Boy Scouts Geology Badge Day
Burke Museum
Sat., Dec. 3, 2011 | 10 am – 3 pm
$10 per Boy Scout; troop leaders and all adult chaperones are free
Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts are invited to earn their Geology awards at the Burke with a special day of earth science activities. Geologists will be on hand to answer [...]

Plant science is one of the more involved merit badges. It requires a lot of planning, and introduces the Scout to a lot of information that is likely new to him.
Three different options are offered to the Scout. This is a great badge to do in conjunction with an introductory Biology, [...]

One of the options for Plant Science is Field Botany. One of the Field Botany options is to visit an Herbarium. What’s an herbarium? That was my first question, too. In short, an herbarium is a collection of plant samples preserved for long-term study. It’s a lot more interesting than [...]