Webelos Elective adventure 4th grade

Sports requirements (Webelos)

Sports is a Webelos elective adventure with 3 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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Sports requirements

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

Handbook requirement 1

Show the signals used by officials in one of these sports: football, basketball, baseball, soccer, or hockey.
Handbook requirement 2

Participate in two sports, either as an individual or part of a team.
Handbook requirement 3
- 3a Explain what good sportsmanship means.
- 3b Role-play a situation that demonstrates good sportsmanship.
- 3c Give an example of a time when you experienced or saw someone showing good sportsmanship.

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A 60 minute den meeting for Sports

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: keep it up

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

Put a beach ball or a balloon in the middle of the room and start a den count.
The den's job is to keep it off the floor and beat the count from last week.
Stop it the moment the opening is ready, mid-count, so it stays fun and short.

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, Sports, 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 Sports 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: Show the signals used by officials

Close requirements 1 and 2 of Sports.

Mark the play area and walk the rules through once, slowly, before anyone runs.
Play one practice round and one for real so "Show the signals used by officials in one of these sports: football, basketball, baseball, soccer, or hockey" gets a fair try.
Rotate teams between rounds so the same Scout is not last twice.
Close with the sportsmanship question: what did somebody else do well tonight?
Then requirement 2: run it as a game, one practice round and one for real, to cover "Participate in two sports, either as an individual or part of a team".

Requirement 1 Requirement 2

0:38 · 17 min

Activity 2: Explain what good sportsmanship means

Close requirement 3 of Sports: Explain what good sportsmanship means.

Mark the play area and walk the rules through once, slowly, before anyone runs.
Play one practice round and one for real so "Explain what good sportsmanship means" gets a fair try.
Rotate teams between rounds so the same Scout is not last twice.
Close with the sportsmanship question: what did somebody else do well tonight?

Requirement 3

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
A ball, four cones and a whistle

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.

Plan Sports Create a free den

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 Sports

How many requirements does Sports have?

3. 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 Sports required for Webelos?

No. Sports 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 Sports take?

The plan on this page runs 60 minutes and covers 3 of the 3 requirements. Most dens spend two meetings on an adventure, because somebody is always absent for the first one.

Can a Scout finish part of Sports at home?

Any of it can be. Nothing in Sports 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.