Curiosity, Intrigue, and Magical Mysteries requirements (Tiger)

0:00 · 10 min

Gathering: who helps here

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

• Put a sheet of butcher paper on the wall with the question: who helps our town run?
• Every Scout adds one job or one name as they come in, out loud, so the quiet ones hear ideas first.
• Leave it up through the meeting and point back at it in the closing.

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, Curiosity, Intrigue, and Magical Mysteries, 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 Curiosity, Intrigue, and Magical Mysteries 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: Do the following

Close requirements 1 and 2 of Curiosity, Intrigue, and Magical Mysteries.

• Read the requirement to the den in plain words: "Do the following:".
• 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 "Spell your name using sign language, and spell your name in Braille", then take one answer from every Scout.

Requirement 1 Requirement 2

0:32 · 12 min

Activity 2: Create a secret code

Close requirements 3 and 4 of Curiosity, Intrigue, and Magical Mysteries.

• Show a finished example first so every Scout can picture "Create a secret code" before they start.
• Set materials out at two or three tables so nobody stands waiting for the scissors.
• Move table to table while they work and ask each Scout to tell you what they are making and why.
• Give a five minute warning, then have every Scout hold up what they made and say one thing about it.
• Then requirement 4: set the materials out on a second table and let them build "With the other Scouts in your den or with your family, crack a code that you did not create" while you move between the two.

Requirement 3 Requirement 4

0:44 · 11 min

Activity 3: With the help of your parent

Close requirement 5 of Curiosity, Intrigue, and Magical Mysteries: With the help of your parent, guardian, or other caring adult, conduct a science demonstration that shows how magic works and share what you learned from your science demonstration.

• Do it once yourself at normal speed, then once slowly while you narrate every step.
• Put the den in pairs so each Scout practices "With the help of your parent, guardian, or other caring adult" 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 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.