Tiger Required adventure 1st grade

Tigers in the Wild requirements (Tiger)

Tigers in the Wild is a Tiger required adventure with 7 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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Tigers in the Wild requirements

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

Handbook requirement 1

With your parent, guardian, or other caring adult, name and collect the Cub Scout Six Essentials you need for a hike. Tell your den leader what you would need to add to your list to prepare for rain.
Handbook requirement 2

Go for a short hike with your den or family, and carry your own gear. Show you know how to get ready for this hike.
Handbook requirement 3

Do the following:
- 3a Listen while your leader reads the Outdoor Code. Talk about how you can be clean in your outdoor manners.
- 3b Listen while your leader reads the Leave No Trace Principles for Kids. Discuss why you should "Trash Your Trash."
- 3c Apply the Outdoor Code and Leave No Trace Principles for Kids on your Tiger den and pack outings. After one outing, share what you did to demonstrate the principles you discussed.
Handbook requirement 4

While on the hike, find three different kinds of plants, animals, or signs that animals have been on the trail. List what you saw in your Tiger Handbook.
Handbook requirement 5

Participate in an outdoor pack meeting or pack campfire. Sing a song or act out a skit with your Tiger den as part of the program.
Handbook requirement 6

Find two different trees and two different types of plants that grow in your area. Write their names in your Tiger Handbook.
Handbook requirement 7

Visit a nature center, zoo, or another outside place with your family or den. Learn more about two animals, and write down two interesting things about them in your Tiger Handbook.

Ready to run

A 60 minute den meeting for Tigers in the Wild

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, Tigers in the Wild, 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 Tigers in the Wild 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 parent, guardian, or other caring

Close requirements 1 and 2 of Tigers in the Wild.

Walk the route before the meeting and pick the two places you will stop to cover "With your parent, guardian, or other caring adult, name and collect the Cub Scout Six Essentials you need for a hike".
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: cover "Go for a short hike with your den or family, and carry your own gear" outside while you are already walking, rather than sitting the den back down.

Requirement 1 Requirement 2

0:29 · 9 min

Activity 2: Do the following

Close requirements 3 and 4 of Tigers in the Wild.

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 3 off as each Scout finishes rather than trying to remember afterwards.
Then requirement 4: cover "While on the hike, find three different kinds of plants, animals, or signs that animals have been on the trail" outside while you are already walking, rather than sitting the den back down.

Requirement 3 Requirement 4

0:38 · 9 min

Activity 3: Participate in an outdoor pack meeting

Close requirements 5 and 6 of Tigers in the Wild.

Walk the route before the meeting and pick the two places you will stop to cover "Participate in an outdoor pack meeting or pack campfire".
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 6: set the materials out on a second table and let them build "Find two different trees and two different types of plants that grow in your area" while you move between the two.

Requirement 5 Requirement 6

0:47 · 8 min

Activity 4: Visit a nature center

Close requirement 7 of Tigers in the Wild: Visit a nature center, zoo, or another outside place with your family or den. Learn more about two animals, and write down two interesting things about them in your Tiger Handbook.

Walk the route before the meeting and pick the two places you will stop to cover "Visit a nature center, zoo, or another outside place with your family or den".
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.

Requirement 7

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
The hand tools named in the requirement, plus safety glasses
The Cub Scout Six Essentials for every Scout, and a full water bottle
A field guide or printed identification cards, and two magnifying glasses
Labeled bins or bags for the sorting activity, and work gloves
One laptop or tablet, and a printed copy of the pack's device rules

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

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Questions about Tigers in the Wild

How many requirements does Tigers in the Wild have?

7. Some of them have lettered options underneath, where the Scout picks one. Check the current wording in the handbook or Scoutbook Plus before you sign anything off.

Is Tigers in the Wild required for Tiger?

Yes. Tigers in the Wild is one of the six required Tiger adventures, so the Tiger badge cannot be awarded until it is complete.

How long does Tigers in the Wild take?

The plan on this page runs 60 minutes and covers 7 of the 7 requirements. Most dens spend two meetings on an adventure, because somebody is always absent for the first one.

Can a Scout finish part of Tigers in the Wild at home?

Any of it can be. Nothing in Tigers in the Wild 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.