Champions for Nature (Bear) requirements (Bear)

0:00 · 10 min

Gathering: what lives here

Give the Scouts who arrive first something to do, so the meeting starts the moment they walk in.

• Tape six pictures of local animals or plants around the room, numbered one to six.
• Each Scout gets a scrap of paper and writes down the two they have actually seen near home.
• Collect the slips as the opening starts and read three of them out during talk time.

0:10 · 5 min

Opening

Flag ceremony, Scout Oath and Scout Law. The same five minutes every week, run by the Scouts.

• The denner calls the den to order and leads the flag ceremony.
• Say the Scout Oath and the Scout Law together. New Scouts read from a card and nobody makes anything of it.
• One sentence on tonight's adventure, Champions for Nature (Bear), and the one thing everybody will get done.

0:15 · 5 min

Talk time

Den business while everyone is still sitting down, and a look at what is coming.

• The two dates parents need: the next den meeting and the next pack event.
• Ask who already did part of Champions for Nature (Bear) at home, and write the names down so it gets recorded.
• Take one question from the den. Answer it or say when you will.

0:20 · 12 min

Activity 1: Discover natural resources

Close requirements 1 and 2 of Champions for Nature (Bear).

• Put the answers where the den can find them: three stations, a set of cards, or a chart for "Discover natural resources".
• Give the den five minutes in pairs to work it out, then bring the answers together on one sheet.
• Go round the circle so every Scout says one answer out loud in their own words.
• Then requirement 2: give the den five minutes in pairs on "Discover what happens to the wastewater in your community", then take one answer from every Scout.

Requirement 1 Requirement 2

0:32 · 12 min

Activity 2: Investigate soil

Close requirements 3 and 4 of Champions for Nature (Bear).

• Put the answers where the den can find them: three stations, a set of cards, or a chart for "Investigate soil".
• Give the den five minutes in pairs to work it out, then bring the answers together on one sheet.
• Go round the circle so every Scout says one answer out loud in their own words.
• Then requirement 4: give the den five minutes in pairs on "Investigate air pollution", then take one answer from every Scout.

Requirement 3 Requirement 4

0:44 · 11 min

Activity 3: Participate in a conservation project

Close requirement 5 of Champions for Nature (Bear): Participate in a conservation project.

• Pick the project with the den, not for them. Read "Participate in a conservation project" and take two or three ideas from the floor.
• Break the work into jobs small enough that every Scout has one, and say who is doing what before you start.
• Do the work, then take one photo of the finished job for the pack newsletter with photo permissions checked.
• Ask the den what changed because they showed up. That answer is the requirement.

Requirement 5

0:55 · 5 min

Closing

End on time, and make sure every Scout leaves knowing what they finished.

• Cubmaster's minute: one short thought tied to what the den just did. Sixty seconds, no lecture.
• Read back what got finished tonight, requirement by requirement, so the Scouts hear their own progress.
• Send the den off with the den yell, and catch the parents who need to hear something at pickup.