| TENDERFOOT |
| 1.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. |
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| 2.Spend at least one night on a patrol or troop campout.
Sleep in a tent you have helped pitch. |
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| 3.On the 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. |
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| 4.a. Demonstrate how to whip and fuse the ends of a rope. |
| 4.b. Demonstrate you know how to tie the following knots
and tell what their uses are: two half hitches and the tautline
hitch. |
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| 5.Explain the rules of safe hiking, both on the highway and
cross-country, during the day and at night. Explain what to do
if you are lost. |
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| 6.Demonstrate how to display, raise, lower, and fold the
American flag. |
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| 7.Repeat from memory and explain in your own words the Scout
Oath, Law, motto, and slogan. |
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| 8.Know your patrol name, give the patrol yell, and describe
your patrol flag. |
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| 9.Explain why we use the buddy system in Scouting. |
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| 10.a. Record your best in the following tests: |
Push-ups
Pull-ups
Sit-ups
Standing long jump
1/4 mile walk/run |
| 10.b. Show improvement in the activities listed in requirement
10a after practicing for 30 days. |
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| 11.Identify local poisonous plants; tell how to treat for
exposure to them. |
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| 12.a. Demonstrate the Heimlich maneuver and tell when it
is used. |
| 12.b. Show first aid for the following: |
| Simple cuts and scratches |
| Blisters on the hand and foot |
| Minor burns or scalds (first degree) |
| Bites and stings of insects and ticks |
| Poisonous snakebite |
| Nosebleed |
| Frostbite and Sunburn |
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| 13.Participate in a Scoutmaster conference. |
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| 14.Complete your board of review |
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| SECOND CLASS |
| 1.a. Demonstrate how a compass works and how to orient a
map. Explain what map symbols mean. |
| 1.b. 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.* |
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| 2.a. Since joining, have participated in five separate troop/patrol
activities (other than troop/patrol meetings), two of which included
camping overnight. |
| 2.b. On one of these campouts, select your patrol site and
sleep in a tent that you pitched. |
| 2.c. On one campout, demonstrate proper care, sharpening,
and use of the knife, saw, and ax, and describe when they should
be used. |
| 2.d. Use the tools listed in requirement 2c to prepare tinder,
kindling, and fuel for a cooking fire. |
| 2.e. Discuss when it is appropriate to use a cooking fire
and a lightweight stove. Discuss the safety procedures for
using both.. |
| 2.f. Demonstrate how to light a fire and a lightweight stove. |
| 2.g. On one campout, plan and cook over an open fire one
hot breakfast or lunch for yourself, selecting foods from the
four basic food groups. Explain the importance of good nutrition. Tell
how to transport, store, and prepare the foods you selected. |
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| 3.Participate in a flag ceremony for your school, religious
institution, chartered organization, community, or troop activity. |
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| 4.Participate in an approved (minimum of one hour) service
project. |
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| 5.Identify or show evidence of at least ten kinds of wild
animals (birds, mammals, reptiles, fish, mollusks) found in your
community. |
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| 6.a. Show what to do for "hurry" cases of stopped
breathing, serious bleeding, and internal poisoning. |
| 6.b. Prepare a personal first aid kit to take with you on
a hike. |
| 6.c. Demonstrate first aid for the following: |
| Object in the eye |
| Bite of a suspected rabid animal |
| Puncture wounds from a splinter, nail, and fishhook |
| Serious burns (second degree) |
| Heat exhaustion |
| Shock |
| Heatstroke, dehydration, hypothermia, and hyperventilation |
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| 7.a. Tell what precautions must be taken for a safe swim. |
| 7.b. Demonstrate your ability to jump feetfirst into water
over your head in depth, level off and swim 25 feet on the surface,
stop, turn sharply, resume swimming, then return to your starting
place. ** |
| 7.c. Demonstrate water rescue methods by reaching with your
arm or leg, by reaching with a suitable object, and by throwing
lines and objects.** |
| Explain why swimming rescues should not be attempted when
a reaching or throwing rescue is possible, and explain why and
how a rescue swimmer should avoid contact with the victim. |
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| 8.Participate in a school, community, or troop program on
the dangers of using drugs, alcohol, and tobacco, and other practices
that could be harmful to your health. Discuss your participation
in the program with your family. |
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| 9.Demonstrate scout spirit by living the Scout Oath (Promise)
and Scout Law in your everyday life. |
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| 10.Participate in a Scoutmaster conference. |
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| 11.Complete your board of review. |
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| FIRST CLASS |
| 1.Demonstrate how to find directions during the day and at
night without using a compass. |
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| 2.Using a compass, complete an orienteering course that covers
at least one mile and requires measuring the height and/or width
of designated items (tree, tower, canyon, ditch, etc.) |
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| 3.Since joining, have participated in ten separate troop/patrol
activities (other than troop/patrol meetings), three of which
included camping overnight. |
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| 4.a. Help plan a patrol menu for one campout -- including
one breakfast, lunch, and dinner - that requires cooking. Tell
how the menu includes the four basic food groups and meets nutritional
needs. |
| 4.b. Using the menu planned in requirement 4a, make a list
showing the cost and food amounts needed to feed three or more
boys and secure the ingredients. |
| 4.c. Tell which pans, utensils, and other gear will be needed
to cook and serve these meals. |
| 4.d. 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. |
| 4.e. 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 requirement
4a. Lead your patrol in saying grace at the meals and supervise
cleanup. |
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| 5.Visit and discuss with a selected individual approved by
your leader (elected official, judge, attorney, civil servant,
principal, teacher) your Constitutional rights and obligations
as a U.S. citizen. |
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| 6.Identify or show evidence of at least ten kinds of native
plants found in your community. |
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| 7.a. Discuss when you should and should not use lashings |
| 7.b. Demonstrate tying the timber hitch and clove hitch and
their use in square, shear, and diagonal lashings by joining
two or more poles or staves together. |
| 7.c. Use lashing to make a useful camp gadget. |
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| 8.a. Demonstrate tying the bowline knot and describe several
ways it can be used. |
| 8.b. Demonstrate bandages for a sprained ankle. and for injuries
on the head, the upper arm, and the collarbone. |
| 8.c. Show how to transport by yourself, and with one other
person, a person: |
| from a smoke-filled room |
| with a sprained ankle, for at least 25 yards. |
| 8.d. Tell the five most common signs of a heart attack. Explain
the steps (procedures) in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). |
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| 9.a. Tell what precautions must be taken for a safe trip
afloat. |
| 9.b. Successfully complete the BSA swimmer test.* |
| 9.c. Demonstrate survival skills by leaping into deep water
wearing clothes (shoes, socks, swim trunks, long pants, belt,
and long-sleeved shirt). Remove shoes and socks, inflate
the shirt, and show that you can float using the shirt for support. Remove
and inflate the pants for support. Swim 50 feet using the
inflated pants for support, then show how to reinflate the pants
while using them for support.* |
| 9.d. With a helper and a practice victim, show a line rescue
both as tender and rescuer. (The practice victim should
be approximately 30 feet from shore in deep water.) |
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| 10.Demonstrate scout spirit by living the Scout Oath (Promise)
and Scout Law in your everyday life. |
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| 11.Participate in a Scoutmaster conference. |
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| 12.Complete your board of review. |