, 7b, 8a, 9, and 11.

Scouts are responsible for the following pre-requisites: 2a, 2b, 6, 10. If participants do not complete these requirements ahead of time, Scouts must follow up with the counselors after the workshop to complete the requirements and received a completed blue card.

• Requirement 2a: Choose an outdoor area and observe (sight, sound, and smell) its ecosystem over a two-day period. 2b: Make notes about the living, nonliving, and formerly living components you see.
• Requirement 6 involves researching rare, threatened, or endangered species and preparing a 100-word report. Alternatively, Scouts can choose to visit a site that has been designed to improve the habitat for threatened or endangered species and prepare a report on what they saw.
• For requirement 10, Scouts must choose a construction project (such as a new house or new building at their Scout camp), identify all environmental impact topics that would need to be addressed for this project, evaluate the purpose and benefits of the project, alternative to the project (including a no-action alternative), and any environmental consequences of this project. Summarize these findings in a short report and be prepared to present them to the counselor.

BSA Environmental Science Requirements

A customized workbook will be provided for this workshop.

Some parts of the Cadette and Senior Think Like A Citizen Scientist Journey will be met during the BSA Environmental Science workshop. Girl Scouts looking to kickstart their Think Like A Citizen Scientist Journey are welcome to attend. We will meeting the following requirements:

Part 1: Find Out How Citizen Scientists Collect Data

1. Make observations about the environment.
2. Form scientific questions and hypothesis.
3. Collect data and add detail.
4. Analyze your results.

This workshop does NOT include a physical patch.

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