Super Science requirements (Bear)

0:00 · 10 min

Gathering: finish the picture

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

• Tape a long strip of paper down the middle of the table and set out markers.
• Start one line yourself. Each Scout adds to the same picture as they arrive.
• Fold it up at the end of the meeting and bring it back next week to finish.

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, Super Science, 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 Super Science 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 · 18 min

Activity 1: Conduct static electricity investigation

Close requirements 1 and 2 of Super Science.

• Read the requirement to the den in plain words: "Conduct static electricity investigation".
• 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: read "Conduct the sink-or-float investigation" out loud, work it in pairs, and mark it off as each Scout finishes.

Requirement 1 Requirement 2

0:38 · 17 min

Activity 2: Conduct the color-morphing investigation

Close requirements 3 and 4 of Super Science.

• Read the requirement to the den in plain words: "Conduct the color-morphing investigation".
• 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 3 off as each Scout finishes rather than trying to remember afterwards.
• Then requirement 4: read "Conduct the color-layering investigation" out loud, work it in pairs, and mark it off as each Scout finishes.

Requirement 3 Requirement 4

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.