Meeting Ideas

Future Meeting Ideas

  • Tread Lightly/Leave No Trace principles

1b Explain each of the principles of Tread Lightly! and tell how you practiced them on a campout or outing. This outing must be different from the ones used for Tenderfoot requirement 1c and Second Class requirement 1b.

  • Look for requirements to include in a local hike:
    5a. Identify or show evidence of at least 10 kinds of native plants found in your local area or campsite location. You may show evidence by identifying fallen leaves or fallen fruit that you find in the field, or as part of a collection you have made, or by photographs you have taken.

  • Emergency Prepardness drill

  • ILST training


  • Completed January 13, 2021: First Class First Aid requirements

7a. Demonstrate bandages for a sprained ankle and for injuries on the head, the upper arm, and the collarbone.

7b. By yourself and with a partner, show how to:

Transport a person from a smoke-filled room

Transport for at least 25 yards a person with a sprained ankle.

7c. Tell the five most common signals of a heart attack. Explain the steps (procedures) in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).

7d. Tell what utility services exist in your home or meeting place. Describe potential hazards associated with these utilities and tell how to respond in emergency situations.

7e. Develop an emergency action plan for your home that includes what to do in case of fire, storm, power outage, and water outage.

7f. Explain how to obtain potable water in an emergency.

  • Completed Jan 20. Constitutional Rights and Obligations of a Citizen Honorable Judge John Blanchard

9a. Visit and discuss with a selected individual approved by your leader (for example, an elected official, judge, attorney, civil servant, principal, or teacher) the constitutional rights and obligations of a U.S. citizen.

  • Completed 2j/17/21. Mr. Wiscombe presented
    First Class 5b - 5c. Adult or Scout leader gives short presentation on weather topic. Could include hazardous weather training material. Weather forecasts from internet, weather radio (demo radio weather channels), other sources
    5b. Identify two ways to obtain a weather forecast for an upcoming activity. Explain why weather forecasts are important when planning for an event.
    5c. Describe at least three natural indicators of impending hazardous weather, the potential dangerous events that might result from such weather conditions, and the appropriate actions to take.
    5d. Describe extreme weather conditions you might encounter in the outdoors in your local geographic area. Discuss how you would determine ahead of time the potential risk of these types of weather dangers, alternative planning considerations to avoid such risks, and how you would prepare for and respond to those weather conditions.

  • Completed 2/10/21. Mr. Forseth presented
    First Class 4b. Adult or Scout leader gives GPS overview. With some advance notice get everyone to download a GPS app if they don't have a GPS unit and then explain and guide on use. I have a few slides from either IOLS or BALOO training with some additional background on GPS.

4b. Demonstrate how to use a handheld GPS unit, GPS app on a smartphone, or other electronic navigation system. Use GPS to find your current location, a destination of your choice, and the route you will take to get there. Follow that route to arrive at your destination.