Protect Yourself Rules (Bear) requirements (Bear)

0:00 · 10 min

Gathering: what would you do

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

• Write three short what-would-you-do situations on index cards and lay them face down.
• Arriving Scouts turn one over with a partner and agree on a first move.
• Hold the answers until the activity block, then let those pairs go first.

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, Protect Yourself Rules (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 Protect Yourself Rules (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: Watch the "Protect Yourself" video lessons

Close requirements 1 and 2 of Protect Yourself Rules (Bear).

• Read the requirement to the den in plain words: "Watch the "Protect Yourself" video lessons for this adventure".
• Work it in pairs or small groups for most of the block while you move between them.
• Bring the den back together and have each Scout tell you what they did.
• Mark requirement 1 off as each Scout finishes rather than trying to remember afterwards.
• Then requirement 2: give the den five minutes in pairs on "Explain the difference between a safe touch and an unsafe touch", then take one answer from every Scout.

Requirement 1 Requirement 2

0:32 · 12 min

Activity 2: Identify five trusted adults and share this

Close requirements 3 and 4 of Protect Yourself Rules (Bear).

• Put the answers where the den can find them: three stations, a set of cards, or a chart for "Identify five trusted adults and share this list with your parent or legal guardian".
• 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 "Describe "personal space," and complete the Personal Space Bubble", then take one answer from every Scout.

Requirement 3 Requirement 4

0:44 · 11 min

Activity 3: Come up with three different ways

Close requirement 5 of Protect Yourself Rules (Bear): Come up with three different ways to say no to someone who touches you on a private body part.

• Read the requirement to the den in plain words: "Come up with three different ways to say no to someone who touches you on a private body part".
• Work it in pairs or small groups for most of the block while you move between them.
• Bring the den back together and have each Scout tell you what they did.
• Mark requirement 5 off as each Scout finishes rather than trying to remember afterwards.

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.