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The Changes & Why
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The Changes & Why
Rank Advancement Thru Adventures•For each rank, complete a series of den-based adventures, including a family-based “Duty to God” adventure, to earn rank
Adventures = interdisciplinary, theme-based experiences, 3 den meetings
Immediate recognition after each adventure Elective adventures available; same recognition
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The Changes & Why
To Review What’s Changing:•Oath & Law
•Tiger Cub becomes Tiger with new image
•Arrow of Light will no longer require earning Webelos
•Citizenship programs are now more participatory
•Duty to God is now more family based and does not include the religious emblems program.
•Activities – more active, more aligned with Aims/Mission
•Advancement – simplified
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Bobcat Changes
☐Scout Oath
☐Scout Law
☐What Webelos means
☐Cub Scout Sign
☐Cub Scout Handshake
☐Cub Scout Motto
☐Cub Scout Salute
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Bobcat Changes
• Having to earn the Bobcat rank before a Scout can earn any other rank is the same.
• Bobcat requirements will remain the same except for the One Oath/One Law change.
• Knowing Webelos, the Cub Scout Sign, the Handshake, The Cub Scout Motto, and the Cub Scout Salute are staying the same.
• The How to Protect Your Children From Child Abuse: A Parent’s Guide must me completed each year.– This will now include the Scout needing to earn the Cyber Chip
for that rank.
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Bobcat Changes
The Cyber Chip•The How to Protect Your Children From Child Abuse: A Parent’s Guide must me completed each year.
– This will now include the Scout needing to earn the Cyber Chip for that rank.
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Bobcat Changes
The Cyber Chip
1. Read, commit to, and sign the Level I Internet Safety Pledge.
2.Watch the video “Bad Netiquette Stinks.”
3. Play the Router’s Birthday Surprise Interactive Adventure, and print the completion certificate to give to your den leader.
4.Show and tell your family, den leader, den, or pack what you have learned.
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Bobcat Changes
The Cyber Chip
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The Tiger Year
What’s Staying the Same:•Tigers is still for boys who have completed Kindergarten or are at most age 7.•Scouts will still need to have an Adult Partner present at all meetings.•CANNOT use knives, saws, or axes. •CANNOT cook outdoors.
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The Tiger Year
What’s Changing:•Tiger Cubs will instead be called “Tigers,” effective May 2015. •Immediate Recognition plaques and beads are gone.•Tiger rank requirements: 6 core adventures and 1 elective adventure
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The Tiger Year
Complete each of the following Tiger required adventures with your den or family:
– Backyard Jungle
– Games Tigers Play
– My Family’s Duty to God
– Team Tiger
– Tiger Bites
– Tigers in the Wild
•Complete one Tiger elective adventure of your den or family’s choosing. •With your parent or adult partner, complete the exercises in the pamphlet How to Protect Your Children From Child Abuse: A Parent’s Guide, and earn the Cyber Chip award for your age.*
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The Tiger Year
Games Tigers Play
Rationale for AdventureTo help boys develop appropriate emotional responses and engage in shared decision making in group settings, and to encourage engagement in an active and healthy lifestyle.
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The Tiger Year
Snapshot of AdventureDo you like to play games? in some games, one person or one team wins. team-building games help everyone leave the game a winner! in this adventure, you are going to find out you are part of an amazing team of scouts who play together and work together!
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The Tiger Year
Games Tigers Play
1a play two initiative or team- building games with the members of your den.
1b listen carefully to your leader while the rules are being explained, and follow directions when playing.
1c at the end of the game, talk with the leader about what you learned when you played the game. Tell how you helped the den by playing your part.
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The Tiger Year
Games Tigers Play
IF THE SHOE FITS... Materials needed: One shoe of the pair you are wearing •Each Tiger in your den takes off one shoe and tosses it in a pile in the middle of the room. •On the count of three, each person grabs a shoe from the pile and then finds the person wearing the matching shoe on the other foot. •Learn the shoe owner’s first and last name. Then ask the shoe owner to tell you three things about himself that you didn’t know. •After you have listened closely to the shoe owner, take turns introducing him. Share his name and three facts you learned about him.
