Webelos Elective adventure 4th grade

First Responder requirements (Webelos)

First Responder is a Webelos 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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First Responder requirements

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

Handbook requirement 1

Explain what first aid is. Tell what you should do after an accident.
Handbook requirement 2
- 2a Serious bleeding
- 2b Heart attack or sudden cardiac arrest
- 2c Stopped breathing
- 2d Stroke
- 2e Poisoning
Handbook requirement 3

Show how to help a choking victim.
Handbook requirement 4

Show how to treat for shock.
Handbook requirement 5
- 5a Cuts and scratches
- 5b Burns and scalds
- 5c Sunburn
- 5d Blisters on the hand or foot
- 5e Tick bites
- 5f Bites and stings of other insects
- 5g Venomous snakebites
- 5h Nosebleed
- 5i Frostbite
Handbook requirement 6

Put together a simple home first-aid kit. Explain what you included and how to use each item correctly.
Handbook requirement 7

Create and practice an emergency readiness plan for your home or den meeting place.
Handbook requirement 8

Visit with a first responder or health care professional.

Ready to run

A 60 minute den meeting for First Responder

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: what lives here

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

Tape six pictures of local animals or plants around the room, numbered one to six.
Each Scout gets a scrap of paper and writes down the two they have actually seen near home.
Collect the slips as the opening starts and read three of them out during talk time.

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, First Responder, 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 First Responder 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: Explain what first aid is

Close requirements 1 and 2 of First Responder.

Read the requirement to the den in plain words: "Explain what first aid is". Ask what they would do first.
Demonstrate it once at full speed, then once slowly while you say each step out loud.
Split into pairs and have every Scout practice on their partner while you move table to table.
Finish with one made-up scene per pair so you can watch each Scout do it once. That is your sign-off.
Then requirement 2: read "Serious bleeding" out loud, work it in pairs, and mark it off as each Scout finishes.

Requirement 1 Requirement 2

0:29 · 9 min

Activity 2: Show how to help a choking victim

Close requirements 3 and 4 of First Responder.

Read the requirement to the den in plain words: "Show how to help a choking victim". Ask what they would do first.
Demonstrate it once at full speed, then once slowly while you say each step out loud.
Split into pairs and have every Scout practice on their partner while you move table to table.
Finish with one made-up scene per pair so you can watch each Scout do it once. That is your sign-off.
Then requirement 4: put the den in pairs and have every Scout show you "Show how to treat for shock" once, in their own way.

Requirement 3 Requirement 4

0:38 · 9 min

Activity 3: Cuts and scratches

Close requirements 5 and 6 of First Responder.

Read the requirement to the den in plain words: "Cuts and scratches".
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 5 off as each Scout finishes rather than trying to remember afterwards.
Then requirement 6: give the den five minutes in pairs on "Put together a simple home first-aid kit", then take one answer from every Scout.

Requirement 5 Requirement 6

0:47 · 8 min

Activity 4: Create and practice an emergency readiness

Close requirements 7 and 8 of First Responder.

Read the requirement to the den in plain words: "Create and practice an emergency readiness plan for your home or den meeting place". Ask what they would do first.
Demonstrate it once at full speed, then once slowly while you say each step out loud.
Split into pairs and have every Scout practice on their partner while you move table to table.
Finish with one made-up scene per pair so you can watch each Scout do it once. That is your sign-off.
Then requirement 8: hand it to your guest, who gets fifteen minutes and one ask: "Visit with a first responder or health care professional".

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
A den first-aid kit and a handful of roller bandages to practice with
A field guide or printed identification cards, and two magnifying glasses
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.

Plan this meeting for your own den

This plan does not know your Scouts. DenBuddy does: import your den from Scoutbook Plus and the planner starts from the requirements each Scout is actually missing, keeps the block times, and turns the agenda into the record sheet afterwards.

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How the planner works

Youth protection is built in: Scouts have no accounts, check-in is done by a parent from a public link, and nothing DenBuddy does writes back to Scoutbook.

How youth data is handled

Questions about First Responder

How many requirements does First Responder have?

8. 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 First Responder required for Webelos?

No. First Responder is a Webelos elective. A Scout needs the six required Webelos adventures plus at least two electives, and this one can be part of those two.

How long does First Responder 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 First Responder at home?

Any of it can be. Nothing in First Responder 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.