Webelos Required adventure 4th grade

My Community requirements (Webelos)

My Community is a Webelos required adventure with 4 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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My Community requirements

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

Handbook requirement 1

Learn about majority and plurality types of voting.
Handbook requirement 2

Speak with someone who is elected to their position. Discover the type of voting that was used for to elect them and why.
Handbook requirement 3

Choose a federal law and create a timeline of the history of the law. Include the involvement of the 3 branches of government.
Handbook requirement 4

Participate in a service project.

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A 60 minute den meeting for My Community

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: 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, My Community, 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 My Community 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: Learn about majority and plurality types of voting

Close requirements 1 and 2 of My Community.

Put the answers where the den can find them: three stations, a set of cards, or a chart for "Learn about majority and plurality types of voting".
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: give the den five minutes in pairs on "Speak with someone who is elected to their position", then take one answer from every Scout.

Requirement 1 Requirement 2

0:38 · 17 min

Activity 2: Choose a federal law and create

Close requirements 3 and 4 of My Community.

Show a finished example first so every Scout can picture "Choose a federal law and create a timeline of the history of the law" 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: give every Scout a job inside the work so "Participate in a service project" is something they did rather than watched.

Requirement 3 Requirement 4

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
Cardboard, painter's tape and safety scissors
The den flag, a US flag on a stand, and Oath and Law cards for new Scouts

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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Questions about My Community

How many requirements does My Community have?

4. 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 My Community required for Webelos?

Yes. My Community is one of the six required Webelos adventures, so the Webelos badge cannot be awarded until it is complete.

How long does My Community take?

The plan on this page runs 60 minutes and covers 4 of the 4 requirements. Most dens spend two meetings on an adventure, because somebody is always absent for the first one.

Can a Scout finish part of My Community at home?

Any of it can be. Nothing in My Community 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.