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The Tiger Year
Games Tigers Play
2.Make up a game with the members of your den.
3.Make up a new game, and play it with your family or members of your den or pack.
4.While at a sporting event, ask a participant why he or she thinks it is important to be active.
5.Bring a nutritious snack to a den meeting. share why you picked it and what makes it a good snack choice.
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The Tiger Year
Congratulations you earned your
Games Tigers Play Adventure Loop
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The Tiger Year
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The Wolf Year
What’s Staying the Same:•Wolf rank is still for boys who have completed 1st grade or are at most age 8.•Scouts no longer need Adult Partners, but we always welcome their help and involvement.•Wolves can be Denner, you can still work with Den Chiefs.
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The Wolf Year
What’s Changing:•Immediate Recognition beads and arrowheads are gone.•Wolf rank requirements: 6 core adventures & 1 elective adventure
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The Wolf Year
Complete each of the following Wolf required adventures with your den or family:
– Call of the Wild
– Council Fire
– Duty to God Footsteps
– Howling at the Moon
– Paws on the Path
– Running With the Pack
Complete one Wolf elective adventure of your den or family’s choosing.
With your parent or guardian, complete the exercises in the pamphlet How to Protect Your Children From Child Abuse: A Parent’s Guide, and earn the Cyber Chip award for your age.
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The Wolf Year
Paws on the Path
Rationale for AdventureThis adventure will encourage the development of hiking skills in Scouts.
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The Wolf Year
SNAPSHOT OF ADVENTURE exploring far-away mountains. traveling through deep, dark jungles. Crossing hot, dry deserts. the adventurers that mastered these journeys got their start on a short hike, just like the one you and your Wolf den are about to take! in this adventure, you will use your scouting outdoor skills and learn more about the natural world around you. hike on, Wolf!
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The Wolf Year
Paws on the Path
1.show you are prepared to hike safely by putting together the Cub scout six essentials to take along on your hike.
2.Tell what the buddy system is and why we always use it in Cub scouts.
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The Wolf Year
Paws on the Path
3.Describe what you should do if you get separated from your group while hiking.
A Wolf should never get separated from the rest of the group while hiking. But sometimes it happens. If you do find yourself away from the rest of your den while on a hike in the woods, here is what you need to do:
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The Wolf Year
S – T – O – P! S = stay calm. Stay where you are. Sit down, take a drink of water, and eat a little trail food. Stay where you can be seen. Don’t hide! You are not in trouble!
T = think. Think about how you can help your leaders or others find you. Stay where you are, and be sure people can see you. Make yourself an easy target to find. Remember, people will come to look for you. Stay put, be seen, and help them find you!
O = Observe. Listen for the rest of your group, or people looking for you. Blow your whistle three times in a row, then listen. Three of any kind of signal means you need help, and everyone will try to help you.
P = Plan. Stay calm, stay put! Plan how to stay warm and dry until help arrives. Don’t worry, you will be found.
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The Wolf Year
Paws on the Path
4.Choose the appropriate clothing to wear on your hike based on the expected weather.
5.Before hiking, recite the outdoor Code and the leave no Trace principles for Kids with your leader. after hiking, discuss how you showed respect for wildlife.
6.Go on a 1-mile hike with your den or family. Watch and record two interesting things that you’ve never seen before.
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The Wolf Year
Paws on the Path
7.Name two birds, two insects, and two animals that live in your area. explain how you identified them.
8.Draw a map of an area near where you live using common map symbols. show which direction is north on your map.
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The Wolf Year
Congratulations you earned your
Paws on the Path Adventure Loop
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The Wolf Year
The Bear Year
What’s Staying the Same:•Bears is still for boys who have completed 2nd grade or are at most age 9.•Work on Requirements and can be done by Blue and Gold•Boys can work toward their Whittling Chip and use a knife.
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The Bear Year
What’s Changing:•Bear rank requirements: 6 core adventures & 1 elective adventure.•Instant Recognition Beads are gone, and replaced with Adventure Loops.•Advancement is much easier.•More outdoor fun and building toward what will be coming in Boy Scouts.
