Boy Scout Troop 61 Presbyterian Church of Bloomingdale Brandon, FL MAP Meeting Time: Monday Nights 7:30 – 9:00
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Road to First Class

Starting in March -- completed during troop meetings

Week 1

• Repeat the Pledge of Allegiance.
• Demonstrate the Scout sign, salute, and handshake.
• Demonstrate tying the square knot (a joining knot).
• Understand and agree to live by the Scout Oath or Promise, Scout Law, motto, and slogan, and the Outdoor Code.
• Describe the Scout badge.

Week 2

• Do your best: Pushups, Pullups, Situps, Standing Long Jump, 1/4 mile run

Week 3

• Whip and fuse the ends of a rope

Week 4

• Rules of Safe Hiking
• Discuss requirements relating to being "Grubmaster"

Week 5

• Repeat from memory and explain the meaning of Scout Oath, Law, Motto and Slogan
• Patrol name, patrol yell and describe patrol flag
• HOMEWORK: Prepare a personal First Aid Kit to take on a hike

Week 6

• Demonstrate how to care for someone who is choking
• Bring in First Aid Kits discussed in Week 5.

Week 7

• Show improvement in activities from Week 2.

Week 8

• Discuss how a compass works and how to orient a map. Explain map symbols
• HOMEWORK: Earn amount of money agreed on with parent. Save 50 percent.

Week 9

• Discuss how a compass works and how to orient a map. Explain map symbols
• Demonstrate how to find directions during the day and at night without using a compass.

Week 10

• Demonstrate first aid for the following:
  • Object in eye
  • Bite of suspected rabid animal
  • Puncture wond from splinter, nail, and fishhook
  • Second degree burs
  • Heat exhaustion
  • Shock
  • Heatstroke, dehydration, hypothermia, and hyperventilation

Week 11

• Demonstrate tying "two half hitch" and "taut-line hitch" knots and tell their uses.

Week 12

• Show what to do for "hurry" cases of stopped breathing, serious bleeding, and internal poisoning.

Week 13

• Participate in anti-drug, alcohol, tobacco and other danger to your health class
• Discuss 3 R's of personal safety and protection

Week 14

• Discuss with individual approved by your leader your constitutional rights and obligations as a U.S. Citizen

Week 15

• Demonstrate tying a bowline knot and tell of its uses.
• Describe 3 things you should avoid using the internet. Describe a cyber bully and how you should respond to one.

Week 16

• Demonstrate bandages for sprained ankle, and for injurins of the head, upper arm and collarbone.
• Five most common signs of a heart attack. Explain steps in CPR.

Week 17

• Show how to transport by yourself and with one other person, a person from a smoke-filled room or a person with a sprained ankle for at least 25 yards.

ANY TIME Requirements

• Participate in Flag Ceremony (only when Patrol is Service Patrol - continual requirement until all scouts have completed requirement).
• Demonstrate how to display, raise, lower and fold the American flag.
• Participate in at least 1 service project (minimum of 1 hr).
• Since joining, participate in 10 separate troop/patrol activities (other than troop/patrol meetings), three of which included camping overnight. Demonstrate the principles of Leave No Trace on these outings.
• Tell someone is who is eligible to join Boy Scouts or an inactive Boy Scout, about your troop's activities. Invite him to outing, activity, service project or meeting. Tell him how to join or encourage an inactive Boy Scout to become active.
• Identify or show evidence of at least 10 kinds of wild animals found in your community.
• Identify or show evidence of at least 10 kinds of native plants found in your community.

Outdoor activity/Camping Requirements

• Present yourself to your leader, properly dressed, before going on an overnight camping trip. Show the camping gear you will use. Show the right way to pack and carry it.
• Spend at least one night on a patrol or troop campout. Sleep in a tent you have helped pitch.
• On one campout, assist in preparing and cooking one of your patrol's meals. Tell why it is important for each patrol member to share in meal preparation and cleanup, and explain the importance of eating together.
• On one campout, plan and cook over an open fire one hot breakfast or lunch for yourself, selecting foods from the food pyramid. Explain the importance of good nutrition. Tell how to transport, store, and prepare the foods you selected.
• On one campout, demonstrate proper care, sharpening, and use of the knife, saw, and ax, and describe when they should be used.
  • Prepare tinder kindling and fuel for cooking fire.
• Demonstrate how to light a fire and a lightweight stove.
• Identify local poisonous plants; tell how to treat for exposure to them.
• Demonstrate first aid for the following:
  • Simple cuts and scratches
  • Blisters
  • Minor burns
  • Bites and stings of insects and ticks
  • Snakebite
  • Nosebleed
  • Frostbite and sunburn
• Grubmaster Requirements
  • Help plan a patrol menu for one campout that includes at least one breakfast, one lunch, and one dinner and that requires cooking at least two meals. Tell how the menu includes the foods from the food pyramid and meets nutritional needs.
  • Using the menu planned above, make a list showing the cost and food amounts needed to feed three or more boys and secure the ingredients.
  • Tell which pans, utensils, and other gear will be needed to cook and serve these meals.
  • Explain the procedures to follow in the safe handling and storage of fresh meats, dairy products, eggs, vegetables, and other perishable food products. Tell how to properly dispose of camp garbage, cans, plastic containers, and other rubbish.
  • On one campout, serve as your patrol's cook. Supervise your assistant(s) in using a stove or building a cooking fire. Prepare the breakfast, lunch, and dinner planned in above requirement. Lead your patrol in saying grace at the meals and supervise cleanup.
• Swim Test or Water Campout
  • Tell precautions for safe swim.
  • Tell precautions for safe trip afloat
  • Demonstrate ability to jump feet first into water over your head and swim 25 ft on the surface, stop, turn and swim back to starting place.
  • Demonstrate water rescue methods by reaching with your arm, leg or suitable object and by throwing lines and object.
  • WIth helper and practice victim, show line rescue as tender and as rescuer. (approx 30 ft from shore in deep water)
• Using a compass and a map together, take a 5-mile hike (or 10 miles by bike) approved by your adult leader and your parent or guardian.
• Using a compass, complete an orienteering course that covers at least one mile.

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