Protect Yourself Rules (Webelos) requirements (Webelos)

0:00 · 10 min

Gathering: what would you do

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

• Write three short what-would-you-do situations on index cards and lay them face down.
• Arriving Scouts turn one over with a partner and agree on a first move.
• Hold the answers until the activity block, then let those pairs go first.

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, Protect Yourself Rules (Webelos), 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 Protect Yourself Rules (Webelos) 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: Watch the "Protect Yourself" video lessons

Close requirements 1 and 2 of Protect Yourself Rules (Webelos).

• Read the requirement to the den in plain words: "Watch the "Protect Yourself" video lessons for this adventure".
• 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 "Know the six Protect Yourself Rules", then take one answer from every Scout.

Requirement 1 Requirement 2

0:32 · 12 min

Activity 2: Describe what cyberbullying is and identify things

Close requirements 3 and 4 of Protect Yourself Rules (Webelos).

• Put the answers where the den can find them: three stations, a set of cards, or a chart for "Describe what cyberbullying is and identify things you should never tell about yourself to others when online".
• 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: give the den five minutes in pairs on "Describe three ways to get out of a situation with someone who is making you feel unsafe", then take one answer from every Scout.

Requirement 3 Requirement 4

0:44 · 11 min

Activity 3: List five safe adults you could

Close requirement 5 of Protect Yourself Rules (Webelos): List five safe adults you could tell if someone has made you feel unsafe.

• Put the answers where the den can find them: three stations, a set of cards, or a chart for "List five safe adults you could tell if someone has made you feel unsafe".
• 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.

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.