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The Bear Year
Complete each of the following Bear required adventures with your den or family:
– Bear Claws – Bear Necessities – Fellowship and Duty to God– Fur, Feathers, and Ferns – Grin and Bear It – Paws for Action
Complete one Bear elective adventure of your den or family’s choosing.
With your parent or adult partner, complete the exercises in the pamphlet How to Protect Your Children From Child Abuse: A Parent’s Guide, and earn the Cyber Chip award for your •Age.
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The Bear Year
Bear Necessities
Rationale for AdventureThis adventure will introduce new Scouts to outdoor skills while improving and developing independence in those learned in previous ranks.
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The Bear Year
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The Bear Year
Bear Necessities
1.While working on your Bear badge, camp overnight with your pack at resident camp or another scouting event.
2.attend a campfire show, and participate by performing a song or skit with your den.
3.make a list of items you should take along on your campout.
4.make a list of equipment that the group should bring along in addition to your personal gear.
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The Bear Year
Bear Necessities
5.With your den, plan a cooked lunch or dinner that is nutritious and balanced. make a shopping list, and help shop for the food. on a campout or at another outdoor event, help cook the meal, and help clean up afterward.
6.help your leader or another adult cook a different meal from the one you helped prepare for requirement 5. Cook this meal outdoors.
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The Bear Year
Bear Necessities
7.help set up a tent. pick a good spot for the tent, and explain to your den leader why you picked it.
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The Bear Year
Bear Necessities
8.Demonstrate how to tie the two half hitches knot. explain what the name means and what the knot is used for.
9.learn how to read a thermometer and a barometer. Keep track of the temperature and barometric pressure readings and the actual weather at the same time every day for seven days.
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The Bear Year
Congratulations you earned your
Bear Necessities Adventure Loop
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The Webelos Program
A Note for the 2015-2016 Webelos II:
For all Webelos who earned their Webelos Rank by June 1 2015.
You can choose between the old AOL program or the new AOL Adventures.
This option has to be across all Webelos II.This will only be fore the 2015-2016 year.
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The Webelos Program
What’s Staying the Same:•Webelos is still for boys who have completed 3rd grade or are at most age 11.•Boys can wear either the Blue or the Tan uniform.•Webelos can use knives and cook outside. •Webelos can have Den campouts with parental supervision.
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The Webelos Program
What’s Changing:•Webelos Pins are gone replaced by Adventure Pins. •Webelos rank requirements: 5 core adventures & 2 elective adventure.•No longer need to complete separate belt loops to earn a pin.•Arrow of Light no longer requires the Webelos Badge to be earned.
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The Webelos Program
Be an active member of your Webelos den for three months.
Complete each of the following Webelos required adventures with your den or family:
- Cast Iron Chef- Duty to God and You- First Responder- Stronger, Faster, Higher - Webelos Walkabout
Complete two Webelos elective adventures of your den or family’s choosing.
With your parent or guardian, complete the exercises in the pamphlet How to Protect Your Children From Child Abuse: A Parent’s Guide, and earn the Cyber Chip award for your age.*
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The Webelos Program
First Responder
Rationale for AdventureThis adventure will provide Scouts with an introduction to the skills and responsibilities of a first responder. Activities will cover essential personal safety and first-aid skills.
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First Responder
SNAPSHOT OF ADVENTURE In this adventure, you will put the Scout motto, “Be Prepared,” into action by learning about first aid. You’ll also build your own first-aid kit and make emergency plans for your home or den meeting location. And you’ll learn how professional first responders help keep you safe. By the time you finish this adventure, you should be ready to act if you are first on the scene when an emergency happens.
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First Responder •Explain what first aid is. tell what you should do after an accident. •Show what to do for the hurry cases of first aid.•Show how to help a choking victim. •Show how to treat for shock. •demonstrate that you know how to treat the following:
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First Responder
6.Put together a simple home first-aid kit. explain what you included and how to use each item correctly.
