Everyday Tech requirements (Lion)

0:00 · 10 min

Gathering: tallest tower

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

• Put scrap cardboard, painter's tape and two pairs of safety scissors on the gathering table.
• The task on the card: build the tallest thing that stands on its own before the opening.
• Scouts join whichever table has room, so nobody waits alone for the meeting to start.

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, Everyday Tech, 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 Everyday Tech 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: Discover technology around your home

Close requirements 1 and 2 of Everyday Tech.

• Put the answers where the den can find them: three stations, a set of cards, or a chart for "Discover technology around your home, meeting place, or neighborhood".
• 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: set the materials out on a second table and let them build "Discover ways that digital technology can make life easier" while you move between the two.

Requirement 1 Requirement 2

0:38 · 17 min

Activity 2: Identify an item of digital technology

Close requirement 3 of Everyday Tech: Identify an item of digital technology you use at home. Demonstrate to your Lion adult partner how you use it safely.

• Do it once yourself at normal speed, then once slowly while you narrate every step.
• Put the den in pairs so each Scout practices "Identify an item of digital technology you use at home" while their partner watches for the one thing that matters.
• Go round the circle and have every Scout show you once, in their own way.
• Mark it off as each Scout finishes rather than trying to remember at the end.

Requirement 3

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.