- Demonstrate how to find directions during the day and at night without using a compass.
- Using a compass, complete an orienteering course that covers at
least 1 mile and requires measuring the height and/or width of
designated items (tree, tower, canyon, ditch, etc.)
- Since joining, have participated in ten separate troop/patrol
activities (other than troop/patrol meetings), three of which
included camping overnight.
- 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.
- Using the menu planned in reqirement 4a, 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
dispase of camp garbge, can, 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
requirement 4a. Lead your patrol in saying grace at the
meals and supervise cleanup.
- 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.
- Identify or show evidence of at least 10 kinds of native plants
found in your community.
- Discuss when you should and should not use lashings.
- 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.
- Use lashing to make a useful camp gadget.
- Demonstrate tying the bowline knot and describe several
ways it can be used.
- Demonstrate bandages for a sprained ankle, and for
injuries on the head, the upper arm, and the collarbone.
- 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.
- Tell the five most common signs of a heart attack. Explain
the steps (procedures) in cardiopulmonary resuscitation
(CPR).
- Tell what precautions must be taken for a safe trip afloat.
- Successfully complete the BSA swimmer test.(This requirement may be waived by the troop
committee for medical or safety reasons.)
- 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.(This requirement may be waived by the troop
committee for medical or safety reasons.)
- With a helper and a practice victim, show a line rescue
both as tender and rescueer. (The practice victim should
be approximately 30 feet from shore in deep water.)
- Demonstrate scout spirit by living the Scout Oath (Promise) and
Scout Law in your everyday life.
- Participate in a Scoutmaster conference.
- Complete your board of review.
NOTE: Alternate requirements for the First Class rank are available for
Scouts with physical or mental disabilities if they meet the criteria listed
on page 6 of the 1998 Boy Scout Requirements book. (No. 33218)
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