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First Responder You will need items so each Scout can construct a basic first-aid kit. The list below was designed for Boy Scouts; include at least the red items for the Webelos:
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• Adhesive bandages (6) • Sterile gauze pads, 3-by-3-inch (2) • Adhesive tape (1 small roll) • Moleskin, 3-by-6-inch (1) • Soap/alcohol hand sanitizing gel• Triple antibiotic ointment (1 small
tube)
• Scissors (1 pair) • Non-latex or disposable gloves• CPR breathing barrier (1) • Pencil and paper • Plastic bag to hold items
The Webelos Program
First Responder
7.Create and practice an emergency readiness plan for your home or den meeting place.
8.Visit with a first responder.
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The Webelos Program
Congratulations you earned your
First Responder Adventure Pin
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The Webelos Program: Arrow of Light
Be an active member of your Webelos den for three months.
Complete each of the following Webelos required adventures with your den or family:
- Building a Better World
- Camper
- Duty to God in Action
- Scouting Adventure
Complete three Webelos elective adventures of your den or family’s choosing.
With your parent or guardian, complete the exercises in the pamphlet How to Protect Your Children From Child Abuse: A Parent’s Guide, and earn the Cyber Chip award for your age.*
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Scouting Adventure
Rationale for Adventure This adventure will provide Scouts with an introduction to Boy Scouting, Scout skills, and Scout spirit. Webelos Scouts will attend a troop meeting and accompany a troop on a campout or outdoor activity.
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Scouting Adventure
SNAPSHOT OF ADVENTURE The Scouting Adventure is all about what happens when you leave your Webelos den & become a Boy Scout. In this adventure, you’ll learn about things like the Scout Oath & the patrol method. You’ll find out about merit badges & ranks, and then you’ll visit a Boy Scout troop meeting. Best of all, you’ll go along with a Boy Scout troop on one of their outdoor activities. By the time you finish this adventure, you’ll be ready for the new adventures that await you in Boy Scouting.
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Scouting Adventure
1.Prepare yourself to become a Boy scout by completing all of the items below: •repeat from memory the scout oath, scout Law, scout motto, and scout slogan. •Explain what scout spirit is. •Give the Boy scout sign, salute, and handshake. •Describe the First Class scout badge•Repeat from memory the Outdoor Code.
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Scouting Adventure
2.Visit a Boy scout troop meeting with your den members, leaders, and parent or guardian. After the meeting, do the following:
A. describe how the scouts in the troop provide its leadership.
B. describe the four steps of Boy scout advancement.C. describe ranks in Boy scouting and how they are earned.
D. describe what merit badges are and how they are earned.
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Scouting Adventure
3.practice the patrol method in your den for one month by doing the following:
A. explain the patrol method. describe the types of patrols that might be part of a Boy scout troop.
B. Hold an election to choose the patrol leader.
C. develop a patrol name and emblem (if your den does not already have one), as well as a patrol flag and yell. explain how a patrol name, emblem, flag, and yell create patrol spirit.
D. As a patrol, make plans to participate in a Boy scout troop’s campout or other outdoor activity.
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The Webelos Program: Arrow of Light
Scouting Adventure
4.With your Webelos den leader, parent, or guardian, participate in a Boy scout troop’s campout or other outdoor activity. use the patrol method while on the outing.
5.Do the following: A. show how to tie a square knot, two half hitches, and a taut- line hitch. explain how each knot is used.
B. show the proper care of a rope by learning how to whip and fuse the ends of different kinds of rope.
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Scouting Adventure
6.Demonstrate your knowledge of the pocketknife safety rules and the pocketknife pledge. if you have not already done so, earn your Whittling Chip card.
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The Webelos Program: Arrow of Light
Congratulations you earned your
Scouting Adventure Adventure Pin
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The Webelos Program: Arrow of Light
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You’ve Made It
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Transition Plan
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Whats Next?
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Fall 2014 Region and Area Meetings
First Quarter 2015 Webinar ScheduleWhat’s Changed Training Launched
May 2015 Handbooks in Scout ShopsRevised training available
June 1 2015 Packs will start using the new program.
Questions ?
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