Tiger Elective adventure 1st grade

Sky Is the Limit requirements (Tiger)

Sky Is the Limit is a Tiger elective adventure with 8 requirements. Below is what each one asks in plain language, and a sixty minute den meeting plan that works through them: a gathering activity, the opening, the activity blocks, and what to say in the closing.

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Sky Is the Limit requirements

Paraphrased for planning. Read the current wording in the handbook or Scoutbook Plus before you sign anything off.

Handbook requirement 1

With your den or parent/guardian/other caring adult, go outside to observe the night sky. Talk about objects you see or might see.
Handbook requirement 2

Look at a distant object through a telescope or binoculars. Show how to focus the device you chose.
Handbook requirement 3

Find out about two astronauts who were Scouts when they were younger. Share what you learned with your den.
Handbook requirement 4

Observe in the sky or select from a book, chart, computer, or electronic device two constellations that are easy to see in the night sky. With your parent/guardian or other caring adult, find out the names of the stars that make up the constellation and how the constellation got its name. Share what you found with your den.
Handbook requirement 5

Draw and name your own constellation. Share your constellation with your den.
Handbook requirement 6

Create a homemade model of a constellation.
Handbook requirement 7

Find out about two different jobs related to astronomy. Share this information with your den.
Handbook requirement 8

With your den or family, visit a planetarium, observatory, science museum, astronomy club, or college or high school astronomy teacher. Before you go, write down questions you might want to ask. Share what you learned.

Ready to run

A 60 minute den meeting for Sky Is the Limit

Five kinds of block in the order that works: something to do on arrival, the opening, den business, the adventure work split into chunks a Cub Scout can hold attention through, and a closing that names what got finished.

0:00 · 10 min

Gathering: pack the bag

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

Spread the Cub Scout Six Essentials and four things that do not belong on a table by the door.
The card on the table says: pick the six you would carry, and be ready to say why.
As Scouts arrive they join in, so the ones who came early are never left sitting.

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, Sky Is the Limit, 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 Sky Is the Limit 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 · 9 min

Activity 1: With your den or parent/guardian/other caring adult

Close requirements 1 and 2 of Sky Is the Limit.

Walk the route before the meeting and pick the two places you will stop to cover "With your den or parent/guardian/other caring adult, go outside to observe the night sky".
Line the den up in pairs, check that every Scout has the Six Essentials, and set the turnaround time.
Stop at both spots so every Scout gets a turn, not just the three who are always in front.
Back at the door, ask each Scout for one thing they noticed, then mark the requirement off.
Then requirement 2: put the den in pairs and have every Scout show you "Look at a distant object through a telescope or binoculars" once, in their own way.

Requirement 1 Requirement 2

0:29 · 9 min

Activity 2: Find out about two astronauts who were

Close requirements 3 and 4 of Sky Is the Limit.

Put the answers where the den can find them: three stations, a set of cards, or a chart for "Find out about two astronauts who were Scouts when they were younger".
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: set the materials out on a second table and let them build "Observe in the sky or select from a book, chart, computer" while you move between the two.

Requirement 3 Requirement 4

0:38 · 9 min

Activity 3: Draw and name your own constellation

Close requirements 5 and 6 of Sky Is the Limit.

Show a finished example first so every Scout can picture "Draw and name your own constellation" 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 6: set the materials out on a second table and let them build "Create a homemade model of a constellation" while you move between the two.

Requirement 5 Requirement 6

0:47 · 8 min

Activity 4: Find out about two different jobs related

Close requirements 7 and 8 of Sky Is the Limit.

Put the answers where the den can find them: three stations, a set of cards, or a chart for "Find out about two different jobs related to astronomy".
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 8: hand it to your guest, who gets fifteen minutes and one ask: "With your den or family, visit a planetarium, observatory, science museum, astronomy club, or college or high school astronomy teacher".

Requirement 7 Requirement 8

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.

What to bring

Tonight's requirement list, printed, with a box to tick per Scout
A clipboard and pen for sign-offs as they happen
Paper, markers and a few pencils
Cardboard, painter's tape and safety scissors
One laptop or tablet, and a printed copy of the pack's device rules
The book or story printed out, one copy per pair
A printed sky chart or weather chart for each pair

Worked out from the requirement text. Swap anything you already have in the den box.

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Questions about Sky Is the Limit

How many requirements does Sky Is the Limit have?

8. Each one is a single thing the Scout does. Check the current wording in the handbook or Scoutbook Plus before you sign anything off.

Is Sky Is the Limit required for Tiger?

No. Sky Is the Limit is a Tiger elective. A Scout needs the six required Tiger adventures plus at least two electives, and this one can be part of those two.

How long does Sky Is the Limit take?

The plan on this page runs 60 minutes and covers 8 of the 8 requirements. Most dens spend two meetings on an adventure, because somebody is always absent for the first one.

Can a Scout finish part of Sky Is the Limit at home?

Any of it can be. Nothing in Sky Is the Limit is marked as family-only work, so a Scout who misses the meeting can finish with a parent and you record it when the family tells you.