Wolf Elective adventure 2nd grade

A Wolf Goes Fishing requirements (Wolf)

A Wolf Goes Fishing is a Wolf elective adventure with 5 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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A Wolf Goes Fishing requirements

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

Handbook requirement 1

Identify the type of water you will be fishing in and what type of fish live in the water.
Handbook requirement 2

Learn about the different types of bait used to attract fish.
Handbook requirement 3

Demonstrate a proper cast for the pole or rod you are using.
Handbook requirement 4

Learn the rules of fishing safely.
Handbook requirement 5

With you den, pack, or family, go fishing.

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A 60 minute den meeting for A Wolf Goes Fishing

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, A Wolf Goes Fishing, 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 A Wolf Goes Fishing 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: Identify the type of water you will

Close requirements 1 and 2 of A Wolf Goes Fishing.

Put the answers where the den can find them: three stations, a set of cards, or a chart for "Identify the type of water you will be fishing in and what type of fish live in the water".
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 "Learn about the different types of bait used to attract fish", then take one answer from every Scout.

Requirement 1 Requirement 2

0:32 · 12 min

Activity 2: Demonstrate a proper cast for the pole

Close requirements 3 and 4 of A Wolf Goes Fishing.

Do it once yourself at normal speed, then once slowly while you narrate every step.
Put the den in pairs so each Scout practices "Demonstrate a proper cast for the pole or rod you are using" while their partner watches for the one thing that matters.
Go round the circle and have every Scout show you once, in their own way.
Mark it off as each Scout finishes rather than trying to remember at the end.
Then requirement 4: read "Learn the rules of fishing safely" out loud, work it in pairs, and mark it off as each Scout finishes.

Requirement 3 Requirement 4

0:44 · 11 min

Activity 3: With you den, pack, or family

Close requirement 5 of A Wolf Goes Fishing: With you den, pack, or family, go fishing.

Read the requirement to the den in plain words: "With you den, pack, or family, go fishing".
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.

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.

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
Towels, drinking water and a change of clothes

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

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Questions about A Wolf Goes Fishing

How many requirements does A Wolf Goes Fishing have?

5. 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 A Wolf Goes Fishing required for Wolf?

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

How long does A Wolf Goes Fishing take?

The plan on this page runs 60 minutes and covers 5 of the 5 requirements. Most dens spend two meetings on an adventure, because somebody is always absent for the first one.

Can a Scout finish part of A Wolf Goes Fishing at home?

Any of it can be. Nothing in A Wolf Goes Fishing 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.